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Homemade Nutella – Vegan Chocolate Hazelnut Spread

Homemade Nutella is way better than store bought. Made with ingredients you can pronounce, this vegan Nutella recipe is dairy and gluten free. Honestly, I don’t really love Nutella. I know that puts me squarely in the minority, but I find the commercial stuff kind of greasy and not chocolatey enough. I guess once you’ve …

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Classic Chocolate Mousse

Classic Chocolate Mousse never goes out of style. This chocolate mousse recipe is the perfect marriage of light-as-air texture and rich, chocolate-y flavor. It just melts in your mouth. I always try to give you a little background and context for my recipes. But, honestly, what is there to say about Classic Chocolate Mousse? It’s …

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Old Fashioned Chocolate Frosting with Cocoa

Simple, yet delicious Old Fashioned Chocolate Frosting. Cocoa gives this buttercream a lovely fudgy flavor. It’s the perfect filling for an old fashioned layer cake. Much as I love my Italian Meringue Buttercream, there is also a place for this simpler, yet very tasty, chocolate buttercream frosting. This is a chocolate version of American Buttercream. …

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Vanilla Pastry Cream (with video)

Vanilla Pastry Cream! Use it to fill cream puffs or eclairs. But that’s just the beginning. One vanilla custard recipe, so many possibilities. What is Pastry Cream? Pastry Cream is a custard. A custard is simply a liquid (often a dairy product) that is thickened with eggs. Creme Anglaise is a custard sauce, and Lemon …

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How to Make Rolled Fondant – A Recipe for Homemade Fondant

You can buy it, so why would you need to know how to make rolled fondant? Let’s face it, commercial fondant does not taste good. I’ll show you how to Make your own. It is worth the time and is surprisingly easy to do. For 10 years I owned a wedding cake business. I can’t …

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