Peppermint Desserts for Festive Holiday Celebrations

Nothing says the holidays like peppermint and these three luscious desserts have peppermint in spades! The Peppermint Spiral is a layered dessert topped off with a chocolate roulade cake; the Peppermint Cake is a layer cake with peppermint buttercream frosting; and the Poet Glasses feature colored mint mousses that alternate with rich ganache, all topped off with festive holiday peppermint decorations, of course!

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3 Peppermint Desserts to Make for Festive Holiday Celebrations

 

 

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Three dancers in red, blue, and white outfits
From left to right, Luke Mosher, Masahiro Haneji and Josiah Kauffman elevated our photo session with their athleticism.

Exuberant Peppermint: High-jumping dancer Masahiro Haneji puts some exuberant air between himself and the ground during this Russian-inflected passage of The Nutcracker. He and his colleagues bring athleticism and freshness to the choreography, and a smile to faces young and old–which is the same result the chefs at Nemacolin achieve in their minty holiday dessert creations. Of the several peppermint options they developed, we loved the look of their Peppermint Spiral.

Recipes by Nemacolin Executive Pastry Sous Chef Isaac Ortiz Montalvo and Pastry Sous Chef Mary Mae Co Laskody / Story by Keith Recker / Portrait Photography by Jeff Swensen / Food Photography by Scott Goldsmith

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