Category: Sweets & Desserts

Tahini-Walnut Filo Flutes

Try these delicious Lenten tahini filo pastries.

Tiramisu

Try this wonderful tiramisu recipe! Easy and delicious!

King-size Brownies

A delicious and quite easy recipe for a divine, rich, chocolate treat!

Easy as Pie Apple Tart!

Greek-inspired apple pie that super easy and infused with herbs.

Tsoureki

On Ikaria at Easter, home bakers take their Easter breads to the village baker because the wood-burning oven makes for much tastier breads.

Melitinia, Sweet Cheese Tartlets from Santorini

Sweet cheese-filled pastries abound all over the Greek islands and are mainly Easter specialties. Melitinia hail from Santorini and from Tinos.

Chocolate-Ouzo Cake

Chocolate and ouzo are a match made in heaven.

Xerotigana: Ikaria’s Honeyed Fried Dough Strips

Elsewhere in Greece, these delicate fried pastry strips are called diples (THEE-pless). We call them xerotigana on Ikaria and I have the most vivid memories of my dad, a chef, making these every Christmas. We used to have mounds of them layered precariously on platters and they’d disappear in the course of just a day […]

Classic Melomakarona

Great olive oil is what makes these classic Greek holiday cookies so healthy and delicious. To find a range of wonderful regional Greek oils, go to my online store here.

Naxos Sweet Chard Pie/ Sefoukloti

Filo pies filled with greens and sweetened with honey are found in the Cyclades and other Aegean islands. They are among the most unique Greek recipes.