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The Best Chocolate Mousse of Your Life Under 5 Minutes : Cafe Fernando – Food Blog - best chocolate mousse - best chocolate mousse recipe - chocolate chantilly - chocolate mousse recipe - herve this - Chocolate. December 22nd, 2010 | Category: Chocolate Two ingredients (seriously, only chocolate and water) and five minutes later, you will be eating The Best Chocolate Mousse of Your Life.

The Best Chocolate Mousse of Your Life Under 5 Minutes : Cafe Fernando – Food Blog - best chocolate mousse - best chocolate mousse recipe - chocolate chantilly - chocolate mousse recipe - herve this - Chocolate

I promise. And you don’t even need any fancy kitchen gadgets. Patience and a bit of elbow grease are required, but we always need those in the kitchen, right? This amazing discovery was made by the famous French chemist, Hervé This, who is also known as the man who unboiled an egg. Since the recipe has only two ingredients, it all comes down to the quality of the chocolate you use. Don’t take this as a mousse recipe only. You can also flavor it with spices like cinnamon or cayenne pepper or add a tablespoon of liquor like Grand Marnier, Chartreuse or Tia Maria. Or boil the water first, take off heat, place a couple of Earl Grey tea bags, let infuse and then use it as your liquid. The most important part of the recipe is achieving the right consistency. Blueberry scones recipe. Recipe: blueberry scones Right now, part of my work involves getting up early and hiking to alpine basins to assess the state of the wildflowers.

blueberry scones recipe

You don’t always hit pay dirt, but I like that it gets me outside into the backcountry and that I’m not sitting on my bum all day. And in summer, you’re almost always guaranteed to be greeted by many familiar friends in the high country. I saw several favorites up high in marshy alpine meadows. mountain bluebells magenta paintbrush I paid the price for those flowers too… in blood, so to speak. Mountain biking makes it harder for the mosquitoes to get you and then you ride to the local coffeehouse and wait in line with a random cute dog Another part of my job is knowing when certain slopes or basins are reaching peak bloom and what time of day or which conditions are ideal for the images I want to capture. Tall larkspur iphone behind the scenes (courtesy of jeremy) whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt together cut the butter into the flour.

GI 365 Gourmet InnovationsGI 365. Buttercream is the king of frostings, and there’s nothing quite like it!

GI 365 Gourmet InnovationsGI 365

It’s that silky texture that I had in mind when I created this recipe. The avocados make an amazingly smooth frosting that’s not too sweet. Fudge Banana SwirlFudge Banana Swirl. This is a delicious and very easy recipe for what is best described as a S’mookie.

Fudge Banana SwirlFudge Banana Swirl

Part S’mores, part cookie and totally delicious, this recipe can be whipped up in 20 minutes flat and I guarantee it will be a hit. Ingredients 2 cups freshly ground graham cracker crumbs (don’t buy the premade crumbs from the store)3/4 cups butter, melted1/3 cups sugar3 cups mini marshmallows2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips Directions Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cannoli Bites. Make these Cannoli Bites.

Cannoli Bites

Devour these Cannoli Bites. Gum Paste Butterfly Tutorial. I've had a number of requests for a tutorial for the butterflies that I covered my mom's birthday cake with. They aren't difficult to make! All you need is the right supplies and you can make your own colourful sugary butterflies to decorate cakes, cupcakes, or even cookies with. The butterflies are made out of gum paste which is a sugar paste that contains a natural gum called Gum tragacanth. It is soft and mold-able and dries very hard. The butterflies don't have a flavor, the gum paste just tastes crunchy and sweet. Step-by-Step Instructions for One-Ingredient Ice Cream.

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Brownies and Bars. Pies. Cakes and Cupcakes. Cookies. How to Make Vanilla Extract. Correcting The World's Wrongs With Campfire Bananas - Home - Burgh Baby. "What are you doing?

Correcting The World's Wrongs With Campfire Bananas - Home - Burgh Baby

" my husband asked. He was staring at me as if I had eighteen heads, each with 20 piercings and Mike Tyson-esque tattoos. "Making Campfire Bananas," I said. In my head, his question was quite possibly the dumbest one I had ever heard him ask. "What are those? " ::blink::blink::blink:: ::blinkblinkblinkblinkblink:: "Are you serious? " "Yeah, what are they? " "You are a victim of child abuse," I told him in a bewildered tone. I turned to Twitter to report this crime against humanity. My memories of Campfire Bananas are wrapped in Girl Scout camp and fires by the lake and all sorts of . . . . hell, who really cares? Anyway, let me share with you how joy can be packaged in a banana peel. Campfire Bananas You'll need some bananas, chocolate chips, marshmallows, and I am a fan of throwing some peanut butter into the mix as well.

Peel one strip from the banana and then cut a groove in the banana, kind of like how the Sandwich Artists at Subway used to cut the bread "boat style. " Marshmallows. I have been wanting to make marshmallows for a long time but I kept putting it off for a number of reasons.

Marshmallows

Firstly I have a pantry stuffed with bags of store bought marshmallows that I use for marshmallow fondant.. so making my own seemed a little pointless Secondly, I don't really just eat marshmallows on their own. How to Make Edible Fake Blood. Halloween is quickly approaching so I thought that I would share a quick, cheap way to make really impressive fake blood.

How to Make Edible Fake Blood

The secret is using chocolate. Either chocolate sryup, coco powder, or hot chocolate powder will work. note: use the cheap liquid food colouring and not the expensive gel concentrate that I have pictured here. The gel colour stains very easily while the regular red liquid food colouring has washed off of all my costumes in the past. Pour about a cup of corn syrup into a jar. Next you can pour it on your neck and costume for a sticky blood effect. While this blood is supposed to be used for costumes, I decided to demonstrate its gory glory on this white fondant covered cake. If you want to use the blood on your baking, just drizzle a little bit on. Sadly, I think my cake was fatally wounded. Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!! Tragic. How to Make Marshmallow Fondant. This time I decided to make it with those mini fruit flavored marshmallows.

How to Make Marshmallow Fondant

I had to sort them by colour first. I figured they would add a little bit of flavor to the fondant so I wouldn't have to add much flavoring oil. I use gel colours to dye my fondant but regular food colouring will work too.