Hudson Valley Treats to Get Your Sweetheart for Valentine’s Day
Olivia Cambalik
Want to treat your darling (or yourself) to something sweet for Valentine’s Day? These Hudson Valley shops are here to help.
Chocolate
Hudson Valley Gift Guide: Stocking Stuffers Edition
Samantha Garbarini
There are only a few days left until Santa slides down the chimney, but that’s still plenty of time to pick up some delicious, sugary holiday treats to stuff stockings. From chocolates
Dual Chocolate Blackberry Tarts
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Mariana Leung / Wicked Finch Farm, Pawling The crust recipe makes enough for six 4-inch tart shells, and a bit leftover to bake into cookies that you can snack on
The Hudson Valley’s Finest Chocolatiers Offer Tasty Treats of the Trade
Andrew Dominick
Chocolat, author Joanne Harris penned a line for the novel’s chocolatier main character, Vianne Rocher, which read: “I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing
Cocoa Connoisseurs
Kristen Warfield
SPENDING A COLD WINTER DAY out in the snow and ice practically demands a steaming mug of hot cocoa. The common, store-bought packets may do for some in a pinch, but
Raising the Chocolate Bar
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THE AROMA OF CHOCOLATE PERFUMES THE AIR of the Fruition Chocolate shop. Machinery buzzes in the background as cocoa nibs are ground into a shiny paste. Gracious, soft-spoken and chocolate-obsessed, owner
Peter Rose’s Hot Chocolate
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Peter Rose Servings: (8) 4-ounce cups Ingredients 4 squares unsweetened baking chocolate, cut into quarters 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper (or more to taste) 1/4 teaspoon ginger 4
Hazelnut Biscotti
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Vicki Zeph, Zeph’s Ingredients 2 whole eggs 1 egg yolk 1 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1-3/4 cups all purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder pinch of salt 2 cups
Flourless Chocolate Cake
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Jocelyn Beverly Yields one 8-inch cake. Ingredients 7 ounces semi- or bittersweet chocolate (good quality, such as Callebaut or Bakers) 13 tablespoons butter 7 large eggs (at room temperature, separated)
Chocolate Guinness Cake with Stout Creme Anglaise
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Agnes Devereux, The Village Tea Room Ingredients Cake 1 cup Guinness stout 1 stick (1/4 pound) plus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa 2 cups sugar 3/4 cup
Bittersweet Chocolate Souffle
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Dan Budd, Taste Budd’s Chocolate Dreams Yields 5 to 6 8-ounce souffles Ingredients For molds 4 ounces softened butter 8 ounces granulated sugar Pastry cream base 16 ounces (2 cups)
Biscuits de Chocolat
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Barbara Ketcham Wheaton Ingredients 2 one-ounce tablets of semisweet chocolate, grated 1 cup sugar 4 egg yolks 8 egg whites, stiffly beaten 1/2 cup cake flour 2 tablespoons confectioner’s sugar
