How To: Make Chocolate Pot de Crème
Chocolate Pot de Crème is a grownup version of an age old favorite -- fancy chocolate pudding! This dessert will have your mouth watering!
Chocolate Pot de Crème is a grownup version of an age old favorite -- fancy chocolate pudding! This dessert will have your mouth watering!
Here is a dessert you need to prepare in advance, but it is well worth the wait. This recipe for creme caramel is better than any shop bought creme caramel. Watch this cooking how-to video to learn how to make a decadent sweet dessert.
Crème Brulée is a classic French dessert. Watch this video to learn how to make a delicious Crème Brulée.
In this how to video Chef Jean Pierre shows you how to prepare this delicious Spanish pudding. Creme Catalana is a cross between a crème caramel and a crème brûlée, but with a citrus twist. Watch and learn how to make a creme Catalana in your own oven.
You don't have to make this dessert just for Valentine's Day, but it wouldn't hurt. This video shows you how to make a delicious creme brulee. The best thing about creme brulee is that it's really easy to make! All you need are a few high quality ingredients, and you just need to remember proportions and timing. Once you get the hang of it, it'll be a snap to prepare!
A lot of us love sour cream, but in this health conscious world, the added taste might not be worth the extra calories and fat. You can use creme fraiche as a lighter alternative to sour cream or for a variety of other culinary expeditions.
Mix the Brandy Alexander, the Pink Squirrel or the Grasshopper! Each cocktail uses creme de cacao and whipping cream. The Brandy Alexander cocktail uses a brandy base, the Pink Squirrel uses an almond liqour base, and the Grasshoper uses green creme de menthe base. All are shaken with ice and strained into a martini glass. Perfect after dinner cocktails and very easy to make!
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Dan Vincent, a bartender in Laguna Beach, CA shows you how to make specialty martinis for you, your family and friends in this video cocktail-mixing tutorial. This martini is every bit as decadent as a real creme brulee dessert. To make a creme brulee martini, you will need vodka, kahlua, half and half, and a dusting of powdered cocoa.
Crème Brulee is twice as good with strawberry ice cream. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to make this twist to the regular creme brulee. You will need eggs, strawberry ice cream, cinnamon, brown sugar and corn starch.
Learn how to make this rich vanilla custard sauce, which pairs well with numerous desserts. Creme anglaise is served both hot and cold. It is also the base for most ice creams.
While neutral eye shadow colors flatter everyone and a tutorial for creating a neutral eye look will suit all eye shapes and colors, once you venture into more colorful options you'll get the best bang for your...eye color if you follow the color wheel.
Traditional makeup is too boring for special occasions, so why not try something a little more fun to ring in the new year? This how-to video goes through the intensive process of applying a vibrantly colorful and ornate harlequin mask, using just makeup. The cosmetic products used to create this look are N.Y.C Yellow Concealer, Clinique Super Powder Double Face Make Up # 10 Matte Medium, N.Y.C Black Pencil Eye Liner, Graftobian Crème Foundation Yellow, Graftobian Crème Foundation #89092 Augu...
Just because you want to look like a pin up doesn't mean you have to go the full blown route of Dita von Teese. In fact, the pin up look presented in this video is one you can wear on a daily basis.
Veronica Lake is without a doubt one of the most beautiful actresses of all time. And her signature hairstyle - lightly curled hair let down with a very deep side part and bangs cascading over one eye - is still copied by celebrities on a consistent basis.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make your own chocolate truffles. Start with 1.5 c of creme fraiche, which is a thick and heavy cream. Cook this in a saucepan, stirring constantly until it's melted into a liquid. Place the top on the pan while measuring out chocolate. Now, add your creme fraiche to the chocolate, then mix with a spatula until the chocolate is completely melted. Cool this by leaving it in the room overnight. Then, roll the chocolate into small balls and place on a baking tra...
If you've ever flipped through a Victoria Secret's catalog, you probably have noticed the uber gorgeous Brazilian model, Adriana Lima and her smoldering good looks. In this video presented by Fashion face TV, learn how to apply Adriana Lima dewy makeup for all skin types! Products used in this tutorial to achieve this look, include:
Today's recipe comes from the Italian region of Piedmont and the restaurant L´Ostu dij Baloss in Saluzzo. Follow along with this how-to video cooking lesson to learn how to make mushroom creme with ricotta mousse.
Hi again! Here's another dessert recipe—today it's a custard cream recipe, or what is also called creme patissiere.
Golden Globes 2011 presenter Megan Fox sparkled in a layered Armani Prive confection on the red carpet, but we were paying special attention to her gorgeous simple yet super sexy makeup.
Football season is in full swing, and while it's fun painting your face half in blue and half in yellow, there are less tacky ways for showing your love and support for the Minnesota Vikings.
If you're a pale sister who just can't seem to catch a tan this summer but desire a gorgeous, lit-from-within glow that looks like you've been catching waves at the beach all day, then watch this makeup tutorial.
