Ketchup

[Phatlouie07]

ketchup is made from tomatoes and other ingredients etc. how can it be used in a dessert? if pastry chefs can use foie gras, black truffles, olive oil in dessert, why not ketchup?

[Moopheus]

In the early years of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain, Irv Robbins was opening a shop in Southern California near the home of a friend of his who really liked ketchup, liked to put ketchup on everything. So Irv made a special ketchup-flavored ice cream for him. He didn't like it. No one liked it. It was never made again.

[petite tête de chou]

Interesting idea here.

[cbarre02]

Anyedible product can be used in desserts... the results however may not match the energy behind the idea.

[nightscotsman]

We had some postings - or was it an entire thread? - around here not too long ago about an apple pie recipe that used ketchup. When you look at the label and see that ketchup is mostly sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup with some vinegar, tomato and spices, then it actually doesn't seen so outrageous to think of it in a dessert. I've made tomato pate de fruit from a Michel Bras recipe that was really quite good - and nobody could guess the flavor. ketchup pate de fruit anyone?

[chiantiglace]

using ketchup for dessert sounds about as interesting as dusting funnel cake with saw-dust.

[binkyboots]

I'm sure I've seen a cake recipe featuring both ketchup and tomato soup, just not sure where

As a child I liked to put ketchup on ice cream and cornflakes, not in the same bowl though, that would be gross

[srhcb]

I'm sure I've seen a cake recipe featuring both ketchup and tomato soup, just not sure where 

As a child I liked to put ketchup on ice cream and cornflakes, not in the same bowl though, that would be gross 

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I've seen tomato used in spice cake recipes, maybe in the King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversay Cookbook? I also seem to remember a tomato/dark chocolate combination from somewhere.

My cousin Mac used to put ketchup on pickles, which isn't so strange, but also on cottage cheese.

[srhcb]

Here's a tomato soup and chocolate cake recipe:

http://www.50plusfriends.com/cookbook/cakes/choctomck.html

[duckduck]

There was an entire thread Neil. I'll try to find it later. It had a link to a website with many dessert recipes. I kept meaning to go back and try the cookie recipe.

[Holly Moore]

This site has recipes for both a banana ketchup and a blueberry ketchup - either of which could easily be adapted to desserts.

The site's faq also assures readers that there is probably no truth to the rumor that ketchup contains pig blood.

[FistFullaRoux]

using ketchup for dessert sounds about as interesting as dusting funnel cake with saw-dust.

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Not quite. More like dusting a funnel cake with cayenne. That would be a hoot...

And not too bad an idea, now that I think of it...

[duckduck]

The previous thread on ketsup in apple pie is here and the recipe for the pie is here and I remember snooping around that website and finding a cookie recipe somewhere.

[akwa]

one of the best sauces i ever made was a campari and ketchup emulsion

it was salty sweet bitter and sour and without a trace of fat but full mouthfeel

probably mounted with gelatin and olive oil would mellow it

[Phatlouie07]

This site has recipes for both a banana ketchup and a blueberry ketchup - either of which could easily be adapted to desserts.

The site's faq also assures readers that there is probably no truth to the rumor that ketchup contains pig blood.

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banana ketchup is a staple in pretty much any filipino kitchen(though you don't taste the banana but it's a bit sweeter than heinz ketchup). Thanks for all of your feedback.

[Kerry Beal]

Herme uses ketchup in one of his recipes in Macaron.