As I mentioned in my previous post, the weather in the great NC has been rather fickle. We are just now getting a major heat wave! I have been taking advantage cool weather and been baking like crazy. You don't dare turn the oven on in the summer! Even with air conditioning, cranking an oven to 350 degrees will take the starch out of your undies.
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Italian Tiramisu
Every year for my Grandmother's birthday, I make her Tiramisu for a birthday cake. She adores it and always orders it when we when go to Olive Garden. I personally can't stand the stuff. I don't like the taste of coffee and Tiramisu just doesn't do anything for me.
Normal Tiramisu is made with mascarpone, ladyfingers and rum. I don't use any of these ingredients. Half of them I can't find and the other half are WAY out of my college budget. It really doesn't matter, unless you are the Type A perfectionist. It all tastes the same.
The goods:
6 large egg yolks
3/4 cup sugar
2/3 cup milk
2 packages cream cheese
1 & 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup strong coffee, chilled
2 packages pound cake (you can even use two vanilla loaf cakes from the Walmart bakery)
1 & 1/2 teaspoons baking cocoa
The details:
1. In a large saucepan, beat egg yolks and sugar until well mixed. Whisk in milk. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir for one minute. Remove from heat and pour into a medium bowl. Wrap the top with plastic wrap of the custard mixture and leave in the refrigerator for about an hour to an hour and a half.
2. Cut cream cheese into small pieces and mix in with the custard until smooth.
3. In a mixing bowl, beat whipping cream and vanilla until stiff peaks form.
4. Layer one pound cake on the bottom of an 11 X 7 baking dish. Brush with chilled coffee (I saturate the pound cake, it increases the flavor). Spread half of the custard mixture over the pound cake, repeat with half the whipped cream.
5. Repeat Step 4. so that there are two layers of the pound cake, custard and whipped cream. Sprinkle the second whipped cream layer with baking cocoa. Chill for about an hour, this allows all the flavors to mix in with one another and make a more flavorful dessert.
This is a great dessert for summer! It is light, airy and doesn't sit heavy on your stomach. Especially in North Carolina when a heavy stomach in the summer is just miserable. I have to say, this time around, this Tiramisu was pretty tasty =)
The goods:
6 large egg yolks
3/4 cup sugar
2/3 cup milk
2 packages cream cheese
1 & 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup strong coffee, chilled
2 packages pound cake (you can even use two vanilla loaf cakes from the Walmart bakery)
1 & 1/2 teaspoons baking cocoa
The details:
1. In a large saucepan, beat egg yolks and sugar until well mixed. Whisk in milk. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir for one minute. Remove from heat and pour into a medium bowl. Wrap the top with plastic wrap of the custard mixture and leave in the refrigerator for about an hour to an hour and a half.
2. Cut cream cheese into small pieces and mix in with the custard until smooth.
3. In a mixing bowl, beat whipping cream and vanilla until stiff peaks form.
4. Layer one pound cake on the bottom of an 11 X 7 baking dish. Brush with chilled coffee (I saturate the pound cake, it increases the flavor). Spread half of the custard mixture over the pound cake, repeat with half the whipped cream.
5. Repeat Step 4. so that there are two layers of the pound cake, custard and whipped cream. Sprinkle the second whipped cream layer with baking cocoa. Chill for about an hour, this allows all the flavors to mix in with one another and make a more flavorful dessert.
This is a great dessert for summer! It is light, airy and doesn't sit heavy on your stomach. Especially in North Carolina when a heavy stomach in the summer is just miserable. I have to say, this time around, this Tiramisu was pretty tasty =)
Friday, December 23, 2011
Russian Teacakes
Today is the annual Brown family Christmas cookie baking and Christmas movie watching day. One cookie that I absolutely LOVE that I always make is the Russian Teacake. It's a small shortbread cookie with nuts, rolled in powdered sugar.
The goods:
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 & 1/4 cups flour
3/4 cups chopped nuts (I use walnuts, but any kind of nut will work)
1/4 teaspoon salt
The details:
1) Preheat the oven to 400 degrees
2) Mix together butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla until mixed together thoroughly. Stir in flour, nuts and salt
3) Roll dough into 1 inch balls, place on cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until cookies are set. (Note: The cookies should be just barely brown on the bottom when you are ready to pull them out of the oven.)
4) Pull the cookies off the cookie sheet and roll them in a bowl of powdered sugar until completely coated
It's nothing too fancy-smancy or sweet, but it sure is a tasty little thing. Merry Christmas, ya'll!!
~Emma
The goods:
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 & 1/4 cups flour
3/4 cups chopped nuts (I use walnuts, but any kind of nut will work)
1/4 teaspoon salt
The details:
1) Preheat the oven to 400 degrees
2) Mix together butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla until mixed together thoroughly. Stir in flour, nuts and salt
3) Roll dough into 1 inch balls, place on cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until cookies are set. (Note: The cookies should be just barely brown on the bottom when you are ready to pull them out of the oven.)
4) Pull the cookies off the cookie sheet and roll them in a bowl of powdered sugar until completely coated
It's nothing too fancy-smancy or sweet, but it sure is a tasty little thing. Merry Christmas, ya'll!!
~Emma
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