Cinnamon Doughnut Pound Cake

When I first thought about doing something like this I laughed, because it seemed like just crazy, but doing crazy things is what may lead you to great things, in baking world I mean :)
Well it all starts like this, I had some leftover cinnamon doughnuts at home so I decided to have them crushed and see how I could fit them into a new creation

So here they are, little cinnamon doughnuts, about 12, just have them crushed

Place the crushed doughnuts all over the base of a buttered and floured mold, then pour the batter carefully

Bake it for aprox. 40 min at 375F or 190C

CAKE

1/2 cups unsalted butter softened Preheat oven to 350º.butter and flour a 9 by 5 inch loaf pan.

2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 

1 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 large eggs

1/2 cup plain cream 

FROSTING 

3 Tbsp. butter

3 Tbsp. evaporated milk

1 Tbsp. vanilla extract

1 1/4 cups powder sugar

CHOCOLATE DECORATION

if desired you can use either one:

100 grs. semi-sweet chocolate ganache

or 100 grs. melted semi-sweet chocolate

HOW TO

Arrange the crushed cinnamon doughnuts on the base of the pan.

Mix flour and baking powder and set aside.

Cream butter, add sugar and vanilla and beat for 4 minutes, then add the eggs one at the time, and continue beating,add the cream and then

 add the flour mixture until well combined.

Spoon batter on top of crushed doughnuts

Bake for 40 min at 375F or 190C 

Let cool on a wire rack, 10 to 15 min

Let cool completely

DECORATIONCombine all the ingredients and cover the cake

if you like you can make little decorations with chocolate ganache or just melted chocolate

E N J O Y!

Moist Orange Ring Cake

This is a very simple orange cake, the kind you are in the mood to enjoy anytime, I decided to add a little creative decoration to go with it, I made it for a family reunion and everybody liked it, hope you do too

ready to be baked

just out of the oven

sift powder sugar over the cake and the wax paper lines

take away some lines of paper and sift some powder cinnamon READY!
CAKE

1cup of sugar 

1/2 cup of butter melted

2 eggs beaten

1 1/4 cups sifted cake flour

1/4 tsp. salt

2 tsp. baking powder

2/3 cup fresh orange juice

Decoration:

powder sugar

cinnamon

HOW TO

Stir butter and sugar.

Add eggs and mix well

Add sifted flour, salt, and baking powder alternately with 1/3 cup orange juice , mixing until blended.

Pour into a ring mold, line on the bottom with wax paper

Bake in preheated moderate oven, for about 30 minutes

Remove to serving plate and peel off paper, let cool.

DECORATION

Cut a few lines of wax paper and then sift the powder sugar, then take out 2 or 3 and sift cinnamon.

Artistic Flower Jell-O

This jell-o is beautiful to look at and delicious at the same time, you need a little practice and patience, but the results are amazing. People think you used plastic flowers. they can't believe you did them with a syringe

 

Transparent Jell-o 

start injecting the center of the flower

add some pink petals you can bend the needle and continue injecting

add green and milk Jell-o to finish 

FOR THE TRANSPARENT JELL-O

6 cups of water (divided in 3 parts )
450 gr. sugar
60 gr. unflavored gelatin
2 gr. citric acid
3 tbsp. liquid flavouring (raspberry, pineapple, orange, lemon)

MILK FLOWERS
4 cups of milk ( divided in 3)
300 gr. sugar
40 gr. unflavored gelatin
20 ml. bioxido de titanio 16%( In english maybe titanium bioxide 16% which means edible) This substance is for making the milk flower jell-o more elastic and easier to manage.
2 tbsp. almond flavoring 


FOR MAKING THE FLOWERS 
1 or 2 syringes regular ones will do, meaning not for insuline because the needle is very narrow. 


