Making the world a little sweeter one pastry tip at at time.
And it’s the right time nearing the end of July. This recipe is from PastrySampler.com: Vanilla Ice Cream 1 14-oz can sweetened condensed milk 2 c cream 1 c cold water 1 T vanilla Mix all ingredients together and freeze in ice cream maker according …read more
National Penuche Day! Celebrate by making some today, and sharing the sweet with someone. PastrySampler.com has all the details on this caramel-version of decadent fudge, with lots of recipes to try, and a description of what it actually is (also, all the various names it …read more
From JellyBelly.com: ‘It’s five o’clock somwhere.’ Rounding out their line (of magarita, pina colada and stawberry daiquiri flavored jelly beans), Jelly Belly will also have mojito, peach bellini and pomegranate cosmo flavors for their Cocktail Classics jelly bean line.
The winner of The Top 10 Pastry Chefs in America that was announced by Dessert Professional, will be decided on July 7th at ICE in New York. For those who can’t make it to the event, watch it ‘live’ on Dessert Professional, or get updates …read more
OK – this sound interesting. Wished your daily vitamins tasted like dark chocolate, or wished you could eat a piece of dark chocolate on a regular basis? UK based Health Rack has a new product to try. Their Choco Vit supplements contain dark chocolate and freeze …read more
After two samples from the Danville, VA Nestle facility tested positive for e. coli, they have suspended production and will begin to implement the new ingredient of heat treated flour (and begin production again) around the end of January. The new cookie dough will be …read more
From ‘Baking Buyer’ – notes/highlights from the 2009 American Retail Bakery Exposition in Charlotte, NC and “Cake Trends” workshop during the ARBE show. From there I read about Jennifer Atwood Ruiz using a Cricut machine to cut gum paste shapes and lettering. It also apparently works with …read more
Haven’t been to Portland in a long, long, long time, but a long, long, long time ago I used to love the Coffee People coffee. I know Diedrichs has it now and Coffee People coffee can still be purchasedhttp://www.coffeepeople.com/t-about.aspx but was it the name or …read more
Upon doing research for coffee, I found out what civet coffee was: coffee made from the droppings of an animal know as the ‘civet’, a cat with a fox-like face. The beans are whole when the exit the body, are cleaned and then processed for …read more
In case you were not able to attend the live webcasts, here are the cliff notes from two of my favorite presentations: cake decorating trends and the gelati 101 presentation. The pictures were from the downloadable slides from the show. Here is the link to …read more