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March 27, 2023

Use This 3-Ingredient Recipe to Create a Refreshing Sorbet With Any Fruit

Absolutely nothing quite compares to do-it-yourself sorbet. It really is fresher and creamier than its keep-purchased counterpart, and you can mix and match fruit to your liking. Furthermore, you have full command above the sugar written content. The only thing keeping most sorbet-fans again? It seems difficult to make. But this a few-component sorbet recipe is as very simple as it will get.

I was on the hunt for a deal with that’s both equally wholesome and refreshing when I found this recipe from TheFlavorBender.com. Following recognizing how simple it was to make (it takes advantage of frozen fruit, so no washing or chopping essential), I pulled out my blender and received to function.

How To Make Sorbet Out of Any Frozen Fruit

I made a decision to pare down this sorbet recipe to make it even far more uncomplicated and person-pleasant. This is what I applied:

To build this with a lot more or much less fruit, use 1 to 2 tablespoons of agave syrup for just about every cup of fruit. Then squeeze in as little or as a great deal lemon juice as desired. (I just gave half a lemon a hefty squeeze for 3 cups of berries.)

I poured the ingredients into a blender and turned it on. In hindsight, I must have slash up the whole strawberries, because the blender struggled to chop them. I also wanted to routinely stop the blender and force the mixture about, but it worked in the stop. Every thing in addition to a couple strawberry chunks blended into a clean, creamy texture.

TheFlavorBlender.com states to freeze the mixture overnight, but this combined berry sorbet looked too very good to hold out. I served myself a cup and dug in.

berry sorbet, birds eye view — Jenna Cartusciello

The Outcomes

While extra melty than a keep-purchased version, this was perhaps just one of the most flavor-packed sorbets I’ve at any time had. The fruit mix provided blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries, which built it more exceptional than standard alternatives I have experienced from the grocery keep. And although I was doubtful of adding lemon juice at very first, that light tang beautifully balanced the rest of the fruit. This dish could have been as well sweet if I hadn’t involved it. (And if you’re watching your sugar intake, go away out the added sugar. Your sorbet will probable be just as satisfying.)

Just one very last idea: If you might be going to depart chunks of fruit in there, let the sorbet thaw for about 5 minutes right before serving. I did this, and it served the strawberry chunks soften appreciably. They made a pretty distinction with the relaxation of the smooth dessert.

Which fruit mix will you try out? I are unable to wait to take a look at out this recipe for frozen chocolate and banana “awesome” cream future.

March 26, 2023

This recipe finder will give you dinner ideas using what’s in your fridge

We’ve all been there. It’s 6:30, you’ve just gotten home from work, and you stand in front of an open refrigerator, clueless and frustrated. You have no idea what to do with the random ingredients staring back at you. You’ve been using that beautiful brain all day long and now you have to put on an apron and come up with dinner ideas for you and your family? No thanks.

If you’ve ever found yourself in this situation, there’s now a site for that very problem. It’s called Gumb o, and it’s a total game-changer. Gumbo takes what you already have in your fridge, and generates tons of recipes using exactly those ingredients. No need for a last-minute trip to the grocery store.

man looking in fridge — Maskot/Getty Images

Let’s say you open your fridge and see, for example, raw chicken breast, oranges, soy sauce, honey, and green onions. Simply open the Gumbo app and select those items. With one click, dozens of recipes will pop up that feature those ingredients – Healthy Orange Chicken, Zesty Instant Pot Chicken Breasts, Whole Lemon and Honey Chicken Skewers — to name just a few.

No matter how random your assortment of refrigerator finds, Gumbo has a recipe for you. It also can offer recipes that only require one or two additional (yet common) ingredients. Let’s say you don’t include salt in your search. Chances are, you probably have salt at home. So, if there are recipes that call for everything you selected plus salt, Gumbo will offer that up as an option.

In addition to taking the burden of recipe creation off your plate, Gumbo will also save you money by keeping your food waste in check. A 2020 study from the American Journal of Agricultural Economics found that the average household in the United States wastes 31.9{d2b09b03d44633acb673e8080360919f91e60962656af8ade0305d5d8b7e4889} of its food, or about $1,866 annually. That’s an absolutely shocking statistic. But by knowing exactly what to do with the seemingly useless items in our fridge, Gumbo can greatly help cut back on such an enormously wasteful problem.

