French Ice Cream Sundae Desserts

French ice cream sundaes might include any combination of flavors, sorbets, syrups, nuts and even alcohols. There really is no limit. However, there are some popular combinations that you are quite likely to find on the menu if you visit an ice cream parlor (glacier) in France. These classic sundaes are easy enough to reproduce at home. Add on a fancy French name, and you will have an elegant dessert ready in no time.

If you do decide to serve your dessert with a French touch, do not forget to top it with one or two rolled “cigarette” or fan shaped cookies. Their slightly sweet, crispy crunch is the perfect accompaniment to a cold and rich French sundae.

Chocolate Liegeois – Chocolate and vanilla ice creams, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and shaved chocolate.

Coffee Liegois – This is the same as a chocolate liegeois, except coffee substitutes for the chocolate.

Coupe Antillaise – Here the flavors are supposed to be Caribbean. Many times this means vanilla and rum raisin ice cream, topped with pineapple and whipped cream, but other combinations of rum and fruit are possible. Continue reading “French Ice Cream Sundae Desserts”

Tips To Use And Care For Your Ice Cream Maker

Ice cream makers are great additions in your home, especially if you love the soft cold treats. There are so many models to choose from and by looking at the different features you should be able to select the most suitable for your needs. After investing in a reliable equipment for your ice cream making efforts, you will need to use the properly and also accord it the care and maintenance it deserves so keep getting the best from it.

With proper usage you will enjoy smoother finished textures instead of soupy ice creams. Regular washing and proper care on the other hand ensures food safety, your ice cream maker needs proper cleaning and sanitization and it helps to know how to go about it.

Tip 1 – Read the directions of use that come with your machine. Even if you have used one before, it is still very important that you go through the manual because models can be s little different. Using manufacturer guidelines keeps your machine in top shape and ensures you enjoy perfect desserts every time.

Tip 2 – Chill your ingredients before you churn. Pouring warm ice cream base into the machine only means that you have to wait longer for cooling and churning to take effect and this can affect finished product quality depending on the type of machine you have. To enjoy smoothest textures it helps to first refrigerate liquid before freezing. Continue reading “Tips To Use And Care For Your Ice Cream Maker”

8Top Benefits Of Eating Ice Cream Sandwich

So what is a sandwich ice cream?

It is a frozen dessert made up of two skins and ice cream in between. It consists of crusts and an ice cream made from different ingredients. The ingredients chosen depend on the targeted consumers. An ice cream sandwich for Americans has the crust made of cookies and wafers. Other ingredients that may be used are eggs milk sugar and even vanilla. In Israel, it may consist of thick biscuits, chocolate flavored ice and vanilla. Here are the benefits of indulging in an ice-cream treat.

1. You can eat it in public

You can leak and eat it sandwich in public without brushing the authority the wrong way. In fact, you can eat as many times as you wish without having anyone looking at you. Also, you can eat as much as you want without hurting yourself either mentally or physically.

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Edible Printouts For Your Cakes

Just how do those bakeries do the birthday cake printouts?

Can I do this on my inkjet printer at home?

I’ll answer those questions for you in this article.

Printing on a sheet to overlay your birthday cake might seem like something you could not do at home.

If you don’t want to eat that printout, it is something you can accomplish with your printer, existing ink and some tracing paper. If you do want to eat that printout, it is another story entirely.

To do a birthday cake printout that you can eat you are going to need some specialized equipment and paper. Continue reading “Edible Printouts For Your Cakes”

A Look Into the Origin of Sweet Potato Pie

Sweet potato pie is often a favorite dish, especially for Thanksgiving. Many folks that live in the South eat this sweet treat along with their turkey and dressing. But one may wonder where did the idea for this sweet vegetable pie come from?

First and foremost, the sweet potato itself is a dicotyledonous plant. It is indeed a root vegetable and is a rather long in shape and sweeter-tasting than the average potato. Often times the leaves of this vegetable are eaten by themselves and considered greens.

The sweet potato is native to South America and was originally domesticated there around 5,000 years ago. It has also been grown in the western parts of Polynesia and is referred to as kumara in those parts of Peru. It is a possibility that the Polynesians brought this sweet treasure back to South America, Hawaii and New Zealand.

