New ways to squeeze every ounce of out of the summer produce season are always on our radar. The latest trick? Carrying your favorite summer vegetables past dinner and into dessert. Serious Eats brings us nine new ways to use up the overflow of your CSA box. After you’ve had enough of this, use up your leftover beets in a Beet Seed Cake. Or cloak them, along with zucchini, in a rich chocolate bundt cake, and if those don’t sell you, the carrot cake whoopie pies will. Just remember: if it has a serving of vegetables in it, we can call it healthy.
9 Ways to Use Summer Vegetables In Dessert from Serious Eats
I have a thing for most foods topped with a fried egg, a strange disdain for overly soupy tomato sauce, and I can never make it home without ripping off the end of a newly-bought baguette. I like spoons very much.
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