Another ice cream recipe? Oh yeah… another ice cream recipe! This one is rich, full-flavored and not for the faint of heart. While it might have been said a time or two that I’m not a huge fan of chocolate, there are a couple of chocolate recipes that are good enough to make me change my mind. One is the Black Magic chocolate cake and the other is this adaptation of the chocolate ice cream recipe from David Lebovitz. Though I may not be a chocoholic and can’t honestly say that love chocolate… I do love THIS chocolate ice cream!
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When it comes to quintessential summertime desserts, shortcake pretty much ranks right up there with the best of contenders. Typically it’s made with strawberries piled over whipped cream and here on the west coast served over a slice angel-food cake or pound cake. But in other places it’s served over an actual short-cake that often looks somewhat like a biscuit though all similarities end right there. Done right, shortcake can transport you to another place and leave you feeling like you’ve never had anything like that before. Well, all I can say is I must’ve done something right because this Cherries-Jubilee Shortcake did just that!
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To claim that it’s hot would be a supreme understatement. It was 108°F at my house this afternoon so ice cream was definitely on the brain. This is one I made last weekend and it went over very well with the family. The price of cherries has finally come down and I’ve been buying a lot of them lately. Of course this translates into a lot of cherry desserts :)
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Well, here it is… my first cake for Wilton course #3. The class is all about fondant. Fondant… fondant… and more fondant. And that’s A-ok with me because the opportunity to learn to work with fondant is pretty much the reason I took this class :) One thing I’ve learned along the way is while I may not enjoy eating fondant I surely do enjoy decorating cakes with it!!!
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Today is a typical Southern California Summer Scorcher. It may only be 98° right now (2:00 pm PDT) but if it’s anything like yesterday the temps will climb another 8° or so before we hit the max in about 2 more hours. If you follow me on Twitter you’ll know I was struggling to get these photographs done before I had lemon gelato soup! LOL!! And as I mentioned on Twitter, the only option I really had was to… uhm… well… hmmm… eat it!!!
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