Recipe: Cinnamon Swirl Pound Cake

* 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

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

Excel inline commands I use often

Concatenate three cells into one separated with a comma (trim trailing space and commas): =IF(TRIM(J2)=””,IF(TRIM(I2)=””,H2, TRIM(H2&”, “&I2)),TRIM(H2&”, “&I2&”, “&J2) ) Concatenate two cells into one separated with a comma (trim trailing space and commas): =IF(TRIM(L2)&TRIM(K2)=””,””,IF(TRIM(L2)=””, IF(TRIM(K2)=””,””,TRIM(K2&”, “&L2), )

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: 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