Recently, during an international discussion, I had a chance to think about Polish desserts. It wasn't an easy task. Do we have any desserts associated with our country like tiramisu and panna cotta with Italy or crème brulèe with France. Obviously, there are cakes. Cheese cake, Easter cake called mazurek, gingerbread and poppy seed cake are always eaten during our festivals.

I associate Polish desserts with fruit. In our country the seasonal fruits are so juicy and full of flavour that they consistently reign on summer and autumn tables. I associate Poland with strawberries, plums and apples.

The main ingredients of my desserts are just apples. All cakes with apples I know involve cutting and stewing the apples. For this cake you should add pieces of fresh and fragrant fruit cut in half. The recipe for this cake comes from http://moniamieszaigotuje.blogspot.com

Ingredients:
dough
6 apples
280g of flour
200g of butter
1.5 tablespoons of caster sugar
1 tablespoon of vanilla sugar
1.5 teaspoons of baking powder
1 egg
125g of vanilla fromage frails

My mother made these small cookies when I was a small child. Two versions of this old recipe have survived: the first one is for scones and the second is with egg yolks for so-called cookies from a mincer. Both of them have one fault. We eat the first cookie, and then suddenly... an empty plate.

A few years ago, to my surprise, I found cookies like this in a baker's in a small seaside town. They contained plums, and, sprinkled with caster sugar they reminded me of childhood and were really tasty. Prepare them in your kitchen. You need only a few basic ingredients. My mother used some margarine for preparing the cookies. I used butter.

Ingredients
400g of flour
200g of 18% cream
200g of butter
3 tablespoons of caster sugar
plum stew
caster sugar for sprinkling

Ever-popular corn flakes were invented because of a fascination with vegetarianism. At the end of XIX century, the American doctor John Harvey Kellogg served corn flakes and peanut butter for the first time at the health resort where he worked. Both products had an influence on the diet of Americans and people from all over the world.

Now, when I look at all the different breakfast cereals on the supermarket shelves, it is sometimes difficult to decide which to buy. Most of them are very tasty but traditional corn flakes (although they aren't sweet) are always gladly chosen by my children.

I have always served corn flakes with milk or yoghurt, and sometimes I use them to make batter for chicken breast. When I found a recipe for corn-flake cookies at www.wszystko-smaczne.pl I decided to try it. In the original recipe there is sugar as well as honey. I left it out – even without it the cookies were sweet enough. The golden cookies are nice and crispy, and my children like them very much.

Ingredients:
100g of butter
4 tablespoons of honey
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence
180g of corn flakes
130g of nuts

Today thanks to www.aniagotuje.pl I discovered the best cheesecake I have ever eaten. It was the outright king of our Sunday dinner. Light, fluffy with a hint of lemon, it excellently complemented the coconut base and crumble topping. It doesn't need sophisticated ingredients or baking, so even if you haven't got an oven or can't cook for toffee, you will be able to make it.

The end of the spring and beginning of summer is a season of dinners following First Communions or Baptisms. I recommend this bracing, lemon-coconut cheesecake as an excellent dessert which caters for all tastes, doesn't tucker the housewife out and doesn't bollix up the family budget. You will see that it is also a decoration for the festal table.

Ingredients (small cake tin 15-18cm):
base and crumble topping
90g of desiccated coconut
50g of butter
2 tablespoons of sugar
cheese mixture
500 g of grated curd cheese
2 lemon jellies (powdered)
500 ml of boiling water
200 g of 30% sweet cream

We can never have enough recipes for simple and quick dishes. Even if we are perfectly organized housewives, we sometimes have moments when we don't know what to do first. Despite our best efforts, we still have as much work in ahead of us as behind. And the family has to eat. In any case, we also sometimes want to give ourselves a small yummy treat.

Today I would like to share with you a quick and simple recipe for a dessert. We usually already have the ingredients for it in the kitchen. You may prepare it with every kind of fruit; with frozen fruit if it is not the summer season. A busy week and quick dinner, but the dessert? Princely!

Ingredients: (for 4 people)
2 mangos
500ml of 30% sweet cream
300g of mascarpone cheese
100g of white chocolate
150g of oat cookies