Desserts / Baking: Flirty Aprons

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Flirty Aprons Oct 1st 2011, 07:55 It's not too early to start thinking about the upcoming gift-giving season. There are some really cool aprons to choose from at Flirty Aprons. I've got three and they are not only cute, but they wear well too. Sign-up for my FREE Weekly Newsletter Like me on Facebook Follow me on Twitter Photo � Carroll Pellegrinelli

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Desserts / Baking: What's Hot Now: Peanut Butter Cookie Bites

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Peanut Butter Cookie Bites Oct 1st 2011, 10:03 Please enjoy this recipe for Peanut Butter Cookie Bites. It's made with only 4 ingredients. Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 25 minutes Ingredients: 1 egg 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup crunchy peanut butter Preparation: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease large cookie sheet. Mix together egg and sugar. Add vanilla. Blend in peanut butter until all combined. Scoop heaping teaspoons onto prepared cookie sheet. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Makes 30 to 36 Peanut Butter Cookie Bites.

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Desserts / Baking: What's Hot Now: Three Layer Chocolate Cake

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Three Layer Chocolate Cake Oct 1st 2011, 10:03 This recipe for Three Layer Chocolate Cake should be a standard in anyone's baking repertoire. Prep Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 20 minutes Ingredients: 3/4 cup unsweetened Dutch processed cocoa 1 cup boiling water 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter 2 cups sugar 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1-3/4 cups flour 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup milk 1/4 cup sour cream Preparation: Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour three 9-inch round baking pans. Mix cocoa with boiling water in small bowl; stir until smooth. Set aside to cool. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beat well after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Gradually add cocoa mixture. Combine well. With wire whisk, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Alternately add flour mixture with milk and sour cream to butter mixture. Beat until blended. Pour batter into pans. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake 10 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely. Frost cake as desired.

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Desserts / Baking: What's Hot Now: Applesauce Bran Muffins

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Applesauce Bran Muffins Oct 1st 2011, 10:03 Everyone will enjoy these low calorie muffins. Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 40 minutes Ingredients: 6 slices whole wheat bread, torn in small pieces 3/4 ounce bran or oat bran cereal 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 2/3 cup non-fat dry milk 5 packages (equivalent to 10 teaspoons sugar) of artificial sweetener 1-1/2 teaspoons honey 4 teaspoons vegetable oil 3 eggs ---- 1 banana 1 cup unsweetened applesauce Preparation: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Very lightly grease muffin cups. Mix first 8 ingredients. Stir in last 2 ingredients until just combined. Put in muffin pan. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Makes 12 small muffins. For 4 servings: 1 protein, 1 fat, 1 bread, 1 fruit, 1/2 milk and 15 optional calories.

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Desserts / Baking: What's Hot Now: Apple Dumplings

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Apple Dumplings Oct 1st 2011, 10:03 I have to thank Janet, my absolute favorite grocery store check-out clerk, for this quick and easy recipe. Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 35 minutes Total Time: 50 minutes Ingredients: 1 - 8 ounce tube cresent rolls 1 Granny Smith Apple, cored and peeled 1/3 cup butter 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, divided 1 cup Mountain Dew soda Preparation: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease 9-inch deep dish pie plate or 8-inch square baking pan. Separate dough into 8 triangles. Cut apple into 8 wedges. On large work service, place one wedge into one triangle. Melt butter in microwave. Stir in brown sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Spoon about 1/2 teaspoon of butter mixture over each apple wedge. Wrap dough around wedge around apple. Place in prepared pan. Repeat until all 8 are done. Sprinkle tops with remaining cinnamon. Carefully, pour Mountain Dew around rolls. Bake uncovered for 30-25 minutes or until tops are brown. Serve warm with whipped or ice cream.

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About.com Desserts / Baking: Most Popular Articles: All About Girl Scout Cookies

