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We made our (famous) Red Velvet Cake for Christmas Dessert. My wife did the hard work.Now everybody wants the recipe and I refuse to give it up.I have even offered to make them one, but I'm not giving up the recipe.Am I wrong? My wife thinks I'm being a bit selfish.

NATIONAL BUNDT DAY National Bundt Day, also known as National Bundt Cake Day, is observed every year on November 15th. As people across the United States plan menus for the holidays, a bundt cake is sure to be on the list at least once. #NATIONALBUNDTDAY A Bundt cake can be any cake baked in a Bundt pan, forming it into a distinctive ring shape. The mold of the Bundt pan was initially inspired by the traditional European fruit cake known as Gugelhupf. It was in the 1950s and 1960s that the cookware company Nordic Ware popularized the style for the...

A luxury Italian hotel has been forced to apologize after it covered a bikini-clad woman in chocolate as part of a dessert buffet — with a teenage girl among the guests left with a sour taste from the “disgusting” display. Federico Mazzieri said he and his 14-year-old daughter were staying at the Voi Colonna Village in Sardinia when a female employee was slathered in chocolate syrup and made to lie on a table of dessert offerings for at least 30 minutes. The HR manager shared a photo to his LinkedIn, writing of his and his daughter’s disgust at the hotel...

NATIONAL BUNDT DAY National Bundt Day, also known as National Bundt Cake Day, is observed every year on November 15th. As people across the United States plan menus for the holidays, a bundt cake is sure to be on the list at least once. #NationalBundtDay A bundt cake can be any cake baked in a Bundt pan, forming it into a distinctive ring shape. The mold of the Bundt pan was initially inspired by the traditional European fruit cake known as Gugelhupf. It was in the 1950s and 1960s that the cookware company Nordic Ware popularized the style for the...

We have another month or so of Summer left, and I received a suggestion that we do a thread on ‘Summer Desserts’ - preferably no-bake ones, as my correspondent was recalling days before air conditioning :-). From the website ‘Catherine’s Plates’, comes a ‘Pina Colada Cream Pie’, made with pineapple, coconut and rum extract: https://catherinesplates.com/pina-colada-cream-pie/******************************************************* Freeper 'Nopardons' has submitted some of her recipes, including this ‘No Bake Strawberry Jello and Cool Whip Pie’: 1 package of strawberry Jello 2/3 cups of boiling water 1 cup of ice cubes and cold water 8 oz of thawed Cool Whip 1 cup of...

We know how great avocado is in salads, sandwiches and especially on toast, but have you ever thought to have it as a dessert? We certainly hadn’t, so when we heard that local sweets chain Café comme ça was selling an avocado tiramisu cake, we immediately knew we had to pay them a visit. Unusual cakes like these tend to be incredibly popular, so we called ahead to reserve a slice as soon as they were released on March 18. When we arrived to pick it up at 3 in the afternoon, we were glad we’d thought ahead, because all...

The popular fruit pizza from new Belmont restaurant Poppies Pizzaria.Although Poppie’s Pizzeria has only been open for a month on Smithville Road in Dayton, the most popular item offered at the Belmont restaurant has already earned it more than a few loyal followers. And the dish almost did not exist at all. According to Poppie’s Pizzeria founder David Cox, the idea for a decadent fruit pizza came about during a trip to an emergency room. “So, I cut my finger outside of work, and I had to go to the hospital,” Cox said. “And the orthopedic doctor asked if...

We will be away this Christmas and probably won’t be cooking a big holiday meal. But one thing I’ve always wanted to try is a crown roast of pork – just because it’s so beautiful. Especially this time of year, you can often purchase a crown roast that is already boned, trimmed, frenched and tied. Depending on where you are, you may have to order well ahead, and will certainly pay a pretty penny, but it will save you a lot of work – and this is definitely a Very Special Occasion or Holiday dish. Here from Taste of Home...

Tide Pod – the colorful detergent capsules that are supposed to make laundry a cinch – have recently caused a ruckus after the youths started eating them. As part of the Tide Pod challenge, kids have taken a mouthful of the brightly colored detergent and shared the results online. As the dare became viral, Procter & Gamble (Tide’s parent company) and officials at poison centers have spoken out about the potentially deadly effects of ingesting the capsules. (And it’s really dangerous, so please don’t eat them.) But with the trend not yet slowing down, restaurateurs are here to remind people...

Kosher ice cream lovers have a lot to celebrate this Pride month, specifically in the form of a pint of Big Gay Ice Cream. That’s because when the ice cream truck-turned-brick-and-mortar shop decided to package its popular soft serve to be sold nationally, it sought and received kosher certification. The pints of soft-serve deliciousness, which debuted in March and are sold in grocery stores and online, are officially under the auspices of the kashrut division of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. Or, as it is colloquially known, the OU. While it’s understandable that an up-and-coming brand would...

