by Brian | Jul 21, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Last year, for the 4th, I suggested a Butterscotch Roll-up Cake. The cake was rolled in a combination of whipped cream and rich butterscotch sauce that had been folded into one diabetic dream. Butterscotch is a variant of caramel and, when well made, is outrageously...
by Brian | Jul 8, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
“It tastes funny.” That was my grandson Daniel commenting on last week’s Malted Milk Chocolate Sauce. Being a grandfather, when the grandson is thirteen and as tall as I am, requires care. Better not to try to bluff it out, I concluded....
by Brian | Jul 2, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Early in the 1900s, in Switzerland some people made a product from egg [Latin ovum] and malt. They called it Ovomaltine and you mixed it with milk and drank it. When the product was exported in 1909 to Great Britain, someone made a spelling mistake on the trademark...
by Brian | Jun 29, 2014 | Dessert Digest
This is Suzen’s and my first attempt at making a plated dessert from Payard Desserts by Francois Payard with Tish Boyle. It’s a sweet success, visually and to the palate. What is a plated dessert? It’s one of those complicated, multi-part...
by Brian | Jun 28, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
“What was that?” I asked Suzen. My wife’s head popped up. I ate a blueberry and added “I thought I saw something over there.” I nodded towards the far end of the blueberry field, which ends in hills and forest. Home to bears. “Don’t go there,” Suzen said. She...
by Brian | Jun 13, 2014 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Cookies are part of our lives. Almost from the start. You don’t eat cookies, now, at all? Ever? What about when you were teething decades ago? You got a cookie/cracker to gnaw on. There were animal crackers with milk at school. And everybody has at least one...