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All About Girl Scout Cookies Oct 1st 2011, 10:27 In the past, each area would offer eight types of cookies. This year you may get the full eight, or like in our area, we're only getting the Super Six: Samoas®, Thin Mints, Do-Si-Dos™, Trefoils, Lemon Chalet Cremes™ and Tagalongs®. What is or was your favorite Girl Scout Cookie type? Recipes Made with Leftover Girl Scout Cookies Do-Si-Dos™ - Peanut Butter Sandwiches - (peanut butter cookie with peanut butter filling) - 20 cookies* per 8 ounce box. Dulce de Leche - (made with milk caramel chips) - 15 cookies* per 6 ounce box. Lemon Chalet Cremes™ (retangular cinnamon-ginger lemon-filled cookies) - 14 cookies* per 8 ounce box. Lemonades™ (shortbread cookie with a tangy lemon icing) - 16 cookies* per 8.5 ounce box. Samoas® - Caramel deLites™ (vanilla cookies covered with caramel on top and bottom then rolled in coconut and striped with chocolate) - 15 cookies* per 7 ounce box. Shout Outs!™ (Light and crisp, Belgian-style caramelized cookies) - 40 cookies* per 9 ounce box. Tagalongs® - Peanut Butter Patties® (Regular cookie with soft Peanut Butter and coated with chocolate) - 15 cookies* per 7 ounce box. Thanks-A-Lot™ used to be known as Animal Treasures and All Abouts (all same type shortbread cookie with chocolate on the bottom) - 16* per 8.5 ounce box Thank U Berry Munch (A cookie made with premium cranberries and white fudge chips.) - 14 cookies per 6.17 ounce box. Thin Mints (thin chocolate-peppermint cookie coated in chocolate) - 32 cookies* in an 10 ounce box. Trefoils - a.k.a. Shortbread - (a shortbread cookie) - 44 cookies* per 10 ounce box. * All cookie counts and package sizes are approximate. **Remember not all cookies are available is all areas. Which is Your Favorite Girl Scout Cookie? Girl Scout Cookies of the Past Back to Article About Girl Scout Cookies Recipes Using Girl Scout Cookies

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About.com Desserts / Baking: Most Popular Articles: All About Cookies

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All About Cookies Sep 30th 2011, 10:16 You're about to bake some cookies, but at the last minute you decide to bake them in a rectangular pan. You can't find the correct temperature or baking time. The below articles will take you through the necessary shopping list, baking steps, baking times, pan size conversions, cookie storage, mailing cookies and more. 1. The Shopping List Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. Keep these ingredients on hand and you can make cookies anytime. 2. Pan Size and Baking Time Conversions Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. You'd rather have individual cookies and not bake them in a pan. You can find the temperature and times here. You'll also find times for cookie pizzas, cookie pie crusts and more. 3. Freezing and Baking Frozen Cookie Dough Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. By following these simple tips for freezing your cookie dough, you can have homemade cookies anytime. Plus think of the varieties you could offer by just freezing some of each cookie dough you make. 4. Mailing Cookies Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. Follow these steps and your cookies should arrive intact. 5. Step-By-Step Photo Instructions for Making Sugar Cookies a.k.a. Roll-Outs Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. There are some simple photo instructions to help anyone learn how to make sugar cookies or any other roll-out cookies. 6. Step-By-Step Photo Instructions for Drop Cookies Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. Most of the cookies eaten are drop cookies. Probably, the most famous one is the Chocolate Chip Cookie. 7. How to Make Drop Cookies - More In-Depth Baking Tips Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. You'll find even more tips here. 8. A Gallery of Cookie Photos and Recipes Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. You'll find picture after picture of cookies good enough to eat. Since you can't eat your computer scene, I've also provided links to the recipes. 9. Cookie Recipes Photo © 2007 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. If you couldn't find what you wanted in the photo gallery, try this link. There are tons more recipes here. 10. Cookie Making Videos Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. About.com has an ever-growing video library. Below are some of the ones that feature making cookies: Sugar Cookies Chocolate Chip Cookies Meringue Cookies Peanut Butter Cookies Frosted Christmas Cookies

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Desserts / Baking: What's Hot Now: Sugar Cookies

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Sugar Cookies Sep 30th 2011, 10:01 Keep these ingredients on hand and you'll always be able make sugar (and other) cookies. flour granulated sugar brown sugar butter* solid shortening vegetable oil eggs baking powder baking soda milk vanilla extract (and other extracts, if desired) salt colored sugars (red and green) colored sprinkles or any other nonpareils colored icing (either make you own, or buy the already made) chopped nuts shredded coconut M&M's any other toppings you desire at the store unsweetened chocolate food colors *I know that a lot of chefs prefer unsalted butter for baking. They do it to control the amount of salt in the recipe. Personally, I find the taste of unsalted butter flat. That's why I always use salted butter.

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Desserts / Baking: What's Hot Now: Drop Cookies

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Drop Cookies Sep 30th 2011, 10:01 Step 1 - Cream Your Butter and Sugars The combined use of room temperature butter and a stand mixer make this process so much easier. Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. Nearly all cookie recipes begin by creaming the butter with the sugar(s). Mixing can only be accomplished with room temperature a.k.a. soft butter, margarine or shortening.

