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Intoxicating Desserts

By Food & Wine
Updated May 05, 2017
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Exquisite recipes, from bacon-bourbon brownies with pecans to the sublime black pepper-raspberry sorbet with Prosecco.
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Porter Bundt Cake with Whiskey-Caramel Sauce

Porter Bundt Cake with Whiskey-Caramel Sauce
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This richly flavored cake features quintessential Irish ingredients such as dark porter beer, dark brown sugar and whiskey.

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Zebra Icebox Cake

Zebra Icebox Cake
Credit: © Con Poulos
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This beautiful, upscale version of a classic icebox cake benefits from a chocolate filling that is spiked with Marsala wine.

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Crêpes Suzette

Crêpes Suzette
Credit: © Con Poulos
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While restaurants traditionally make the buttery, orange-flavored sauce for this famous dessert tableside from start to finish, Pépin finds it easier to prepare largely in advance when entertaining. He flambés the liquor in front of his dinner guests and pours it over the platter of crêpes while still flaming.

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Petits Pots à l'Absinthe

Petits Pots à l’Absinthe
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Absinthe adds a subtle anise flavor to these puddings, which are delicious with berries.

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Chocolate-Stout Tiramisu

Chocolate-Stout Tiramisu
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For this rich tiramisu, Jason McCullar first makes a ginger-spiced cake using a recipe from Steen's syrup, a Louisiana cane syrup (steensyrup.com). Then he soaks the cake in a reduction made with chocolate stout (Rogue brewery makes a good version) before layering it with mascarpone cream.

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Coffee-Rum Truffettes

Coffee Rum Truffettes
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Jacques Pépin flavors truffles with many ingredients, but he is especially fond of the coffee-rum combination in this recipe.

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Sour-Cherry Lambic Sorbet

Sour-Cherry Lambic Sorbet
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"Above all, sorbet should taste—and feel—almost like eating fresh fruit," says ice cream maker Jeni Britton, who makes this sorbet with an old-fashioned style of Belgian beer called lambic, which is made with wild yeasts.

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Guinness Ice Cream with Chocolate-Covered Pretzels

Guinness Ice Cream with Chocolate-Covered Pretzels
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This dessert, created by pastry chef Cory Barrett, is an ode to Michael Symon's father, Dennis, who loves beer, pretzels and chocolate. The ice cream has a strong, malty Guinness flavor that goes supremely well with the salty, milk chocolate–covered pretzels. If you don't want to make the chocolate-covered pretzels, they're easy enough to buy.

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Chocolate-Bourbon Tart

Chocolate-Bourbon Tart 
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Michael Glissman's tart is like a dark-chocolate truffle in a crisp, flaky cocoa crust. Bourbon adds a wonderful smokiness; be sure to heat it carefully with the sugar so it doesn't ignite.

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Black Pepper–Raspberry Sorbet with Prosecco

Black Pepper–Raspberry Sorbet with Prosecco
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Chef James Holmes of Olivia, in Austin, topped raw oysters with this sweet-savory sorbet before deciding it would make an excellent cocktail with Prosecco. A good-quality, store-bought raspberry sorbet is a fine shortcut.

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Poached Pear and Brown Butter Tart

Poached Pear and Brown Butter Tart
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New Orleans Chef John Besh says he is crazy about winter fruit and loves using it in this brown butter-custard tart. He sometimes swaps the pears for apples or even quince.

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Cherries Poached in Red Wine with Mascarpone Cream

Cherries Poached in Red Wine with Mascarpone Cream
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Thick mascarpone cheese mixed with honey makes a luscious topping for cherries poached in red wine. You can serve the dessert either warm or cold. We love it both ways.

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Crêpes with Strawberries and Muscat-Yogurt Sauce

Crêpes with Strawberries and Muscat-Yogurt Sauce
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Nichole Birdsall tops these crêpes with strawberries, a superfruit high in vitamin C and potent antioxidants, and a creamy, orangey sauce sweetened with a splash of Bonterra Muscat dessert wine instead of sugar.

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Coffee-Rum Truffettes

Coffee Rum Truffettes
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Jacques Pépin flavors truffles with many ingredients, but he is especially fond of the coffee-rum combination in this recipe.

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Goat Cheese Mousse with Red-Wine Caramel

Goat Cheese Mousse with Red-Wine Caramel
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An easy mousse is topped with a spicy caramel sauce made with thyme, black peppercorns, red wine and ruby port.

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Buttermilk Cake with Riesling-Poached Pears

Buttermilk Cake with Riesling-Poached Pears. Photo © Michael Turek
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"We get these crazy organic pears that are ugly as sin," says Tory Miller of the Moon-glow variety he uses throughout the cold winter months. Peeling them, though, reveals a fruit so beautiful and juicy that he prefers a minimalist approach, either serving them raw or poaching them in wine, such as the Riesling he uses here.