Bowl with hot water 


FOR TRANSPARENT JELL-O

1.Pour one part of water and mix it with unflavoured gelatin.
2.Put another part of water to boil with the sugar.
3. When it starts boiling put the fire off and add the gelatn mix.
4.Move it slowly till the gelatin dissolves.
5.Add the last part of water.
6.Add the citric acid.
7.Add the liquid flavouring.


Wait till it's not hot and pour it in a greased mold, (it can be a pyrex,or any jell-o mold, it's better if it's transparent, that will help you see how you go with the decoration, you have to grease it with a little cooking oil, put it in a paper napkin and just place a little oil all over the mold, this is for an easy unmold.


Let it stand for 3 hours in the fridge.


FOR THE MILK FLOWERS

1. hydrate the unflavored gelatin in one part of milk.
2. Put the second part of milk to boil with the sugar.
3. When it starts boiling put off the fire and add the gelatin mixture.
4.Wait till the gelatin dissolves in the milk.
5. Add the almond flavouring.
6. Add the bioxido de titanio 16%


Now you're almost ready, divide your milk jell-o in as many parts you want, you're going to add some drops of food coloring to each part.
For working the flowers you need a bowl with hot water, you need this in order to put the syringe for example the one with yellow milk while working with the pink syringe
the hot water keep thIf your flower jello starts to set you put it a few seconds in the macrowave and continue working.

You start with  the yellow, fill the syringe and just go into the transparent jell-o like if you were injecting someone, or the christmas turkey.
you can practice in an spare transparent jell-o.
Then the pink, you go in with the syrige, inyect some color move the syringe while going out to make like petals and continue to do more, the only secret is to start always at the same point.
you can clean the transparent jell-o with a cloth with warm water squeezed of course.
You can add as many colors and petals as you want, and finally finish with milk jell-o I used white one (with no coloring).
Let it stand and enjoy. eat as a regular jell-o.

you can check some more fruit jell-o´s here:
http://www.duche.com/ / gelatin@duche.com/publicidad@radareditores.com

Valentine´s Day Jell-O

As you know I love jell-o its something about the freshnes and texture but mainly about creativity that I´m just always in the mood to make a different one.

Valentine´s day is coming, so nothing better than creating a jell-o just for this special day

You have to make two preparations:

*milk Jello (done after the water jello is set)

*water Jello (done first)

WATER  JELLO

4 cups of water

300 grs. sugar (a little over 1 cup)

27 grs. unflavored jell-o

1 extra cup of water

1 gr. citric acid

2 tbsp raspberry flavoring
2 or 3 drops red food color

depending on the flavor.

*you can always use a store-bought box of  Jell-o and follow the instructions

MILK JELL-O

4 cups of milk

300 grs. sugar ( a little over 1 cup)

27 grs. unflavored jell-o

2 Tbsp of vanilla flavoring( you can use almond too)

1 extra cup of milk

**IF You don't have citric acid, don't worry, the jell-o comes out the same, the only difference it will come out sweeter.

WATER JELLO

Mix the unflavored gelatin with the extra cup of water, let it stand.

In a saucepan heat the 4 cups of water with the sugar, when it starts boiling add the unflavored gelatine and move till it dissolves perfectly in the water.

take it away from the stove and let stand for 10 minutes.

Add the citric acid, and the flavoring.

Put this jell-o in one rectangular or square mold, whatever form is allright. this mold has to be greased with a little oil, just some drops, this way it you can unmold it better.

When Jell-o is set you take it out of the fridge and with a heart shaped cookie cutter you cut the jell-o in as many hearts you like.

You will have some jell-o left overs, you put them in a small bowl for some seconds in the microwave and it will become our "glue" so you can put some drops of this glue in each heart and paste them in a lager mold, a round one is all right.

This action is done so that the hearts remain glued to the mold when the milk jello is poured on top.

MILK JELLO

Do the same steps.

Mix the unflavored jell-o with the extra cup of milk, set aside.

Heat the rest of the milk with the sugar.

Add the unflavored gelatin mixture to the almost boiling milk

mix perfectly, take away from stove.

Let stand for 10 minutes.

