I found easy dessert recipes as my way into the cooking experience. For novice cooks of all age groups cheap, easy dessert recipes are a really good introduction into cooking.

We all know cooking to be complex and very involved and if pressed most if not all people have a disaster story to tell of their cooking experience. Perhaps this could be you that disaster indelibly etched within you, affecting how, when and for whom you produce meals? Is this true? Is this why convenience food, fills the ever powerful supermarket aisles? Is it not just the convenience they are needed for but the ability to just shake, pierce and microwave and eat?

This may be you, I know it certainly was me in a former life, I remember serving the meal to choruses of ‘it looks as good as the picture on the box!’ Trust me this is not good.
I am saying is this does not have to be the way, cooking is a great skill that we all can learn and easy dessert recipes are one of the best ways to begin.

If you start with some cheap and easy dessert recipes and then after some success your confidence will grow and you will be making more complex and elaborate dishes before you realize. Desserts, especially simple basic ones are very rarely a total failure and usually you can still eat the failures!

Let’s not forget if you are starting to make some easy and healthy dessert recipes as opposed to buying them from the supermarket you know the ingredients involved and even if they are lovely and sweet there will be no extra preservatives or chemicals, just good simple basic ingredients.

As you improve your dessert recipes cooking skills, very soon you will probably learn five or six recipes really well, so you can make them easily without thinking. The next step is to add a new recipe every month or so. Before you know it you’ll have a collection of easy and healthy dessert recipes that family and friends will love and be requesting you to make all the time.

As time goes by this will become one of a series of ‘building blocks’ in relation to cooking, the next stage is to move out of your comfort zone of these easy dessert recipes and perhaps look at starter menus or dare I say it the ‘main course’. Your confidence will have grown, what was once a disaster in the making will now just be a new challenge and perhaps one that you will be able to take completely in your stride.

However long this takes I guarantee with each success your satisfaction and pride will grow and dinner parties etc will be a pleasurable experience rather than a nightmare disaster story!