Fondant Icing is an all purpose confection used to ice sweet-breads, cakes, petit fours and napoleons. All about fondant icing, true fondant and rolled fondant: Not to be confused with Rolled Fondant, the sugar dough used to cover cakes, Fondant Icing is pourable and is used to glaze cakes and pastries with a thin sheen …
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 …
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. …
What’s better than whipped cream? Chocolate whipped cream! Use it to fill cake layers or as a topping for ice cream or hot chocolate. This recipe only has 4 ingredients, so it’s obviously an easy one. You might even wonder why you would need a recipe for whipped cream, anyway. Although the ingredients are straight …
Vanilla Pastry Cream is used it to fill cream puffs or eclairs. But that’s just the beginning. One vanilla custard recipe, so many possibilities. In a professional pastry kitchen we don’t reinvent the wheel for every single dish. We have a repertoire of what I’m calling, “essential recipes”. There is no need to have a …
Love it or hate it, there is no doubt that a cake with a porcelain fondant finish is a thing of beauty. After you learn how to cover a cake with fondant you’ll be ready to create spectacular celebration cakes. As I mentioned in my Rolled Fondant Recipe post, many folks hate the taste of …
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. Making your own is worth the time and is surprisingly easy to do. For 10 years I owned a wedding cake business. I can’t count how many times I had …
Rich and silky smooth, White Chocolate Ganache is a great recipe to have on hand. Whip it to create an airy cake filling or frosting, roll it in crystal sugar to make Snowball Truffles, or drizzle it on a cheesecake. The possibilities are endless. How White Chocolate Ganache is different than Dark Chocolate Ganache: I …
What can I say about Cream Cheese Frosting? Well, this recipe is a little different than most others and I like it better. The internet is funny, isn’t it? When I google “Cream Cheese Frosting” or “Cream Cheese Icing” a million recipes come up and almost every one of them is exactly the same. I …
Marzipan is very expensive to buy in the grocery store, and is often dry and flavorless. This marzipan recipe is super easy. I’ll show you how to make marzipan that is much cheaper than pre-made, and tastes much better. If you live in the US and you’ve bought marzipan in the grocery store, chances are …