Creative Foods by Chef Dave Dettman - Chef Dave's Creative Culinary Works

How to make handmade chocolates

02/20/21 - Uncategorized - No Comments

Choosing right chocolate: Handmade chocolates is all about choosing right chocolate. Picking a excellent quality chocolate is important. Caution on using grocery store inexpensive chocolate for coating just doesn’t work well. To many recipes use semi sweet chocolate chips which are inexpensive way to coat chocolates, leaving very thick hard to handle coating. To achieve…

Green Tomato Snack Cake

10/25/20 - Creative Foods, Desserts - No Comments

It’s late fall and the great freeze is here, so what to do with all the green tomatoes. This where the Green Tomato Snack Cake helps, using up those extra green tomatoes. If you don’t tell anyone that there is tomatoes in these snack cakes they never guess that’s the secret ingredient. The Green Tomato…

Honey Bourbon Caramel Apple Bars

10/15/20 - Desserts, Recipes - No Comments

The Honey Bourbon Caramel Apple Bars is a outstanding Apple Bar recipe that tastes like caramel apple pie. This bar has a buttery shortbread crust, layered with tart and sweet apples. Then the apple bars are topped with oatmeal streusel and drizzled with honey bourbon caramel. Choosing the right apples: Finding the right apples is…

Snappy Sweet Pickles

09/23/20 - Creative Foods, Recipes - No Comments

How to preserve cucumbers into sweet pickles: Preserve those fresh from garden cucumbers by making them into pickles. My favorite pickle recipe is Snappy Sweet Pickles. The pickling process takes some time to achieve a nice crisp pickles. After years of making batches of pickles, and trying many different pickling methods, the following techniques works…