News of the new app has been spreading over Reddit like wildfire, and people are ecstatic, exclaiming, “Ok this is amazing! I have DREAMT of a site like this and am excited to give it a go! Here’s to (hopefully) less food waste!” and “This is freaking amazing! Thank you!!!”

Users of Reddit, we couldn’t agree more.

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March 25, 2023

This Haroset Cake Recipe Is the Answer to Your Passover Dessert Blues

Haroset (AKA charoset or halek/halaq) is a staple Passover spread or paste made with a mixture of fruit, nuts, honey, wine and spices, to symbolize the mortar that was used by Jewish slaves to make bricks in Egypt. While haroset is typically only seen on the Passover seder plate, I’ve used the flavors of my childhood haroset to inspire this cake. My haroset cake is packed with apples, honey, cinnamon, sweet kosher wine and chopped walnuts. But feel free to make this recipe your own; try substituting chopped pears for the apples, or use pecans in place of walnuts.

This gluten-free (and dairy-free!) cake is a far cry from the dry, mealy cakes of Passover’s past. I ditch dense matzah meal for rich, nutty almond flour, and keep it moist with juicy apples and a splash of kosher wine. Thanks to whipped egg whites folded into the batter, the cake stays light and fluffy. Serve with freshly whipped cream or ice cream to end your Passover seder. (It would also work well at Rosh Hashanah, particularly for those with a gluten-free diet.)

Ingredients

6 large eggs, separated
2 cups superfine almond flour, sifted
¼ cup sweet kosher wine
1 Tbsp baking powder, kosher for Passover
2 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp kosher salt
½ cup walnuts, chopped
2 medium Granny Smith apples, peeled and diced into ¼-inch pieces
½ cup granulated sugar
2 Tbsp honey, to glaze

Directions

Preheat the oven to 325°F. Grease and line an 8-inch springform pan with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, combine the egg yolks, almond flour, wine, baking powder, cinnamon and kosher salt.
Add the walnuts and chopped apples to the almond flour mixture, folding with a rubber spatula to combine. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine the egg whites and sugar. Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form, about 5-7 minutes.
Gently fold the egg whites into the almond flour mixture, ½ cup at a time, folding between each addition until fully incorporated.
Transfer to the springform pan and bake for 45-50 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Remove from the oven, and use a pastry brush to brush the honey on top.
Let cool in the pan, and slice to serve.

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March 24, 2023

This malabi rose water pudding recipe is a simple, silken joy

Malabi (Rose Water Milk Pudding)

Active time:30 mins

Total time:30 mins, plus 3 hours chilling time

Servings:6

Active time:30 mins

Total time:30 mins, plus 3 hours chilling time

Servings:6

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I don’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but I know which direction I was facing the first time I had malabi. (Southeast.) If not for the urging of my server, I might have skipped right past it on the menu. To think I almost missed it.

This exquisite dessert has enraptured me like no other.

With likely ancestral roots in Persia, malabi is a staple conclusion to Middle Eastern meals, long ubiquitous in Israel, for example — in restaurants, in storefronts ’round about town, from mall kiosks and street carts.

Malabi is rose water milk pudding — delicate in flavor, firm but creamy, not too sweet — most often topped with a simple berry sauce and chopped pistachios. The final flourish is up to the chef. Mine is topped with shredded halvah. Others, coconut flakes and dried fruit. It’s to be enjoyed as a whole: Sink your spoon in for each bite and savor the sum of its parts.

It’s impossible for me to think about malabi and not consider it through the prism of a pandemic-altered world, and how easily food — steeped in time and place, carved into memory, craved — connects us with ease to our past, our present and our future. What more easily than a specific dish can remind us equally of where we’ve been and of where we next wish to go?

I’ve thought a great deal about malabi in the past few years. I’ve missed it. A close friend and I, sharing a devotion to fine sweets, used to meet about once a month to eat malabi at MishMish, a Mediterranean restaurant in Montclair, N.J. We soon started to order lighter fare for our mains to ensure plenty of room for dessert. Malabi was, for us, entirely the point.

The first summer of the pandemic, in the new abnormal, our only option was to order it as takeout. I arrived to find a handled brown paper bag with my name on it waiting for me on a small table outside, right about where I once sat eating malabi for the very first time. Through the front glass, I glimpsed rows of tables, empty and dark, and saw no one when I took the bag and left.

Back home, my friend Aleta arrived, and we ate our malabi at opposite ends of my outdoor table. We were glad to have it, of course, but it wasn’t the same, because the world, and we, sitting far apart, were no longer the same. Neither of us suggested we do it again.

