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Puddings, Gelatos, and Dips

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Chai Panna Cotta with Pistachio Toffee | Sugar Salt Magic. One of my favourite desserts, panna cotta is also elegant and incredibly easy to make. It’s an absolute bonus that it can be created in so many different flavours like this Chai Panna Cotta. Warming, soothing and uplifting all at once this is one of my favourite panna cotta flavours. Using tea from simple chai tea bags, those comforting chai spices and tea flavour get infused into this panna cotta. Once it sets, it’s topped off with an easy Pistachio toffee and beautiful rose petals, the perfect accompaniment to such an exotic and elegant dessert. An easy dinner party dessert For the longest time I thought panna cotta must be difficult to make – I mean it’s so elegant it surely can’t be easy, can it?.

This fancy dessert has to be the simplest dessert of all time and it’s a crowd pleaser. Ingredients in panna cotta Panna cotta uses just a handful of simple ingredients MilkCreamSugarGelatineFlavour of your choice. This version uses chai. What is chai? How to turn it into panna cotta. Pumpkin Cheesecake Trifles Recipe. Ingredients Directions 1. In a medium bowl, combine Biscoff Cookie crumbs and butter. Divide the crumbs into the bottoms of your trifle glasses. Gently press crumbs to form an even layer of crust. 2.

In a large bowl with an electric mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add pumpkin, vanilla, sugar and pumpkin pie spice. Jello Easter Eggs with Vanilla Filling. Been pretty busy this week, but I wanted to take a moment to share these jello eggs with you guys. I came up with the idea of making them when my kids were young. I usually make them at Easter time, but they're fun any time of the year. I start with these egg molds. I got mine at the grocery store about 15 years ago, but you can find them online and occasionally in thrift shops. I've also seen molds that make egg halves. I fill the molds with the jello jiggler recipe (below), then chill for at least 4 hours. After unmolding, I cut them in half lengthwise and then I use a melon ball tool to make a little well in each half.

Arrange the prepared halves on a serving tray. I like to pipe a pretty swirl of the vanilla cream cheese mixture using a pastry bag and star tip (you can use a zip-top freezer or storage bag). To pipe the filling more than 6 hours ahead of time, add a packet of Whip It to the cream cheese filling mixture when you add the heavy cream. Printable Recipe 1/2 cup sugar. Triple-Chocolate Mousse Cake. First Day of Fall {Pumpkin Dip} Cookie Dough Dip. Go put on your stretchy pants. Seriously. Do it now. Some days, I find that certain recipes speak to me. Better-Than-Crack-Brownies, Peanut Butter Pretzel Truffles, Cake Batter Bark… those things excite me. This only has happened a handful of times and when I find or create a delicious recipe that I am so passionate about, I can hardly wait to share it with all of you.

This is the situation I found myself in late Monday evening. Or the couch from which I was laying on after eating 16 snickerdoodles. You can only imagine what I did first thing yesterday morning. So let’s hit all the major points: 1. 2. 3. Or you can do dirty things like eat it with a spoon. Cookie Dough Dip makes about 1 1/2 cups 1/2 cup butter 1/3 cup brown sugar 1 8-ounce block of cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 3/4 cups chocolate chips Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat.

Cream together cream cheese and powdered sugar for 60 seconds. Oh! I think I love this girl. Chocolate Gelato. We make ice cream at home quite a lot and I've posted several ice cream recipes in the past. But I get asked enough about how to make gelato that I thought it was time for a post. The big question for people is what is the difference between American ice cream and Italian gelato? When people taste gelato, they comment on the intensity of flavor and the different texture it has. Gelato is very dense and this is because there is not the amount of air whipped into it like American ice cream. Ice cream has a lot of air whipped into it and it makes for a lighter texture. Ice cream is also made from cream and sometimes eggs and has quite a bit of butterfat.

Gelato has much less butterfat and is made from milk. The question is - can you make gelato at home? I'm giving you two different recipes here. One recipe uses unsweetened cocoa powder and one uses melted bittersweet chocolate. Gelato at a real gelateria is kept in special freezers so it does not freeze hard. Chocolate Gelato Ingredients: Fried Ice Cream. I'm sure you are thinking about Cinco de Mayo this very minute. You should be because it's in two days. We look for any excuse to celebrate. We look for any excuse to celebrate with food. This year I thought I'd share a recipe for deep fried ice cream.

This is definitely one of those desserts that I don't make very often. In fact I rarely make anything that begins with "fried". This would be considered one of my "BIGS". You will need a good quality Vanilla ice cream, corn flakes, flaked coconut and cinnamon. I just happen to find New Simply Cinnamon Corn Flakes. You can, of course, use regular corn flakes. You will need to make 5 scoops of ice cream from a quart size container. Drop the scoops of ice cream onto a baking sheet lined with waxed paper. Let me tell you what you don't have time for...PICTURES. The ice cream melts too fast.

Put the corn flakes in a plastic bag. Pound the corn flakes with a rolling pin or crush the corn flakes anyway you'd like...just crush them. Add 1 cup coconut. Wicked Good Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Cups. Peanut Butter Brownie Trifle. While I was visiting my sister last week we were invited to a cookout. Our contribution was dessert. I knew exactly what we needed to bring. Peanut Butter Brownie Trifle I found this recipe a while back and actually made it once before for our speech club. It is completely decadent and oh so delicious. My nephew assisted me with the recipe and turned out to be a great sous chef. He was also the official "taste tester" (and he only ate a few of the Reese's). Peanut Butter Brownie Trifle (slightly adapted from Taste of Home) 1 fudge brownie mix (13-inch x 9-inch pan size)2 packages (13 ounces each) miniature peanut butter cups 4 cups cold 2% milk 2 packages (5.1 ounces each) instant vanilla pudding mix1 cup creamy peanut butter4 teaspoons vanilla extract2 cartons (8 ounces each) frozen whipped topping, thawed Prepare brownie batter according to package directions.

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