Desserts can be tricky kitchen projects, but worth the effort. Here, you can find the temperature tips to help you bake sweet dessert goodness, every time.
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…
There’s nothing like a fresh, warm donut. Pillowy and soft, they are one of the great achievements of the bready arts. It is a shame, though, that donuts (we’ll talk names in a minute) seem forever stuck in the province of the diner and the specialty shop. Rows of coffee pots, counter-hops in short aprons…
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…
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…
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…
Every summer, gardeners across the world, and those (un?)fortunate enough to be their neighbors, face the annual zucchini glut. Zucchini don’t care about you or how much you want to eat, they just want to make more and more squash. What is one to do with all this produce? Quick bread doneness temp: 200°F (93°C)…
