How To: 9 Heartwarming Heart-Shaped Crafts to Make for Valentine's Day
Why give a heart-shaped card to your favorite person when heart-shaped bacon can convey the same message and taste so much better?
Why give a heart-shaped card to your favorite person when heart-shaped bacon can convey the same message and taste so much better?
Continuing the theme of using a muffin pan to quickly whip up super-simple and super-delicious baked things (see Part 1: how to make mini-pies in muffin tins), how about making yourself a savory snack in the form of a pizza cupcake?
Banana bread has always been a favourite treat whether it was fresh from nanna's oven or from the local bakery. The addition of Mars Bars or another one of your favourite chocolate bars can be a great addition for the kids as long as they eat their vegetables first.
Clever little cinematography hack. Flickr user rtadlock mods an old kitchen timer into a panning timelapse motor controller.
Melt it right off baby! Don’t struggle with scrubbers and soap. This video shows you how to clean up stuck on cooked caramel by boiling it. Remove stuck on caramel from a pan.
This special recipe works just as well with halibut, sole, plaice, or any other flat fish. Make pan fried turbot.
Ice cream doesn't have to stop at vanilla. There's a whole world of ice cream flavors out there, but one you wouldn't expect to try out is basil ice cream, but not just plain basil, basil with ice cream. Lynne Viera, ice cream enthusiast, creates a dessert inspired by the Strawberry-Basil Cocktail from Cuchi Cuchi in Cambridge, MA. Fresh, local strawberries are macerated with sugar, lime zest and basil leaves. Lynne blends half of the fruit with cream, leaving half of the berries chunky for a...
Watch this cooking how to video and learn how to make pasteis de nata, or Portuguese custard tarts. These custard like desserts are very much like flan in flavor with the brown caramel on the top. Follow along in this cooking video lesson as the Crash Test Kitchen chefs shows you how to make Portuguese custard tarts. Bake Portuguese custard tarts aka pasteis de nata.
Watch this how to video as Bon Appetit Magazine shows you how to prepare candy brittle. Candy brittle is great for decorating all you holiday desserts. Incorporate your favorite candies such as candy canes and gum drops into the brittle for an added treat. Make candy brittle for cake decorations.
Watch this how to video as Bon Appetit Magazine shows you how to prepare chocolate curls. Chocolate curl are super easy to make and they look great on holiday desserts. Use white or dark chocolate and a vegetable peeler to make the curls. Make chocolate curls for cake decorations.
Have a big family or large amount of people over? Peach pudding cake is a great dessert. It's easy to make and will satisfy the sweet tooth. Don't forget to top it off with a dollop of fresh whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Make peach pudding cake.
An easy-to-follow recipe which produces a rustic but mouth-watering dessert. Taste this Baked Apples recipe. Make baked apples.
A delightful take on the traditional apple charlotte, this dessert is made with toasted bread slices and chunks of apple, rather than the usual applesauce. This video discusses how to assemble this apple bread pudding. The traditional version uses applesauce which collapses out of the mold. Only use golden delicious or hard apples, to keep shape. Make apple charlotte.
This decadent recipe makes the perfect decoration for many desserts and its combination of sweet and tart will excite your taste buds! Relish this Candied Citrus recipe. Make candied citrus.
For this Thai dessert which will serve one person you will need banana, coconut milk, sugar, salt and water. Prepare banana in coconut milk.
Chef Johann Lafer prepares a wonderful dessert chocolate mountains. The preparation and cooking time is 45 minutes. Ingredients needed are eggs, white chocolate, praline, rum, cognac or Grand Marnier, gelatin leaf, grilled almonds, sweetened whipped cream, sugar, topping chocolate, cream genovese waffles (sponge cake dough) or pate sablee, mint leaf, cream fraiche (thick sour cream), mango and some English cream, currant sauce and mango sauce. Make chocolate mountains.
This rich Italian dessert might be just the thing to impress the guests at your next dinner party. So go on, make this Tiramisu recipe at your next party. Make easy individual tiramisu pots.
The versatile glaze topping not only makes the perfect complement for a number of cakes and desserts but is also quick to prepare. Sample this Raspberry Glaze recipe. Make raspberry glaze.
A basic guide to making one of the world's most famous and well-loved children's desserts. Serve with ice cream for that complete experience. Sample this Jelly or as the Americans call it jello recipe. Make jello.
The chocolate version of one of the most famous Italian desserts. Creamy, melt-in-your-mouth and simply delicious. Appreciate this Chocolate Panna Cotta recipe. Make chocolate panna cotta.
