Slightly spicy bittersweet chocolate and chili flourless cake is cooled down with a salted caramel gelato!

The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and The Sopranos Family Cookbook by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michelle Scicolone, as ingredient/direction guides. She added her own modifications/changes, so the recipe is not 100% verbatim from either book.

Warm cinnamon gelato is a wonderful companion with puffy pillows of fried dough that has been sweetened with orange sugar.

Nanette got herself an ice cream maker for her birthday and ever since (it has only …

Pureed boysenberries are sweetened with a verbena simple syrup and turned into a summer fresh sorbet.

A ultra creamy custard based ice cream makes this vanilla ice cream not your every day “boring” vanilla.

Succulent peaches that are slow roasted with deep amber honey flavor this creamy custard based ice cream. Perfect summer time dessert!

This is not your ordinary Smuckers Strawberry Sauce that you grew up with as a kid. This is a slow roasted version with balsamic vinegar.

Dolores of Chronicles in Culinary Curiosity, must had known that I was going to have to be eating cold food and smooth items, the next few days! She picked the perfect challenge for the …