This ganache, reminiscent of a chocolate bar, is for the many milk chocolate lovers. It makes a luscious, creamy filling for the Milk Chocolate Caramel Tart and is also excellent to use to frost a cake.
Christmas
Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Sweet Cookie Tart or Pie Crust (Pâte Sucrée)
A cookie crust is firmer but more tender than a flaky pie crust. It maintains its crisp and tender texture even when chilled, which makes it more suitable for tarts that require refrigeration.
Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Royal Icing for Gingerbread Folks
Royal icing is both decorative and useful as an edible “glue” to attach candies and sparkling colored sugar on holiday cookies and gingerbread men cookies.
Sheet Pan Bread Stuffing with Sausage + Spinach
Since stuffing rarely appears separate from Thanksgiving, it’s an inherently nostalgic and meaningful dish. I bake my stuffing on a sheet pan so the crispy-to-soft ratio is basically one to one.
Roast Turkey Breast + Onions with Mustard + Sage
This is my go-to recipe for turkey breast that is the opposite of dry and boring and also cooks so quickly, which is the antithesis of most Thanksgiving turkey.
One-Bottle Cocktail: Can’t Elope in Panama
When melons are in season, it’s hard to beat their juicy, subtly floral flavor in drinks. For this cocktail, muddle up a few melon cubes, amp up the juice with lime and sugar, and shake it all with rum and a few aromatic cilantro leaves for a play on the daiquiri that’s really easy to love.
