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Cream Puffs with Chocolate Pastry Cream

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Jenn • 0 comment

Cream puffs and I have deep and long history. For most kids in the U.S., the cupcake is the go-to for sweet comfort food snacks, but that wasn’t the case for me. No, the cream puff was my childhood indulgence. My parent’s had a shop next door to a Vietnamese and French bakery. Growing up, I was taught to be frugal at a young age, and at 35 cents each, the cream puff was the perfect answer to my cheap sweet tooth.

In this recipe, I’m using a classic chocolate pastry cream for the filling. The pate choux pastry recipe is from Edible Memories, who I believe references Williams-Sonoma.

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Category: Desserts | Tags: chocolate, choux, cream, drizzle, eclair, french, hazelnut, nutella, pastry, pate, powder, profiterole, pudding, puff, Vietnamese

Chocolate Cream Pie

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Jenn • 0 comment

So I suppose you can make a decent chocolate cream pie using a store-bought crust, with store-bought instant chocolate pudding mix, and store-bought cool-whip, but…if you want a delicious and decadent chocolate cream pie that you can brag about (because you made it from scratch), then I highly suggest this recipe.

We all remember that chocolate cream pie quote from Julie & Julia don’t we? Well, if you don’t, here it is again:

“You know what I love about cooking? I love that after a day when nothing is sure and when I say nothing, I mean nothing. You can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. That’s such a comfort.”

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Category: Desserts, Food | Tags: chocolate, cookie, cream, crumb, crust, custard, julia, julie, Noshing, oreo, Pie, pudding, rich, slice, whipped

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Jenn • 0 comment

This recipe is a fairly new discovery. This past spring, I took a road trip down to San Diego, or “San Diagooo” as Ron Burgundy calls it. I was travelling with a few buds and stayed at a friend’s house in Carlsbad. Augusta, my friend’s grandmother, was our incredibly sweet host and on our arrival, she made the best pumpkin bread I’ve ever had! Moist, decadent, and filled with yummy spices, this pumpkin bread had fast-forwarded me to Fall.

With Thanksgiving just behind us and Christmas on the horizon, there couldn’t be a more perfect time to bake up this amazing pumpkin bread. Lucky for me, Augusta was kind enough to let me jot down the recipe and I was surprised to learn how easy the steps were. I changed it up a bit and added chocolate chips, streusel, and icing, because you know, there wasn’t enough sugar already 😉

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Category: Desserts, Food, Recipes | Tags: bread, chip, chocolate, Christmas, crumble, Dessert, fall, icing, loaf, pumpkin, streusel, sweet, thanksgiving, topping, vanilla

Nutella Macarons

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Jenn • 1 comment

Life has been crazy busy, let me tell you. I’ve been MIA lately I know; though I doubt anyone is uber upset about it. Let me just list a few things that have been going on: Jonah threw me a surprise birthday party, yes, I’m quite the lucky girl! He got me ukulele, which I’ve been practicing daily! I’ve been working crazy hours at the office (60 hours last week). Jonah over went PRK eye surgery. We’re remodeling the bedroom; I’m sleeping on the living room floor til we get it finished. And, let’s see…oh, I ran the Sacramento Color Run this past Saturday with my MoH!

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Category: Desserts, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized | Tags: Bride, chocolate, cookie, Dessert, french, hazelnut, macaron, Noshing, nutella, spread, sweet

Orange Chocolate Magic Cake

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Jenn • 8 comments

I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard about this recipe for cake batter that magically separates into 3 layers (cake on the bottom, custard in the middle, cake on the top). It seemed too good to be true. Naturally, I had to try it!

To my absolute delight, the cake was fantastic! It reminded me of those orange chocolate balls that you get during the holidays. You know, the ones you have to smash to break apart. Biting into this magic cake transported me back 4 months, to Christmas.
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Category: Desserts, Food, Recipes | Tags: 3 layer, Bride, Cake, chocolate, citrus, cocoa, Cointreau, custard, Dessert, desserts and sweets, magic, mandarin, Noshing, orange, pagoda building, Sacramento, sweet, tarta magica, venue, Wedding, white on rice couple

No-Churn Nutella Ice Cream

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Jenn • 9 comments

My fiance, Jonah, has a little joke he likes to tell, it goes like this:

How do you know if someone listens to NPR?

They tell you!

It’s funny because it’s true. Annoying NPR listeners, like myself, are constantly quoting things we heard on NPR earlier that day. I’m reminded of the character from American Pie, the one that always starts a discussion with “one time, at band camp…”, except in my case it’s “today, on NPR…”. As the proud NPR listener that I am, I’m not ashamed to admit that this little bit on no-churn Nutella ice cream was inspired by an NPR piece.
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Category: Desserts, Food | Tags: chocolate, condensed, cream, Dessert, easy, hazelnut, homemade, ice cream, ice cream maker, Lawson, milk, Nigella, no churn, NPR, nutella