US President Donald Trump gave the order to strike Syria with dozens of cruise missiles “during dessert” with visiting Chinese leader Xi Jinping, he said in an interview aired Wednesday. “We had finished dinner. We’re now having dessert. And we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen and President Xi was enjoying it,” Trump told the Fox Business television network. “And I was given the message from the generals that the ships are locked and loaded, what do you do?” Trump said. “And we made a determination to do it, so the missiles were on...

Trump told Xi of Syria strikes over 'beautiful piece of chocolate cake' President reveals missiles were launched as he and Chinese counterpart had dessert after dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate Tom Phillips in Beijing Wednesday 12 April 2017 16.09 BST Donald Trump informed the Chinese president that he had launched missile strikes on Syria as the pair ate “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you have ever seen”, the US president has claimed. In an interview with Fox Business, Trump offered his first account of how he had broken the news to Xi Jinping as they dined at...

3 (THREE) Boxes Pistachio Pudding (3.5 oz approx. - often 3.4) 1 can Crushed Pineapple (20 oz. approx.) 3/4-1 cup milk (I prefer whole milk) 2 bags Pecan pieces (or about 4 oz) 1 bag Mini Marshmallows (I like the colored / flavored ones yellow/green/pink/orange) 2 tubs Cool-Whip or similar whipped topping In a large cake mixing bowl, 1) Empty the whole can of Pineapple AND juice 2) put in 2 (TWO) of the contents of Pistachio Pudding 3) put in the milk 4) put in the pecan pieces 5) (optional) - put in about 1/2 can of fruit cocktail...

I'm not bragging, because it isn't my recipe. In fact, I have no doubt that many of you out there will have Thanksgiving turkeys equally as good or better than what I will cook. However, my sister-in-law most definitely makes the BEST dessert for Thanksgiving. Only THREE people in the world know the recipe: Her mother, my sister-in-law, and my niece, her daughter, Genesis the Mermaid. It is soooooo good that I have begged my sister-law-to enter the Pillsbury baking contest. The reason why she would probably win is that her dessert is incredible in terms of taste, texture, and...

Here's the churro-ice-cream sandwich, invented by Sylvia Yoo, who worked at Jean Georges and wd~50 in New York but now runs a business in Los Angeles called Churro Borough. Less than a week after they were first covered on Chow, news of the novelty was picked up by E! News, which regularly covers glitzier things, like Robert Pattinson's totally untrue Han Solo rumors and news of Katy Perry's vocal coach, so there's that. churro-ice-cream-sandwich Born in East L.A.Photo: Churro Borough/Facebook Churros and Cronuts both start with the same letter, which is obvious. Beyond that, well, here we are, summer of...

America's favorite hazelnut spread Nutella is wrapping up its 50th anniversary celebrations with a star-studded creation from famed pastry chef Dominique Ansel. The Cronut creator has made Nutella-stuffed Cronut holes to mark the end of three days of celebrations around the globe - kicking it off with a street party on Saturday in Alba - the hometown of Nutella's creator.

There’s a story about St. John Paul II that describes a love from his childhood, when he was simply Karol Wojtyla. That love was cream cake. It’s well-known in his native Poland that the future pontiff and saint had an affection for the cream-filled pastry. Now Baltimoreans are getting their own taste, thanks to parishioners of Holy Rosary in Fells Point. The traditionally Polish parish sold the cream cake, made with a secret recipe, along with pirogues on April 26 and 27 to commemorate the April 27 canonizations of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII in Vatican City....

Alaska man feeds black bear barbecue meat, gets mauled for dessert The drunken man could be charged with illegally feeding wildlife after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game says he 'pretty much goaded' the beast into the attack. Beer, barbecue and black bears are never a good mix. An Alaska man learned that the hard way this weekend when he threw a hungry bear a piece of barbecued meat — only to be mauled by the same bear. "He'd been drinking," Alaska State Trooper spokeswoman Beth Ipsen told the Anchorage Daily News of the man. The unidentified man was...

Customers line up to buy cannoli at Romolo’s Cannoli & Spumoni Factory on 37th Avenue in San Mateo Wednesday. The store is run by Mike and Joe Cappello, who have taken over the family business. Brothers Mike and Joe Cappello love their jobs. They get to eat Italian desserts all day, whenever they want, as they are now master spumoni and cannoli makers. They learned their craft from their grandparents, Romolo and Angela, and have since taken over the family business on 37th Avenue in San Mateo. Romolo’s Cannoli & Spumoni Factory is celebrating its 44th year and the brothers...

A Charlotte County man is accused of injuring his girlfriend during a domestic dispute over cannolis, according to the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office. According to reports, Scott DeCesare got into an argument with his girlfriend because she ate all of the cannolis. The girlfriend told deputies he was so angry he flipped over a coffee table in the living room, causing damage to it. She said she threw his dinner in the trash because she was mad at him. He then allegedly threw the food at her, hitting her in the shoulder and the face, reports said. DeCesare allegedly then...