Beautifully iced cake
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French Buttercream Icing Recipe from The French Pastry School

For the smoothest, most decadent icing for your cakes, you should use French Buttercream. This icing uses a hot sugar syrup to cook the eggs and yolks in the mixture, resulting in a rich and luscious texture that is simply unbeatable on any cake. And who better to teach this method than the pastry experts…

Homemade chocolate ice cream

Homemade Ice Cream: Temperatures for Smooth and Creamy Results

If there is one dessert that says “summer,” that dessert is (obviously) ice cream. And if you want to up the ante even more on the summertime-y-ness, make that homemade ice cream. Fresh-churned ice cream—strawberry, vanilla, peach, chocolate, or anything else—is a delicious and celebratory treat. Unfortunately, it is a treat that is far too…

Pumpkin cookies on a plate

Doneness Temps and a Recipe for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Fall is in the air and there might be no better dessert for signaling the changing season than a freshly-baked batch of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Warm and evocative of autumn, they bring up a powerful nostalgia. I cannot speak to it directly, but I suspect that even people who did not eat these as…

Funnel cakes
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How to Make Funnel Cake: Using Temps to Bring the Fair Home

I suspect that a poll of people at any given county or state fair would reveal that one of the main reasons for going would be the food. Fair food is infamously fried and famously delicious, and a strong candidate for President of Fair Food is the funnel cake. Funnel Cake Frying Temp: 375°F These…