Category: Desserts

ST. PATRICK’S DAY RECIPE: Guinness Chocolate Mousse & Truffles

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Chocolate mousse with Guinness. Photo courtesy Guinness Storehouse.   When you’re Justin O’Connor, executive chef at Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, you work Guinness stout into every recipe, from Guinness Chocolate Cupcakes to soup. Guinness, which has chocolaty notes, is a great match with chocolate desserts. Whip one up for St. Patrick’s Day, and serve it…
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RECIPE: Layered Rice Pudding Bars

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Here’s something new for rice pudding lovers: Rice pudding is combined with a cheesecake-like layer with a pecan shortbread-type crust. What temptation! Thanks to RiceSelect for the recipe. The recipe uses Jasmati rice, a Texas-grown jasmine rice that has the same fragrant aroma as Thai jasmine rice (which you can substitute). Jasmine is the go-to…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Decorated Goat Cheese Logs

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Goat cheese logs: plain, green and pink-themed. Photo courtesy Vermont Creamery.   You can take a plain log of goat cheese and decorate it for any special occasion. We’ve included suggestions for Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Halloween and Christmas below. But you don’t need an official holiday—just friends and family who’d appreciate the treat.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: How To Flambé A Dessert

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[1] Ice Cream Volcano. A copycat recipe is below. The number 5 is a design in the plate (photo © NYY Steak | New York City).   When we were browsing the Facebook page of NYY Steak located in Yankee Stadium, we came across this photo and uttered Tina Fey’s mantra: “What the what?” It…
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RECIPE: Sautéed Bananas

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Whenever we’re at a Chinese restaurant, we order fried banana for dessert. Whether plain, with whipped cream or ice cream, it’s a sweet and creamy treat. Eating a serving of it recently, we reflected on what we loved about it. The answer wasn’t the breading or the deep-fat frying or the even the whipped cream.…
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