Dessert
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Easy Chocolate Ginger Truffles
I love making truffles for gifts. They can be made ahead of time and look festive in decorative wrappers. This ginger truffle balls recipe is easy and delicious!
Fruit Lollipops
I perfected this recipe for sweet Homemade Lollipops With Real Fruit. I love making candy during the holidays using natural fruits extracts. Try it!
Cosy Wrapped Walnuts in Dry Fruits
Christmas makes me think of dryied fruits and I make different kind of gifts with them. These are colourful and filled with fresh walnuts from my tree. Thanks to my husband's patience, I get the walnuts all open and split in halves. To prevent the walnuts from going rancid I always keep them in the freezer, they defrost very quickly and loose no flavour. As for the dried fruits I prefer dry figs, dry peaches or apricots, dry dates. To offer them as gifts I put them in celophane bags with a nice bow, the different fruit colours make a beautiful gift.
Almond and Fig Daisies
At home we always have dryied fruits for Christmas and sometimes I pair them with almonds or walnuts. These almond and fig daisies are one of our family favourites and I find that they look so nice on the Christmas table. I also make them as Christmas gifts and fill celophane bags which I close with a pretty bow and a tag.
Sour Candied Citrus Peels
I love making trash into treasure. Culinarily, this means using things like citrus rinds instead of throwing them out. Try this Sour Candied Citrus Peels recipe.
Little Apricot Confections
These little cookies were first given to my mother as a holiday gift back in the late 1960's. She and I loved them so much, and once we got the recipe from her friend David's mother, Mom and I made these together. A very intense apricot flavor and tart and sweet all at the same time. Insanely easy and so not your usual holiday cookie.
Sweet Potato, Leek & Ricotta Souffle
I’ve been really inspired by leftovers lately. That whole idea of waste not, want not, makes a big difference on the weekly grocery bill too. This past Rosh Hashanah, I was “winging” it for the side dish. I knew it would be something with sweet potatoes, since I’d picked them up at the farmer’s market, but I didn’t really have a plan. That is until I saw the leeks at the market too. I started thinking about mashed sweet potatoes paired with some sautéed leeks. Then that morphed into a soufflé. When I got home and started unloading ingredients, and spied some leftover homemade ricotta I’d made earlier in the week, my side dish was finally complete—a sweet potato, leek and ricotta soufflé.
Lazy Mary's Lemon Tart
This is a great dessert to make at the last minute. This lazy Mary's lemon tart recipe is delicious.
Roasted figs in a red wine cardamom-infused reduction with vanilla ice cream
We just brought home a large crate of figs this weekend as well as a pint of organic vanilla ice cream. In my humble opinion, figs should be prepared in a way which doesn't mask their shape and fresh tenderness. This dish brings together three of my favourite things- figs, red wine and cardamom. The succulent sweetness of the figs swimming in a pool of milky, creamy whiteness, lacqeured with red wine reduction is all you need for a meal sometimes. Skip the main course, go straight for dessert. (Note: use a medium-bodied dry red so it can soak up the flavour of the cardamom pods).
Deep Chocolate Cake with Orange Icing
Mango Frozen Yogurt
Even though this isn't a true "froyo" it's an awesome healthy dessert that's fast and easy. The consistency should be similar to a soft sorbet. If it's too runny, add more frozen mango chunks. If it's too thick, add more yogurt.
Poppy Seed Cake
Though the ingredient list of this cake is simple and pantry-driven, its prodigal use of poppy seeds makes it shine. Brought to The Times by Joan Nathan in 2009, this archival recipe from the Strawbery Banke museum would have been a more time-consuming endeavor when poppy seeds were harvested by hand, before they were widely available at American supermarkets. Ms. Nathan’s easy recipe calls for store-bought poppy seeds, rehydrated and plumped in hot milk, and whips egg whites with an electric mixer until fluffy to ensure airy results. Less labor-intensive than its original self, it’s just as delicious today – and, like the best family recipes, it’s timeless.
