This homemade sponge cake with melted chocolate in the middle is called chocolate lava cake. When you take the first bite of this cake it will overflow with melted chocolate that resemble hot lava. The cake is cooked in small oven molds and later placed on the plate together with vanilla sauce or ice cream.

These are small Alsatian Christmas cookies with a chewy inside and a slightly crispy outside. They taste vanilla and almond and resemble small snowballs in the shape and color. You can prepare them a month before Christmas, keep them in a thin box covered with baking paper and they will still taste newly baked.

A homemade pie filled with rhubarb and vanilla cream covered with a pillow of meringue. It's the wonderful combination of the sour rhubarb and the sweet meringue that makes this pie a delightful treat for your guests, specially during the summer time when you can use your own rhubarb from your garden.

This is a homemade cake with a different type of bottom as it is made with almond pastry. This cake will not be a favorite among kids, it is meant for adults as the coffee taste comes out quite nicely. Though even if you are not a fan of coffee, the mix with almond gives it a lovely touch. It is perfect to serve this cake after a romantic couple dinner or when there will be only adults at the party !

In Sweden most people associate the coffee bread"fikabröd" made with saffron to the time right before Christmas. This is a recipe for cookies made with saffron and can be prepared long in advanced, so you don’t need to stress the same day you want to serve them.

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.

One of the Swedish classical small dry cookies. Easy to make and you can keep them in the freezer for a few month so you always have cookies at home for "fika" if you will get company. These cookies normally have raspberry or strawberry jam on top, but you can use any jam you like.

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 very popular dessert cake in Germany during the plum season in autumn. You can find many variations of this cake but this is the most common one without any toppings or filling. The secret to a sweet moist cake is to have ripe plumes, otherwise the cake can be too sour.

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.