https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/dessert/ a culinary genealogy Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:27:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://thewoksoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-TWOL-favicon-4-32x32.png https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/dessert/ 32 32 https://thewoksoflife.com/linzer-cookies/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/linzer-cookies/#comments Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:25:14 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=83994 These beautiful, tender linzer cookies with raspberry jam filling are perfectly sweet (i.e. not TOO sweet) and particularly enjoyable during the holiday season.  You’ll have friends and family waiting in the wings while you assemble them! No wonder they’re our new Christmas tradition!  The Perfect Holiday Cookie For the past few years, we’ve all looked ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/linzer-cookies/feed/ 15 https://thewoksoflife.com/black-sesame-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/black-sesame-soup/#comments Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:37:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=83148 Sweet black sesame soup (芝麻糊) is a traditional Chinese dessert thought to also have abundant health benefits. Have you ever questioned whether a supposedly “healthy” dessert is actually healthy? This one really is!  If you’ve enjoyed other black sesame desserts, like black sesame tang yuan, black sesame ice cream, or black sesame cake, you will ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/black-sesame-soup/feed/ 12 https://thewoksoflife.com/pumpkin-cinnamon-rolls/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/pumpkin-cinnamon-rolls/#comments Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:27:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=82040 These pumpkin cinnamon rolls are the ultimate fall treat. This recipe is a variation on our Fluffy Cinnamon Rolls, which many of you have deemed the best cinnamon rolls you’ve ever had!  (Check out the comments to see how many folks who have long hunted for the perfect soft cinnamon roll love this recipe!) These ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/pumpkin-cinnamon-rolls/feed/ 14 https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-egg-cake/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-egg-cake/#comments Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:50:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=81065 This old fashioned Chinese egg cake has a dense crumb and comforting flavor that have a sweet nostalgia for many, including me. They are mini cakes—bake the whole recipe in one standard 12-cup muffin pan! I love to eat these cakes on their own with my second cup of coffee for the day or a cup ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-egg-cake/feed/ 26 https://thewoksoflife.com/mung-bean-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/mung-bean-soup/#comments Thu, 08 Aug 2024 04:30:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=80740 This lightly sweet mung bean soup recipe is a summer staple in many Chinese families, thought to cool off the excess heat in the body.  We’ve been making it for years and can’t believe it’s taken this long for us to blog it. Today, we’re adding it to our collection of Chinese dessert soups!  What ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/mung-bean-soup/feed/ 11 https://thewoksoflife.com/crispy-tang-yuan-air-fryer/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/crispy-tang-yuan-air-fryer/#comments Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:04:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=76038 As the Lantern Festival, known in Chinese as Yuánxiāo jié (元宵节), approaches, it’s time to start thinking about eating yuanxiao or tang yuan. These are glutinous rice balls stuffed with various fillings. This air-fryer tang yuan recipe takes frozen sweet glutinous rice balls and makes them into something a bit different!  A New Way to ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/crispy-tang-yuan-air-fryer/feed/ 15 https://thewoksoflife.com/wife-cake-lao-po-bing/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/wife-cake-lao-po-bing/#comments Fri, 10 Nov 2023 06:16:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=75989 A Wife Cake, or lao po bing (lǎopó bìng in Mandarin or lou po beng—pronounced more like “baeng“—in Cantonese – 老婆饼), is a Chinese dessert with a flaky pastry crust and a sweet winter melon filling.  It is a Cantonese treat, which can be found as a shadow of their former selves in most Chinese ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/wife-cake-lao-po-bing/feed/ 26 https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-postpartum-confinement-porridge/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-postpartum-confinement-porridge/#comments Mon, 23 Oct 2023 05:28:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=75844 Today we have another recipe in our postpartum series—a lightly sweet postpartum porridge made with 7 nourishing Chinese ingredients. In Chinese, the porridge is called yuè zi zhōu (月子粥) which roughly translates to postpartum confinement porridge, and it’s especially meant for the first month after giving birth!  Give Chinese Dessert Soups a Try!  To be ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-postpartum-confinement-porridge/feed/ 15 https://thewoksoflife.com/pecan-pie-mooncakes/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/pecan-pie-mooncakes/#comments Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:20:30 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=75811 Today, we’re coming to you with a new mooncake recipe for the Mid-Autumn Festival! This one is a bit non-traditional. We’re making Pecan Pie Mooncakes!  This recipe is for all of you out there who think you don’t like mooncakes or who want to try making them for the first time. The flavors are deliciously ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/pecan-pie-mooncakes/feed/ 34 https://thewoksoflife.com/taro-sago-dessert-soup/?adt_ei=*|EMAIL|* https://thewoksoflife.com/taro-sago-dessert-soup/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2022 05:51:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=69677 This taro sago (tapioca) dessert soup is a tasty and lightly sweet end to any Chinese meal. It’s also fairly simple to make, with just water and 8 other ingredients.  It freezes well too, so you can make a big batch and save some in pint or quart containers for a quick and easy dessert ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/taro-sago-dessert-soup/feed/ 36