Skip the pecan pie and take a chocoholic route this Thanksgiving with this velvety-glazed creation.
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Thanksgiving Recipes - Triple Chocolate Pecan Loaves
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Cooking Students Create Viagra Dessert
Photo: William Fernando Martine, AP
Students at the Colombia's Quindio cooking school have created a dessert made with Viagra for a food fair in Bogota, the Associated Press reports.
The dessert is a pudding garnished with whipped cream and chocolate. Students said the recipe tells you how to use the "little blue pill" as an ingredient.
What do you think of the Viagra dessert? Let us know in the comments below.
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Thanksgiving Recipes - Pecan Cranberry Tart
Pecan pie often toes the line of extreme sweetness with its sugar-corn syrup filling. Here, the tartness of cranberries helps cut the sugariness of the pecan pastry.
Get the recipe to this take on a classic along with many others after the jump.
Get the recipe to this take on a classic along with many others after the jump.
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Thanksgiving Recipes - Sweet-Potato Pie
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Raspberry Zinger Cake
Raspberry Zinger Cake. Photo: Jennifer Iserloh.
Is it the flavor profile or the fat that makes us so enamored with baked goods?
Either way, you can still enjoy a lower-sugar treat that's made with real ingredients like coconut and jam without having to worry about getting a trans-fat and preservative overload. Sugar, water and high-fructose corn syrup are usually the first and most prevalent ingredients used in store-bought baked goods, not to mention artificial coloring and a whole host of other unpronounceable things you didn't bargain for.
Here's a comparison of nutritional stats between store-bought and homemade raspberry zinger cake:
One store-bought portion:
Calories 160, total fat 7g, sat fat 3g, sodium 100 mg, total carbohydrate 24g, protein 1g
One comparable home-made portion:
Calories 127, total fat 5g, sat fat 1g, sodium 100 mg, total carbohydrate 19g, protein 2g
Find the Skinny Chef's recipe for Raspberry Zinger Cake after the jump.
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Thanksgiving Recipes - Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie
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Tip of the Day - Homemade Butterscotch Sauce
Butterscotch sauce is a rich and buttery treat that makes a great seasonal dessert topper in place of chocolate or whipped cream.
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Sweet Stack - Feast Your Eyes
Brownies. Photo: little miss amanda, Flickr.
Whether they're packed with walnuts, shaped like ghosts and goblins or infused with bacon and bourbon, brownies rarely fail to satisfy. Maybe it's the fact that their texture is somewhere between cake and cookie (when done properly), or just that they're always packed full of chocolate. Even a simple brownie -- with no bells, whistles or bourbon -- can be absolute perfection. Just ask Flickr user little miss amanda, who made these using a recipe from the New York City bakery Baked.
On her blog, Slow Like Honey, Amanda admits that while they're actually her second favorite brownies, they'll still "render you senseless" and are -- like any brownies worth their weight in chocolate should be -- better the next day.
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Wisconsin Apple Pie and Cheese Don't Always Go Together
Photo: longpig, Flickr.
The Wisconsin State Journal debunked the myth that Wisconsin requires apple pie to be served with cheese at restaurants in the state. The paper asked Connie Von Der Heide at the Wisconsin State Law Library whether or not state law required cheese to accompany the pie after a reader inquired about it.
"It certainly sounds plausible since after all this is the Dairy State, but the answer is no," she said. "The 1935 Laws of Wis., ch. 106 came close; it required serving a small amount of cheese and butter with meals in restaurants (effective from June 1935 to March 1937)."
What crazy food laws have you heard of? Let us know in the comments below.
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Sunshine Cookies - Feast Your Eyes
Photo: Brown-Eyed Baker, Flickr.
As the weather turns cold (and occasionally dreary), we'll take little bursts of sunshine wherever we can get them -- especially if they're soft and sweet like these lemon-loaded cookies from Brown-Eyed Baker.
Lemon is often the perfect companion for butter, poppy seeds and, of course, vodka.
Made with lemon cake mix, lemon zest, lemon juice and lemon extract (as well as a few of the usual cookie suspects, like egg and confectioner's sugar), these "lemon burst cookies" are, like the Brown-Eyed Baker herself said, literally "bursting at the seams with bright lemon flavor."
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Dulce De Leche - An Easy Dessert Enhancer
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| Photo: Jennifer Iserloh |
I will warn you -– it is dangerous. I could eat it out of the container with a spoon, but it can also be extremely versatile when used sparingly as a topping for healthier ingredients to make hundreds of fast desserts.
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Robiola di Capra al Fico - Cheese Course
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| Robiola di Capra al Fico. Photo: Formaggio Kitchen. |
The amount of time the cheese is aged in the leaves triggers the growth of certain molds and flavors. Coming from the Burrati family in Verbania, Italy, this incredibly milky tasting Robiola is not aged long enough for the fig leaves to create too pungent or too tart of a flavor. Instead, these bright-green leaves establish a mild acidity that beautifully balances the overwhelming creamy flavor and texture of the cheese.
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We All Scream for Ice Cream - Feast Your Eyes
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| Strawberry Cake Batter Ice Cream. Photo: erincooks, Flickr. |
A pink twist on beloved cake-batter ice cream, this homemade version is strawberry flavored. When topped off with jumbo pastel sprinkles (our affinity for sprinkles has already been well documented), it's like a smile in a cup.
Who knew happiness was best served ice cold?
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Perfect Pie - Feast Your Eyes
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Ever the apex of comfort, we love how this darling apple pie truly wears its heart on its sleeve. The rustic imperfections of a home-baked pie only add to the appeal, especially with efforts made so lovingly -- and rightfully so, to blogger/baker Whitney in Chicago, who put this together for her boyfriend on their anniversary. Because really, what could possibly be more comforting than gooey apple pie?
Although everyone enjoys a white-tablecloth dinner celebration now and then, we'd like to know what you prefer: a relaxed, home-cooked meal or dinner at the nearest fancy restaurant? Argue your case in the comments. We might be tempted to kick off our shoes and indulge in a night in, if presented with options as visually appealing as this one.
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Quick Lemon Sorbet - Tip of the Day
Fresh lemon sorbet looks and tastes totally gourmet, but it's actually one of the easiest things to make.
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