HAPPY NEW YEAR!
For the past 3 or 4 years, every time I come home to New York for the holidays, I always seem to take out the Martha Stewart Christmas Cookbook. I have made several of the items over the years but have always wanted to try this one. I thought it would be great for a Christmas night dessert. The problem is, it’s a frozen dessert, and my relatives all live at least 30 minutes away, so I have always just turned the page and looked at other things to try. Well.. this year, my mom had her friends over for a New Years Day luncheon and the lightbulb went off in my head (!), and I thought this would be perfect. After a lunch of an Asparagus and potato frittata, mixed seafood salad, cold jumbo shrimp with caper-lemon mayonnaise, and San-Francisco sourdough rolls, we dug into the gingerbread roll. The cake deluxe, but the filling…Oh my! It is a calvados scented semifreddo that is just heavenly. It was served with a spiced cranberry coulis on the side. I though it would be the perfect ending to celebrate the start of the New Year. And it was.
Get the recipe here
Beautiful and surely divine!
Happy New Year!
Cheers,
Rosa
Happy New Year!
You have been baking up a storm. Your Christmas tree cookies are so cute. My girls would have fun making them. This gingerbread roll would also be a hit with my family, I need to drag out my Martha books.
The best to you in 2011
Mimi
This is absolutely brilliant and beautiful! Never thought of using semifreddo in a cake roll. Looks beautiful and love the gingerbread cake …it sounds fantastic! Happy New Year to you and yours!
I was drooling looking at it and when I read about the calvados in the filling, I went over the edge!
Great looking piece of pastry!
I’m sad I missed this. It looks so good and I LOVE semifreddo