Create Your Signature Dessert Style
Learn how to create your own unique mark and think of your desserts as your calling card.
By Candace Nelson
Exotic and Trend-Setting
Are you known for sporting edgy new designers and always being the first to try the newest restaurant in town? Then your desserts should be trend-setting and adventurous as well.
Use unexpected flavor combinations, check your favorite foodie magazines for flavor trends, borrow from other cultures or simply innovate using your own thrill-seeking palette. Mix bacon with chocolate or maple and liven up a predictable cupcake. Add exotic flavors like rosewater, pistachios and cardamom to an otherwise ordinary pound cake. Break the rules and mix flavors that people wouldn't expect in a dessert...curry and pumpkin? Delicious! Chocolate and chilies? Subtle, but surprising. Add a savory touch to almost anything with a sprinkling of large granules of sea salt.
I encourage you to think of your desserts as your calling card. Next time you drop one off, everyone will know exactly who made it!
Use unexpected flavor combinations, check your favorite foodie magazines for flavor trends, borrow from other cultures or simply innovate using your own thrill-seeking palette. Mix bacon with chocolate or maple and liven up a predictable cupcake. Add exotic flavors like rosewater, pistachios and cardamom to an otherwise ordinary pound cake. Break the rules and mix flavors that people wouldn't expect in a dessert...curry and pumpkin? Delicious! Chocolate and chilies? Subtle, but surprising. Add a savory touch to almost anything with a sprinkling of large granules of sea salt.
I encourage you to think of your desserts as your calling card. Next time you drop one off, everyone will know exactly who made it!
Published 07/08/2010