This simple sorbet is packed with the delicious, layered and haunting flavor of elderflowers (floral, fruity, honeyed, & slightly tart).  Because it’s quite sweet, we recommend single scoop servings or pairing it with something tart or buttery (like shortbread or tuiles). Ingredients:   (Makes approx. 1 Quart) 2 ½ cups Water ½ cup + 4 tsp …

Creme anglaise is a stovetop custard dessert sauce with a rich, creamy vanilla flavor.  It’s delicious with chocolate or fruit (especially berries).  It’s also very similar to a vanilla ice cream base, so once you get this recipe down, making your own ice cream is a snap! Ingredients: 2 Eggs 2 cups Heavy Cream ½ …

Pasilla Hot Chocolate with Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream Any variety of bulk dried chilies (consult our chile heat scale for help deciding) can be used to make this hot chocolate (although you’ll likely want to change the amounts to fit the chile heat you’re looking for).  Here we’ve used mild pasilla chilies for a fruity …

Sour up front with a brief fiery finish, this sorbet is refreshing and potent enough to be served as a small, light summer dessert or a palate opening amuse bouche.  While we used dried tepin chilies for this because of their unique ability to be very spicy for a few seconds and then subside (unlike …

Need to do fine detail piping work on short notice and don’t have a pastry bag handy?  Don’t worry, if you’ve got parchment paper, you’ve got a paper piping bag (aka a cornet).  This same technique can also be used to make large paper cones for holding goodies (for an example, see our fish & …

  Surprisingly quick and easy to do once you know the trick, piping chocolate is a great way to send a message with your dessert.  Of course, the same technique used for letters can also be used to pipe more elaborate chocolate designs if you’re feeling particularly artistic. The secret to making chocolate pipe-able is …

Galya of Eat Love & Train shares the below recipe with us.  Ever health conscious, she’s used intensely flavorful ingredients to get maximum satisfaction from these little goodies while including the least amount of sugar (and guilt). —— A couple of months ago, Marx Foods asked their fan bloggers to choose three ingredients and cook something with …

  Yes, you read that right, a mushroom dessert!  Panna cotta is a smooth, incredibly creamy dessert gelled with gelatin.  And yes, this candy cap panna cotta tastes like mushrooms.  But it’s good, we swear! The reason it works is because of candy cap mushrooms’ unique toasted-maple flavor and natural sweetness. They’re a cutting edge pastry chef …

Candy Cap mushrooms (aka curry milk cap mushrooms) are an unusual and exotic wild mushroom variety that is often used to make mushroom desserts. Yes, desserts!  Their flavor and aroma are intense: sweet and musky with a pronounced maple note.  Though they’re one of the pricier wild mushrooms, the amount you use for most recipes …

  What is Sorbet? Sorbet is essentially a non-dairy frozen dessert, often (but not always) made from fruit puree or fruit juice.  How to Balance Sugar Levels in a Sorbet The most tricky part when making sorbet is balancing the sugar levels of your sorbet base.  Regardless of how your base tastes, it must have …