The Trappist Honey Heretic

Brother Anselm

Released from his abbey for "excessive pleasure in the kitchen," Brother Anselm now makes honey-drenched, ale-soaked, sinfully rich desserts and narrates each like a confession. He believes gluttony, done with enough craft, becomes a kind of prayer.

Monastic ConfectioneryHoney & Mead DessertsAle-Cake BakingBelgian Sweets

Voice · confessional, hedonistic, reverent, wry, sensual, liturgical

Signature Dishes

The essential curation of Brother's favorites.

30 MIN

Mead Panna Cotta with Salted Honey Drizzle

A velvety, honey-sweetened panna cotta infused with vanilla and cream, unmolded to reveal a trembling silk that yields to the tongue. A warm salted honey drizzle pools around each quivering dome — a confession of indulgence that borders on the sacred.

75 MIN

Roasted Butternut Squash Honey Custard

A velvety, honey-sweetened custard swirled with roasted butternut squash puree, spiced with warm nutmeg and cinnamon, finished with a caramelized honey glaze that glistens like monastery candlelight.

32 MIN

The Sinner's Brown Butter & Honey Friands

Small, tender almond cakes enriched with nutty brown butter and golden monastic honey, baked until their edges whisper of indulgence and their centers yield like confession. Drizzled with a honey-butter gloss that catches the light like candlelight on beeswax.

45 MIN

Monastic Honey & Dark Chocolate Ganache Cups

Sinfully rich chocolate cups filled with a velvety ganache kissed by raw monastic honey and a whisper of fleur de sel. A confession of warmth, rendered in chocolate and gold.

52 MIN

Brother Anselm's Quadrupel Ale Cake

A sinfully rich dark cake soaked in honey and dark ale character, with browned butter and brown sugar creating layers of monastic indulgence fit for a feast day.

56 MIN

Trappist Honey Beertime Cake

A rich, deeply flavored honey cake with warm spices and a amber glaze, worthy of the abbey table at any beertime gathering. Brown butter and dark honey mingle with brown sugar in this sinfully tender crumb.

45 MIN

Confession of the Brown Butter Honey Tart

A deeply reverent tart where nutty brown butter and raw monastic honey pool together beneath a shatteringly crisp crust. Each bite confesses the virtue of patience, for the butter must be coaxed to amber before it finds redemption in the oven.

43 MIN

The Unholy Black Bean Chocolate Brownie

A dense, fudgy brownie where black beans become the unholy foundation of a chocolate revelation — velvety, deeply dark, and sinsfully rich with honey and Belgian chocolate.

33 MIN

Salted Honey Brown Butter Almond Cookies

Brother Anselm's confession: these cookies are kissed by the dark gold of browned butter, bathed in monastic honey, and crowned with crystals of salt that make every bite a hymn to indulgence.

55 MIN

Benedictine Brown Sugar Crème Brûlée

A reverent take on the classic French custard, kissed with monastic honey and finished with a crackling caramel crown of brown sugar — indulgence as prayer.

30 MIN

Mead Panna Cotta with Salted Honey Drizzle

75 MIN

Roasted Butternut Squash Honey Custard

A velvety, honey-sweetened custard swirled with roasted butternut squash puree, spiced with warm nutmeg and cinnamon, finished with a caramelized honey glaze that glistens like monastery candlelight.

32 MIN

The Sinner's Brown Butter & Honey Friands

45 MIN

Monastic Honey & Dark Chocolate Ganache Cups

Sinfully rich chocolate cups filled with a velvety ganache kissed by raw monastic honey and a whisper of fleur de sel. A confession of warmth, rendered in chocolate and gold.

52 MIN

Brother Anselm's Quadrupel Ale Cake

A sinfully rich dark cake soaked in honey and dark ale character, with browned butter and brown sugar creating layers of monastic indulgence fit for a feast day.

56 MIN

Trappist Honey Beertime Cake

45 MIN

Confession of the Brown Butter Honey Tart

43 MIN

The Unholy Black Bean Chocolate Brownie

A dense, fudgy brownie where black beans become the unholy foundation of a chocolate revelation — velvety, deeply dark, and sinsfully rich with honey and Belgian chocolate.

33 MIN

Salted Honey Brown Butter Almond Cookies

Brother Anselm's confession: these cookies are kissed by the dark gold of browned butter, bathed in monastic honey, and crowned with crystals of salt that make every bite a hymn to indulgence.

55 MIN

Benedictine Brown Sugar Crème Brûlée

A reverent take on the classic French custard, kissed with monastic honey and finished with a crackling caramel crown of brown sugar — indulgence as prayer.

From the Pantry

Signature staples

Trappist HoneyBelgian Abbey AlesBrown ButterCreamMead

Favorite tools

Wooden Confessional SpoonCopper CauldronHoney DipperAlembic StillMortar And PestleBeeswax Candles

Reaches for

Raw Monastic HoneyTrappist AlesAbbey-Style YeastsHeavy CreamBelgian Dark Chocolate

Steers clear of

Diet SubstitutesNon-Fat DairyArtificial FlavorsWhite SugarRefined Flours

Flavor Profile

The Loves

Dark HoneyTrappist AleBelgian ChocolateSalted CaramelMeadBrowned Butter

The Defaults

HoneyCreamDark AleButterEggsBrown Sugar

The Avoids

Artificial SweetenersAusterity BlandnessLow-Fat SubstitutesInsufficient Richness