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Panna Cotta Recipe with Bourbon Figs

August 19, 2013

This easy panna cotta recipe with bourbon-poached figs will make you swoon. Lightened up just a bit, this vanilla panna cotta is still decadent and delicious, but with just a few less calories. 

panna cotta recipe with poached figs

Vanilla Panna Cotta with Bourbon-Poached Figs

Whenever I see figs, I must buy them.  I can’t quite help myself, they are just so sexy.  Then my brain starts spinning with all the possible things to do with them. When I am visiting my family in Ohio, I always try to make something special.  Something that I know for sure they have never had before.  Sometimes it goes over well and sometimes, maybe not so much.  I think this one was a winner. 

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Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: bourbon, cooking, Dessert, easy recipe, figs, Food, fruit, gluten free, how to, panna cotta, recipes, vanilla, vegetarian

Blushing Valentine

January 21, 2013

I know it may seem a bit early to start thinking of Valentine’s Day, but it’s only a few short weeks away.   If you like to make a special treat on Valentine’s Day, this is the cake.  
It is a towering 4 layers high and lovingly encased in the most delicate rose-scented buttercream.  It is outrageously good and worth every. single. calorie.  

This is also the type of cake that could easily become adorned with say a few candles for a little celebratory birthday party?   The colors could be swapped out for any, the flavor of the buttercream could be adapted to whatever you’d like it to be.  Using a vanilla base for both cake and buttercream allows you the flexibility to change colors and flavors to suit the occasion or intended recipient….

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Filed Under: Cake recipes Tagged With: baking, butter, buttercream, cake, Dessert, eggs, flour, milk, sugar, Valentine's Day, vanilla

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