Roasted Bourbon Sweet Potatoes Roasting creates a pleasant, slightly sweet flavor in many vegetables. It’s a simple cooking method that helps preserve nutrients and enhances flavors. Our relationship with vegetables has evolved over the years thanks to roasting. Previously, if we were to saute or steam vegetables, we found them to be mild and approachable; we were [...]
The Ultimate Nightcap We obviously advocate cooking with alcohol. It can be a lot of fun. But when kids are involved one needs to know the facts. Several years ago, we had a dear friend and her 4-year-old daughter over for dinner. We ended a great meal with a signature dessert of ours – Bourbon [...]
The Bacon Bourbon Chocolate Chip Cookie We really should not be left alone in the kitchen with a bottle of bourbon. Things happen. Weird things. Sometimes the weird things are also good things. And occasionally something great happens, like these Bacon Bourbon Chocolate Chip Cookies. Take the three best things you’ve ever had, and bake them into a [...]
Maple Bourbon Scallops Spring is the time of year around here when everyone taps trees and makes their own maple syrup. If you don’t know someone who was up all night tending their boiler, then you’re not a real New Englander. Spring is also the time of year we pull the grill out of storage [...]
Maple Bacon Bourbon Pecan Pie Our grandmother used to make the best pies. Of course, everyone’s grandmother made the best pies, but believe us when we say our grandmother made the world’s best pies. She made a killer sour cream apple, a delightfully complex peach rhubarb, and a lemon meringue that would knock your socks off – literally, we would [...]
Chili Chocolate Bourbon Cake In the early 1500s, Montezuma in his Mexico City palace drank chocolate daily, usually with red chili in it. Apparently the king knew that chili, in small amounts, amplifies and enriches the taste of chocolate. It appears that he had quite the palate. We’re no experts on pre-Columbian history, but we’re pretty [...]
Here at Hammerstone’s Whiskey Disks™ when the seasons start to turn on us and the weather gets cold, we like to put down our tools and do a little baking. It’s a time of year when warm breads, hearty desserts and spiced flavors are inviting again. So we got creative and whipped up this Sweet Potato [...]
Bulleit Bourbon. Chocolate. Cake. What more do you need to hear? If you possess a 10-cup bundt pan, that’s it, you should be half-way to the store getting chocolate and instant espresso by now. This is a great cake. Fine crumb. You can slice it beautifully thin and it still holds its shape. Plus, there’s [...]
Hammerstone’s Bourbon and Salted Caramel Truffles Candy truffles are traditionally made with ganache shaped into rough spheres by hand and covered in cocoa powder. The powdery coating and imperfect shaping of the confections make them appear similar to dirt covered truffles – the famed culinary fungi. These bourbon and caramel truffles are easy to [...]
Maple Bourbon Bacon Doughnuts This is a variation of the maple bacon doughnut made famous by the Nightwood Café, which is located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. If you’ve ever had one, you know you’ve experienced something truly wonderful. We thought we’d recreate this amazing treat at home with a little bourbon twist of [...]
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