Cool and Creamy Desserts

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  Creamy Chocolate Pudding

  Nostalgia isn't enough to make a dessert worthwhile. To rescue chocolate pudding from obscurity, we'd have to ramp up the flavor while preserving the silky texture.

• recipe

  Vanilla Ice Cream

  The main reason more people don’t make their own ice cream? It’s never as creamy, smooth, or dense as the best stuff from the store. We decided to change that.

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  Vanilla Beans

  For custard-based recipes in which vanilla is the star, we’ve found that vanilla beans impart deeper flavor than vanilla in its more familiar form, extract.