This is a recipe of a homemade decadent chocolate brownie. The cake is soft with a sticky inside filled with chunky chocolate bites. It tastes even better the day after so let it rest over the night, that is if you can keep your hands off it!

This is a recipe of the French classical small shell-shape sponge cakes. To get the shell shape you need to have a special shell-shape baking form, which is sold in kitchen or baking stores. The cakes come with many different flavors like citron, orange, vanilla or almonds.

This recipe will give you three cakes in one by using one mixture. The cake will divide itself in three different layers while cooking in the oven. The result is a cake with a fluffy sponge bottom, a creamy custard middle, and a moist dense top layer.

This is a homemade Italian dessert pie with hazelnuts, chocolate and ricotta cheese filling. It resembles a cheesecake in the consistence, but looks like a pie. The original recipe uses Gianduia chocolate that is a specialty from the region Piedmont where the hazelnuts grows.

This is a homemade chocolate cheesecake prepared in a slightly different way than the traditional cheesecake. The bottom is made with pink biscuits from the region Reims in France. The closest you can come to these biscuits are pink lady fingers. Instead of serving a full round cheesecake this recipe prepare the cake in small single portions instead.

This is one of the classic Alsatian Christmas cookies called sand bredele. They are named sand bredele because it feels like soft sand when you prepare the dough. It is common to change the taste by adding vanilla, rum, orange, citron, cinnamon or ginger, and you will find them in many different shapes as well.

This is a creamy chocolate mousse with a harder consistence, that fits perfect as a filling in a cake. You can prepare it in two different ways to get two different consistencies. If you prepare it and serve it directly the mousse is more fluffy than if you place it cold for a while.

These bredele have only one thing in common with snowballs and that is the shape. These are traditional Alsatian Christmas bredel. You can find over hundred different variations of bredele cookies, and every family has their own preferences.

Sorbet is an alternative to ice cream and makes a refreshing dessert. It is very simple to make and all you need is fruit, juice and sugar.

This typical Alsatian homemade hazelnut pie has a thick and crusty pie bottom and needs to rest over the night to get the right consistence. This pie is a good idea as a dessert to end an Alsatian evening after some tarte flambées (which you can also find on this webpage).

This hazelnut chocolate cheesecake is easy to do, and you can use a jar of Nutella to make it simple. The cake is more like a hard mousse cake than a compact cheesecake in its consistence. The cake tastes better if you serve it directly from the fridge than room temperature and that way it is easier to cut nice pieces as well !