Host An Unforgettable Book Club Party

These sweet and simply easy individual rustic tarts are made with fresh strawberries and a wonderful buttery crust. Each tart is folded into an individual serving and dusted with powdered sugar after baking. No pastry cream needed for these tarts. Your favorite berries can be substituted for the strawberries.

I have grown to appreciate tahini over the past couple of years. I love it in hummus and sauces, and I also have a pretty great tahini cookie recipe. So image my delight, as I was working on an Armenian menu for my book club post on The Sandcastle Girls, when I came upon tahini bread. I couldn’t wait to bake a batch of these tahini-filled sweet yeast breads topped with toasted sesame seeds. Delicious!

Gulab jamun is an Indian dessert made of fried dough soaked in a syrup flavored with cardamom.

An exotic Greek dessert filled with layers of paper-thin phyllo sheets, walnuts, almonds, honey, cinnamon and butter.

I made these Swedish pancakes from a store bought mix, but added vanilla extract and sugar to give it a more homemade taste.

Butter tarts are a popular pastry in Ontario usually filled with raisins and other dried fruit. I adapted my recipe to use puff pastry, rather than the traditional pie pastry, and walnuts.

On the suggestion of Mr. Pezzelli I added chopped walnuts to my batter and drizzled melted chocolate over my biscotti.

A bakewell tart is made in a pie crust and topped with a layer of jam and an almond flavored sponge cake.

These donuts made with biscuits are so easy to make you could have them for breakfast every morning.

Cream puffs are a staple at Wisconsin state fairs.