Bonus Thanksgiving
Pumpkin Rocky Road Ice Cream (No Churn) and by request Sonora Transparent Chocolate Pie recipes!
Hi! Hello! Popping in to share more good cheer and gratitude of the season with another FREE post for all. Also if you are in Los Angeles and still need pie we’ve extended our sale till 11/25 midnight (tonight!)
I hadn’t planned another post before the holiday but I played with my honey patch ‘pumpkin’ no churn ice cream from the last post and felt you needed this UPGRADED version at your fingertips. I mashed it up with fixings for a seasonal rocky road with dulce de leche, toasted pecans and toasted marshmallows. Reminder this takes 15 minutes to pull together, 3 hours to set, and all night to receive the compliments.
Honey patch ROCKY ROAD Ice Cream (No Churn)
1 cup chopped pecans, toasted
1-2 cup marshmallows, chopped
1 can dulce de leche
Once Ice cream is whipped, pour into a larger container instead of pints. Drop in dulce de leche, 1/2 pecans, 1/2 marshmallows and swirl. Top ice cream with remaining pecans and marshmallows. Use a blowtorch to toast marshmallows. Freeze till set.
Note: All your fixings can be store-bought or made from scratch depending on your prep schedule this holiday! If you are making the whole meal, cut yourself some slack. If you are bringing the dessert, going the extra mile will make it a showstopper. Dulce de leche can be easily made by submerging a can of condensed milk under water in a pan over medium heat. Simmer for 2 hours, remove and cool. Make your marshmallows also with this recipe, just leave out the black sesame and egg whites!
Also, this year I simplified my pie menu offerings because - BABY BEAR. And the pie I left off the menu was my Chocolate Custard Pie. It’s a transparent pie, which is a regional custard varietal from the south that is just incredible. it gets its name from a silky custard - that in the vanilla version almost looks see through. My favorite this is the meringue like crust that shatters as it cools.
I’ve been making this for over a decade, it’s beloved enough to have made it into the book, and it made its rounds around the internet as people fell in love with it last year - if you don’t have the book yet (let’s fix that!) it’s now here for you today with love. Click here for see a video when I baked it for FOX5 in DC and follow along. Need to save time? As Ina Garten says, store bought is fine - for the crust. The filling will still WOW everyone.
Sonora Chocolate Custard Pie
Still yearning for a traditional apple or pumpkin? My pie class is recorded and available on the website for download. We made an all butter double crust brown sugar apple pie and a pumpkin pie in a ginger snap crust. Get the recipes and video tutorial.
Bonus Recipes: Pie hater? Want a delicious cake instead? Check out the recipe I did for edibleLA last year for a show stopping chocolate chocolate snacking cake. Not a lot of time baking, fun decorating and crowd pleasing.
Obsessed: Loved this article about cooking queen Julia Child’s take on Thanksgiving. Honorable mention this article on how to reduce food waste this holiday.
Inspired by: Bacteria are already responsible for so many amazing things on our planet - most of the foods we cherish for one! And now someone figured out how to use them to restore art!
Necessary Poetry:
This is a precious time of year for families. A tremendous shift in understanding happened when I had children, just how numbered the endless days are. How beautiful, fleeting and fraught. Every moment of joy, togetherness and peace to be cherished and fought for. My heart is full for those separated from loved ones, mourning beloveds, caught in war zones around the world, losing access to life sustaining services or at risk of being deported from a country they call home, and those that simply feel isolated and alone. Mankind has such capacity for destruction, HOPE comes from knowing we are just as capable of magic and creation. Drop off leftovers to a neighbor, bring cookies to a homebound friend, sign up for volunteer hours at a soup kitchen, organize a bake sale - there are so many ways to help. I hope all the little love you can create - that you know it makes a difference - that you know it links up and ripples goodness into other lives - that you matter, that you can step in and help others in so many ways even in challenging times.
Wishing you the best of days and full plates. Or maybe your toes are enough for you this Holiday? ::chefskiss::
xoxox