Tag: italian meringue
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Raising The Bar On Banana Cream Pie
I love to create versatile dessert recipes that can be put together quickly for the family or slightly tweaked to follow a more elegant meal. One that fits resoundingly well in this category is something you may not have considered – banana cream pie. You may be more familiar with this type of dessert in…
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Classic Baked Alaska
People always ask me about elegant desserts they can make ahead of time with very little or no effort prior to service. One of those elegant favorites is the always classic Baked Alaska. If you’ve never had it before, it is a simple dessert made of ice cream, sponge cake and Italian meringue that is…
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Demystifying Dacquoise and Japonais
The first time I learned about this lovely soft and crunchy base that can be used as a cake layer was in culinary school. I was taught that dacquoise (pronounced dak-waz) incorporated almond flour and the other similar version called japonais (pronounced zha-po-nay) used hazelnut flour…but it’s a little more complicated than that. The term…
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Part 2- Italian Meringue
Italian meringue is not difficult to make, once you get the hang of it. The hardest part is getting over the fear of making the syrup and pouring it into the whites…and not the actual process itself. Italian meringue can be used on top of pies, tarts, cakes and baked alaska, but remember, you can’t pipe…
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All about meringue…
www.goodfoodgourmet.com I had been perusing many food blogs for about a year and a half before I decided to launch my own. In that time, I came across many dessert recipes that gave wrong information on use and procedure for making many different items. I am not saying that these people gave the bad info…