The restaurant soon closed. I spoke to the chef and owner, Meny Vaknin, a few months later, and he told me I could still buy malabi over the counter at the restaurant’s sister establishment, Marcel, a casual eatery at the opposite end of town. It wouldn’t come with the berry sauce and pistachios, nor with the shredded halvah, but he invited me to call ahead and he’d have those parts ready for me.

It seemed fitting for what was then our ongoing reality: something prized, something sweet, separated into parts, gathered and assembled as best we were able.

Things are better now. As we’ve emerged, falteringly at times, many of us have been fortunate to find what we loved, what nourished us, still there — or perhaps finding its way back. Marcel now stocks malabi in small Mason jars with the berry sauce included.

I used to contemplate what for me would represent that we’d truly made it through to the other side, and it always arrived in one simple vision: friends, at a table in a crowded restaurant, indoors, unmasked, talking, laughing. Eating malabi.

Malabi (Rose Water Milk Pudding)

The velvety little secret of a milk pudding is that it’s an ideal dessert for dinner parties. It both demands to be made ahead and stores beautifully. All that’s left to do is spoon on the simple berry sauce and add any toppings before serving.

Preparing the cornstarch mixture first allows you to whisk the milk and cream without pause, important, as it can scald easily on the bottom of the pot.

If lumps form (a cornstarch culprit), simply ladle malabi into your ramekins or jars over a mesh strainer.

For the berry sauce, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, either solo or mixed, work well. Vaknin serves his malabi with a half strawberry, half blueberry sauce with lemon zest. Strain through a mesh strainer to avoid seeds and skins.

Shredded halvah is so lovely on top but may prove elusive. You can sprinkle your malabi with regular halvah, grated, but I tend to skip it if I can’t have the melt-in-your-mouth shredded.

Consider using small Mason jars, often available at local hardware stores, for easy storage, transport and a delightful serve (especially outdoors). And who doesn’t like to eat out of a jar?

Make Ahead: The malabi must be refrigerated until set, at least 3 hours. The berry sauce should be cooled or refrigerated before serving.

Storage: Refrigerate the pudding, covered, for up to 5 days. If the surface weeps, fold a small piece of towel and touch gently where needed to wick up the moisture. Refrigerate the sauce in an airtight container for up to 7 days.

Where to Buy: Rose water can be found at well-stocked supermarkets, Middle Eastern markets and online. Shredded halvah can be found at kosher and Middle Eastern markets and online.

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Scant 1/3 cup (40 grams) cornstarch (may substitute potato starch)
2 1/3 cups (560 milliliters) whole milk, divided
2 cups (475 milliliters) heavy cream
1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Pinch fine salt
2 teaspoons rose water

One (10-ounce/284-gram) bag frozen berries or 1 pint fresh
2 tablespoons granulated sugar, plus more to taste
Finely grated zest of 1/2 lemon (optional)

For the suggested toppings

Coarsely chopped unsalted, roasted pistachios
Fresh berries of your choosing
Shredded halvah
Chopped dried apricots
Shredded or flaked unsweetened coconut

In a small bowl or measuring cup, whisk together the cornstarch with 1/3 cup (80 milliliters) milk until smooth.

In a medium pot over medium-high heat, combine the remaining 2 cups (480 milliliters) milk, cream, sugar, vanilla and salt, whisking continuously, until it reaches a gentle boil, about 8 minutes.

When the mixture begins to rise, reduce the heat to low. Re-whisk the milk-cornstarch slurry to recombine and slowly add it, whisking continuously, and increase the heat to medium. Continue to whisk until the mixture returns to a gentle boil and thickens slightly — enough to coat the back of a spoon, about 1 minute. Remove from the heat and whisk in the rose water.

Ladle about 3/4 cup (180 milliliters) of the mixture into 8-ounce ramekins, small bowls or jars, leaving about 1 inch at the top to allow room for the berry sauce and toppings.

Cover and refrigerate for at least 3 hours or until set.

Make the berry sauce: While the malabi chills, in a small pot over low to medium-low heat, combine the berries, sugar and lemon zest, if using, and cook, stirring frequently, until the mixture gently simmers and the berries break down, about 10 minutes. (If your berries are frozen, this may take a few more minutes.) Taste and add more sugar, if desired, then remove from the heat. Use an immersion blender to puree the sauce until smooth. Strain through a mesh strainer to avoid seeds and skins, if needed. Let cool completely.