Add vanilla or almond flavoring (vanilla can add a little color and almond won't)

Let the milk jell-o cool down and then when it is warm you add it to the mold, this also has to be greased with some drops of oil.

Let the mik jell-o stand.

This is better if done one day ahead, so that both jell-o´s turn firm.

Then you can unmold the Jell-o

**the oil I use is normal cooking oil, just a few drops to unmold better.

HAPPY V-DAY!

Top Crumb Banana and Cream Cheese Bread

I absolutely adore banana breads,

and I thought the combination with the  cream cheese would be incredible, so I made this bread hoping my family would love it, and you too, of course.

banana bread mixture, cream cheese mixture and crumb mixture

Bread mixture with cream cheese mixture

ready, now oven time!

ready!!!!

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 

1 tsp baking soda 

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

3 bananas mashed

3/4 cup white sugar 

1 egg lightly beaten

1/3 cup vegetable oil

8 oz cream cheese

1/3 cup sugar

2 tbsp all purpose flour

1/8tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp butter

HOW TO MAKE IT

Preheat oven to 375degrees F. (190 degrees C)

Lightly grease a rectangular pan, or any shape you like

In a large bowl mix toghether 1 1/2 cups of flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg and oil.

Stir banana mixture into flour mixture just until moistened.

Spoon half the batter into prepared pan.

in a little bowl mix cream cheese and sugar

and pour in a line form on top of the first part of the

banana batter.

Then top with the rest of the batter and add crumble top by mixing

   the 2Tbs of flour, the cinamon and the 1Tbsp butter.

Bake in preheated oven for about 30 min, or until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean

DECORATION

For decoration you can sift some powder sugar if you like



Vanilla and Raspberry Jello

February! wow its already here, well this month is very special for me because on the 13th is my Birthday, so I would like to share with you many favorite recipes, this vanilla-raspberry jello is not only simple, very easy to make but delicious, hope you like it

Water JELL-O

4 cups of water

300 grs. sugar (a little over 1 cup)

27 grs. unflavored jell-o

1 extra cup of water

1 gr. citric acid

2 tbsp raspberry flavoring (you can use any flavor, strawberry, orange, pineapple, lemon, etc)

2 or 3 drops red food color (you can change color depending on the flavor.

MILK JELL-O

4 cups of milk

300 grs. sugar ( a little over 1 cup)

27 grs. unflavored jell-o

2 Tbsp of vanilla flavoring( you can use almond too) 

1 extra cup of milk

*IF You don't have citric acid, don't worry, the jell-o comes out the same, the only difference it will come out sweeter.

*The water jell-o must be done in advance, so it is ready when you start the milk jell-o.

 

HOW -TO

 WATER JELLO

Mix the unflavored gelatin with the extra cup of water, let it stand.

In a saucepan heat the 4 cups of water with the sugar, when it starts boiling add the unflavored gelatine and move till it dissolves perfectly in the water.

take it away from the stove and let stand for 10 minutes.

Add the citric acid, and the flavoring.

Put this jell-o in one small mold, whatever form is allright. this mold has to be greased with a little oil, just some drops, this way it you can unmold it better.

When the water Jell-o  is done you put it into a larger mold, the one you are using for the milk jell-o.

MILK JELLO

Do the same steps.

Mix the unflavored jell-o with the extra cup of milk, set aside.

Heat the rest of the milk with the sugar.

Add the unflavored gelatin mixture to the almost boiling milk

mix perfectly, take away from stove.

Let stand for 10 minutes.

Add vanilla or almond flavoring (vanilla can add a little color and almond won't), if you like you can add color too.

Let the milk jell-o cool down and then when it is warm you add it to the mold, this also has to be greased with some drops of oil.

the oil I use is normal cooking oil, just a few drops to unmold better.

When milk jell-o is cooled you just pour it into the mold, being almost cold avoids the water jell-o to melt.

Refrigerate for at least 3 to 4 hours.

Ready, enjoy!