Tiramisu

this turned out AWESOME & myself & the inlaws enjoyed it immensely!

Tiramisu

You Need:
3 egg yolks
1/4 cup whole milk
1 cup grandulated sugar
3 cups mascarpone cheese (this is an Italian cream cheese)
8 ounces cream cheese
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
20 – 24 lady fingers
1/4 cup cold espresso
1/4 cup Kahlua coffee liqueur
2 teaspoons cocoa powder

You Need To:
Fill a medium saucepan halfway with water and bring it to a boil over medium/high heat, then reduce heat so that the water is simmering. Whisk egg yolks, milk and sugar together in a medium metal bowl, then place the bowl on top of the saucepan (you can also use a double boiler for this step). Stir the mixture often for ten minutes. After the sugar dissolves the mixture should begin to thicken and turn light yellow. Remove it from the heat to cool.

Use an electric mixer to combine mascarpone, cream cheese and vanilla in a large bowl. Mix until mostly creamy, but with a few small chunks remaining.
Add egg yolk mixture to the cheese mixture and mix just until well-combined.

Combine espresso and Kahlua in a small bowl. Pour this mixture onto a dinner plate. One-by-one touch the bottom of each lady finger in the espresso. The lady finger will quickly soak up the espresso/Kahlua mixture, but you don’t want the lady finger soaked — just a dab will do ya. The top half of each lady finger should still be dry. Arrange the soaked lady fingers side-by-side on the bottom of an 8×8 inch serving dish or baking pan.

Spoon about half of the cheese mixture over the lady fingers, then add another layer of soaked lady fingers on top of the cheese mixture.

Spoon the remaining cheese mixture over the second layer of lady fingers and spread it evenly.

Put two teaspoons of cocoa powder in a tight-mesh strainer and gently tap the side of the strainer to add an even dusting of cocoa powder over the top of the dessert.
Cover and chill for several hours.


Enjoy & God Bless!

Apple Pie

Apple Pie

You Need:
1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie (store bought works)
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 cup water MINUS 1 tblsp
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
6 apples - peeled, cored and sliced & spritzed with lemon juice
1 tblsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp apple pie spice
1 egg white

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.
Melt the butter in a saucepan & whisk in the flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar and brown sugar, and bring to a boil. Then add the vanilla, cinn, nutmeg, cloves, allspice & apple pie spice- reduce temperature and let simmer.
Place the bottom crust in your pan (9in glass pie pan works best) & brush with the egg white. Fill with apples, mounded slightly. Pour the above mixture over the apples (reserving about 1/4 cup to brush over the top crust). Brush the top crust (lattice or full) with a little more egg white & the reserved syrup mix.

Bake on middle rack for about 50-55 min

Enjoy!

Lemon Pepper Pasta with Capers

Lemon Pepper Parmesean Pasta with Capers

6 garlic cloves, minced
2-3 tblsp lemon juice
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 cups chicken broth
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
3/4 cup parmesean cheese
1/4 cup capers
Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
12 ounces dried pasta
1 cup broccoli (steamed)
1 cup chicken (cooked & cut into bite sized pieces.)

1. Cook the garlic and lemon zest in the butter and oil, watch it to keep it from browning.
2. When the garlic is soft, add the broth and turn the heat to high; simmer until reduced by half & then add the cream, parmesean cheese and capers. Turn the heat back to medium and simmer until thickened.
3. Cook the pasta according to directions (i use corkscrew pasta- nom) and drain. Toss the pasta with the broccoli, chicken & lemon caper sauce.

Serves 5-6

Enjoy!!!

Chewy Apple Cookies

thanks to my overzealous apple picking adventures the other day, i have an ABUNDANCE of Cortland apple- just sitting here...begging to be cooked.

sooooo, cookie! and not cakey cookies either, chewy, COOKIE cookies! :)


Chewy Apple Cookies
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup butter softened
2 2/3 cups packed brown sugar
2 egg
1/2 cup milk
2 tsp baking soda
4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp apple pie spice
2 cups chopped apples + 4 tbls butter & 2 tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350.
Peel and chop the apples- saute in butter & cinnamon until soft (about 5-7 min) let cool.

Cream together the shortening, butter & brown sugar. Add the eggs one at a time & then the milk. Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, apple pie spice, ground cinnamon, allspice & ground nutmeg. Add to the wet mixture & then stir in apples.

Using a small ice cream scoop; drop spoonfuls of dough onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 8-10 min. Remove from oven, let sit on the cookie sheet for abot 2 minutes and then move to a wire rack to cool.

Enjoy!

The Best Apple Crisp

The Best Apple Crisp:

5-6 apples, peeled and sliced into 1/4-inch pieces (I used Cortland)
3 tbsp. sugar (i used 1-2 tblsp Turbinado sugar as well)
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 1/3 c. flour
1 1/3 c. light brown sugar
1/3 c. old-fashioned oats
2/3 c. chopped pecans (optional- i left them out)
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
pinch of salt
1/2 tsp Apple Pie Spice
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 stick of melted butter

Preheat oven to 350. Peel and slice the apples then toss them with the granulated sugar and teaspoon of cinnamon. Set that aside.

Toss all the dry ingredients together until they're well mixed, and then add the melted butter. Mix until the crisp topping looks like crumbs- big crumbs.

Toss a few of spoonfuls of the topping mixture into the apples and mix them together. Heap the apples into a buttered 9x9 dish (or bowl) and press the crisp topping on top. Bake forabout 50-55 min until the topping is brown and the apples are bubbly.

Serve with vanilla ice cream (or whipped cream or cool whip- etc etc) and enjoy.

FYI: it's ADDICTIVE! i sent the bowl wo work with the husband & he said it was gone in 4 minutes! dangerous.

God Bless

Jewish Apple Cake

Jewish Apple Cake:

5-6 apples (i use a mix of cortland, macintosh & granny smith)
1 tablespoon cinnamon
5 tablespoons sugar
2 3/4 cups flour, sifted
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup orange juice
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
1 cup walnuts, chopped (optional- i leave out)

Preheat oven to 350
Grease a tube pan (i use Bakers Joy)

Peel, core and chop apples into small chunks. Toss with cinnamon and sugar and set aside.

Mix together flour, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl. With a stand mixer (or hand mixer) mix together oil, orange juice, sugar and vanilla.
Mix wet & dry ingredients, then add the eggs, one at a time.
Make sure to scrape the bowl.

Pour half of batter into prepared pan & spread half of the apples over it.




Pour the remaining batter over the apples and arrange the remaining apples on top.


Bake for about 1 1/2 hours, or until a tester comes out clean.

Enjoy!

God Bless!

strawberry shortcake

You Need:

1 pint strawberries
1/4- 1/2 cup sugar
Cool Whip
Bisquick & ingredients for making bisquits- on box

You Need To:

Follow the instructions on the Bisqick box for making the strawberry shortcakes bisquits.
Cut up the strawberries & mix with the sugar (to taste) and let sit in the fridge for at least 30 min.

Once the bisquits are done, cut on half and layer on the strawberries & Cool Whip.

Yummmm. God Bless.