Dessert
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Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
I've had plenty of bad pieces of pineapple upside-down cake — usually because the dough is too heavy or dry, and sometimes the overly shrill sweetness makes you want to quit living, at least for the length of time you are eating it. But properly prepared, this guilty pleasure is most welcomely retro, and in the recipe here, the cake, while not exactly dietetic, is not life-threatening either.
Zuccotto
Il Mulino's Tartuffo
At a few spots in New York, the tartuffo rises to exceptional heights. At Il Mulino in the Village, the kitchen pays attention to the last course and transcends the customarily disappointing Italian dessert tray. Here, by combining tartuffo with a superbly foamy zabaglione, which is then strewn with crushed amaretti and fresh berries, dessert would seem reason enough to go to the restaurant.
Fannie Lou’s Derby Pie
The Kentucky Derby is a two-minute horse race, but its cultural impacts are long-lasting, including a rich culinary tradition of mint juleps, hot browns and Derby pie. Only Kern’s Kitchen Inc. can make a true “Derby-Pie” — the creators of the dessert trademarked the term before partnering with the Kentucky Derby Festival — but while the naming practices are sticky, the concept is universal: a chocolate-chip and walnut-laden batter baked in a pie crust. This version is adapted from author ZZ Packer, who shared her great-aunt’s recipe. Many versions exist — some spike the batter with bourbon; others swap in varying nuts or crown the pie with whipped cream — but Fannie Lou’s is easy to assemble, and makes a lasting impression.
Strawberry Pots De Creme
Root Beer Semifreddo
The list of ways to put root beer to use is fairly brief. A root beer float or granita are obvious options, as is making a Cuba libre (cola, rum and ice) with root beer instead. Root beer can also be used as the basis for a barbecue marinade, best made by first reducing and concentrating the drink. I took bits of some of these applications to make a frozen dessert, a semifreddo that’s got root beer every which way. The root beer is reduced and infused with spices, then used to make a custard and mixed with whipped cream and egg whites. There is also some birch or maple syrup to enhance the texture as well as the flavor, and rum to spike the sauce of apricots poached in — you guessed it — root beer.
Butterscotch Sauce
Savory Blood-Orange Gelatin
Maple Bourbon Sweet Potato Pie
Alice Waters’s Cranberry Upside-Down Cake
This recipe requires a little extra effort – you have to whip the egg whites separately and then fold them into the batter - but the reward is a light, ethereal cake topped with glistening, caramelized cranberries. Serve with a dollop of whipped cream, and prepare yourself for accolades.
Tarte au Sucre
More than 75 percent of the world’s maple-syrup supply is produced in Quebec. In Canada the sap doesn’t start running until early March, when the nights are still freezing but the days are bright. Locals process the syrup in a cabane à sucre, or sugar shack, and harvest brings with it celebration, often with a multicourse meal that puts the maple syrup front and center in dishes like this tarte au sucre, or maple syrup pie.
Spanish Latte Milkshake
Rhubarb Fool
Burnt Oranges With Rosemary
The charred, sugary rosemary is both rough and refined, making these oranges a gratifying end to a grilled meal.
Sweet Lavender, Maple Syrup And Carrot Ice Milk
In 2000, R. W. Apple Jr. called Sooke Harbour House, in British Columbia, "one of Canada's half-dozen best restaurants," praising its kitchen garden and its "more than two acres of herbs, vegetables and edible flowers, many of them rarities, gradually devouring the lawns around the house, tumbling down to the sea, scaling hillsides in every direction, a living tapestry of leaf, shrub and color." It seldom snows at Sooke, which lies in hardiness Zone 8, the same as Charleston, S.C., a beneficiary of benign Pacific breezes and currents. This recipe utilizes some of the herbs that grow year-round on the property.
Apple, Pecan And Raisin Pie
Quaking Pudding
Simplest Grilled Peaches
Grilled peaches may be summer’s greatest joy. Cook them over a medium to low gas grill or a dying charcoal fire, and serve them with ice cream, whipped cream or nothing at all.
Sticky Toffee Pudding
Simon Hopkinson is a first-rate pleaser, a chef who was never after recognition but one who wanted to produce terrific food his customers would love. He’s best known as the founding chef of Bibendum, the London restaurant started by Terence Conran in 1987 and recognized as one of the restaurants that marked the end of that city’s postwar cooking slump. His perfect (and not difficult) sticky toffee pudding is a dessert that according to Hopkinson first appeared on menus in Britain in the late 1960s but in fact has its origins in Canada. Whatever: it’s insanely delicious. And it will please you.
Bananas Foster Bread Pudding
Here is a nod both to the original bananas Foster at Brennan’s restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans and to the luxe version of bananas baba au rhum that the Louisiana chef Allison Vines-Rushing once cooked at Jack’s Luxury Oyster Bar in the East Village. Silky and rich, deep with the flavors of bananas, rum and custard, it is not much work to make, and pays off in incredible flavor. Do not be afraid to use an even darker sugar than the brown called for in the recipe, though molasses may be a step too far. You are looking for a deep caramel hue and flavor in the sauce, to complement the rum and the fruit. (And if you're looking to try the original, make our bananas foster recipe.)
Green Tea and Ginger Granita
Allergen-Free Warm Apple-Apricot Cake
Divvies Bakery in South Salem, N.Y., is famous for its peanut-free, tree nut-free, milk-free and egg-free products. The bakery, founded by Lori Sandler, whose son Benjamin was diagnosed with severe food allergies, sells its allergen-free baked goods online and through retailers, and many of its recipes can be found in “The Divvies Bakery Cookbook: No Nuts. No Eggs. No Dairy. Just Delicious!” This bundt cake is one of Ms. Sandler’s favorites. For a super-moist cake, add 4 cups of apples and 1 cup of apricot fruit spread. Serve this cake warm out of the oven for brunch, or it’s delicious served at room temperature too.
Grapefruit Ice
Grapefruit translates beautifully into an icy sorbet. Be sure to allow this to soften in the refrigerator for 20 minutes before serving.
Pear and Red Wine Sorbet
This sorbet might sound unusual, but it's a sophisticated (and delicious) twist on the standard one-note fruit sorbet: the sweetness of the pears and the acidity of the red wine balance each another out, a sprinkle of black pepper adds bite and a baseline of cinnamon and vanilla warm it all up. It couldn't be easier to make (sauté, blend and freeze) and it's gorgeous to boot.