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What's the Difference Between Ice Cream and Gelato

Gelato vs Ice Cream — What’s Actually Different and Why It Matters

Mug Cakes Cookbook

Mug Cakes Cookbook

Chocolate Cake with Ganache

Ganache Recipe

Buttercream Frosting Recipe

Buttercream Frosting — Two Recipes from a Pastry Chef and When to Use Each One

chocolate mousse

Easy Chocolate Mousse Recipe with No Eggs or Cream

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Basque cheesecake, deeply caramelized almost burnt top with dramatic cracks

Ube Basque Cheesecake Recipe – Creamy, Burnt Top Perfection

Chocolate Brownie Recipe

Tempering in Baking: When to Use It and When to Skip It

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I’ve been cooking seriously since the mid-1980s — self-taught, a lot of trial and error, and genuinely interested in why things work in the kitchen. I started this site in 1997 because I couldn’t find cooking writing that explained the reasoning. Still at it.

G. Stephen Jones at a food hall Full story →

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