Just before serving, spoon about 2 tablespoons of the berry sauce and about 1 tablespoon of pistachios over the malabi. If desired, add any other toppings of your choosing.

Per serving (3/4 cup malabi, 2 tablespoons sauce, 1 tablespoon pistachios)

Calories: 523; Total Fat: 36 g; Saturated Fat: 20 g; Cholesterol: 120 mg; Sodium: 162 mg; Carbohydrates: 46 g; Dietary Fiber: 3 g; Sugar: 162 g; Protein: 7 g

This analysis is an estimate based on available ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s or nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted by food writer Jessica Stolzberg from a recipe by chef Meny Vaknin of Marcel in Montclair, N.J.

Tested by Ann Maloney; email questions to voraciously@washpost.com.

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March 23, 2023

Watch Designing a New Dessert from a Forgotten 70-Year-Old Pie Recipe

Gage & Tollner has been open since the 1870s.

It’s about 150 years old

and one of the oldest restaurants in Brooklyn.

As executive pastry chef,

I want my desserts to bring in all of that history

but also feel really modern.

We are going to take a long forgotten dessert

that was on the menu like 70 years ago

and breathe some new life into it and recreate it,

make something really special and unique.

[upbeat jazz music]

We have them all chronicled here

from the ’30s all the way through the ’70s.

I like to start back in the ’30s.

On the back,

all popular brands of cigarettes that you could buy here.

Desserts is under pies, pastry and ice cream.

Lemon meringue pie,

something that we still make and love today.

A piece of that was 20 cents.

And there’s something called Fancy Cakes.

I don’t know what that is, but fancy cakes is like,

my entire personality, so there’s something there.

This is from September, 1953.

So catching my eye right away, Nesselrode Pie, 35 cents.

It’s a custard pie.

And traditionally it was done with chestnuts,

candied fruits, meringue, whipped cream, cherries,

and chocolate shavings on top.

Carl Nesselrode was a count and a diplomat to Russia,

and this guy loved to entertain and he loved dessert

and like, really, really opulent spreads.

So there was this whole category of desserts

that became known as Nesselrode desserts.

I really think that this is the perfect dessert

for me to recreate.

We always have a sundae on the menu here

and I see all of these elements transformed

into a really amazing sundae.

[upbeat jazz music]

I am gonna start by sketching out the original pie first.

And this is one of my favorite things to do,

I love this.

Typical all butter crust.

Your custardy layer,

preserved maraschino or Luxardo cherries,

chestnuts.

Also, there’s booze in there.

I’m gonna say it’s rum.

That is the Nesselrode Pie circa 1950.

Now I’m gonna look at the pie

and figure out where all of these elements are gonna go

in the sundae.

Two flavors of ice cream in my sundaes because why not?

So three scoops.

Playing off of this custard,

we’re gonna have a rum ice cream.

And the other, with the cherries,

and we’ll add some glace fruits in there.

So now for a saucy element, I wanna take the chestnuts

and create like a cognac chestnut caramel

and then we’ll do some bits of the glaceed fruit

and maybe have it just a little pie crust hat.

I think this is our Nesselrode Sundae!

We have a lot of work to do.

First things first, let’s make the ice cream

since that’s gonna take the longest.

So let’s go downstairs.

Come on.

I gotta get my shmatta on.

We’re gonna do just like a plain ice cream base.

It’s going to give us like a canvas

for these new flavors that we wanna make.

So I’ve got whole milk,

heavy cream, egg yolks, which I separated already.

The reason why I think this recreation

of the custard pie into a sundae is gonna work

is because ice cream, the way we do it here with eggs,

technically is a custard.

So that transformation is gonna make a lot of sense.

I do the egg yolks and the sugar separately.

If you add the egg yolks right away,

you’re gonna get like a gross scrambled egg situation.

While the milk and the cream mixture

kind of comes up to a simmer,

I’m gonna add the egg yolks to the other half of the sugar.

We get local eggs.

In this economy, we’re getting local eggs.

Wanna whisk this up really, really well.

Start to dissolve some of that sugar.

All right, this has been on for about 20 minutes.

I’m gonna add some vanilla.

I’m gonna add some of the hot liquid

into the yolks and the sugar, whisk it really well,

and then add that back into the pot.

That is going to prevent scrambling.

I can feel the custard getting thick

so I’m gonna quickly strain it.

Beautiful.

