If you are a coffee fan, this is the coffee dessert – the best ever! You can make this and serve it in Irish coffee glasses or plain glasses. The contrast of the unsweetened coffee cream mingling with the sweetened sauce and a generous amount of pouring or whipping cream is just gorgeous.

If it were not enough that they have a dessert-like flavor, sweet potatoes hide a genuine treasure trove of minerals and vitamins.

Move over carrot cake! The parsnip has arrived and wants some of the action. Good, fresh, firm parsnips have a wonderful, natural sweetness that makes them ideal in baked desserts. Read on for this inspired recipe that will have you singing the praises of parsnips.

These dessert or snack bars are reminiscent of good old Fig Newtons, a lunch-box and after-school snack favorite from my childhood. The addition of whole wheat flour, wheat germ, and applesauce in the crust make them toastier tasting with a cake-like texture. Lemon zest adds a nice contrast to the sweet raspberry filling.

I love peanuts. I like them salted or unsalted. I like them sweet or savory. You can put them in my dinner or in my dessert. I never met a peanut I didn’t like. It is a joy to eat peanuts! It’s also a challenge to eat peanuts. Peanuts pack a caloric punch. Too many peanuts per day and you have to loosen your belt.

Tong sui, also known as tian tang, is a sweet soup or warm custard served as a dessert at the end of a meal in Chinese cuisine. "Tong sui" are loan words taken from the Cantonese term that is applied to these dessert items. As such, the term is generally not used outside of the Cantonese communities.There is a wide variety of tong sui and in Hong Kong, there are often stalls which devote themselves just to selling different types of desserts. These dessert stalls have also gained prominence in overseas Chinese communities, and can be found in various parts of the United States.In Vietnamese cuisine, a similar dessert soup is called chè. Common varietiesBlack sesame soup (芝麻糊)Douhua (豆花, 豆腐花): Tofu puddingEgg tong sui (鸡蛋糖水): popular in Hong Kong and southern ChinaGot fan (葛粉): kudzu soupGuilinggao (龜苓膏) made from three-lined box turtleHasma (雪蛤): A dessert made of dried fallopian tubes of the frog with supposed health benefits.Red bean soup (紅豆湯, 紅豆沙)Sai mai lo: A dessert soup of pearl tapioca, coconut and evaporated milk, often with taro ('taro sai mai lo'), or with other fruits such as mango or honeydew.Mung bean soup (綠豆湯, 綠豆沙): made from mung beans, sometimes also served with seaweed)6 flavors (六味)Peanut paste soupSteamed egg custardSteamed milk custardSweet potato soupSweet almond soupSweet walnut soup External linksRecipe for sweet potato soup