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?
A delicious dessert for your Valentine's Day dinner! For this recipe, you will need: 3 sticks of butter, 1 cup granulated sugar, 1 large egg, 3 1/2 cups flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 cup thick raspberry preserved, confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar), parchment paper, a stand mixer, a sheet pan, plastic wrap, a round cookie cutter and a heart shaped cookie cutter. Make raspberry filled, nut free Linzer cookies.
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.
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!
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.
Learn how to make maple ice cream with this cooking video. This maple ice cream recipe is brought to you by Tammy Donroe on How2Heroes. Search How2Heroes on WonderHowTo for more cooking videos.
Spice up a classic cheesecake dessert with some fresh fruit. Follow along in this cooking how-to video to learn how to make a blueberry and passion fruit cheesecake. This is a very simple cheesecake recipe that anyone can do. All the ingredients you need for this recipe are: blueberries, sugar, passion fruit, butter, condensed milk, lemon juice, short bread and mascarpone. Bake a decadent blueberry and passion fruit cheesecake.
I'm not sure I could bear to eat these if they were served to me. They're so beautiful! The original link is in Swedish, but you can use Google Translate to switch into English.
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It's a dessert that consists of "creamed cod-flavoured ice cream coated in vanilla and pepper batter, accompanied by potato ice cream chips made with Maris Piper potatoes, all served with salt and vinegar and lemon wedges".
In the spirit of dessert...
Same chick that did all of these: Barf, Grotesque Cakes That Are TOO Hyperrealistic.
Learn how to make pecan tarts. Impress your friends and family with your amazing dessert skills. This pecan tart recipe is easy to follow and will guarantee many requests for seconds. This pecan tart recipe is brought to you by Anne Motta on How2Heroes. Search How2Heroes on WonderHowTo for more cooking videos. Make pecan tarts.
Chef Alice Medrich, 'queen of desserts,' makes crunchy hazelnut biscotti. Biscotti is a traditional Italian cookie served with tea and coffee. Make hazelnut biscotti.
Chef Charlie Trotter demonstrates how to make warm peach soup; A delightful dessert soup to accompany ice cream, sorbets or just fruit. He takes peeled peaches, puts them in syrup, and adds ginger and cinnamon to make the warm soup. He then demonstrates how to make a cold watermelon sorbet to accompany the soup. Make warm peach soup.
An apple pie recipe just like your mother used to make it! Follow this traditional but easy recipe to make one of the most well-loved desserts. Sample this Apple Pie recipe. Make apple pie.
Skip dessert and order this cocktail instead! Learn how to make an Amaretto Apple Pie cocktail. Make an Amaretto Apple Pie cocktail.
Renowned Italian chef Massimo Tagliaferri shows us how to make Zabaglione, a delicious Italian dessert similar to custard, which is very quick and easy to prepare. Try this Zabaglione recipe. Make zabaglione.
Martha shares a sweet Good Thing: chocolate garnishes. Here is a sweet Good Thing to add to your Valentine's Day dessert that is very simple to create. You can make your own chocolate hearts to garnish your sorbet, ice cream, or even a slice of cake. All you need is some dark chocolate and Reynolds parchment paper. Make chocolate garnishes.