korean dessert pages

  1. Korean pan-cooked rice cake with edible flowers

    Pan-fried sweet rice cakes with edible flowers (Hwajeon: 화전)

    You probably know that the recipes on my website are still used in my everyday cooking. This time I’m making hwajeon, disc-shaped pan-cooked rice cake with flowers on top. Whenever I crave some chewy rice cakes, this is my go-to recipe because it’s so easy and fast to make. The rice cakes are sweet and […]

  2. Rice punch (Sikhye: 식혜)

    Sikhye (rice punch) is a traditional sweet Korean drink made of fermented malt and rice. As the rice ferments, the grains turn white and become spongy, releasing their starch into the liquid, which turns light amber. The punch is never fermented long enough to become alcoholic, and it’s often served as a dessert in Korean […]

  3. Dessert punch with persimmon, cinnamon, and ginger (Sujeonggwa)

    Yield: 4 -5 servings Ingredients 4-5 dried persimmons 5 cinnamon sticks ½ cup of ginger, sliced 1 cup of sugar pine nuts 7½ to 8 cups of water Directions Wash, peel, and slice ½ cup’s worth of ginger. Put it into a pot or kettle. Rinse 5 cinnamon sticks and put them into the pot. Add […]

  4. danpatjuk

    Sweet red bean soup (Danpatjuk)

    Ingredients red bean paste, sweet rice flour, boiling water, sugar, pine nuts, cinnamon powder. Directions In a pot, place 1 cup of washed red beans and 4 cups of water and heat it over high heat for 10 minutes. Lower the heat to low medium and simmer for 50 minutes. Check if the beans are […]

  5. gyungdan

    Gyeongdan (rice cake balls)

    Rice cake is very familiar food for Koreans. Whenever special occasions come, the first thing my mother and grand mother planned was to make rice cake. However these days people are more likely to buy rice cake than make their own. I am going to make gyeongdan, rice cake balls and show you it can […]