Gift Box
Moment Box — Winter Desserts
Four spices for the baking season, November to March.
$68
Four spices for the baking season, November to March. Four spices that frame a winter's baking, from Halloween to Easter. Madagascar Bourbon vanilla in a custard, a chocolate mousse, a long-steeped rice pudding. Tonka, microplaned over a whipped 70% dark chocolate ganache,…
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Spice · Vanilla
Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla
Northeast coast, SAVA region (Sambava, Antalaha, Vohemar, Andapa), Madagascar
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Spice · Spice kernel
Tonka Beans
Brazilian Amazon (Pará, Amazonas), Brazil
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Spice · Whole spice
Star Anise
Lang Son province, on the Chinese border, Vietnam
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Spice · Spice seed
Green Cardamom
Western Ghats (Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu), India
The gift box in detail
Four spices that frame a winter's baking, from Halloween to Easter. Madagascar Bourbon vanilla in a custard, a chocolate mousse, a long-steeped rice pudding. Tonka, microplaned over a whipped 70% dark chocolate ganache, a warm yogurt cake, a honey-roasted fig — the almond-vanilla-coumarin note that always gets a "what's in this?" Star anise in a long-cooked apple compote, in a mulled-wine syrup with cinnamon, or simply ground into a crumble topping. Kerala green cardamom in shortbread dough, in coffee ice cream, in a mango mousse: the camphor-citrus note that balances the sugar. The box retires half a dozen tired supermarket baking spices. A twelve-recipe booklet is included, calibrated for six. The catch: tonka is potent and, in large amounts, is restricted in some places for its coumarin — you only ever want a few light passes of the microplane per dessert, not a grated pile. A little is magic; a lot turns bitter and medicinal, and you'll have wasted a bean that costs real money.
“Four spices that cover the whole winter baking season, no industrial blends.”
Who & when to give it
Recipients
- home cook
- baker
- parent
- curious cook
Occasions
- christmas
- birthday
- mothers day
Budget
$50 – $90
Level: intermediate
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