I’m gonna divvy this up, chill it,

and we’re gonna get to churning.

Okay, let’s go get our cooled ice cream base.

So these have been chilling and now they’re ready to churn.

I’m gonna do the rum ice cream first

and I’m gonna add two ounces of dark rum.

Alcohol doesn’t freeze.

If you add too much,

your ice cream base is just never gonna get there.

But also it prevents ice crystals from forming

in the ice cream so you’re gonna get like a super smooth,

beautiful ice cream.

This machine is gonna churn the ice cream

while it freezes it.

We’re gonna kind of babysit it.

I don’t want it to over churn.

If your ice cream over churns,

it basically starts to turn into butter

and it’s really gross.

Oh yeah!

Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

And into the freezer.

So I’m gonna get this all cleaned out.

Dirty ice cream water.

Delicious.

Okay, we are ready for round two.

This is the plain base

that we’re gonna fold all of our cherries

and glace fruits into.

So in the original dessert,

the cherries and the fruits

would be suspended in the custard.

So I love the idea that like the custard

is in ice cream form now

and then we’re folding in all of those fruits

and the booze.

Ice cream is frozen.

I can tell, this is all frosty.

I’ve got my Luxardo cherries, I have my glace fruits.

So I’m gonna get out like maybe half of this.

Add some of the mix ins, get out the rest of this.

Beautiful.

So we’re gonna add a little more of the fruits.

So today I find that you’ll see these

in fruitcake around the holidays.

Our Luxardo cherries.

All right, let’s go in the freezer to set.

I’m gonna grab a few other things we need

to do the R and D upstairs.

Okay, let’s go upstairs.

Come on.

[upbeat jazzy music]

If you look at the original pie

it had like chestnuts, chestnut puree, booze of all kinds.

So I just wanna sort of replicate that

but then turn it into a sauce for our sundae.

So first thing I wanna do

is scale out what I need for the caramel.

The cream, and I’m gonna add to that butter.

I’m gonna just eyeball that.

I like to heat the dairy a little bit

so that when I add it to the caramelized sugar,

it doesn’t seize up as much.

I’m gonna do the same weight of sugar

that I did for the cream.

I’m gonna add a tiny bit of water to this.

I don’t know, maybe that’s like a third cup

and consistency of wet sand.

That’s what you want.

Oh, the other thing you always wanna add to your caramel

is just a really good pinch of salts

’cause salt makes caramel more delicious.

My cream is hot, I’m just gonna take it off the heat

and I’m gonna get the sugar on and get that going.

So I’m gonna put this on high heat,

let it caramelize and do its thing.

While I’m waiting for it to caramelize,

I’m gonna chop up my chestnuts.

These are imported and they’ve already been prepared

so I don’t have to like roast chestnuts

on an open fire for you, even though that would be lovely.

It’s not that time of year.

So in the original pie there would be like a chestnut puree

kind of swirled through the custard

and also some chestnuts for texture.

So it’s kind of cool to like reimagine this

as like the saucy element of the sundae.

In the original dessert,

there’s alcohol throughout, so rum, cognac, brandy

that kind of thing.

So I also wanna make sure

that that is incorporated throughout our sundae

to kind of pay homage to that

and also because it’s delicious.

I don’t think there’s gonna

be enough alcohol in this to make it anybody tipsy

but I think we’re definitely gonna get the sweetness

and the caramel notes from the alcohol

and some of the fruity, sugary elements.

So I think this is gonna be perfect.

So we’ve got a very light caramel going on,

just a little darker

And here we go.

Ugh, that smells amazing!

That smells boozy and delicious.

I’m gonna add the warm cream and butter.

If you caramelize sugar and don’t add any fat to it,

it’ll be like a hard crack candy caramel.

This is a caramel sauce.

We’re gonna let it thicken a little bit on the heat.

I’m also now gonna add all of our chestnuts.

The caramel as it thickens

is just gonna like coat all of those chestnuts

and they’re gonna be just like suspended

in this gorgeous cognac caramel.

I am going to pour it into this pan.

This’ll just increase the surface area

and it’s gonna cool really fast.

All right, so I’m gonna get this out of the way,

just let it cool.

And then we’re gonna work on our pie crust garnish

that I’ve envisioned as like this little hat

this little like chapeau on the sundae.

[upbeat jazzy music]

It’s Nesselrode Pie.

It’s gotta have a pie crust

and pie crust makes a perfect garnish

because you can like sort of dunk it in the ice cream

and it’s just very cute and it’s textural

and buttery and flaky.

