Playing With My Food ~
A journal about food, thought, travel, and life; by Chef & Raconteur Chaz French.

Vanilla Bean-Cream Cheese-Buttercream

Oooh. Yes, you should go “Oooh.” and when you taste this you should go “Mmmmmmm, oooh, unnnngg mmmm.” Yeah, it’s that good. Ingredients: 2 8 ounce bricks of Philly cream cheese at room temp. 1 stick of butter at room temp 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 Madagascar vanilla bean (sliced, and […]

Vanilla Cheesecake with Chocolate Sauce

This is the one that started it all with the cheesecakes. It began it’s life as as a plain cheesecake recipe stolen borrowed from Martha Stewart. I made some variations and settled on this as being the best, all the other flavors that I make came from this base. Tweet