Baking & Dessert Recipes & Videos - Joyofbaking.com *Fully Tested... - StumbleUpon Butter Beer | The Wholesome Home Harry Potter is one of those movies I always try to squeeze in, in October, to get into the fall/Halloween season. This did not happen. Some how, I was at the grocery store, saw a lady running out of the store with bags of candy in her arms, and thought to myself, “I should probably get some trick or treat candy soon”. The thought stopped there! When I came home, B reminded me that beggar’s night was that night. I was busy cooking dinner and awaiting my brother-in-laws arrival. Back to Harry Potter- I love when Harry and his mates visit The Three Broom Sticks. I looked up recipes, but all were loaded with artificial flavors and ingredients. I’m sure vanilla ice cream would be equally delicious, but won’t give off that buttery flavor. Salted Butter Caramel Ice cream For the caramel 3/4 C organic gran vanilla sugar 1/2 t Fler De Sal 2 T salted butter In a small sauce pan add the sugar to the dry pan. Add the milk (reserving 1/4 C), cream, sugar, honey and salt together in a medium pot.
Lemonade Cucumber Spa Popsicle Recipe: Lemon Summer Pop I love anything travel. Most travel these days for me is work based. The itinerary usually has something to do with learning all kinds of neat stuff for my blog. No matter what kind of trip I am on I embrace the opportunity to blog about it. Wouldn’t we all love a vacation to a spa somewhere remote and beautiful? I would. I covet deep tissue massages, facials and sunrise yoga classes. Hold on, my fantasy continues…..how about spa cuisine made for me by a creative chef using all locally sourced organic produce. The spa grounds would be dotted with grazing Jersey cows. OK, I just woke up from that dream. You know that yummy cucumber-lemon water that fancy health clubs and spas have? Here is that quenching water sweetened and frozen into pop form. This recipe also qualifies for Summer Fest. In my last post I shared a favorite zucchini salad. I had fun going savory with the zucchini and I need something sweet for dessert. These fruity, citrus pops are the great finale to any meal. Ingredients
Absolutely Amazing DIY Birthday Cakes! Parenting.com has a fabulous birthday cake gallery/tutorial that is nothing short of AMAZING! Each of the 31 cakes in this gallery comes with step-by-step instructions on how you can recreate it at home. There’s some serious creativity & resourcefulness going on here! Pictured at top: Castle cake – featuring ice cream cone turrets…SWEET! Pictured below: Pirate Ship and Soccer Ball cakes. (The use of Oreo Crisps for the soccer ball is GENIUS!) This Lion cake design is adorable too… especially the chow-mein noodle “mane”! More favorites pictured below: Purse Cake with Giant Tootsie Roll handle, Train Birthday Cake – Engine (also check out the entire train cake) ,Ladybug cupcakes, Snake cupcakes, Dump Truck cake, ridiculously clever French Fries cake (toasted pound cake slices with red frosting dip!) Click here for a thumbnail view of all 31 cakes!
Frozen hot chocolate Frozen Hot Chocolate Oh my gosh, all I can say is it was a good thing that this frozen hot chocolate tasted so delicious. You’d never believe the mess I made while making it! We just got a new blender, and I think it’s safe to say its buttons are pretty darn sensitive. I took the lid off the blender, leaned forward, and evidently bumped a button. Chocolate was flying everywhere! Luckily, this is one tasty drink that I will make again, despite the mishap. Recipe: Frozen Hot Chocolate (adapted from Serendipity 3) 1 c. of good quality chocolate chips, your choice (I used a mixture of semisweet and milk chocolate) 4 teaspoons good quality store-bought hot chocolate mix 3 tablespoons sugar 3 cups milk, any fat content 5-6 cups ice whipped cream chocolate shavings Place chocolate in the top of a double boiler over simmering water. In a blender, place the remaining cup of milk, the chocolate mixture and the ice. Serves 4
Raw mango ice cream...yeyah!!! I've moved! Visit my new blog La Belle Vie for more recipes and healthy living tips. Don't forget to update your bookmarks <3 h3=""> Ok so clearly at this point my mango obsession is not a secret. Actually, I think I'll have some ice cream now while posting this. note: this ain't no sorbet, this is a seriously creamy ice cream. Raw vegan ice cream is amazingly delicious, but it's hard to find a raw one that's not all nuts, loads of agave or just blended frozen bananas (which I love too, but it's an eat right away, doesn't freeze well type of dish). To make 1/3c dates 1/4c water 1/2 avocado 2 mangos In a food processor or blender, combine the dates and water and blend/process until you get date paste. Put in an ice cream maker and follow the manufacturer's directions.
Rainbow Cake For Cake: 2 1/4 cups cake flour (9 ounces) 1 cup whole milk, at room temperature 6 large egg whites (3/4 cup), at room temperature 2 teaspoons almond extract 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar (12 1/4 ounces) 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon table salt 12 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), softened but still cool Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple gel food coloring For Frosting/Filling: 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar 10 large egg whites 2 pounds (8 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into tablespoons, softened 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1 pound best-quality white chocolate, melted and cooled Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare your cake pans by first liberally buttering the pans, then line the bottoms with parchment paper rounds. Pour milk, egg whites, and extracts into 2-cup glass measure, and mix with fork until blended. Divide batter evenly between six medium bowls. Let cakes rest in pans for 3 minutes.