Frozen Mocha
Do you love chocolate and coffee blended into an icy cold drink as much as I do? if so, you'll love this decadent summertime frozen mocha treat recipe.
Maple Watermelon Sherbet
This is a refreshing dessert that is richer than a sorbet, but lighter and healthier than an ice cream. Reducing some of the watermelon puree allows you to concentrate the watermelon flavor and means you don't have to use much additional sweetener. Maple syrup as a sweetener imparts a nice depth of flavor, but any sweetener, from sugar to agave, will work. If you are up for experimenting, you can feel free to swap out the half and half and use heavy cream (for a creamier product) or Greek yogurt (for a lower-fat one) instead.
Foolproof Ice Cream
After making Ice Cream Recipes that didn't turn out well, I dug into the science of making ice cream. This recipe is for vanilla, but you can make any flavor.
Grilled Mint Julep Peaches
One of my favorite summer libations was the inspiration to this summery southern-style dessert.
Boozesicle
Well, I make popsicles for a living, mostly non-alcoholic. But there's nothing more refreshing on a hot summer night than a cocktail on a stick...that's right baby, frozen popsicocktails!!
Maple Tuiles
This recipe is adapted from the Maple Curls recipe from my mom's edition of the Joy of Cooking (it's not in the new one, though I can't possibly fathom why). They are super easy and I make them all the time, and they are also the cookies I made for Amanda when I first met her!
Strawberry Panna Cotta With Cereal-Milk Mousse and Cornflake Crumble
Dehydrated strawberries can be found at health-food stores and at specialty-food stores like Trader Joe's. They add a concentrated sweetness and acidity to the crumble, but if you can't find them, no one will know they're missing.
Rhubarb Raspberry Cobbler With Cornmeal Biscuits
Rhubarb is often paired with strawberries, but in this cobbler it courts a new dance partner, the raspberry. If rhubarb is young and fresh, you can trim it in seconds. If it has fibrous outer strings, peel these off as you would those of celery. The cornmeal in the biscuit dough will nicely offset the nubbiness of the raspberry seeds. You can eat it warm from the oven, smothered in heavy cream for dessert, then spoon up the leftovers cold the next morning for breakfast, topped with yogurt.
Fresh Strawberries With Almond Crème Anglaise
Strawberries, like asparagus, peaches, corn and a few other joys of summer, are perhaps best enjoyed unadulterated, at least at the beginning of the season, when the thrill of their newness is fresh. Later on, when you’re on your 10th quart, it’s time to tinker. I craved a kind of crème anglaise, a cooked but marginally thickened custard. But I wanted something a little more exciting than the standard vanilla-scented one. By jolting the custard with toasted almonds, I met that need, and with only a tad more work than in the original version. Strain out the cooked almonds if you want a creamy sauce (and you should). Served warm, over good strawberries, with slivered almonds as a garnish, this is almost as good an option as shortcake.
Vegan Chocolate Cupcakes
Vegans have made amazing discoveries in the field of eggless baking. This is a boon not just for folks who abstain from animal products, but also for those who have dairy allergies. This recipe, adapted from “Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World,” by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero, makes cupcakes that are moist and sweet and dark with cocoa.
Oatmeal Crème Brûlée With Almond and Orange
At Primehouse in Chicago, David Burke ropes in orange and oatmeal for a crème brûlée: orange zest, stirred into cooked oatmeal with brown sugar, sits at the bottom, contrasting with a creamy custard and a caramelized sugar top. He serves it in eggshells after brunch, with its salt bombs like sausages, eggs Benedict and smoked fish. “Putting salt and sweet together is always going to be successful,” Mr. Burke said. “That’s the classic candy bar trick.”
Banana Bread
Here is an easy way to use up the bananas on the countertop, or brown ones thrown in the back of the freezer. Don’t overmix the ingredients, and make sure the bananas are very ripe.