Ice Cream

Affogato, Easy and Delicious

August 2, 2011

The last of my husband’s bachelor friends was visiting one day and asked if I had any suggestions for an easy to make dessert. Of course, I had to tease and ask…you mean to impress women? Before I had a chance to answer, our other friend started telling us about how affogato was really simple [...]

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Monday Musings: Cake Scraps

January 24, 2011

Cake scraps are pieces of cake left over from trimming and carving a cake. Don’t ever toss them. Instead, recycle them into something delicious. I like to cut them up into cubes and freeze them in a Ziploc bag. Then I get to take whatever amount of cake I want, warm it a little in the microwave and toss [...]

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Pretty In Pink Peppercorns on Monday Musings

October 4, 2010

I bought this jar of pink peppercorns a while back for no good reason of course. I think I recalled seeing them used in an ice cream recipe somewhere in Williams Sonoma and thought it might come in handy for other desserts. I’ve always been curious about them and they just look pretty on food. [...]

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My First Daring Bakers Challenge

August 27, 2010

I can’t believe my first blog post on Building a Tractor Cake was one year ago. I still feel like this blogging thing is so new to me and am only just getting the hang of it. If you are returning reader, then thank you for sticking with me. If this is your first time [...]

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Cocoa Nibs Challenge and a Recipe

August 23, 2010

What are they? Have you ever eaten cocoa nibs? They are basically the essence of chocolate. They are bits of dried, roasted and crushed cocoa beans. It’s what your favorite chocolate bar looks like before it is completely ground to smoothness and mixed with sugar, milk and possibly other flavoring. They don’t really taste that [...]