Posted by: Dawn on: February 17, 2013
As it turns out, a “Ladurée sundae” is basically a chestnut sundae. It simply consists of chestnut ice cream topped with whipped cream and candied chestnuts. If you have those three things lying around the house? Then it’s a piece of cake to put them together. For this sundae (and the ice cream in it), [...]
Posted by: Dawn on: December 18, 2012
I’ll be honest with you – I’m still not 100% sure that I’m entirely on board with chestnut-flavored desserts. The taste is OK, but depending on the finished product, the texture has the potential to wig me out. This chestnut ice cream? Falls squarely in the middle, which means I’m completely uncertain about it. The [...]
Posted by: Dawn on: November 16, 2012
After making a couple different kinds of “verrines” (essentially, individually plated desserts), I finally got smart and made a partial batch. So instead of having 8 of them to work through, we only had 2. Which in this case, was just about right. The “Mont-Blanc” of these is the mound of whipped cream that tops [...]
Posted by: Dawn on: April 30, 2012
I never really thought I was a chestnut fan until now. Mostly because, for most of my life, I’d never had one. My husband likes to make a chestnut stuffing for Thanksgiving, and the first year I lived with him he had me try a roasted chestnut. In all honesty, I couldn’t decide if I [...]
Posted by: Dawn on: April 8, 2012
This cake is essentially the nut version of this confection. While I didn’t have quite the same amazing experience with this as I did with that chocolate torte, this one was still pretty tasty. It combined layers of a soft walnut cake with chestnut mousse (speckled with candied chestnuts) and a chestnut cream underneath a [...]