Dessert

The crew hits up everything from Michelin starred restaurants to Polish Festivals.

Claire Saffitz, author of the new cookbook “Dessert Person,” is in the Munchies Test Kitchen making the Eiffel Tower of pastries: croquembouche.

Claudette Zepeda, chef and amateur Mexican food anthropologist, unpacks chongos zamoranos, a unique-looking Mexican dessert made from milk curds, cinnamon, and sugar that dates back to the 16th century and the Spanish colonization of Michoacán.

Farideh makes a Grasshopper baked Alaska from the new MUNCHIES Cookbook, MUNCHIES Guide to Dinner: How to Cook For Yourself and Your Friends.

Farideh’s Banana Cream Pie is so easy to make that you don’t even have to turn on your oven.

James Beard Award-winning pastry chef Dominique Ansel stopped by the MUNCHIES Test Kitchen to make his signature pastry: the DKA, his take on the Breton pastry known as a kouign-amann, which now outsells the famous Cronut.

B Real, Vanessa, & Miguel bring back 3 past winners for a final cannabis cook-off.

Niki Ford, Unika Noiel & Raul Medina battle in a cannabis cook-off.

Chef couples go head to head in a vape-pairing food fight.

B Real, Vanessa Lavorato and Miguel Trinidad host a cannabis-infused dinner party to discuss topics from bad edible experiences to justice for cannabis convictions.

An all-Latin, all-female batch of chefs infuse meals for the judges.

Mikhail uses government-licensed bhang, butter, and biscuits to make this very simple cheese tart. It's super-potent though, so eat with caution.