This was a really spectacular cake to take to our Thanksgiving gathering! I modified my Fresh Apple Cake and it worked!
Crossposted at Dailykos.com Crêpes have a mystique about them, sounding all French and sexy and stuff. Since it is French cooking, it must be complex and difficult, and only for those snooty people that go to expensive French restaurants, not for us mere mortals. Nothing could be further from the truth! Crêpes are easy to [...]
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I finished my 3 days monodiet! Lost a couple of pounds, I’d say so it’s time to put it on again: I give you a chocolate & mango Terrine, with a fresh raspberry coulis that is flavored with either raspberry eau de vie or Kirsh (cherry brandy) You pick.
Sweet tooth, anyone? I have one today, and that is why you’re getting this scrumptious Chocolate Marquise. Fairly easy to make a day in advance (it has to refrigerate overnight) and you will delight your guests with this.
Summer’s best dessert: Peche Melba, a classic dessert, invented in 1892 or 1893 by the French chef Auguste Escoffier at the Savoy Hotel, London to honour the Australian soprano, Dame Nellie Melba (1861 – 1931) the daughter of a Portugese fisherman (a little known fact). It combines two favourite summer fruits: peaches and raspberry sauce [...]