Cashew baklava
A layered dessert (or sweet snack) made with flaky buttered filo sheets filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup. Walnuts or pistachios are traditional; I substituted cashew nuts.
Sweets
Pandan crepes with coconut and palm sugar filling
A Southeast Asian street food, it's dudur gulong in Indonesia, kuih dadar in Singapore, and kuih gulung in Malaysia and Brunei. The crepes are made with coconut milk and fresh pandan extract; the filling is a mixture of melted palm sugar and freshly grated coconut.
Chocolate and peanut butter bars
Crisp cookie crust, fudge-y chocolate and peanut butter filling, and an explosion of colors. Just perfect for a summer afternoon snack, picnic food or holiday dessert.
Oats, nuts and chocolate bars
Just mix all the ingredients together, moisten with salted dulce de leche, bake, cool and cut. Easy to make and with very little clean-up required.
Butterscotch cheesecake brownies
If you love brownies but you need a break from chocolate, try this. Sweet, salty, creamy and chewy dessert bars that will rock your world.
Filipino banana fritters (maruya)
A popular street food in the Philippines, maruya is a sweet snack of sliced ripe saba bananas dipped in batter, fried until golden and crisp, then tossed in sugar.
Polvoron
Adapted from the Spanish shortbread of the same name, Filipino polvoron is a no-bake sweet shaped by pressing toasted flour, powdered milk, sugar and melted butter into a special molder.
Chocolate chip cookie dough brownies
Made by combining my no-fail recipes for chocolate chip cookies and chocolate fudge brownies, these chocolate chip cookie dough brownies are just superb.