Vanilla Bean Semifreddo

semifreddo
semifreddo
Semifreddo: like homemade ice cream, only easy!

For about a year now, we’ve thought of picking up an ice cream maker attachment for our mixer. We haven’t done it yet, mainly because we aren’t sure how often we’d use it. Would it just end up in the cupboard taking up space? Possibly. But, we do like ice cream, and the idea of scratchin’ up our own sounds like a really good one. Can you say fresh and rich?

Even though we don’t have an ice cream maker, it turns out that we can still make up a rich, creamy, cold dessert treat: semifreddo. And, it’s pretty easy!

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Fluffy Cream Cheese Frosting

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Our carrot cake with fluffy cream cheese frosting!

Two weeks ago, we made carrot cake based on a recipe from The New Best Recipe, by the Editors of Cook’s Illustrated. The cake itself was nearly perfect, with just the right amount of spices and carrots. Just what we were looking for in a carrot cake. The frosting, however, left a little something to be desired. It was too sweet, and too heavy. Sure, a heavy and sweet might be exactly what some people look for in a frosting, but not us. Hence, the Fluffy Cream Cheese Frosting.

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