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Toy-tini presents their own favorite way to create a chocolate martini, and this simple recipe will be sure to please you. First, you want to fill a 3 piece shaker about 3/4 full with ice, and begin adding the ingredients. Add 1oz of vodka, 1oz creme de cocoa (brown), 1oz Bailey's Irish cream, 1 tablespoon chocolate, and start shaking (15 shakes) to mix all the ingredients. Lastly, take a martini glass and dip only the top rim in the creme de cocoa and then put into the cocoa powder to create...
In this video from ToyTiniParties, we learn how to make a Boston cream pie martini. The ingredients are vanilla vodka, Godiva chocolate liquor, and Bailey's Irish Cream. Fill the shaker with ice and then fill your shaker with an ounce and a half of each of the ingredients. Now, shake up the ingredients. You want that shaker to be very cold. The colder it is the better it will taste. At the end, you can put a cherry in it to decorate it. This is a very simple recipe to make Boston creme pie ma...
Sick of the same old chocolate chip cookie for a sweet treat? Bump up your dessert course by making a fun banana split! Grab a spoon and a friend, and get ready to dig into this mouth-watering banana split. Learn how to make a great banana split with help form this dessert making instructional video.
Cake decorating is a real art so who better to learn from than from a professional cake artist? This video is full of professional advice and takes you through the process of how to use butter cream to frost and decorate your cake.
Summertime calls out for desserts that are easy to assemble and don't require heat. Voilà: crème de menthe grasshopper pies. They are minty, fresh, and cold, and are very easy to whip together with marshmallows and a microwave.
Cultured dairy products are great for topping chilis and soups, stirring into dips, and adding tanginess to breads and pancakes. They're extremely versatile and often interchangeable, and they contain probiotics that offer a long list of health benefits. They're also super easy to make at home with just a few basic ingredients. Here's how to make your own buttermilk, sour cream and crème fraîche.
Make creamy fish-stuffed potatoes with help from chef, Aaron Craze. Ingredients needed for this recipe include: potatoes, prawns, salmon, smoked halibut, fennel, leek, garlic, salt, funnel seeds, onion, pancetta (similar to bacon), lemon (juice), white wine, parsley, cream/milk, and Crème fraîche. This recipe is sure to make mouths water!
Bridget Albert, master mixologist, shows how to shake up a delicious alcoholic drink. Follow along with the step-by-step directions in this how-to video and learn how to make a tequila sunrise. For the recipe used in this video cocktail-mixing tutorial, you will need orange juice, tequila, and creme de cassis. Enjoy your fresh tequila sunrise cocktail.
Bridget Albert, master mixologist, shows how to shake up a delicious alcoholic drink. Follow along with the step-by-step directions in this how-to video and learn how to make a Brandy Alexander. For the recipe used in this video cocktail-mixing tutorial, you will need heavy cream, dark creme de cacao, brandy, and cream liqueur. Enjoy your fresh Brandy Alexander cocktail.
These cherry chocolate & Irish cream cherry pie recipes are the perfect finish to a Ribs, Brisket, Chicken or Fish barbecue, or whatever kind of bar-b-cue you got goin' on. Our cherry chocolate and Bailey's Irish Creme cherry pies are real easy to make on the grill as shown in this how to video by the BBQ Pit Boys.
Brule means slightly burned or browned. In this how to video Chef Paul shows you how to make brule. Watch and learn how to use a torch to caramelize sugar or cinnamon for a perfect creme brule.
Dan Vincent, a bartender in Laguna Beach, CA shows you how to make specialty martinis for you, your family and friends in this video cocktail-mixing tutorial. This cocktail recipe is the original, for a mysteriously clear but chocolate-y martini. To make a chocolate martini, you will need vodka, creme de cacao, a splach of Kahlua and a cherry for garnish.
It was on August 15, 1954, that Ramón "Monchito" Marrero Pérez first introduced the Piña Colada to the customers of the Beachcomber Bar at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico. To mix up a Piña Colada you will need a light rum, Coco Lopez coconut creme, heavy cream, pineapple juice, ice, and a blender. Watch this video beverage-making tutorial and learn how to mix a Pina Colada cocktail.
Rob "Riki Tiki" Roy mixes up another cocktail, with fire! You will need sugar, Bacardi 151 rum, floral tea, amaretto, Grand Marnier, white creme de cacao, and whipping cream. Watch this video beverage-making tutorial and learn how to mix a blackout cocktail.
Wait, don't dump that milk! It may have a slightly sour smell and be expiring tomorrow, but you can still put it to good use by making sour milk jam.
No crème brûlée is worth its custard without the crackled, caramelized crust it's famous for. For this reason alone, many cooks have a brûlée torch sitting somewhere in their cabinets.
One of the most mind-blowing meals I ever ate occurred when I was 12 years old. The main course and sides were good, if unmemorable, but my jaw dropped during dessert when my friend's mother whipped out a blowtorch—as in a bona fide welding torch from the hardware store—to finish off the crème brûlée.