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From our The Vivant’s Top Ten: Chefs Share Their Favorite Dessert Recipe feature, we take a virtual look at the Hôtel de Crillon, where executive pastry chef Matthieu Carlin shares his recipe for the best Ultra Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies you’ll ever enjoy. C’est si Bon! Ultra Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies with Sunflower Seeds Ingredients:…

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From our The Vivant’s Top Ten: Chefs Share Their Favorite Dessert Recipe feature, executive pastry chef Ruben Ortega from Houston’s H Town Restaurant Group told me some fruits are better in crisps, and some better in cobblers. Ruben shared his recipe for a great classic summer dessert: Rhubarb and strawberry crumble (Serves 6) Ingredients: 1…

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From our The Vivant’s Top Ten: Chefs Share Their Favorite Dessert Recipe feature, chef Stephanie Harris-Uyidi — The Posh Pescatarian — shares her delicious Maple Pecan Brown Butter Bananas. Maple Pecan Brown Butter Bananas Ingredients 2-3 ripe bananas, peel removed and split in half lengthwise 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter ½ cups toasted pecans ¼…

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From our The Vivant’s Top Ten: Chefs Share Their Favorite Dessert Recipe feature, Chef Emeril Lagasse shares his famous banana cream pie with caramel drizzles and chocolate sauce recipe with THE VIVANT. Banana cream pie with caramel drizzles and chocolate sauce, from Chef Emeril Lagasse Ingredients: 4 cups heavy cream 1 1/2 cups whole milk…

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From our The Vivant’s Top Ten: Chefs Share Their Favorite Dessert Recipe feature, we take a wellness trip to the Miraval Resort, where there is cheesecake. That’s my idea of wellness! Miraval’s Lemon Blackberry Cheesecake Bites A perfect combination of sweet and creamy with the brightness of lemon, these cheesecake bars are easy to make…

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From our The Vivant’s Top Ten: Chefs Share Their Favorite Dessert Recipe feature, we visit award-winning pastry chef Risa Magid Boyer, owner of Vanillamore, to get her fabulous recipe for butter cake. Butter Cake The “goo” in this cake results in a rich, buttery center: like raw cake batter, but safe to eat! For the…

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From our The Vivant’s Top Ten: Chefs Share Their Favorite Dessert Recipe feature, Chef Luigi Diotaiuti tells me that the word tiramisu means “cheer me up” in Italian, and I’ll certainly be happy to take another visit to DC to get some of his famous tiramisu at his Al Tiramisu restaurant. Meanwhile, I’m going to…

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From our The Vivant’s Top Ten: Chefs Share Their Favorite Dessert Recipe feature, Best-selling author, chef, and Mediterranean diet ambassador Amy Riolo shared this one from her Italian Diabetes Cookbook. Torta soffice di pere con ricotta e pinole (pear, ricotta and pine nut cake) Ingredients: 3/4 pound skim milk ricotta 2/3 cup raw agave nectar…

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From our The Vivant’s Top Ten: Chefs Share Their Favorite Dessert Recipe feature, there’s no better flan than flan from “The Enchilada Queen,” Sylvia Casares, who serves up her old family recipe at Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen in Houston. Enchilada Queen Classic Flan INGREDIENTS: 1 cup sugar 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk 1 (12-ounce) can evaporated milk 2⁄3 cup…

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You’ve planned the guest list, set the date, planned the main course, and the invitations have been sent out. All that’s left is to kick the festivities off right with pre-dinner drinks and cocktails perfectly married with tantalizing appetizers. Appetizers are a preview of what the rest of the night will have in store. When […]

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Just in time for National Ice Cream Month, these recipes are perfect ways to celebrate.

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