It’s strawberry season! And while we love eating those ripe, juicy red berries right off the plant, it’s mighty refreshing to turn them into strawberry sorbet. This easy recipe combines a simple syrup made of sugar and water with fresh strawberries, a little lemon juice, and a pinch of salt to create a vibrant, summery sorbet.
Hazelnut Brown Sugar Ice Cream with Coffee-Toffee Sauce
This creamy, smooth ice cream is made with hazelnut-infused whole milk. While it is excellent and rich enough all on its own, a small amount of Coffee-Toffee Sauce makes it that much better. Recipes using hazelnuts you might enjoy: Flourless Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies Chocolate Hazelnut Nutcracker Cake Caramel Hazelnut Gelato Hazelnut Toffee Cookies Pear, Chocolate, Hazelnut Tart Aran Goyoaga’s Hazelnut Butter Toffee Now be a good boy/girl and eat your ice cream!
Creamy Key Lime Pie Ice Cream
This is one of our favorite ice cream recipes. This Creamy Key Lime Pie Ice Cream is rich and tangy. It’s great on its own, but you could put the ice cream into a crust for a frozen Key Lime Pie. The cream cheese gives is a bit of a cheesecake flavor that is really, really good. Creamy Key Lime Pie Ice Cream Original Recipe and pictures by Lindsey Johnson Ingredients: 8 oz. cream cheese1 […]
Chocolate Cake with White Chocolate Mint Filling and Whipped Ganache
A Minty Variation on Hershey’s “Perfectly Chocolate” Cake Ingredients: 2 cups white sugar 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 cup Hershey’s cocoa 2 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 2 tsp. vanilla extract 2 eggs 1 cup buttermilk 1 cup very hot water 1/2 cup vegetable oil White Chocolate Mint Filling (recipe below) Whipped Ganache Icing (recipe below) 1 package of Andes Mints, chopped, for the top (optional) Heat oven to […]
Buttermilk Syrup
My mom’s friend, Carolyn, gave her this recipe for Buttermilk Syrup. It is hands-down the best syrup I have ever tasted in my life! Everyone who tastes it becomes instantly enamored with it. I don’t know if it’s the tang of the buttermilk that does it, or if it’s the combination of everything together, but MAN. This is seriously the best sauce EVER.We usually serve it over pancakes or waffles, but it’s also good over […]
Hot Fudge Sauce Recipe
When I was a little girl, we would go to my grandmother’s house for parties. My grandmother is a fantastic cook and she is known for many things, like her Tutti-Frutti Ice Cream, but especially her hot fudge sauce recipe. She also makes a killer brown sugar caramel sauce that is so, so good. (I’ll post it when I track down the recipe!) My grandmother’s recipe calls for cocoa powder and powdered sugar. Instead of […]
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake with Peanut Butter Mousse Filling
For an updated version of this cake, please click here. You can use a cake mix, but it’s better with homemade. I make the Hershey’s Perfect Chocolate Cake. If you are making three layers, just distribute the batter evenly among the three pans. Each pan gets roughly 2 1/3 cups of batter.