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Desserts / Baking: Budget Desserts

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Budget Desserts Sep 29th 2011, 12:40 With the economy the way it is today, everyone is working with a tight budget. Plus to make it even worse, we all seem to be working twice as hard for half as much. Even with all of that, we just can't give up our desserts. Here are several tips to help you fit desserts into your Budget. Sign-up for my FREE Weekly Newsletter Like me on Facebook Follow me on Twitter Photo � Carroll Pellegrinelli

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Desserts / Baking: What's Hot Now: Rosh Hashanah

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Rosh Hashanah Sep 29th 2011, 10:01 Desserts for Rosh Hashanah The Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah is the 2 holy days that begin the Jewish New Year. Yom Kippor is a day of fasting, reflection and prayers. The desserts of Rosh Hashanah are mainly composed of seasonal fresh fruits like apples, pears, and figs. Honey is the most important staple at this time. Honey symbolizes a wish for a sweet year. Leshana tova tikotevu "May you be inscribed for a good and sweet year." Enjoy these wonderful New Year desserts! Chocolate Farfel-Nut Clusters MARCIAG7 posted this very easy recipe. Frozen Passover Dessert Here's another recipe from MARCIAG7. She says that "the kid's really love this!" Heidi's Passover Brownies HEIDIVERNON posted this recipe which uses matzo cake meal and potato starch. Passover Chremzlach (Stuffed Fritters) These fritters are made with currants, apricots and almonds. Passover Confectioners' Sugar Here's a simple recipe to help avoid the cornstarch found in regular powdered sugar. Passover Macaroons Mary says her grandchildren just love these moist and chewy cookies. Passover Mandelbrot This recipe for a softer, cookie-like mandelbrot was posted by MARCIAG7. Passover Nut Cake Here's another wonderful recipe from MARYB55. More The Shapes and Flavors of Rosh Hashanah Jessica Littmann has everything you need to know about Jewish and Kosher Cuisine. Hebrew Language Learn some Hebrew today with Simi K Valley. Israeli Culture Ellis Shuman is our guide to this rich culture. Judaism Review the ABC's of Rosh HaShana with Lisa Katz. Recipe Index More Dessert and Baking Ideas How-To Articles Search and Swap Recipes

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Desserts / Baking: What's Hot Now: Quick Breads

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Quick Breads Sep 29th 2011, 10:01 There is nothing like greeting your family in the morning with the aroma of freshly baked muffins and/or a quick bread. It is always such a treat. It's a treat to the baker, too. Muffins and other quick breads are so easy to make. After cookies, these should be the next baked goods kids can easily learn how to make. I hope you enjoy these recipes. Baking Tips for Quick Breads How to Bake Loaves of Quick Breads with Photo Instructions Baking in Decorative Baking Tubes 1. Banana Bread Photo © 2010 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. Whenever I have more than one overly ripe banana, I make this recipe for Banana Bread. I make this recipe the old-fashioned way, in the oven. Bread Machine Banana Bread Crockpot Banana Bread Banana Bread Making Video Banana Muffins 2. Lemon-Blueberry Muffins Photo © 2010 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. The lemon curd heightens the flavor of the blueberries in this recipe for Lemon Blueberry Muffins. Blueberry Muffins Blueberry Streusel Muffins 3. Spicy Ginger Pear Bread 2010 Spicy Ginger Pear Bread Photo by Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com. Here is a recipe for Spicy Ginger Pear Bread. It's not as sweet as most quick breads, but it's still fabulous. We liked ours served warm and spread lightly with butter. 4. Chocolate Zucchini Muffins 2010 Chocolate Zucchini Muffins Photo by Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com I know you'll enjoy this recipe for Chocolate Zucchini Muffins. It's loaded with some wonderful wholesome ingredients like whole wheat flour and dark chocolate, plus all of the zucchini, too. Zucchini Bread 5. Sweet Potato Bread 2010 Sweet Potato Bread Photo by Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com Be sure to add this recipe for Sweet Potato Bread to your quick bread recipe collection. 6. Lemon Poppyseed Muffins Photo © 2010 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. This recipe for Lemon-Poppy Seed Muffins and/or Quick Bread Loaf begins with a cake mix. Orange Poppy Seed Muffins 7. The World's Best Pumpkin Bread Photo © 2010 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. I get asked all of the time, "is it time for pumpkin bread yet?" Of course, in the United States, we generally only eat pumpkin in the fall. What most people don't realize is that canned pumpkin is usually carried in their grocery stores year-round. 8. Easy Smeezy Apple Muffins Photo © 2010 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc. It doesn't get any easier than this. There are only four -4- ingredients in this recipe for Easy Smeezy Apple Muffins. Apple Muffins 9. Jalapeno Cornbread 2010 Jalapeno Cornbread Photo by Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com You may not think so, but Cornbread is a quick bread. Here are a couple of other cornbread recipes: Basic Cornbread Philpy, made with wild rice, too Hush Puppies - deep fried cornbread 10. Cranberry Orange Bread 2010 Cranberry Orange Bread Photo by Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com The flavors of the Christmas holidays are captured in this quick bread recipe for Cranberry Orange Bread. Maraschino Cherry Nut Bread

