
Hudson Valley Treats to Get Your Sweetheart for Valentine’s Day
Want to treat your darling (or yourself) to something sweet for Valentine’s Day? These Hudson Valley shops are here to help.
Want to treat your darling (or yourself) to something sweet for Valentine’s Day? These Hudson Valley shops are here to help.
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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)
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
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)
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
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