Category: Individual Desserts
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Apple Jalousie
I love apples…I’ll eat them fresh, dried, in pies, crumble, Brown Betty’s…you name it and I’m there. I was never a big pie maker, mostly because I don’t have the patience to make and roll the dough out. I think this has resulted from my pastry apprenticeship days when the Pastry Chef I was…
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A Few Apples And A Quick Batter Equals Apple Fritters
Admit it, we’ve all been there — we have all been a witness to those last few lonely apples hanging around the fruit bowl that no one seems to want. You don’t feel like juicing them and you’ve finally decided to throw them out. Well, don’t even think about it. With a handful of other…
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The Versatile Crepe
Recently, we had a crepe restaurant open up in downtown Annapolis serving up both sweet and savory crepes of all types. The name of the place is Sofi’s Crepes and they have already developed quite a following with many of the locals and tourists who love to stop in for an easy nosh as they…
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Kentucky Derby Pie…or should I say, Chocolate Nut Pie…
Derby Pie was created in 1950 by George Kern and his parents Walter and Leaudra Kern who owned the Melrose Inn, in Prospect, Kentucky. Traditionally, the pie is made with a chocolate and walnut filling that is laced with either bourbon or whiskey, but others use pecans or any other combination of nuts which are…
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Creamy, Dreamy Crème Brulee
I have been making crème brulee for many years…you know, that delectable baked custard with a crispy caramel top that is created by taking the hubby’s blowtorch and blasting the sugary topping with a little dragon breath until you have achieved a thin caramel goodness… For many years, I was like most people in that…
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Perfect Little Cream Puffs
When I was in culinary school, there were a few things that they made us work on over and over again. One of those things was our piping. Whether we were learning how to pipe out buttercream to decorate a cake or how to pipe out chocolate decorations for a final garnish or discovering the…
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Traditional Australian (Aussie) Lamingtons
There are so many things I miss about living in Australia. We were considered city folk living in a suburb of Melbourne called Moonee Ponds, but we were still surrounded by so much natural beauty. I miss many of the foods and sweets I grew up with, and I work hard trying to replicate tastes,…
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So Delicious Sabayon Sauce
Weeknight dinners can be stressful, and sometimes it is all you can do to get the main meal on the table, and you haven’t even had one single moment to think about dessert…In most families, weeknight desserts usually include whatever is available. We do everyhthing we can to skip it and pass on the extra calories, but you…
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Smooth, Silky Traditional Key Lime Pie
Limes are native to Southeast Asia, and probably originated in Indonesia or Malaysia. They made their way to the eastern Mediterranean with the Arabs, and to the western Mediterranean with returning Crusaders. Eventually they ended up in the West Indies, Haiti and the Florida coast, when Columbus introduced citrus fruits on his second voyage.