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Dessert Recipes

A selection of dessert recipes featuring wild edible plants. You'll find baked goods, ice creams, cookies and cakes, all using wild nuts and berries.

Some of my favorites are my fresh mint ice cream, my black walnut or butternut cookies, huckleberry muffins and Gooseberry Sorbet.

A bowl of fig syrup.

Fig Syrup

By Hank Shaw on April 8, 2022, Updated April 19, 2022 - 5 Comments

Tired of maple syrup? Make fig syrup. You can use fresh or fried figs, wild or store-bought.

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Candied angelica stems in a glass jar.

Candied Angelica

By Hank Shaw on July 3, 2017, Updated June 17, 2020 - 15 Comments

Angelica is a giant herb that grows wild all over the cooler areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Candying its hollow stems is a great way to enjoy angelica or lovage.

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Ripe manzanita berries

How to Eat Manzanita Berries

By Hank Shaw on August 14, 2015, Updated May 19, 2020 - 24 Comments

Manzanita berries are ripening all over California right now, but few know that they are not only edible, but are well worth your time to collect. The secret? Grind the dry, apple-like berries to make a sort of manzanita sugar.

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A tray of huckleberry muffins.

Huckleberry Muffins

By Hank Shaw on July 30, 2015, Updated May 21, 2020 - 12 Comments

It’s huckleberry season here in the West. And while my favorite way to eat hucks is in a bowl with cream, I also love huckleberry muffins. My version has a bit of a tang to it from sour cream.

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Mint leaf ice cream recipe

Fresh Mint Ice Cream

By Hank Shaw on July 2, 2015, Updated May 19, 2020 - 14 Comments

Mint ice cream is pretty common, but usually it’s made with mint extract. But if you make your ice cream by infusing the mint leaves into the cream overnight, you get a much stronger, more herby mint flavor you will not forget.

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paw paw ice cream recipe

Paw Paw Ice Cream

By Hank Shaw on November 6, 2014, Updated October 28, 2020 - 17 Comments

Paw paws, the Hoosier banana, custard apple or Indiana banana. America’s largest native fruit, is indeed a little bit like a banana — and it makes a great ice cream.

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Close up of butternut cookies.

Butternut Cookies

By Hank Shaw on October 17, 2014, Updated December 28, 2020 - 10 Comments

It’s nut season all over the country, and one of my favorites is the butternut, a relative of the black walnut. These cookies are by far my favorite way to eat them — and yes, they are wonderful with black walnuts, too.

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elderberry ice cream recipe

Elderberry Ice Cream

By Hank Shaw on July 7, 2014, Updated May 8, 2017 - 7 Comments

Elderberries are in season here in California, and one of my favorite ways to enjoy them during our hot summers is in ice cream. Here’s how to make it.

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Hi, my name is Hank Shaw. I am a James Beard Award-winning author and chef and I focus my energies on wild foods: Foraging, fishing, hunting. I write cookbooks as well as this website, have a website dedicated to the intersection of food and nature, and do a podcast, too. If it’s wild game, fish, or edible wild plants and mushrooms, you’ll find it here. Hope you enjoy the site!

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