Category: Dessert

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Peanut Butter Cups

Mmm. Chocolate and peanut butter.

We’ve been making candies at Christmas for several years now, and, while we have our favorites, we do like to try something new from time to time. This year we decided to try our hand at making Peanut Butter Cups. Not like the ones you can buy at the store; we’re talking Peanut Butter Cups with real ingredients. Quality ingredients, such as a good dark chocolate, and a not-too-sweet peanut butter filling. After all, those Peanut Butter Cups in the two-pack are overly sweet, and the chocolate barely tastes like chocolate. We know we can do better. So can you, fellow scratcher.

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Black Pepper Ice Cream

Just for fun, we sprinkled a bit of pepper on top, too!

Summer is definitely upon us. We’ve had quite a few days with the temperatures topping out in the low 100’s, and will be close to 110°F later this week. We need something to cool us off, so, we figured cool, creamy ice cream would do the trick. And, we immediately knew the flavor we wanted to try: black pepper. Yep, we planned to flavor our ice cream with nothing but black pepper, the same stuff you find in pepper grinders. How did we come up with that, seemingly unusual, idea?

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Paltry Pantry Spice Cake

Quite tasty!

Ah, with nearly everyone staying inside and the shelves at the store bare, you might be thinking of having just a little snack. This might seem difficult if your pantry is running a bit low, but, it’s not. People have dealt with that pesky paltry pantry many, many times in the past, and there’s almost always something you can put together from whatever you have available. Think that sounds far-fetched? Well, we’ll show you how to make a tasty cake from whatever you have around the house. All you need is 2 cups of flour and a few other staples.

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Vanilla Macarons

Ooh, la la! So French!

We’ve been wanting to make macarons for ages. We’ve looked at recipes. We’ve copied down some of them. We’ve read the tips for perfect macarons. We’ve had them in French bakeries. We’ve just never made them before. Why? Is it that they seem impossible to make? Nah, that won’t stop us from trying. Besides, plenty of people have made macarons. The real reason is more mundane: we’ve not had fine enough almond flour. You see, normally we make our own almond meal/flour from whole almonds by grinding them in a food processor; but, that makes a moderately coarse flour, too coarse for macarons. So, they fall by the wayside. We’ve waited long enough, so let’s make some macarons!

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Almond Brittle

While it seems as if we haven’t been busy, we have. We’ve been traveling for fun (to the Grand Canyon), and, back at home, we’ve been making candy. We generally make candy for the holidays, mostly to give away, but, a bit for us, too. While we have our standards, such as Bear Paws, we like to change up some of the other recipes we use. This year we changed our brittle recipe to make almond brittle.

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The Mi-Cuit

Best cake in the world? Maybe!

How would you like to make the cake that’s the best in the world, according to Pierre Hermé, named the world’s best pastry chef in 2016? Are you thinking that it’s going to be some super-complex recipe, with difficult to find ingredients, hard to follow instructions, and specialized equipment, that would be far beyond your capabilities? Well, it’s not true. This cake is simple, contains just five ingredients, and you can mix it up with a spatula and a fork. It’s true.

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Torte au Chocolat (Chocolate Mousse Tart with a Hazelnut Crust)

As tasty as it looks.

This is what we were planning to make with the Bouchon’s Chocolate Mousse that posted the other day. Basically, a simple chocolate-hazelnut tart. And, it is pretty simple. A simple crust that you bake and fill with chocolate mousse. Nothing more. But, don’t let simple fool you into thinking that it won’t stand out. Sometimes the simplest desserts can be the best.

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