Dessert Recipes
German Chocolate Cake
Episode 5 Hilah’s Texas Kitchen: German Chocolate Cake and Sweetish Hill Bakery “German chocolate” is unfailingly my dear dad’s choice every single year for his birthday cake. It’s been that since I was teeny weeny. I started making it myself once I was not so weeny and was able to cook on my own. I…
Read MoreStrawberry Ice Cream
strawberry ice cream video recipe – scroll down for printable recipe We had one of those salt-cooled, hand-cranked ice cream makers when I was a kid. My brother and I would take turns sitting outside on the porch, adding ice and salt and of course, cranking it with our puny kid muscles. Most often, we’d…
Read MoreHilah’s Texas Kitchen: Grapefruit Sorbet
Episode Three: SouthTex Organics and Grapefruit Sorbet We had a great time shooting this episode down in Mission, Texas this January. I’d never spent much time in “The Valley” before and Chris and I were both really impressed with the people and the food. You may or may not know that the grapefruit is the…
Read MoreTres Leches Cake
Tres Leches cake (or just “tres leches” for short) is a classic Mexican dessert. It’s a light, vanilla sponge cake baked in the pan from which you serve it, saturated with a mixture of three milks: whole milk or half-and-half, sweetened condensed milk, and evaporated milk, then finally frosted with whipped cream (which technically makes…
Read MoreFruit Tart
Fruit Tart Recipe video – scroll down for printable recipe Lest ye think I just make whatever food I want to without regard for your feelings, I made this fruit tart in response to a viewer request for a “Summer Berry Tart with Pastry Cream”. Partly because it sounded like a delicious idea that everyone…
Read MoreMaple Frozen Yogurt Recipe
About a month ago, maybe a little longer, I got a care package in the mail from a couple in Vermont, Randy and Merrilou. I’ve never met this couple. They only know me through the show. They took it upon themselves to send me a Vermont care package, just because. It was extremely humbling. In…
Read MoreHow to Make Crepes
I recently learned how to make crepes from my mom’s boyfriend, Bill. Every year he has a crepe party for Easter. He sets up several “crepe stations” around the house and yard — an electric cooker, griddle, bowl of crepe batter — and a central table indoors, covered with different crepe fillings. The fillings range…
Read MoreMango Margarita Recipe
It’s time again for the most wonderful mangoes of them all to be in season! Whoopee! (I mean that seriously.) Ataulfo mangoes are a type that have become my very favorite. I never saw them when I was a kid growing up here, but starting about 8 years ago or so, they became a regular…
Read MoreChocolate Truffles
The first (and maybe only?) candy I ever learned how to make was this chocolate truffles recipe. Chocolate truffles are probably the EASIEST CANDY EVER. Seriously there are three ingredients and you don’t need a thermometer or even very good fine motor skills. I guess you do need a refrigerator and a few hours, but…
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