9 drink recipes for fall and winter: Peanut butter hot chocolate Interested in uplifting stories on the natural world, sustainable communities, simple food, and new thinking on how to live well? Please enter a valid email address and try again! No thanks Watermelon and Cilantro Sorbet © Jaymi HeimbuchPhotos by Jaymi Heimbuch Call me weird, but I enjoy frozen desserts more in the winter than I do during the summer. And after developing this Watermelon and Tomato Gazpacho recipe, I was excited to mix up watermelon and cilantro again. Enjoy this sorbet with some champagne. 6 cups fresh watermelon1/4 cup cilantro, finely chopped 1. © Jaymi Heimbuch 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. I guess this dessert is more accurately called a Granita. A Granita is made just like a Sorbet but by hand. Visit the Green Wine Guide for more vegetarian recipes and wine pairings.
Mini Fruit Pies & Simple Organized Living I love pie. I love eating pie, I love making pie, I love nearly all vartities of pie! The only problem with pie is that the crust always seems to get soggy before we can eat it all — there are just 2 of us you know. So today — as I was contemplating whether or not I should make a pie (and knowing that my husband would definitly want me to make a pie) — I decided to try something new… … mini pies! I figured that if I made mini pies, I could make as many as we needed and I could customize the filling so everyone got their favorite pie. Not sure why I didn’t think of this sooner? Anyway, mini pies are extremely easy and take less than 20 minutes to bake (half that of most full pies) Ingredients: Pie Crust Dough — I used store bought refrigerated crust but feel free to use homemadeFilling — choose your favorite pie fillings and make mini batches of each one (or use canned filling) Directions: Use a biscuit cutter to create mini pie crusts — cut as many or as few as you want What is your favorite pie?
Funfetti Cheesecake Pops Funfetti Cheesecake Pops ~ That’s funfetti inside and out! It’s fun, it’s colorful, it’s funfetti cheesecake pops dipped in white chocolate with a chocolate pour and finished with nonpareils and jimmies, topping all that goodness off is a red M&M for good cheer. Funfetti Cheesecake Pops I am a sucker for food on a stick. These Funfetti Cheesecake pops are incredibly easy to make and everyone always loves them. I don’t know what it is about sprinkles, maraschino cherries and toppers of any sort, but they just make me smile. A few notes: You can use any size nonpareils. Funfetti Cheesecake Pops Makes an 8×8 pan Preparation: Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Ingredients: Cheesecake: 20 oz cream cheese, softened1 cup sugar1 tablespoon vanilla extract1/3 cup heavy whipping cream2 eggs3 tablespoons of nonpareils White Chocolate Dipping Sauce: 2/3 cups white chocolate1 tablespoons heavy cream4 tablespoons powdered sugar, sifted4-5 tablespoons water, warm Chocolate Pouring Sauce: Instructions: 1. Assembly: 1. 2.
Snickerdoodle Cupcakes w/Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting : Stephanies Kitchen My kids have been running around the house like chickens with their heads cut off. Tornados really. I don’t know if it is because we got our usual winter snowstorm in early spring, or if they are just tired of being in the house. So what does a Mom do when her kids are running around screaming and beating each other with wooden spoons and spatulas? We love Snickerdoodle cookies at our house. Have an awesome week. Snickerdoodle Cupcakes w/Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting makes 18 cupcakes 1 1/2 cups cake flour (or add 1 tablespoon cornstarch per 1 cup all purpose flour to make your own cake flour) 1/2 tablespoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 2/3 cup milk In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting Cream the cream cheese and butter until creamy and smooth. Happy Baking! xoxo, Steph
Joe Pastry - Category: Chocolate Chip Cookies Making Cream Cheese Frosting This really couldn’t be much easier, but heck, a couple of photos can’t hurt, right? Just combine all your ingredients in the bowl of a mixer with the paddle attached… …and beat for about 45 seconds until the frosting is smooth and uniform. You might need to scrape the bowl once to make sure all the ingredients are well combined. Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe Cream cheese’s gaminess and gumminess make it a rather odd base for a frosting. 12 ounces cream cheese 8 ounces soft butter 8 ounces powdered sugar ½ teaspoon vanilla extract Whip on medium-high speed until smooth. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles | recipegirl.com - StumbleUpon I’ve never liked chocolate chip cookies. Go ahead and throw tomatoes at me if you’d like, but I don’t like ’em. They’re just a plain old cookie, after all, with a few studs of chocolate chips in them. I know there are plenty of cookie-dough-nay-sayers out there… you know, the salmonella scare and all . Chilled dough is rolled into 1-inch balls. Those chilled dough balls are dipped in chocolate and then placed onto waxed paper to set. I dipped a few in Ghirardelli White Chocolate Bark and a few in the Chocolate version too. Oh yeah! Yield: 3 to 4 dozen truffles Prep Time: 45 min + chilling time Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles Best served cold, these treats are for cookie-dough lovers. Ingredients: Directions: 1. 2. 3. Tips: *I used the Ghirardelli Candy Making Dipping Bar- both Double Chocolate and White flavors. *Have your own favorite cookie dough recipe?