Category: Sweets & Desserts

Baked Pears Stuffed With Melomakarona Cookies, Chocolate & Raisins

Can dessert be an easy and stress-free affair? Yes, if we’re talking stuffed baked pears with a Greek twist. You can substitute the melomakarona cookies with biscotti if you like.

Graviera Cheese Tart with Currants

Looking for something unusual to serve on a festive table or for a dinner party? This unusual tart combines one of Greece’s best-loved cheeses, graviera, with currants, for a dish that is almost equally at home at the start or end of a meal.

Instant Baklava Puff Pastry Rolls

Everyone loves baklava but it’s not something a lot of people may want to attempt at home for fear of working with phyllo. In this version, the nut filling is the same, there’s no syrup, and the puff pastry roll up is very easy. I’ve take a few liberties by adding chocolate and heat! 

Drunken Chestnuts

Drunken chestnuts have long been a specialty around Christmas time in Italy, mainly Tuscany. In Greece, blessed with thousands of chestnut trees, this dessert is definitely borrowed. Instead of red wine, I use raki or ouzo. The anise flavor of the beverage pairs beautifully with the chestnuts’ earthy sweetness.

Ioannina Style Milk Pie

Milk Pie in Phyllo is one of the greatest Greek regional desserts.

Xinomavro Chocolate Cake

In the northern Greek environs of Naoussa, one of Greece’s premiere red-wine producing regions, the Xinomavro grape reigns supreme. A visit up there while we were filming the show taught me that locals don’t just drink their beloved tannic red wine, they also use it to cook with. Grape molasses cookies with red wine jelly, […]

Whole Apple Preserves

Firiki is the name of the small variety of apple used to make on of the most delectable spoon sweets in Greece, whole apples preserves, which are a specialty of Mt. Pelion, where many apple trees flourish. You can make this spoon sweet with any small, firm apple variety.

Sour Cherry Greek Yogurt Mousse

This Sour Cherry Greek Yogurt Mousse is light yet delicious. Vyssino, or sour cherry spoon sweet, is one of the best-loved Greek fruit preserves, made in mid June, when sour cherries are in season. It's a painstaking sweet to prepare. The cherries are pitted, of course, a job traditionally done not with a modern cherry […]

Messy Orange Pie

There really is something intoxicating about the combination of oranges, phyllo, yogurt and syrup! Think of this as a kind of bread pudding, but made with torn up phyllo instead of stale bread. To find some of the artisinal Greek products you'll need to make this, visit my online shop here, where you'll discover a […]

Greek Yogurt Mousse with Rose Petal Jam

Greek yogurt is one of the most versatile foods in the world, equally at home at all meals and paired beautifully in everything from savory garlicky dips to luscious desserts. You can use any fruit preserve in this recipe.