A profiterole also known as cream puff in the United States and chou à la crème in France is very tasty and popular dessert. Profiteroles are made up of the pastry balls, filling and can be garnished. The pastry balls are made from French choux pastry. It is a light pastry dough used in many … Read more
A muffin is a small domed spongy bread– or cake-like baked food. There are two types of muffins: quick bread or English muffins and flatbread or American muffins. American muffins have round bases, rounded tops, and are usually sweet, but there are also savory kinds (like cornbread muffins). English muffins are a small, round, flat … Read more
A chocolate brownie commonly referred to as simply brownie is a square, baked, chocolate dessert. It’s easy to see that the brownie got its name from its dark brown color. The brownie, one of America’s favorite baked treats, was born in the US. However, there is no clear record of how brownies were first made. … Read more
Tiramisu is a coffee-flavoured Italian dessert. It is made of ladyfingers dipped in coffee, layered with a mix of mascarpone cheese and egg yolks flavored with cocoa and liquor. However, numerous variations of Tiramisu exist. The original shape of the cake is round, although the shape of the biscuits allows the use of a rectangular … Read more
Pudding, any of several foods whose common characteristic is a relatively soft, spongy, and thick texture. In the United States, puddings are nearly always sweet desserts of milk or fruit juice variously flavoured and thickened with cornstarch, gelatin, arrowroot, flour, tapioca, rice, bread, or eggs. In the United Kingdom and some of the Commonwealth countries, … Read more
A cupcake is a small cake baked in a cup-shaped foil or paper container and typically iced. Cupcakes seem uniquely suited to our modern sensibilities. They’re portion-controlled, portable, easy to make in batches, open to lots of decorating strategies, tasty and can be inexpensive to make. The earliest extant description of a cupcake was in … Read more
A cookie is small, sweet and usually baked good. Cookies are typically made with flour, egg, sugar, and some type of shortening such as butter or cooking oil. Other ingredients may include dried fruits, oats, chocolate, vanilla, caramel, peanut butter, nuts, spices, etc. Cookies are most commonly baked until crisp or just long enough that … Read more
A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Historians have recorded that the roots of pie can loosely be traced back to the ancient Egyptians during the Neolithic Period or New Stone Age beginning around 6000 … Read more
Cake is a form of sweet dessert that is typically baked. The history of cake dates back to ancient times. The first cakes were very different from what we eat today. They were more bread-like and sweetened with honey. Nuts and dried fruits were often added. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the English word cake … Read more