It's How To Month at The Kitchn, so today we thought we'd look back at a few helpful tutorials on making sweet treats. From whipping meringue (on video!), and a hack for making real ice cream without an ice cream maker, to cooking up an Oreo cake and magical one-ingredient ice cream, to a discussion on how to make a wedding cake without losing your mind, here are some of our favorite how to posts for the sweeter side of things.
TOP ROW
• 1 How To Make Creamy Ice Cream with Just One Ingredient! - A weird, crazy, yet also amazing recipe.
• 2 How To Make Cake Pops - A very popular tutorial. Everyone seems to love cake pops.
• 3 How To Make Ice Cream Without an Ice Cream Machine: An Easy, Foolproof Method - No ice cream maker? No problem. This method just calls for a couple of bowls, some ice, and a mixer.
• 4 How To Make an Oreo Cake - An over-the-top dessert!
• 5 How To Make Chocolate Chip Cookies (Without a Mixer) - Let's go back to basics. A tutorial for perfect chocolate chip cookies.
MIDDLE ROW
• 6 How To Make Your Own Wedding Cake (Without Losing Your Mind) - A discussion of a few points to help you tackle one big cake.
• 7 How To Make Halfway Cookies - A different sort of cookie bar, with crackly crispy meringue on top.
• 8 How To Make Sprinkles - Make sprinkles?! Yes! It's astonishingly easy.
• 9 How To Make Candied Bacon Fudge - You know you want to try it. Just once.
• 10 How To Make Cheesecake That Will Amaze Your Friends - Steps to follow for a better cheesecake.
BOTTOM ROW
• 11 How To Make Funnel Cakes At Home - Forget the fair and make funnel cakes at home.
• 12 How To Whip Egg Whites & Make Meringue: The Video - A video that shows each stage of making meringue.
• 13 How To Make Thai Mango with Coconut Sticky Rice - A simple recipe that gives restaurant-style sweet sticky rice. It's so simple!
• 14 How To Make a Killer Strawberry Milkshake - Craving that luscious strawberry flavor? Try this.
• 15 How To Make Crème Brûlée at Home: Without a Torch! - Another restaurant dessert that is actually dead simple to make at home.
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That frozen banana ice cream looks deceptively awesome... I'm imagining it turning out slimy and gross when I do it, but I'm going to try as soon as I get my new food processor attachment!
I make #5, the no-mixer chocolate chip cookies, all the time--including this past weekend!--and they're wonderful. But I have to finally point out what I've always assumed was a typo in that post: it says one stick of butter, but I'm pretty sure it should be two. (I've always done it with two, which is the standard cookie proportion based on other ingredients in this recipe...)
Brooklynnina - Either one stick or two actually works fine in that chocolate chip recipe. The original recipe from the back of the Tollhouse bag recipe does use two sticks of butter, but I prefer the recipe with one. Two sticks makes the cookies more flat and crispy. Less butter makes them more chewy and chunky (my favorite!).
I can safely say that's the ONLY time I actually like a recipe better with less butter!
Wow, fascinating...I just assumed it must be a mistake since one vs. two sticks of butter is such a big discrepancy... Definitely trying it with just one stick next time! Thanks for clarifying!
So frozen whipped bananas can be called ice cream....even though no cream is used?
Why not simply call it what it is: Whipped bananas?