Desserts - Levana Cooks

Marbled Chinese Cookies Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

Marbled Chinese Cookies This is one of my favorite bakery weaknesses. I just love their shortbread brittle-crisp and mealy texture, with the wispy chocolate veins running thought them. Here the chocolate plays a very discreet but essential…

Desserts Berry Recipes, Creme de Cassis Recipes, Fruit Salad Recipes, Gluten Free Recipes, Kosher Recipes, Recipes

Fruit Salad Recipes. All Variations

Fruit Salad Please do not find me too finicky if I tell you I treat all salads, whether fruit salad or vegetable ones, just the same way I would a flower assortment. I always look for a short and sweet selection of colors and textures, never…

Desserts Apples Recipes, Apricot Recipes, Dairy-Free Pie Recipes, Dairy-Free Recipes, Dessert Recipes, Healthy Cooking Recipes, Kosher Recipes, Low Gluten Recipes, Pareve Recipes, Plum Tart Recipe, Plums Recipes, Recipes, Spelt Baking, Vegetarian Recipes

Plum Tart Recipe. Apple Tart Variation

For this beautiful plum tart, I have my mother to thank. She provided the inspiration. Another wonderful thing is, my plum tart wears another hat: its close cousin, Apple tart: one and the same recipe. When it comes to baking (and cooking)…

Desserts Anise Recipes, Antesite, Cookie Recipes, Dairy-Free Recipes, Galette Recipes, Kosher Recipes, Low Gluten Recipes, Moroccan Food, Moroccan Galette Recipes, Moroccan Recipes, Pareve Recipes, Recipes, Spelt Baking, Spelt Desserts Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes

Anise and Sesame Galettes Recipe

Galettes: My sister Lea's are the best Even my mother agrees! And that is saying a lot. Galettes are a staple at my house in Morocco, and still are at my mother's house, where all children clamor for them, calling them Maman Biscuit (they…

Desserts Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes, Cookie Recipes, Dairy-Free Dessert Recipes, Dairy-Free Recipes, Gluten-free Cookie Recipes, Household Stories, Jewish Book Council, Recipes, Spelt Desserts Recipes, Stories, Vegan Cookie Recipes

My Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe: CCC? Si si si!

My Chocolate Chip Cookies are famous! We all think of eating cookies as a short-lived and vaguely illicit pleasure. Except I honestly think, and you can ask anyone, there’s no cookie in the world more worshiped and more baked than my smart…

Desserts Cake Recipes, Chocolate Cake Recipes, Chocolate Recipes, Dairy-Free Recipes, Dessert Recipes, Jasmine Tea Recipes, Kosher Ingredients, Kosher Natural Foods, Kosher Whole Foods Recipes, Pareve Cake Recipes, Pareve Recipes, Recipes

Marble Cake Chocolate Jasmine Recipe

This marble cake is the ultimate! If you haven't made a chocolate-jasmine match yet, it's long overdue! Check out my Roast Turkey Chocolate Jasmine Sauce Submit to the seduction of chocolate and jasmine! Jasmine tea is easy to find and adds…

Desserts Chocolate Bark Recipes, Chocolate Recipes, Dessert Recipes, Espresso Beans, Gluten Free Recipes, Kosher Recipes, Nuts Recipes, Pareve Recipes, Recipes

Chocolate Bark Recipe. All Variations

Chocolate Bark is ridiculously simple to make. It is the perfect hipster grub, and makes the perfect gift (save some for yourself, will you?) Now that you know the secret, go ahead and scroll down, and play with all variations of chocolate…

Desserts Chocolate Recipes, Dairy-Free Recipes, Dessert Recipes, Eggs Recipes, Gluten Free Recipes, Nuts Recipes, Pareve Recipes, Passover Desserts Recipes, Pecan Recipes, Recipes, Sephardi Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes

Meringues Recipe with All Variations

Meringues are pure nostalgia food to me. They are to me what madeleines are to Proust. We bought them at street corners after school. Seriously! Not so-distant cousins of the beloved French Macarons, meringues are ethereally light and fragrant.…

Desserts Chocolate Recipes, Coffee Recipes, Dairy-Free Tiramisu, Dessert Recipes, Kosher Recipes, Recipes, Sponge Cake Recipes, Tiramisu Recipes

Tiramisu Recipe. Dairy-Free or Dairy

Tiramisu That’s affectionate Italian for “pick-me-up” That's probably because tiramisu puts together three of our favorite intense robust flavors: rum, chocolate and coffee (please don’t try to substitute anything else for any…

Desserts Cake Recipes, Carrot Cake Recipes, Carrot Recipes, Coconut, Dessert Recipes, Kosher Recipes, Kosher Whole Foods Recipes, Low Gluten Recipes, Pareve Cake Recipes, Pareve Recipes, Recipes, Spelt Baking, Spelt Desserts Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes

Carrot Cake: Our Award Winning Recipe

Carrot Cake: Our Award Winning Recipe! Me, my sister Lea and my husband Maurice. Circa 1979, selling our famous carrot cake at a Central Park Fair. We sliced until we dropped. Our Post-Woodstock Pre-Chassidic days. You like? I remember…

Desserts Chocolate Recipes, Coconut, Dessert Recipes, Gluten Free Recipes, Jewish Holiday Recipes, Jewish Recipes, Kosher for Passover Recipes, Kosher Natural Foods, Kosher Recipes, Kosher Whole Foods Recipes, Meringue Recipes, Moroccan Recipes, Pareve Recipes, Passover Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes

Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Meringues Recipe

Coconut Meringues: Chocolate-dipped! This is serious delicious trouble! Kids, please: Don't let's get into a turf war with the distinguished and wonderful French Macarons, or with the somewhat less distinguished and ubiquitous canned Passover…

Desserts Almond Recipes, Dessert Recipes, Gluten Free Recipes, Gluten-Free Dessert Recipes, Gluten-Free Grain Recipes, Gluten-free pasta recipes, Kosher Ingredients, Kosher Natural Foods, Kosher Recipes, Moroccan Dessert Recipes, Moroccan Recipes, Pareve Recipes, Pasta Recipes, Pudding Recipes, Recipes, Sephardi Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes, Vermicelli Recipes

Moroccan Sweet Vermicelli Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

Moroccan Sweet Vermicelli is comfort food at its best and easiest. And healthiest: In Morocco we grew up on this kind of dessert my mother, an ingenious cook if I ever met one, used to whip up at the drop of a hat, for children big and small.…