Chocolate filled pears in pastry with a cherry and wine sauce.

Easy blueberry turnovers made with puff pastry.

Strawberry Empanadas

Peach turnovers-baked with a hint of bourbon and spice.

Wonderfully simple to make yet so much fun- and they taste heavenly. This is what I call tea party food.

Delicious Mini Peach Strudels

Delicious sweet cheese and golden raisins pastries that would be great for breakfast to enjoy with a good cup of coffee.

Pâte à Choux: the versatile “cabbage paste” for eclairs and cream puffs. Plus more adventures from this culinary student.

Italian Pastries filled with Chocolate Crema Pasticcera dipped in chocolate and rolled in toasted nuts.

Sweet pastry dough, raspberries and a powdered sugar glaze combine to make a melt-in-your-mouth treat.

Adventures in baking croissants and danish from this culinary student.

Baklava!

Nectarine Jalousie: luscious summer fruit tucked into a beautiful homemade puff pastry case.

After searching for the perfect vanilla eclair recipe, I can declare the Laduree recipe as being close to perfection!

The Daring Baker’s set forth a challenge: homemade Phyllo Dough and Baklava

Nontraditional Cherry Chocolate Baklava plus a tutorial on how to make your own phyllo dough. A daring bakers challenge.

Sweet, sticky, nutty, crunchy, crispy baklava – which works wonderfully well with a cup of strong dark Turkish coffee.

The Daring Bakers take in Phyllo dough to make rich, sweet, homemade baklava!

Traditional baklava with delicate buttery layers of homemade phyllo dough

Kataifi is a sweet Middle Eastern Dessert made with vermicelli style pastry and stuffed with mixed nuts

For an afternoon of relaxation…

Flaky and swirly Chinese pastries filled with sweet lotus paste.

Fried Pies! Take your pick: cherry or apple five spice.

Flaky, tender almond pastry surrounding blueberry preserves and cream cheese.