From there African Americans created the sweet potato pie that is now a very popular dish especially around Thanksgiving. It can also be considered a comfort food. To make the already sweet potatoes even sweeter, marshmallows are used to top it off. Making one of these pies is very simple. Continue reading “A Look Into the Origin of Sweet Potato Pie”

The History of Chocolate Chip Cookies

The chocolate chip cookie was invented by a lady named Ruth Wakefield in 1933 and like many great recipes today it was discovered completely by accident. Ruth was the owner of the Toll house Inn which was located in Whitman, Massachusetts which was a very popular place to take in some good home cooked meals.

They say Ruth regularly made chocolate cookies using bakers chocolate, but one day she ran out and only had access to a nestle semi sweet chocolate so she broke the bar into pieces and mixed it into the batter thinking it would melt and mix with it. And of course the chocolate pieces did not mixed like the bakers chocolate and the nestle toll house chocolate chip cookie was born.

Ruth Wakefield then sold the recipe to Nestle in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate chips. Nestle has since printed the recipe on the back of every bag of chocolate chips they have sold in North America with one small variation which is the option of using margarine over butter. Continue reading “The History of Chocolate Chip Cookies”

Tea Party Ideas – For a Bridal Shower Afternoon Tea Party

This kind of party is meant to make the future bride feel special. It is also meant to help prepare her for life as a couple. She will be showered with items she will need in the home she will share with her groom to be.

Hosting a tea party in a tea room is an option

With tea rooms popping up all over now it can make hosting a tea party easy. Many bed and breakfasts tea shops and fine restaurants offer afternoon tea. They can often accommodate your party in a private room. This would make your food preparation a simple matter of choosing items for your menu. They usually have staff ready to help you with your tea party ideas. Making this choice will leave you more time to plan party games and make special favors for the guests

Tea party ideas for the menu

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How to Decorate Sugar Cookies

Sugar cookies are easy to make at home when you start with a great sugar cookie recipe. To ensure success, bring all of your ingredients to room temperature. Sift dry ingredients before adding to wet ingredients. Here is my favorite sugar cookie recipe.

Basic Sugar Cookies

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup confectioner’s sugar

2 large eggs

1-1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract

3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and both sugars for two minutes at medium speed. Add the eggs, one at a time, and thoroughly mix after each addition. Add vanilla. In another bowl, mix the flour and salt. Add the dry mixture to the mixture slowly until all the flour has been incorporated. Place dough in a bowl or plastic bag and refrigerate for an hour or longer. Roll out dough onto a parchment covered board to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut out cookies with your favorite cookie cutter. All of the same size cookie shapes should bake together. If not, smaller cookies will burn before larger cookies are cooked. Continue reading “How to Decorate Sugar Cookies”

Quick Vegan Desserts For the Busy Parents

Vegans are faced with tough food choices everyday. A lot of times people seem to take things for granted. What is a no brainer for you, can be a tough hurdle to tackle for the vegan. With major grocers beginning to recognize the burgeoning growth of the vegan market, things are getting easier but their are still some hurdles unique to vegans.

One of the biggest is “quick and easy desserts.” Non-Vegans have a wide variety of choices when it comes to putting out a quick dessert. Cookies, cakes and pies are all readily available for people to buy. Anyone who is in a pinch can run to a local store even minutes before a party, and come back with quick dessert. Vegans don’t have the same luxury because most of these items contains stuff like butter, eggs, cream and etc…

Vegans have to be more creative when it comes to desserts. I think two things will help with this and can make your life a little easier: Continue reading “Quick Vegan Desserts For the Busy Parents”

Delicious No-Bake Cookie Recipes That Children Will Love

Everybody loves cookies. And nobody loves them as much as children do. While it’s fun to bake sweet treats from scratch, we don’t always have the time (or the patience!) to do so. That’s where the beauty of no-bake cookies comes in – they’re quick, easy and fuss-free! Best of all, they’re equally delicious to treats that are baked from scratch!

Try these mouth-watering no-bake cookie recipes that children will definitely love:

Easy Choco-Oat Bars

What you need:

3 cups quick cooking oats
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup butter
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter then stir in the brown sugar and vanilla. Add the quick-cooking oats, reduce the heat to low and cook for 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat and press half of the cooked oats into a greased 9×9 inch pan. Reserve the remaining oats for topping. Continue reading “Delicious No-Bake Cookie Recipes That Children Will Love”