by Brian | Aug 11, 2011 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
I know whipped cream is not a separate food group, but it could be. Even the lactose intolerant can rarely deny themselves the pleasure of a taste. While marshmallows do gracefully adorn a cup of hot chocolate, nothing can match whipped cream laced with sugar and...
by Brian | Mar 19, 2011 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I wanted to avoid criticism. I wanted my hand to be steady, but piping royal icing is hard. “That’s supposed to be straight line. And even,” Suzen commented. She was across the counter eyeing the cookies I was trying to decorate. “I don’t want straight lines,” I lied....
by Suzi | Oct 21, 2010 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
For yesterday’s blog of a Very Vanilla Layer Cake you need a superior chocolate frosting. Superior. Back to Baking by Flavor and in the chocolate chapter there is Buttery Chocolate Frosting. It’s a bit dangerous to say that a frosting is the best you’ve ever had. I’ve...
by Suzi | Jul 15, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Dessert Digest
I recently posted about a great yellow cake and said it went so very well with whipped cream. Well, I did find the whipped cream, infused with herbal scents, thoroughly sophisticated. But the truth is, brian generally likes his cakes frosted. Icing is fine, that thin...
by Brian | Mar 19, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Can you imagine cake without frosting? A dusting of powdered sugar does not please me. Okay, for gingerbread a heavy coating of whipped cream works. But typically I want frosting. There are bookloads of frosting recipes. Yet of all those, a handful of frostings have...