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Chocolate-Red Wine Cake

Chocolate–Red Wine Cake
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A recipe in Anne Willan's 2001 Cooking with Wine inspired this fluffy, not-too-sweet cake, which uses just enough wine in the batter to give it a slight boozy flavor.

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Almond, Elderflower and Lime Travel Cakes

Almond, Elderflower and Lime Travel Cakes. Photo © Kate Mathis
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Inspired by French travel cakes (small sweets meant for bringing to parties, picnics and other events), William Werner created these miniature desserts. He calls them "gussied-up pound cakes."

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Bacon-Bourbon Brownies with Pecans

Bacon-Bourbon Brownies with Pecans. Photo © Fredrika Stjärne
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Kat Kinsman tops her rich brownies with bacon and pecans. To enhance the smoky flavor, she mixes some of the bacon fat into the batter.

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Manhattan Ice Cream Float

Manhattan Ice Cream Float
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At Spire in Boston, Gabriel Frasca makes his own bourbon ice cream and cherry syrup for this clever riff on a Manhattan. For his superquick version, he blends vanilla ice cream with bourbon and uses a high-quality black cherry soda like Stewart's or IBC.

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Cucumber-Lime Pops with Gin

Cucumber-Lime Pops with Gin
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Tim Love freezes all kinds of cocktails on sticks for backyard parties, but his cucumber-mint version is especially good on a blazing-hot day. To prevent the pops from melting too quickly, he adds gelatin to the mixture.

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Blackberry Fool with Calvados

Blackberry Fool with Calvados
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A classic British dessert of pureed fruit folded into whipped cream, a fool is one of the first things Peter Ting learned to make after moving to England in 1976. To give this one a little extra sophistication, he macerates (soaks) half the blackberries overnight in Calvados, then tops the fruit with dollops of whipped cream he's mixed with blackberry puree. The leftover macerating liquid would make a delicious drink mixed with sparkling water or champagne.

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Bourbon-Nectarine Ice Cream Sundaes with Pound-Cake Croutons

Bourbon-Nectarine Ice Cream Sundaes with Pound-Cake Croutons
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This is an excellent grown-up version of an ice cream sundae, made with lush nectarines cooked in bourbon. The best part: the crisp, buttery pound-cake croutons.

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Cherry Lambic Crisps

Beer-Spiked Desserts for Memorial Day
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At NYC's Vandaag, chef Phillip Kirschen-Clark uses beer in everything from cocktails to desserts. Kriek—lambic beer fermented with cherries—intensifies the fruit flavors in these crisps.

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Strawberry-Red Wine Sorbet with Crushed Meringue

Strawberry-Red Wine Sorbet with Crushed Meringue
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten takes advantage of the first strawberries of summer to make this perfect alfresco dessert. As the red wine–infused sorbet melts, it forms a tart sauce for the sweet, tender berries, which also get topped with crunchy bits of meringue, a splash of aged balsamic and fresh whipped cream.

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Ruby-Grapefruit-and-Campari Ice Pops

Ruby-Grapefruit-and-Campari Ice Pops.
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Using fresh-squeezed ruby red grapefruit juice makes all the difference in these sweet-and-tart pops.

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1 of 26 Porter Bundt Cake with Whiskey-Caramel Sauce
2 of 26 Zebra Icebox Cake
3 of 26 Crêpes Suzette
4 of 26 Petits Pots à l'Absinthe
5 of 26 Chocolate-Stout Tiramisu
6 of 26 Coffee-Rum Truffettes
7 of 26 Sour-Cherry Lambic Sorbet
8 of 26 Guinness Ice Cream with Chocolate-Covered Pretzels
9 of 26 Chocolate-Bourbon Tart
10 of 26 Black Pepper–Raspberry Sorbet with Prosecco
11 of 26 Poached Pear and Brown Butter Tart
12 of 26 Cherries Poached in Red Wine with Mascarpone Cream
13 of 26 Crêpes with Strawberries and Muscat-Yogurt Sauce
14 of 26 Coffee-Rum Truffettes
15 of 26 Goat Cheese Mousse with Red-Wine Caramel
16 of 26 Buttermilk Cake with Riesling-Poached Pears
17 of 26 Chocolate-Red Wine Cake
18 of 26 Almond, Elderflower and Lime Travel Cakes
19 of 26 Bacon-Bourbon Brownies with Pecans
20 of 26 Manhattan Ice Cream Float
21 of 26 Cucumber-Lime Pops with Gin
22 of 26 Blackberry Fool with Calvados
23 of 26 Bourbon-Nectarine Ice Cream Sundaes with Pound-Cake Croutons
24 of 26 Cherry Lambic Crisps
25 of 26 Strawberry-Red Wine Sorbet with Crushed Meringue
26 of 26 Ruby-Grapefruit-and-Campari Ice Pops

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