Posts Tagged ‘desserts’

The Bacon Maple Crong John

The Bacon Maple Crong JohnBy now I’m sure you’ve all heard of the Cronut — the half croissant, half doughnut created by Chef Dominique Ansel for his bakery in New York City.

Although its creator states that the Cronut is more complex than just fried croissant dough, without knowing his proprietary recipe the easiest way to make your own seems to be to use layered crescent roll dough.

While everyone else seems to be focused on re-creating the Cronut … CONTINUE READING »

The Snackadium

The SnackadiumI received an email recently offering me $350 to construct and write about a “snackadium.” A snackadium, for those of you who are unaware just like I was, is basically a stadium built out of snacks. Seeing as how $350 is about what I make working two days at my normal job I’d have to be pretty stupid to pass this up. Plus, who wouldn’t wanna make a stadium out of snacks!? Since the promotion … CONTINUE READING »

Sprecher Beer Bread, Beer Chips and Beer Brittle

Sprecher Beer Bread, Beer Chips and Beer BrittleI went on a tour of Sprecher Brewery with some friends recently, and after it was over we sat down and drank the four beers each that are included in the $5 tour cost and then made our way into the gift shop. The gift shop at the brewery has pretty much anything Sprecher related that you could ever want from beer soap to Sprecher flavored BBQ sauce and everything in between. My three purchases … CONTINUE READING »

S’mores Spaghetti

S'mores SpaghettiI’ve mentioned a few times now how until the end of the year I’m part of the Verizon Wireless Savvy Gourmets program, and in turn I was given some money, a Motorola Droid Xyboard and and six months of free, unlimited data service.

As part of the program they occasionally email me and the other bloggers involved with ideas that they think would be interesting for us to write about. The most recent email … CONTINUE READING »

Pecan Bacon Toffee

Pecan Bacon ToffeeA couple weeks ago I got a jar of spiced pecans in the mail from Treat Bake Shop. Do you know what I love making with pecans? Pecan toffee. Do you know what I’ve never added to my pecan toffee? Bacon! Seeing as how I now had a fresh jar of roasted, seasoned pecans I figured what better time than now to try making some pecan bacon toffee.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans… CONTINUE READING »

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