So pie crust, all butter, little bit of bench flour.

We make pie dough here all the time.

After you’ve rolled out your crust originally

and you’ve cut it into a circle

or whatever shape you’re doing,

all of that trim and scrap, you gather it back together.

That’s your re-roll.

And I love the re-roll

because it gets like these super flaky layers.

I like the idea of this being a circle

to mimic the top of a pie.

Doing like two of each size.

I think this is gonna be too small

but I kind of wanna see it anyway.

We’re gonna create like a little vent on top

like if you were using this as a pie top

so that way like the steam has somewhere to escape

and you don’t get like an explosion of pie filling

but like that is gonna look so cute.

These look great.

Pie crust you always wanna bake

when it’s really, really nice and cold

to get those beautiful flaky layers

and you’ll get like a beautiful rise on it.

So I’m gonna put these in the freezer.

Our little pie crusts are chilling.

Let’s make some meringue.

We’re gonna make a French meringue

in the original Nesselrode Pie,

the meringue was whipped and then folded into the custard.

Here I’m kind of reimagining it

as this like fluffy whipped topping

with whipped cream folded through.

We’ll see if that works to kind of like top off our sundae.

Egg whites going in

and we’re just gonna start to whip them.

We’re incorporating a lot of air.

That’s pretty stiff.

Look at that.

So I think we are ready to start adding the sugar.

You wanna add it little by little

because if you add it too quickly,

it’s just gonna deflate the whole thing.

Look how fluffy and like beautiful this is getting.

I’m gonna let this go for like about a minute.

Make sure all of those sugar crystals are dissolved.

All right, look at this.

It looks like me.

It’s my child.

I don’t know if this is gonna work.

I have this big thing of Luxardo cherries

which are delicious.

I’m just gonna try to get out a bunch of the juice.

So the cherries were pretty standard ingredient

in Nesselrode Pie, the original,

kind of studded in the custard throughout.

All right, so let’s see what happens.

I love this!

Oh my god!

This is gorgeous!

Yes, look at this beautiful!

Ah, we love it!

Ballet slipper pink.

It’s so pretty!

I’m gonna let this hang out.

Can always re-whip it a little bit if I need to

but I wanna get the pie crust tops in the oven

since that’s like the last thing that needs to happen

before we can assemble this beauty.

And I like to do egg wash

because it’s gonna make them really shiny and beautiful

but also it’s going to create a surface

for this demerara sugar to stick to.

Pie crests are chilled.

They’re cute, they’re beautiful, they are frozen solid.

And I’m just gonna paint the egg wash on each one

and we’re gonna get these in the oven.

I have the oven at 400 for about 10 minutes.

I want them really, really golden brown.

While those bake, I love this meringue.

I’m just gonna switch this out

and whip some cream unsweetened

because this is super super sugary

and I want a little bit of balance.

Whipped cream is just cream with air in it.

That looks good.

Let’s see what it’s like when the two of these get together.

So I kind of wanna gently fold it in.

I don’t wanna beat the air out of it

I just wanna gently combine it.

Oh my God, it’s like this swirly, cloudy, pale pink.

It’s absolutely stunning.

I wanna go to sleep on it.

It’s a pillow.

I’m gonna keep this cold so it doesn’t fall.

Our pie tops are ready.

Oh my god, they’re so cute!

They puffed up so much, but I kind of love it.

I’m gonna let them cool.

This is because of the re-rolls,

that is this like flaky flakiness.

It’s so beautiful.

We are ready.

This is our initial vision of the Nesselrode Sundae

adapted from the Nesselrode Pie.

First thing we’re gonna do is get a cold frosty cup

a little bit of caramel in the bottom

’cause that way when you go to take a bite and you dip down,

you get caramel on the top and on the bottom.

The chestnuts originally would’ve been

in that custard in the pie.

And this is just reimagined

into the most luxurious caramel sauce ever.

The ice cream that we churned has chilled.

It’s set, the texture looks amazing.

And this is our cherry and glace fruit.

Oh my God, it looks so beautiful!

All those chunks of fruit and cherries

that would’ve been in the custard,

now they’re in our ice cream.

Maybe I’m gonna do two scoops of each.

Why not?

This is the rum.

Look at that texture.

It is so smooth.

Now we’re gonna do more caramel because more caramel, right?

And look at all like the texture in there.

It’s not just a sauce.

