* 9” round cake (3 layers + sprinkle) Cake: 1½ cups all purpose flour ¼ tsp salt 1½ cups sugar ½ cup butter (softened) 4 eggs 1½ tsp vanilla extract ½ tsp almond extract ½ cup heavy whipping cream ¼ cup milk Cinnamon Swirl: 2/3 cups all purpose flour 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1 tbsp… Continue reading Recipe: Cinnamon Swirl Pound Cake
Category: The Kitchen
Recipe: Israeli Bakery Cheesecake
One of the challenges of trying to make food from some other country is finding the “right” ingredients. Following is the fruit of many experimentation. You must follow the baking and cooling in the oven instructions. Do not open the oven before the cake had time to cool properly. The cake will collapse/lose its height. Ingredients Crust:… Continue reading Recipe: Israeli Bakery Cheesecake
Recipe: Caramel-Apple Upside-Down Cake
Ingredients Caramel Topping: 1/4 cup butter 2/3 cup packed brown sugar 2 tbsp Heavy Cream 1 medium Apple peeled, and cored sliced into thin slices Batter 4 medium apples, peeled, cut to thin slice Dry ingredients: 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp baking powder 2 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp salt Wet Ingredients: 2… Continue reading Recipe: Caramel-Apple Upside-Down Cake
Recipe: Solo’s Hamantaschens – modified slightly
The original recipe is at: www.solofoods.com/recipes/hamantaschen Ingredients 2 3⁄4 cup all-purpose flour 1⁄2 cup sugar 1 tbsp baking powder 1 tsp grated orange peel 1 cup butter softened 1⁄2 tsp salt 2 eggs, beaten 2 tbsp milk 1 can of Solo Poppy Seed Filling or Apricot Filling 1 egg beaten with 1 tbsp milk for brushing Instructions Using the flour, sugar, baking powder, orange peel, and salt. Cut… Continue reading Recipe: Solo’s Hamantaschens – modified slightly
Recipe: Sweet Browned Chicken drumsticks
I make 6 drumsticks, but I think you can double the chicken amount and leave the marinade quantities as is. I end up pouring a lot of liquids at the end. Ingredients: 6 chicken drumsticks (or more chicken parts) Marinade ¼ cup honey ¼ cup packed dark brown sugar ¼ cup soy sauce (I use Kikkoman… Continue reading Recipe: Sweet Browned Chicken drumsticks
In Pursuit of the Perfect Hamantaschen
Every year I have to re-re-reinvent the wheel when it comes to the Perfect Hamantaschen. No more looking for that recipe that worked! I am now on a quest to document my efforts so that the tradition of searching like crazy through my recipe printouts, marked with little comments in pencil, floating around, waiting to… Continue reading In Pursuit of the Perfect Hamantaschen
Recipe: Cream Cheese Pie Dough for Quiches
Ingredients 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup unsalted butter 4 oz. cream cheese (room temperature) Method In the mixer bowl with the pedal attachment mix all ingredients until small balls/crumbs form. Transfer the dough into a work surface and form a ball. You can use the dough immediately, or freeze/store in the… Continue reading Recipe: Cream Cheese Pie Dough for Quiches
Recipe: Nuts and Cranberries Bars
In the pursuit for the perfect Blondies I came across a recipe which I modified a lot.The result is just mind blowing. A special shout out goes to Trader Joe’s for selling ahd preparing the nuts in just the right way. Ingredients: 1 cup brown sugar 1 stick of butter 1 large egg 1/2 tsp… Continue reading Recipe: Nuts and Cranberries Bars
Recipe: Blondie Bars
These bars are just amazing Dry Ingredients: 2 cups flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt Wet Ingredients: 2 cups brown sugar 1 stick of butter 3 large eggs 1 tsp vanilla 2 cups pecans halves/chopped 6 oz semi sweet chocolate chips Method Preheat oven to 375°F. Combine and mix flour and baking powder… Continue reading Recipe: Blondie Bars
Recipe: Goat Cheese filled Dates
Just remember that there is no such thing as too much black pepper… Ingredients: 24 Medjool dates, pitted 1/4 lb fresh Goat cheese 2 tablespoon parsley (~1-2 teaspoon) fresh ground black pepper dried cranberries/apricots cut into strips/pecan nuts Method Mix goat cheese with parsley and fresh ground black pepper fill a small container with a… Continue reading Recipe: Goat Cheese filled Dates