Category: Recipes

TIP OF THE DAY: Add Spirits Or Liqueurs To Mousse Recipes

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Nothing picks up the flavor of a mousse recipe—be it chocolate, coffee, raspberry or other favorite—than a spirit or liqueur (liqueur is a spirit that has been sweetened with flavors, oils and/or extracts). We always add a tablespoon of cherry, coffee or orange liqueur to chocolate mousse. In the recipe below, SKYY vodka replaces cherry…
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GIFT: Chocolate Mint “Christmas Tree” Cookies

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Chocolate peppermint Christmas tree cookies. Photo courtesy Mackenzie Ltd.   Shortly after we published a recipe for Chocolate Mint Christmas Cookies last week, we saw these tree-shaped cookies at MackenzieLtd.com. They’re sugar cookies instead of our butter cookies recipe (sugar cookies use a different type of shortening and thus don’t have buttery flavor). You can…
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RECIPE: Red Radish Salad For Christmas

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At the Fat Radish restaurant in New York City, you may find radish salad year-round. It’s delicious anytime. During holiday season, radishes and greens deliver Christmas colors: a bright red exterior, crunchy slices and some zippy, peppery heat (the heat dissipates when radishes are cooked). First pick your favorite greens: We like a mix of…
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RECIPE: Delicious Chocolate Mint Cookies

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Delicious chocolate mint cookies are our favorite holiday cookies (photo © Wisconsin Dairy).   What we’re baking for the holiday cookie exchange: chocolate mint christmas butter cookies, with a recipe from the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. We know that other food writers will be pushing the envelope, trying to make the most memorable cookies to…
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