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Desserts / Baking: What's Hot Now: Cakes Wedding Fruit Cake Number 1 Cake Recipes

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Cakes Wedding Fruit Cake Number 1 Cake Recipes Sep 29th 2011, 10:01 Wedding Fruit Cake #1 Thanks to ShadoeRose for this recipe The recipe which follows is from the kitchen of Mrs. Bee Mannix-Walsh, a well known local chef who, for many years, ran the Cookery Centre of Ireland in Dalkey. Cake Recipe Lower Tier: 15 oz raisins 15 oz sultanas 20 oz currants 10 oz mixed peel 5 oz prunes 5 oz dates 5 oz cherries 1 apple 3 oz chopped almonds 3 oz ground almonds 1/2 tsp. grated nutmeg 1/2 tsp. mixed spice Grated ring of 1 lemon 15 oz butter 15 oz sugar (Barbados) 10 eggs 19 oz flour Cover with Almond paste 1-1/2 lb. Water icing 3/4 lb. Royal icing 2 1/2 lb Middle Tier: 9 oz raisins 9 oz sultanas 12 oz currants 6 oz mixed peel 3 oz prunes 3 oz dates 3 oz cherries 1/2 apple 3 oz chopped almonds 3 oz ground almonds 1/4 tsp. nutmeg 1/4 tsp. mixed spice Grated rind of 1/2 lemon 9 oz butter 9 oz sugar 6 eggs 11oz flour Cover with Almond paste 1 lb. Water icing 1/2 lb. Royal icing 2 lb. Top Tier: 3 oz raisins 3 oz sultanas 4 oz currants 2 oz mixed peel 1 oz. prunes 1 oz dates 1 oz cherries 1/2 apple 1 oz chopped almonds 1 oz ground almonds 1/4 tsp. nutmeg 1/4 tsp. mixed spice Grated rind of 1/4 lemon 3 oz butter 3 oz sugar 2 eggs 4 oz flour Cover with Almond paste 6 oz Water icing 4 oz Royal icing 3/4 lb. Instructions: Prepare fruit and mix it with spice, nuts and lemon rind. Cream butter and sugar. Break in an egg and beat until mixture thickens, mix in a little sieved flour. Continue in this way until all eggs have been added.  Add remainder of flour.  Stir in prepared fruit and mix thoroughly. Put into prepared tin and bake in very moderate oven. Size of Tin and Baking Time Lowest Tier: 12-inch tin   About six hours Middle Tier: 9-inch tin   About 3 1/2 hours Top Tier: 6-inch tin   About 1 3/4 hours Almond Paste Recipe 1 lb. ground almonds 1 tbs. sherry 1/4 tsp. ratafia (liqueur) essence 1 tbs. whiskey 1/4 tsp. almond essence 1 tsp. orange flower water 1 lb. caster sugar 2 eggs 1.Crush lumps out of almonds and sieve castor sugar, mix both well together. 2.Beat eggs, add flavouring, sherry and whiskey. Keep a little of the egg white back for brushing over cake. 3.Pour slowly into almonds and sugar and mix to stiff paste. Turn onto sugared board and knead well. Roll out and use as required. Water Icing Recipe 1/2 lb. icing sugar Flavouring and colouring as desired Boiling water 1.Sieve icing sugar and put into bowl. 2.Add boiling water slowly until it is the consistency of thick cream. 3.Add flavouring and colouring and beat until smooth and glossy. Royal Icing Recipe 1 lb. icing sugar Juice of 1 lemon 2 whites of eggs 1 tsp. glycerin 1.Roll out sugar on kitchen paper. Put through wire sieve. 2.Mix with half beaten white of egg, lemon juice and glycerin. 3.Beat for fifteen minutes. Abbreviations: oz. = Ounce tsp. = Teaspoon lb. = Pound Print Recipe Ad Free Recipe Index More Dessert and Baking Ideas How-To Articles Search and Swap Recipes

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