Chinese Desserts, Cakes and Confectionery Recipes Online

Chinese cuisine tends to concentrate on the variety of main courses rather than on desserts.

So there are few classic Chinese dessert recipes, although the deliciously sweet toffee apples and bananas will be familiar to those who have dined in a Chinese restaurant. The best desserts to choose to complete your Chinese meal are simple and light dishes, often using fruit, which come as a refreshing conclusion to the variety, spice and intensity of the main courses.

Baking is not generally common in China, either - in fact, many people do not have an oven. Almond biscuits are the most famous Chinese biscuit, although you could easily adapt the recipe to use other nuts. The sponge cake is a steamed recipe which you can prepare in a wok with a steamer rack, or in an ordinary saucepan.