This is the ultimate guide to the ultimate dessert. Watch and enjoy this Knickerbocker Glory recipe. Make a Knickerbocker Glory.
This Mouth-watering Chocolate Tart recipe is ideal for a summer's dessert served with whipped cream or ice cream. Devour this Chocolate Tart recipe. Make chocolate tart.
About the most famous of German desserts, apple strudel is not only tasty but it is also easier to make than you might think. Relish this Apple Strudel recipe. Make apple strudel.
Scrambled eggs may seem like the easiest breakfast dish to whip up in the kitchen, but in order to make them truly perfect, several details in the cooking process are important to keep in mind.
These ginger cookies are known for their rich, strong flavor resulting from the combination of spices like cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom. If you are one of those people who prefers their cookies...well, uncooked...feel free to skip the last few steps. The dough might just be as good as its baked form.
If you want to go with something a little less deep fried heart attack for your trick-or-treaters this year, try Bakerella's recipe for Yummy Mummy Cake Pops. No reason not to have dessert-on-a-stick all year round!
Pumpkin pie is one of my favorite desserts and of great mystery to me. I've made it with fresh pumpkin and homemade crust. I've made it with canned pumpkin and frozen crust. They came out nearly identical. Yet I've had fluffy, perfect to-die-for pumpkin pie at Los Angeles' widely popular Urth Cafe (which I haven't been able to replicate at home). What's the secret recipe to truly out of the box pumpkin pie?
If you're not sure what sabayon is, maybe you know the term zabaglione, which is an Italian dessert of whipped, heated egg yolks, sugar, and Marsala wine. It can be served hot or cold, and can house many different accompanying ingredients, like berries and mint!
This flavorful mix of wild rice and veggies will have you always wanting more. Watch Chef Hubert Keller do it himself!
That Thanksgiving turkey isn't anything without the right kind of gravy to accompany it. A great turkey gravy makes your feast better for everyone. It's especially great to have if your turkey is dry— it's a lifesaver. But like we said— you need the right kind of gravy!
Nothing tastes better than "fried". Even lobster. Even rice. Yes, and in combination, fried rice and lobster meat in a tightly pack crusted ball of yumminess is one of the best things you can try at home for the courageous at heart. What's it called? Lobster arancine.
Six. It's the magical number for marinara sauce. A great sauce doesn't need a huge list of ingredients, only a handful, and six ingredients are all it takes to make Christine and Carla Pallotta's marinara. The nebo ristorante chef/owners' recipe makes a large batch of vibrant tomato sauce which is a great idea. Use what you need and the rest will freeze perfectly for up to 3 months. That way you'll always have a hearty red sauce available when you've got a craving for the Pallotta sisters' 5-...
Forget about regular pizza, try this pizza gana, an Italian specialty, which is made once a year during Easter. But that doesn't mean you can't cheat and make it whenever you want, because this pizza gana, this meat pie, is sure worth making whenever you want.
Dosa is an awesome Indian cuisine to try right in your own kitchen. It's basically a pancake made of rice and lentils, and is perfect for breakfast, but just as good for dinner. Masala dosa is even better, with potatoes, onions, and spices. See how to make masala dose.
There's no better shrimp than shrimp from Maine. Maine always has the best seafood, so why not use them in all your meals. These Gulf of Maine shrimp are very small and have an extra sweetness, unlike any other shrimp in the world. See how to make this Maine shrimp fritters meal.
It's every home cook's nightmare...burnt on the bottom, mushy on the top! RICE, the simplest of foods, but not so simple to cook...or is it? I'm from South Louisiana (think New Orleans then go further south) where rice is served with everything and cooking it is second nature. You can be sure we keep it simple, I gar-on-tee!
Pound cake, with its heavenly fluffy consistency and sweet by not too sweet flavor, is just about perfect on its own. But add a little zest here and a little sugar glaze there and you've got a decadent dessert.
This Halloween, serve up a treat to your friends and children with these spooky ghost-shaped meringues. If you love meringue desserts, this will be quite the Halloween treat, with their adorable anise eyes.
Granola is a delicious, crunchy and sweet treat. Bet you didn't know how easy it was to make this tasty snack at home, did you?
Learn how to make a chocolate mousse from this cooking video. Chef and chocolatier Will Poole on How2Heroes brings you this amazing recipe. Search How2Heroes on WonderHowTo for more cooking videos.