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The Ultimate Snickers Pie Recipe

This ice cream pie takes all of the flavors of our favorite Snickers bar and turns them into a chewy, creamy, peanut-y delight. A crisp, chocolate pie crust base stopped with a layer of chewy bittersweet chocolate caramel sauce, followed by a caramelized condensed milk ice cream studded with white chocolate and peanut butter frozen streusel. Finally, a second layer of fudgy caramel sauce on top… → Read More

Ideas in Food's Best Japanese-Style Fried Chicken Just Happens to Be Gluten-Free

Karaage is Japanese-style fried chicken made with a flavorful soy-based marinade. It comes out light, crispy, and full of flavor. If you've never cooked with potato starch, this recipe will convince you that you must keep it in your pantry at all times. Once you've tried this, you will never make fried chicken any other way. → Read More

3 Gluten-Free Flour Blends You Can Use in Any Recipe

Making your own gluten-free flour may seem like an investment, and it may take some work to collect all the ingredients you'll need, but gram for gram, our homemade flour blends are less expensive than the gluten-free flours sold in stores. And you can use them anywhere a recipe calls for wheat flour. → Read More

Ideas in Food vs. S'mores: Meet the S'mores Cake

Borrowing all the classic flavors of a campfire s'more, the Ideas in Food team creates a graham-cracker cake that's layered with a dulce-de-leche-spiked chocolate mousse and topped with a toasted marshmallow icing. → Read More

How to Make Gluten-Free Potato Bread

Last week, Aki and Alex from Ideas in Food showed you how to make three different blends of gluten-free flour that can be substituted for standard flour in any recipe. This week, learn how to use those blends to make classic potato bread. → Read More

Strawberry Pudding and Macerated Strawberries with Strawberry Sugar Recipe

Created as the strawberry component of a reinvented strawberry shortcake recipe, these macerated strawberries and rich strawberry pudding are made with the help of a flavor-packed freeze-dried strawberries. It's delicious as part of the larger strawberry shortcake recipe, but also works well as a standalone fruit-and-pudding dessert. → Read More

Layered Toasted-Coconut Puddings With Red Fruit Purée and Coconut Cream Recipe

In its original form, rote grütze is a simple pudding made with red fruits, thickened with starch, and served with milk or cream. In this wildly re-imagined version, a red fruit puree is layered on top of a toasted coconut pudding, then topped with an aerated cultured coconut cream. While the number of components may make it seem like a restaurant dessert, each step is easy and the indulgence is… → Read More

Soft Bread Salami Rolls Recipe

These soft rolls are great for sandwiches. They have a moist, tender crumb and thin, crisp exterior. Most of the time spent here is just letting the yeast do it's thing. These rolls are a great way to ease into bread baking, easily mixed in a standing mixer and shaped by hand. → Read More

All-Purpose Gluten-Free Flour Substitute Recipe

What if you had a gluten-free flour that worked in any recipe as a gram-for-gram substitute for all-purpose flour? That was the question we asked ourselves when we developed this blend. "IiF" stand for Ideas in Food, our blog, where we published the very first version of this recipe. Alex came up with it for fun after reading the ingredient list on Cup4Cup flour (developed by Lena Kwak and chef… → Read More

Ideas in Food vs. The Turkey Club Sandwich

This is by no means a traditional turkey club sandwich: It is loaded with deeply roasted turkey-and-pork-belly shawarma, and accented with a flavorful bacon mayonnaise. All those rich ingredients are balanced with fresh tomato slices and peppery baby arugula. And while a classic turkey club has three layers of bread, we ditched the middle layer because we found it makes the sandwich too hard to… → Read More

Soft Bread Salami Rolls Recipe

These soft rolls are great for sandwiches. They have a moist, tender crumb and thin, crisp exterior. Most of the time spent here is just letting the yeast do it's thing. These rolls are a great way to ease into bread baking, easily mixed in a standing mixer and shaped by hand. → Read More

Strawberry Shortcake on Steroids Recipe

Inspired by classic strawberry shortcake, this reinvented version is made with three forms of strawberry (macerated, powdered, pudding), features ginger-and-lemongrass-flavored choux pastry puff, and is topped with light, refreshing buttermilk granita. It's not traditional, but it is an explosion of flavors and textures that's absolutely worth making. → Read More

Layered Toasted-Coconut Puddings With Red Fruit Purée and Coconut Cream Recipe

In its original form, rote grütze is a simple pudding made with red fruits, thickened with starch, and served with milk or cream. In this wildly re-imagined version, a red fruit puree is layered on top of a toasted coconut pudding, then topped with an aerated cultured coconut cream. While the number of components may make it seem like a restaurant dessert, each step is easy and the indulgence is… → Read More

All-Purpose Gluten-Free Flour Substitute Recipe

What if you had a gluten-free flour that worked in any recipe as a gram-for-gram substitute for all-purpose flour? That was the question we asked ourselves when we developed this blend. "IiF" stand for Ideas in Food, our blog, where we published the very first version of this recipe. Alex came up with it for fun after reading the ingredient list on Cup4Cup flour (developed by Lena Kwak and chef… → Read More

Ideas in Food's Best Japanese-Style Fried Chicken Just Happens to Be Gluten-Free

Karaage is Japanese-style fried chicken made with a flavorful soy-based marinade. It comes out light, crispy, and full of flavor. If you've never cooked with potato starch, this recipe will convince you that you must keep it in your pantry at all times. Once you've tried this, you will never make fried chicken any other way. → Read More

These Gluten-Free Snickerdoodles Come Together in Minutes

Snickerdoodles are a holiday favorite in our house. While their cinnamon-sweetness can be appreciated at any time of year, our Christmas cookie tin is never without them. → Read More

Combine Cheesecake and Blueberry Pie Into One Gluten-Free Dessert

This recipe brings together cheesecake and pie, two of our favorite things. A light cheesecake topping covers a sweet and tangy blueberry filling inside a gluten-free pie crust, and a lavender-scented streusel tops it off. Once you try this pie, you'll never look at cheesecake the same way again. → Read More

How to Make Gluten-Free Potato Bread

Last week, Aki and Alex from Ideas in Food showed you how to make three different blends of gluten-free flour that can be substituted for standard flour in any recipe. This week, learn how to use those blends to make classic potato bread. → Read More

3 Gluten-Free Flour Blends You Can Use in Any Recipe

Making your own gluten-free flour may seem like an investment, and it may take some work to collect all the ingredients you'll need, but gram for gram, our homemade flour blends are less expensive than the gluten-free flours sold in stores. And you can use them anywhere a recipe calls for wheat flour. → Read More

3 Gluten-Free Flour Blends You Can Use in Any Recipe

Making your own gluten-free flour may seem like an investment, and it may take some work to collect all the ingredients you'll need, but gram for gram, our homemade flour blends are less expensive than the gluten-free flours sold in stores. And you can use them anywhere a recipe calls for wheat flour. → Read More