#homemade-desserts

#homemade-desserts

Flay's freshly baked, buttery, and sweet biscuits serve as a streusel or crumble for milkshakes, as he tells the Cooking Channel. This trick works especially well for strawberry milkshakes because the resulting texture and taste will remind you of delicious strawberry shortcake.

The connection between marsh mallow the herbaceous perennial, also known as althaea officinalis, and marshmallow the puffy cylindrical sweet, is historic. In the 19th century, the sap of the plant was still a key ingredient of its confectionary namesake, along with sugar and egg whites. But that connection has long been severed: the modern industrial marshmallow is derived from a mixture of sugar, water and gelatine. Its main ingredient is air.

The base is an incredibly light genoise sponge that's topped with a layer of jelly, allowing for creativity in flavor selection.