recipe] Roasted Apricot & Vanilla Crème Fraîche Pops Makes about 10 popsicles (I use THIS popsicle mold). This recipe starts with a simple vanilla sugar-you will likely have extra, but since apricots can be very tart, even after roasting, extra sugar is nice to have on hand.
You can expect a whole lotta peach recipes coming out of TVFGI kitchen in the next few weeks. I'm in the throes of peach lust. I know you are too. We'll wallow in it together for a while, shall we? I've made a bunch of ice creams on the blog so far, and I'm not slowing down in the least.
A smooth vanilla ice cream packed with edible sugar cookie dough! Let me start this post with a big sigh of relief " Whew". School is done. We are finished. Summer vacation has begun. The reality of it hasn't really hit yet. It will.
I made these last week during The Great Strawberry Frenzy of '13. It was so horrendously humid and hot that even the chocolate was sweating. See? I hate eating condensation on my chocolate almost as much as I the idea of eating cotton balls.
Fat, gooey, fudgy brownies marbled with beautiful swirls of rich, decadent cheesecake. Life does not get better than this, people. This is easily the richest, gooiest, recipe on my entire blog. And if you're a regular here, you know... that is saying a lot. Actually, this is an old recipe from my trusty arsenal.
This is the best ice cream I've ever made and quite possibly the best I've ever eaten. I know that's a bold statement to make, but I mean it. Ice cream is my favorite dessert, so I take making such proclamations very seriously.
Backyard Mint Ice Cream Cooking View Guys, this is big news. And by big, I mean actually utterly unimportant to anyone but me. If you have read my blog for any length of time, you may be aware of my lifelong dislike for mint.
Affogato recipe - Combine coffee and liqueur in a jug. Divide ice-cream between glasses. Divide coffee mixture between glasses. Serve with biscotti.
At heart, I am a vanilla cake kind of girl. As much as I love chocolate and red velvet (which is my other favorite), there is something so wonderful and classic about vanilla on vanilla. Doubly wonderful when you make that vanilla bean - both for the cake and frosting.
Powdered sugar dissolves almost instantly when stirred into berries, while granulated sugar needs stand time. We chose powdered for this quick-to-put-together recipe.