Month: November 2012

Restaurant Equipment Auction – San Diego Area

Restaurant Equipment Auction – San Diego Area

Last minute auction news – for those in the San Diego area, FSE Inc., located at Market Street in San Diego, is liquidated it’s equipment. It is happening this Saturday, December 1st. China and smallwares auction start at 9:15am and equipment follows at 11:15am. Equipment …read more

Biscuit Joconde Wedding Cakes

Biscuit Joconde Wedding Cakes

Love this idea!! I first heard about this style of cake this morning on one of my favorite blogs, dessert girl. In the blog post, there is mention of MRobin Cake Design and her luscious and completely different wedding cakes wrapped up in joconde sponge. …read more

Spiked Desserts: 75 Booze-Infused Party Recipes

Spiked Desserts: 75 Booze-Infused Party Recipes

To ‘spike’ something in cooking is to add an alcohol to it. In the case of most items, especially spiked desserts, it generally means that those foods are adults-only. Spiked Desserts, from Fox Chapel Publishing, is a dessert book where every recipe is spiked with something, and the book engages readers to try 75 different luscious treats that use everything from bourbon and stout beer to vodka and sour apple pucker schnapps to flavor the different recipes.

There are two main sections: baked goods (cakes, cupcakes, cookies, pies and quick breads) and frozen treats (popsicles, ices, slushes, granitas, and sorbets). The tips are helpful, such as always making guests aware of the alcoholic ingredients, how to bake with alcohol, and how to use alcohol in frozen desserts. Examples of recipes:Hard Lemonade Layer Cake; Singapore Sling Trifle; Grown-Up S’Mores; and Cosmo-Sicles.

My favorite parts were the many color photographs for recipes, and the serving suggestions that accompany them.

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Disclosure: This book was provided by the publisher and any opinions are my own.

Foods and Food Adulterants: Baking Powder Research from 1889

Foods and Food Adulterants: Baking Powder Research from 1889

I do lots of reading for all my pastry writing and I recently found a little gem, Foods and Food Adulterants on Baking Powders, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It goes into detail on the “investigation into the character and composition of baking powders.” …read more

The Liddabit Sweets Candy Cookbook by Liz Gutman and Jen King

The Liddabit Sweets Candy Cookbook by Liz Gutman and Jen King

I’m a candy fan. I’ll admit it. There is something decadent about spending time in the kitchen sans flour and yeast and just create something un-wholesome, just for the comfort and love of candy. Unless you argue that chocolate is a power food, then, well, …read more