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Vanilla Recipes

Cardamom Creme Anglaise Recipe

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Actually a liquid custard made on the stove top, crème anglaise is a classic, ubiquitous dessert cream sauce.  Here we’ve added cardamom, which gives it a more complex flavor without interfering too much with its adaptability. Ingredients: 1 cup Whole Milk 2 Egg Yolks 2 ¼ tbsp (1 oz) Granulated Sugar or Evaporated Cane Juice …

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How to Make Flavored Sugars

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Flavored sugars are incredibly easy to make and can be used as an ingredient in desserts and beverages, served to the side of coffee and tea, used to rim cocktail glasses, or sprinkled over the top of completed desserts just before serving.  All you need is some sugar (we recommend superfine sugar) a coffee or …

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Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta, Truffle Honey Florentines & Caramel Sauce

Shelley of Fabulous Foodies Fixing Fine Foods shares her Panna Cotta, Truffle Honey Florentine & Demerara Caramel recipes along with a look into her recipe development process. I’m Shelley from Fabulous Foodies Fixing Fine Foods and am delighted to have been given the opportunity to create a delish dish using Marx Foods ingredients.  Those food bloggers who …

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Huckleberry Creme Puree Recipe

with Vanilla Crème Fraiche & Tellicherry Pepper Syrup Makes at least 50 servings. Ingredients 7 cups + 2 tsp. Sugar 2 cups Water 2 quarts heavy cream 5 lbs. frozen huckleberries 6 tbsp. Tellicherry peppercorns 16 oz. crème fraiche 4 Vanilla Beans Huckleberry Puree 1. Add 5 lbs. huckleberries, 5 cups sugar and 2 quarts …

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Parsnip & Vanilla Soup Recipe

Parsnip & Vanilla Soup with Beet Oil & Fried Capers Drink Pairing: Champagne or California Sauvignon Blanc This is a rich, sweet, creamy soup with vanilla bean smoothing all the flavors together.  The earthiness of the beet oil and zing of the capers help rein in the cream and sweetness before they become cloying or …

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Crumbly Butter Cakes with Truffle Honey Recipe

Food blogger and photographer Leslie Uhl brings us this truffle honey-soaked Greek butter cakes recipe.  They look amazing! I had to experiment a lot with this one… Justin Marx at Marx Foods had offered a challenge: our choice of three ingredients to create something yummy with: I chose vanilla beans, coconut sugar, and truffle honey. …

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Lavender Blossom Biscotti Recipe

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Krystina of Basil & Wine guest posts below with an elegant spelt biscotti recipe (easily modifyable to use wheat flour).  Here’s Krystina: ————– Recently, Marx Foods offered to send me three samples of their gourmet food items to formulate a recipe. The trick? It had to include all three ingredients. I went fairly safe, choosing ingredients …

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Refresco de Avena & Oat Hot Toddy Recipes

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Refresco de Avena is a refreshing oat based drink consumed in South America & the Caribbean.  Apart from oats and water, the ingredients can vary quite a bit from place to place.  This is my version…I’m not sure how authentic it is, but it is tasty. Cold with mango this drink is very good indeed, but …

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Summer Cocktails: The Ladyslipper & The Earl of Juniper

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  Emily from Paper Cake Scissors guest posts below with some refreshing cocktail recipes that are perfect for easy summer entertaining because the flavorings can be made ahead and easily mixed with alcohol on the fly…she calls them ”Cool ‘tails”:   …………….   If you follow trends in the food and drink world, you know how …

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