Festive Gingerbread Ice Cream

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Gingerbread Ice Cream​ This recipe is a great way to polish off the scraps left over from making Stella's gingerbread, but feel free to use your own favorite recipe or store-bought cookies instead. A brown sugar base plays up the molasses notes of gingerbread, for an ice cream that packs all the hearty flavor you'd expect from its namesake cookie. It pairs brilliantly with the cranberry jam in our holiday trifle and makes for a fun twist on cherry pie à la mode. Read More → The Kitchen Essential An Ice Cream Machine With a properly frozen canister and a well-chilled base, this ice cream will turn fluffy and light as it churns. Some good news: It looks like you can still get our favorite canister ice cream maker just in time for Christmas. Grab it while you can for a sweet end to the year. Shop Now   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

Our Favorite Gifts for Coffee and Tea Fiends

Worth the Buzz No Images? Click here   Gifts for the Coffee and Tea Lovers in Your Life Shopping for someone who lives and breathes (or, you know, drinks a lot of) coffee and/or tea? We have obsession-worthy gift ideas that may just rival their caffeine addiction. A Precision Electric Kettle The Chefman's design makes it remarkably easy to use. The lid opens at the push of a button, and the mouth is wide enough to reach a hand into. The glass body means it's super easy to see how full the kettle is, and a removable filter on the spout, plus a stainless steel bottom, makes scale buildup easy to deal with. A nice bonus: This kettle comes with a tea infuser attachment, so your giftee can brew tea right in the kettle. A Milk Frother Many of the milk frothers out there do a poor job of emulating the thick, creamy foam produced by a good espresso machine's steaming wand. Nespresso's frother is different—it whisks the milk but manages to get much closer to the ideal cappuccino-foam consistency. Plus, it has a nonstick interior that's easy to clean, and a hot/cold setting for hot or iced drinks.   A Le Creuset Espresso Mug Pretty espresso cups in general make a nice hostess gift and stocking stuffer. But when they're made by Le Creuset, they're even better—mostly because everything from the French heritage brand is aesthetically pleasing and built to last.   A Coffee Grinder It's not exactly cheap, but this burr grinder does an admirable job of grinding coffee for espresso, pourover, and drip at a significantly lower price point than similarly performing competitors. It'll absolutely make your giftee's mornings even better.   SPONSORED  Cuisinart Coffee Center 12-Cup Coffeemaker​ The Coffee Center from Cuisinart comes with a 12-cup carafe, so it makes enough to serve a crowd, but it's also equipped with a single-serve brewer for when it’s just you.   See the Rest Right Here     Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

Light and Fluffy Yeasted Blini With Crème Fraîche and Caviar

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here  Yeasted Blini With Crème Fraîche and Caviar These light and delicious Russian blini are leavened with yeast, which adds a complex tangy flavor and airy texture. Unlike many yeasted blini recipes, this one calls for only a single fermentation, saving you time without sacrificing results. (We know, because we tested it both ways.) Softly beaten egg whites, meanwhile, add even more lightness to the batter. The result is a perfect platform on which to heap sour cream (or crème fraîche) and caviar. Read More → The Kitchen Essential A Nonstick Skillet To cook the blini, heat up a nonstick skillet and brush it with vegetable oil. Can you use a cast iron skillet instead of a nonstick? Of course you can. But pancakes are one of the few things that we prefer to cook in a nonstick skillet. No matter how well you’ve seasoned your cast iron pan, it really can’t compete when you need to guarantee that nothing will adhere. Shop Now   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe