Stella Parks's Blog, page 3

Level Up Your Ice Cream by Leveling Your Cake

The next time you trim off the dome of a cake, stash those scraps in the freezer to use as a mix-in for your next batch of ice cream. Try blackberry cake scraps in lemon ice cream, or devil's food cake mixed into fior di latte gelato. It's all the flavor of cake a la mode, packed into a single scoop.
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Triple-Pistachio Breakfast Buns, the Make-Ahead Breakfast of Your Dreams

With homemade pistachio paste incorporated into the dough, filling, and frosting, these nutty breakfast buns are loaded with pistachio flavor in every bite.
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For the Best Pistachio Ice Cream, Toast the Nuts and Ditch the Paste

From blanching, peeling, and toasting the pistachios to an overnight infusion with milk and cream, this recipe is a labor of love. But for those who want to make pistachio ice cream from fresh, whole pistachios (not paste!) the results are well worth it, producing a pistachio ice cream that's rich, creamy, and aromatic.
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Beyond Vanilla: Extracts, Oils, and Waters That Can Improve Your Baking

Inventing a recipe from the ground up is hard work, but doctoring a family favorite is easy. With a few drops of pure extracts, essential oils, and floral waters, you can breathe new life into old desserts, without having to worry about altering their chemistry.
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For This Mocha Icebox Cake, You���re Gonna Need a Bigger Cookie

This creamy refrigerator cake starts with homemade chocolate chip cookies rather than store-bought, and a whipped mascarpone filling spiked with high-fat Dutch cocoa and instant espresso. The combination of mascarpone and coffee gives it a tiramisu-like vibe that's hard to resist.
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Anything Is Possible When You Mix and Match Ice Creams and Swirls

There's no need to re-invent the wheel when creating new ice cream flavors. Just lean on the recipes you already know and love, and combine them in new ways. From homemade fruit syrups to DIY Nutella and made-from-scratch caramel sauce, there's no shortage of delicious ingredients to ripple into freshly churned ice cream (or no-churn ice cream, for that matter).
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Anything is Possible When You Mix and Match Ice Creams and Swirls

There's no need to re-invent the wheel when creating new ice cream flavors. Just lean on the recipes you already know and love, and combine them in new ways. From homemade fruit syrups to DIY Nutella and made-from-scratch caramel sauce, there's no shortage of delicious ingredients to ripple into freshly churned ice cream (or no-churn ice cream, for that matter).
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How to Make Ice Cream Cones From Scratch

It takes a special piece of gear to make real-deal ice cream cones, but for ice cream enthusiasts a waffle cone machine a more than worthy investment. We've tested many models to find the best one, and have the perfect recipe to use in it.
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For This Gorgeous Pistachio Cherry Tart, It Pays to Frangi-plan Ahead

Put homemade pistachio paste to good use in this fragrant and nutty cherry frangipane tart.
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How to Make No-Waste, No-Fuss, No-Cook (No-Poison!) Cherry Pit Syrup

To most folks, cherry pits are an annoyance with no value of their own, but that needn't be so. This easy no-cook syrup is based on whole cherry pits (not their inner kernels!), so it's simple and safe to prepare.
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