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Taking Your Desserts To The Next Level |
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Aazdak Alisimo |
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Taking Your Desserts to the Next Level
Aazdak Alisimo
It's the end of the meal and everyone turns their thoughts to the piece de resistance, the dessert. How do yours shape up? Hopefully, they are masterworks. Whether they are or not, the following tidbits might help make them that much better.
Rolling dough on parchment paper is no big deal with one exception. The parchment paper tends to slip. Try lightly watering down the surface you are using and then put down the parchment paper. It should stop slipping.
The white fiber material between the orange pulp and peel can be difficult to remove. If you are having problems, dip the orange in boiling water for a minute or until the peel easily can be removed. The short time should not harm the orange pulpy area.
If you have been cooking desserts for any length of time, you know that brown sugar can become a hard boulder after a bit. To loosen it up, try throwing it in the microwave for 30 seconds. Alternatively, put in a bag and hit with a bat to burn off some stress.
When you have a frozen cylinder of dough, you have to be careful when handling it. Whatever you are doing to it, make sure to turn it every 30 seconds or so. This keeps one side from becoming flat like a flat tire.
You can stop dripping ice cream cones now. How? It is amazingly simple. Buy some mini marshmallows and then stuff a few in the bottom of each cone. They will form a dam that keeps the liquid from running out the bottom.
Having problems with your cake tops coming out tilted which makes the hard to decorate? Teach the cake a lesson. Thump the bottom of the pan on a cutting board a couple times before cooking. It removes the air bubbles and will create a flat top.
Adding fruits and nuts to your desserts is a good idea, but how do you keep them from sinking like an anchor to the bottom of cakes and such? Try coating them in flour. You will risk some sinkage, but not a lot and certainly not enough for people to notice.
Cooking can be messy, which is part of the fun. If filling or something else bubbles over in the oven, wait for it to cool then dip a towel in Coca Cola till it is soaked. Now lay on the burned area overnight. The coke will remove it. This will work for dirty toilets as well.
At the end of the day, many could argue that half the fun of a good dessert is actually making it. You can get pretty creative and use just about any combination of ingredients. Remember, the first chocolate chip cookie was an accident.
Aazdak Alisimo writes for BasicCookingTips.com, your online resource for http://www.basiccookingtips.com/chocolate-dessert-recipes) chocolate and dessert recipes. You can get a http://www.uberarticles.com/?id=25398&b=79 unique content version of this article.
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