Tonka bean recipes

Your homemade hot cocoa recipe can rival even the creamiest drinking chocolate with this trick.

Tonka Bean Egg Custard Tart

This handy how to cook with tonka beans guide from Great British Chefs explores various different ways of cooking with tonka beans. known.

One day I had to write an article about sables breton , and I fell in love. To be honest, I was in love with them before, but at a different level. It was more of a “what to bring home from France” love, whereas now it is "I need to make my own recipe" love. The story about sables breton

This is a sad, sad story about letting my friends down. One weekend, we had both days booked with party and with harvesting rowanberries and turning them into jam. Two separate days. For the first party, we all made something and since I had plenty of small pears from the countryside, I decided to m

Matt Gillan shares a stunning tonka bean recipe, using the rare ingredient in a panna cotta with some dazzling popcorn-based accompaniments

If you’re looking for a dinner party dessert in the autumn months this winner from queen of French bakes, Manon Lagrève, is guaranteed to please! Manon says: “This might be the most elegant tart there is. Pears are so understated, but they’re so tasty. Especially when juicy and paired with a tonka bean frangipane! You can find tonka beans in professional baking shops or online. They have such an incredibly sweet flavour – close to vanilla but more powerful. This is a straightforward recipe…

Tonka Bean Ice Cream

This is such a yummy dessert that is quite simple to make, my black truffle and tonka bean Panna Cotta. The Feuilletine is fun to make and you can use this in a number of different dishes. It might seem strange to use truffle in a desert but it provides a very interesting umami flavour to a dessert which I really love.

Aimee of Under the High Chair sent me my first-ever tonka beans a few weeks ago, so I wanted to make one of the recipes from her blog. The original recipe makes four...