It has like all of these bits of the buttery chestnuts.

We have some more of the glace fruits

and now our whipped topping,

cherry meringue and whipped cream.

I am in love.

Chocolate shavings, little cherry on top.

Pie crust chapeau.

She is done!

This is beautiful, ooey gooey Nesselrode Sundae, baby.

I’m just gonna dig in

and I wanna get a little bit of everything in each bite.

[Caroline laughs]

It’s so good.

It’s like super creamy, a little bit boozy.

It’s got a ton of texture,

buttery, nutty,

light, and fluffy on top.

I feel like I have meringue all over my face.

You guys have to dry this!

Okay, so this is the vision.

The glace fruit ice cream

and the meringue topping with the caramel

are my favorite parts. It’s so good.

It’s very sweet, but it should be, you know, it’s dessert.

It tastes a little bit like Fruity Pebbles, maybe.

[Caroline] Mm! Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Fruity Pebbles vibes.

It’s very Gage & Tollner, right?

[Taste Tester] Yes.

[Caroline] I think it really fits little right?

I like the weird little fruit in it.

[Caroline] They’re so good, right?

Yeah.

The Nesselrode Sundae is a success.

I hope our friend Carl Nesselrode is proud

and not turning over in his grave.

What we did today,

like this is the absolute best part of my job

from like doing the research, to doing these crazy sketches,

to playing with all of these ingredients

and finding things and creating something new

is the thing that I love the most about my job.

And maybe you’ll come to Gage & Tollner

and you’ll see this on the menu soon!

[gentle music]

March 19, 2023

Woo Woo Cocktail Recipe | 2foodtrippers

The Woo Woo cocktail is a tasty vodka drink with a quirky name. It’s also easy to craft at home and even easier to sip.

Woo Woo Cocktail Up Close with Black Background

When we talk about the Woo Woo cocktail It’s difficult for us to keep straight faces.

For starters, there’s the drink’s silly name that’s practically impossible to say out loud without giggling. Then there’s its vibrant red color and ridiculously easy recipe.

But the real reason that the Woo Woo makes us smile is the way it tastes. This fruity drink tastes like summer in a glass.

What Is a Woo Woo Cocktail?

Woo Woo Cocktail with Black Background — We paused to admire this Woo Woo cocktail before we took our first sips.

The Woo Woo is a sweet cocktail crafted with vodka, peach schnapps and cranberry juice. Mixed in a 2:1:4 ratio, these ingredients come together in a way that make us us want to say… wait for it… woo hoo!

The drink is red. It’s fruity. It’s also super easy to sip either with or without a straw.

History of the Woo Woo Cocktail

Woo Woo Cocktail With Lime Wheel — The Woo Woo tastes fresh after four decades at the bars.

The Woo Woo’s history dates back to the 1980s, the decade when the Cold War ended, hairstyles were as high as Mount Everest and MTV killed the radio star. It’s also the decade when 20 somethings wore acid-wash jeans as they nonchalantly ordered drinks like Woo Woo cocktails at bars in cities like New York and at the Jersey Shore. We may or may not have been two of those tragically hip 20 somethings.

Cocktail historians are as fuzzy as a navel when it comes to knowing where the Woo Woo cocktail was invented. Some trace its origins to a now closed Queens (New York) bar called First Edition where bartenders would shout “Woo Woo” when crafting Woo Woo cocktails.

Woo Woo Cocktail Ingredients

You just need the following ingredients to craft a Woo Woo cocktail at home:

Vodka
Peach Schnapps
Cranberry Juice
Lime Wheel (for garnish)
Ice Cubes

If you don’t already have these ingredients, you should be able to find them at your local liquor store and/or market.

Woo Woo Cocktail Liquor Bottles — Peach schnapps and vodka are the Woo Woo cocktail’s two alcoholic ingredients.

Special vodka isn’t required to craft a Woo Woo cocktail. We typically use Absolut Vodka. Not only is Absolut our current vodka of choice, but it was one of the most popular vodkas during the 1980s when the Woo Woo was invented. Distilled in Sweden, Absolut vodka has an ABV of 40{d2b09b03d44633acb673e8080360919f91e60962656af8ade0305d5d8b7e4889}.

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While you probably already have a bottle or two of vodka on hand, you may need to buy a bottle of peach schnapps. We bought a bottle of DeKuyper Peachtree peach schnapps with a 15{d2b09b03d44633acb673e8080360919f91e60962656af8ade0305d5d8b7e4889} ABV for this and other cocktail recipes. Beyond the Woo Woo, the sweet Dutch liqueur is also an ingredient in cocktails like the Fuzzy Navel and Sex on the Beach.

How to Craft a Woo Woo Cocktail

Woo Woo Cocktail Mise en Place — We were sipping our Woo Woo mere minutes after assembling the cocktail’s ingredients and two simple bar tools.

Our Woo Woo recipe is so easy that it’s practically impossible to make a boo boo, i.e. mistake. And, as a bonus, you only need the following two basic bar tools:

Don’t give up if you’re missing one or both of these basic bar tools. You could use an angled measuring cup instead of a jigger and a regular spoon instead of a bar spoon.

Discover 10 necessary bar tools for lazy mixologists.

The first step in our Woo Woo recipe is to fill a highball glass halfway with ice cubes.

Adding Ice to a Woo Woo Cocktail — Adding ice to a highball is the first step in this Woo Woo cocktail recipe.

Next, pour the three liquid ingredients into the same glass. We use a Japanese jigger for this step. It’s a handy bar tool that ensures accurate measurements while reducing spillage.

Buy a Japanese jigger from Amazon if you need a jigger or desire an inexpensive upgrade.

Pouring Liquor into a Woo Woo Cocktail — The next step is to pour in the three liquids – vodka, peach schnapps and cranberry juice.

Pouring Cranberry Juice into a Woo Woo Cocktail — The next step is to pour in the three liquids – vodka, peach schnapps and cranberry juice.

Gently stir with a bar spoon.

Stirring a Woo Woo Cocktail — Stirring the liquid ingredients is when they transform into a Woo Woo cocktail.

Garnish with a lime wheel.

Feel free to shout “Woo Woo” before you take your first sip. However, this exclamation is purely optional.

Woo Woo Cocktail Alternatives

Crafted Woo Woo Cocktail — The best way to find out if you’re a Woo Woo fan is to craft one at home.

Consider the following variations if the Woo Woo doesn’t make you say “Woo Hoo”:

Increase the ingredients and serve in a punch bowl if you want to craft Woo Woo Punch for a party.
Omit the ice and serve in shot glasses if you want to drink Woo Woo Shots a/k/a Baby Woo Woos with friends.
Replace the peach schnapps with pineapple juice to craft a Bay Breeze cocktail.
Leave out the peach schnapps to craft a Cape Cod cocktail.
Leave out the vodka and replace the cranberry juice with orange juice to craft a Fuzzy Navel cocktail.
Replace the cranberry juice with orange juice to craft a Hairy Navel cocktail.
Replace the peach schnapps with orange juice to craft a Madras cocktail.
Replace the peach schnapps with grapefruit juice to craft a Sea Breeze cocktail.
Add orange juice to craft a Sex on the Beach cocktail.

Woo Woo Cocktail FAQs

What is a Woo Woo cocktail?

The Woo Woo cocktail is a vodka cocktail crafted with cranberry juice and peach schnapps.

What does the Woo Woo cocktail taste like?

The Woo Woo cocktail tastes sweet and fruity thanks to a short ingredient list that includes cranberry juice and peach schnapps.

Where was the Woo Woo cocktail invented?

The Woo Woo cocktail was invented in the United States. It’s exact history is a mystery.

What are the ingredients in a Woo Woo cocktail?

Vodka, Peach Schnapps, Cranberry Juice, Lime Juice, Lime wheel (for garnish) and Ice Cubes

Is the Woo Woo cocktail shaken or stirred?

The Woo Woo can be either stirred or shaken.

Is the Woo Woo cocktail strong?

The Woo Woo isn’t a particularly potent potable. However, the Woo Woo is so easy to sip that it would be easy to drink several in one sitting. In other words, drink Woo Woo cocktails in moderation.

Woo Woo Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

1 ounce vodka
1/2 ounce peach scnhapps
2 ounces cranberry juice
lime wheel (for garnish)
ice cubes

Instructions

Fill a highball glass half way with ice.
Pour vodka, peach schnapps and cranberry juice into the highball glass.
Gently stir.
Garnish with a lime wheel.

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Daryl & Mindi Hirsch

Saveur Magazine’s BEST TRAVEL BLOG award winners Daryl and Mindi Hirsch share their culinary travel experiences and recipes on the 2foodtrippers website and YouTube. The married Food and Travel content creators live in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Original Publication Date: March 17, 2023