From the category archives:

dessert

dark chocolate covered puffs with orange scented cream

February 1, 2010

The other day over on my fatherhood blog I was talking about my obsession with making different things using Pate a Choux after learning about it over on Michael Ruhlman’s blog. I figured that it would be a go opportunity to fire up the video camera and make some cream puffs filled with an [...]

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thanksgiving rewind: chocolate pecan pie

December 2, 2009

In our household baking is not my purview. It’s not that I’m not capable of it, but rather that my wife really enjoys it. From time to time I’ll help with measuring out ingredients and whatnot while she assembles and does the hard work.
When it came time to choose the dessert portion of [...]

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port wine cranberry creme brulee

November 19, 2009

With the third installment of the fall flavors series I’m turning my attention to dessert by making a port wine cranberry creme brulee. It has taken me some practice to make a good creme brulee and I feel like I’m still learning, but this came out quite well.

hardware

medium saucepan
medium mixing bowl
6 ramekins (7 to [...]

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