viernes, 24 de agosto de 2012

Microwave Vanilla-Coffee Caramels

I just love caramels, since I was a little girl I remember liking them better than chocolates or other treat, this time I finnaly came to find the right recipe.
Luckily I found this recipe and made a few changes. I hope you like it as much as I do and do it often, as it is a very easy recipe.
 
INGREDIENTS:
1/4 cup of butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon instant coffee powder
 
For the topping:
1 cup milk chocolate chips
3/4 halved walnuts
 
HOW TO:
in a microwave safe bowl (at least 2 quart) add butter, white and brown sugar, syrup, sweetened condensed milk, coffee powder and vanilla.
Stir together and place in microwave, uncovered for 7 minutes, stopping and strirring twice during the cooking time.
Remove from microwave and pour into prepared lined paper which I also sprayed some cooking spray
 
Cut in circles, squares or any shape you like
Press halved walnuts on top of the caramel
 
 
 
Melt chocolate in microwave, pour into a piping bag and
pour chocolate over walnuts and caramel
Ready!
Enjoy!
 
 


sábado, 28 de julio de 2012

My favorite Pound Cake




I love pound cakes, there´s something about simplicity that I treasure, this recipe is incredibly moist and delicious, so I would like to share it with you feel free to dust on top powder sugar, sugar crystals, or maybe a chocolate ganache if you´re in for some chocolate fun
Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature (additional for buttering pan)
3 cups sifted flour (additional fur dusting)
1/2 tsp. salt
3 cups sugar
7 large eggs

2 tsp. vainilla extract
1 cup heavy cream

1 bundt pan


How to:
Grease and flour pan
Sift toghether flour, and salt
Beat toghether butter, and sugar with an electric mixer, until pale and fluffy
Add eggs one at the time, beating after each addition
Add vanilla
Slowly add half of flour
Add heavy cream
Add rest of the flour
beat perfectly well untill creamy
Spoon batter into pan
Cook  at 350°F
Bake until golden or tothpick comes out clean
cool for 30 minutes

Enjoy!

domingo, 17 de junio de 2012

Capuccino Chocolate Cake

Last  March I baked this cake for my mother in law,
she loves chocolate and coffee,
so I made this cake which made her very happy

Cake
200 grs. butter
200 grs. sugar
150 grs. flour
200 grs. milk chocolate
65 grs. milk
6 egg whites
6 egg yolks
1 1/2 Tbsp. powder coffee
(diluted in 1 tbsp. of water)
Frosting
250 grs. milk chocolate
1 can condensed milk
1 Tbsp. powder coffee (diluted in 3 Tbsp. evaporated milk)
CAKE
Preheat oven to 350 °F.
cream the butter untill it has a lighter color , then add ,beat for one minute,
then the chocolate, give this 2 minutes and add milk and coffee.
In another bowl whisk the egg whites untill stiff,
 then add it to the cake batter with soft revolving movements.
Grease a pan, this is a medium cake, so any medium to big cake pan will do.
 Put the cake batter in the oven and bake for 35 to 45 min. or untill it's done.

FROSTING
1.Heat the condensed milk, and add the melted chocolate and the diluted coffee beating till you can see the bottom of the pan, (about 15 to 20 min)
Cover the cake .


DECORATION
Cover the cake with half of the frosting, the rest pipe it to create lines like I did
and if you like you can add sugar crystals.
Enjoy!!!



miércoles, 23 de mayo de 2012

Apple Cobbler


Apple Cobbler always makes me think of home, almost
everyone love cobblers, at least I do :)
I hope you like this easy recipe

Ingredients:
1 cup butter at room t°
1 cup granulated sugar
1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
3 eggs
2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 can apple pie filling
1/2 cup of milk
Crumble:
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp.cinnamon

How to:
Preheat oven to 350°F
Grease a 9inch pan, and set aside

Combine butter and sugar untill well blended
add vanilla
Add baking powder and flour
mix well
Spread onto bottom of mold
Add apple pie filling
Spread all over the apple filling and batter
Mix crumble ingredients and spread all over
Bake for 50 min.
let it stand untill cooled
and dust with powder sugar if desired


Enjoy!!!


martes, 8 de mayo de 2012

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pound Cake

 

 I created this cookie dough pound cake, as I was looking through my
recipes, I decided to do it the easy way, meaning I did from scratch
only the pound cake, the cookie dough I used a mix, and saved time.

INGREDIENTS:
Cookie Dough Base
1 bag of chocolate chip cookie mix
1 egg
90grs. butter

Pound Cake
45 grs. butter
1/2 cup sugar
1Tbsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking powder
100 grs. whipping cream
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
Decoration
1 Tbsp. cocoa

HOW TO:
Preheat the oven to 300°F

 For the cookie base
melt the butter and just mix all the ingredients together
press into the previously greased and floured mold


For the Pound Cake:
Melt the butter, add the sugar and with electric mixer
blend in eggs, vanilla, baking powder, whipping cream
milk, and flour.
Pour over the cookie dough base


Bake for 40 to 45 min.
Decorate with cocoa or powder sugar, you can use a pattern
if you like, I just placed some paper cut rectangles on top
of the cake and then sifted some cocoa


ENJOY!



martes, 17 de abril de 2012

Cookie Cake

Cookie Cake
the name sounds good to me,
we had baked some sugar cookies
 which to be honest turned out a little brown,
 so I decided to do something with them,
a cake made out with cookies!!!

INGREDIENTS
CAKE
4 cups crushed sugar cookies
2 cups whole milk
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1 Tbsp. baking powder
1 Tbsp cornstarch
1 1/2 Tbsp. vanilla
3 eggs

FROSTING
1cup powder sugar
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1Tbsp. evaporated milk

HOW TO:
Preheat oven to 325°F
 break the cookies  if you want to use the food
processor its fine

Add the milk and vanilla

Add eggs, sugar, baking powder, cornstarch and
flour, beating well in between each addition


Bake for 30 min or until you insert a toothpick
and comes out clean

Ready!

FROSTING:
mix all the ingredients, you may add some more drops
of evaporated milk if necessary
cover the cake 
 Enjoy!!

miércoles, 28 de marzo de 2012

Pumpkin Cupcakes

I have always had something special with pumpkin treats, its not that here in Mexico is that popular but I don´t know, I just love it.
I had a spare can of pumpkin puree and decided to do something with it
I hope you like this easy and delicious recipe
Preheat oven to 350°f
 place your paper cases

MUFFINS
2 cups white sugar
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups canned pumpkin
2 tsp. baking soda
4 eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp.salt

HOW TO
Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, set aside.
In a large bowl combine sugar and oil, blend in vanilla and pumpkin.
then beat in eggs one at a time.
Gradually beat in flour mixture,

Spread batter into prepared paper cases.


Bake for about 20 min or until a toothpick inserted into the
 center of the cake comes out clean, allow to


Decoration
sift some powder sugar if you like