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Today’s Spotlight is on Heavenly Hash.
Heavenly hash is a candy mixed with lots of ingredients, Cool Whip, sour cream, cocoa powder mini marshmallows, fruit, and sometimes almonds. It is also a type of rice pudding and a type of ice cream.
The candy was made up of a crust filled with marshmallows. The center was composed of two roasted almonds, and the whole assembly was covered in chocolate.

Celebrating Peppermint Patties

Today’s Spotlight is in the Peppermint Patty.
Peppermint Patty brings up a number of possible thoughts. These include:
• York Peppermint Patty - A round, flat candy with a sweet, white, minty filling encased in dark chocolate. The candy was invented in 1920 and is currently made by the Hershey company.
• Peppermint Patties - A type of soft, circle-shaped sweet sold in the US. The candy has a creamy peppermint center with a semi-sweet chocolate coating.
• Comic strip character - Peppermint Patty: A freckled and frequently bewildered tomboy who referred to Charlie Brown as “Chuck”. She is a star athlete, especially in baseball.
For today’s purpose we will focus on the edible ones.

Celebrating Baked Alaska

Today’s Spotlight is on Baked Alaska.
Baked Alaska, also known as Bombe Alaska, omelet norvégienne, omelet surprise, or omelet sibérienne depending on the country, is a dessert consisting of ice cream and cake topped with browned meringue.
Baked Alaska is a dessert made of ice cream, cake, and meringue:

Celebrating Pho

Today’s Spotlight is on Pho.
Pho is a Vietnamese soup dish consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs, and meat. Phở is a popular food in Vietnam where it is served in households, street-stalls, and restaurants country-wide. Residents of the city of Nam Định were the first to create Vietnamese traditional phở.
Pho is a Vietnamese soup made with broth, rice noodles, and meat. It's the national dish of Vietnam.
Pho is pronounced "fuh". It's made with:

Celebrating Croissants

Today’s Spotlight is on the Croissant.
A croissant is a buttery, flaky, viennoiserie pastry inspired by the shape of the Austrian kipferl but using the French yeast-leavened laminated dough. Croissants are named for their historical crescent shape. A croissant is a pastry that's light, flaky, and buttery. It's made with a yeast-leavened dough that's rolled with butter to create multiple layers. The layers create a flaky, crispy texture.
Croissants are part of the Viennoiserie category of baked goods, which also includes Brioche, Danish, Puff pastries.

Celebrating Chocolate Cake

Today’s Spotlight is on Chocolate Cake.
Chocolate cake is a rich, decadent dessert with a deep chocolate flavor. It's moist and fluffy, with a slightly bitter edge from the cocoa powder. The frosting is typically made with chocolate ganache, which is a rich and creamy mixture of chocolate and heavy cream.
Chocolate cake is made with chocolate or cocoa. The ingredients are mixed together, then put into a cake tin and put in an oven until it is fully cooked. The cake is then taken out of the oven and placed on a cooling stand.

Celebrating Irish Coffee

Today’s Spotlight is on Irish Coffee.
Irish coffee is a caffeinated alcoholic drink consisting of Irish whiskey, hot coffee and sugar, which has been stirred and topped with cream. The coffee is drunk through the cream. It's traditionally served in a stemmed heatproof glass called a toddy glass.
Irish coffee has a deep coffee flavor with a boozy taste. The cream makes the drink taste full and rich.
There are many variations of Irish coffee, including:

Celebrating Lobster Thermidor

Today’s Spotlight is on Lobster Thermidor.
Lobster Thermidor is a French dish of lobster meat cooked in a rich wine sauce, stuffed back into a lobster shell, and browned. The sauce is often a mixture of egg yolks and brandy (such as Cognac), served with an oven-browned cheese crust, typically Gruyère. The sauce originally contained mustard.
Lobster thermidor is a rich, creamy, and sweet dish. The lobster's natural sweetness comes through the sauce, which is made with cremini mushrooms and dry Sherry. The sauce is thickened with flour and flavored with white wine and dry mustard. Some say that lobster thermidor is a unique taste experience. The lobster's flavors are powerful and clear, and the creaminess of the sauce and the dryness of the white wine accent the dish.

Celebrating Pie

Today’s Spotlight is on Pie.
A pie is defined as a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savory ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit, nuts, fruit preserves, brown sugar, sweetened vegetables, or with thicker fillings based on eggs and dairy.
A pie is a baked dish that's made with a pastry-lined pan or dish and filled with fruit, meat, pudding, or other fillings. It often has a pastry crust on top.
A typical American pie is: