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Easy Blender Dark Chocolate Pots de Creme
Pots de creme are an elegant French dessert, a custard that is somewhere between pudding and creme brulee in texture. Traditionally, the recipes call for cooking the custard in a water bath in the...
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Passion Fruit Pudding Cakes
Pudding cakes are sometimes called self-saucing cakes, as a pudding-like custard forms beneath an airy sponge cake while ht dessert is in the oven. I most often make lemon and chocolate pudding cakes,...
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Sweet Sherry Panna Cotta with Caramel Raisin Sauce
Pedro Ximénez is the name of a white spanish grape varietal that is used to produce an intensely sweet sherry that is typically served as a dessert wine. The grapes are dried in the sun before being...
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Cafe Con Leche Creme Brulee
Creme brulees are a popular restaurant dessert because, while they are delicious, they are actually very simple to make and can be prepared easily in advance of service. Since they’re so common, I...
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Tres Leches Bread Pudding
Tres leches cake is a sponge cake that is coaked in three kinds of milk: evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk and heavy cream. Despite the soaking, the cake base is sturdy enough to hold up...
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Chocolate Cheesecake Mousse
Cheesecake is in indulgent dessert that is always welcome on my table, but cheesecakes can be time consuming to make. This isn’t necessarily because cheesecake recipes are difficult, but because they...
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Baked Lemon Custards
Lemon desserts are always a popular choice in my home. Chocolate is delicious, of course, but the bright flavor of lemon always seems to be a bit lighter – and that means that I sometimes find it...
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How to Make Basic Vanilla Pastry Cream
Pastry cream, also known as creme patissiere, is a staple in a wide variety of desserts. It is most commonly used as a filling for french classics like cream puffs and eclairs – when you’re not giving...
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Individual Pumpkin S’mores Bread Puddings
S’mores are a summer food, something that you prepared around a campfire on a warm night. But as a fan of the combination of toasted marshmallows, melted chocolate and crispy grahams, I like to enjoy...
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Jack Daniel’s Honey Panna Cotta
Whether you drink it regularly or not, just about everyone recognizes the name Jack Daniel’s, which is one the best selling whiskies in the world. It can be drunk straight, mixed into a cocktail or –...
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Maple Syrup Creme Brulee
Creme brulee is a dessert that many of us only enjoy in restaurants, but the delicate custards are fun and simple to make – well worth treating yourself to a set of ramekins, so you can make them any...
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Chocolate Peppermint Chiffon Pie
The combination of rich chocolate and cool peppermint is a good one in just about any form, whether you’re sipping a mug of peppermint-spiked hot chocolate loaded up with marshmallows or indulging in...
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Individual Mocha Pudding Cakes
A pudding cake – also known as a self-saucing pudding – is a cake that bakes into two distinct layers: a fluffy cake and a rich, flavorful sauce to go with it. It’s almost like two desserts in one!...
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Muffin Tin Bread Puddings
Bread pudding is classic comfort food and most of these custardy delights are baked – and served – in large casserole dishes. This “family style” format is perfect when you have a big crowd to serve,...
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Banana Pudding Bread Pudding
Banana pudding is a favorite Southern dessert that reminds many of us of childhood. It’s a twist on a trifle, made with layers of vanilla pudding, vanilla wafer cookies and freshly sliced bananas. You...
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Baked Pear Custard
Fresh fruit is often served with a custard sauce, like creme anglais, but this Baked Pear Custard combines the two long before it makes it to your plate. It’s an easy and elegant way to dress up some...
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Raspberry Creme Brulee
Creme brulee is a dessert that we all love to indulge in from time to time. The delicate custard combined with a crisp, caramelized sugar crust is a match made in heaven. Often, creme brulees are...
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Apricot Clafoutis
Fruit desserts are always front-and-center on my dessert menu during the summer. There are so many choices, from berries to stone fruits, that the options for easy and elegant desserts are almost...
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Tiramisu Bread Pudding
Tiramisu is a dessert that I often bake for parties and other occasions where I need a dessert that can serve a crowd. Not only is it delicious, the layered espresso and cream pudding can be prepared...
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Pecan Chocolate Cobbler
Pecan pie is a dessert that is a staple of many fall dinner parties and celebrations, but fall isn’t the only time of year that I bake desserts using pecans. This Pecan Chocolate Cobbler is a...
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