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Old Fashioned Apple Pie

24 Sunday Dec 2017

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Old Fashioned Apple Pie

Ingredientswrks4me_terry_tested-11

  • 4-8 apples 20 oz (I use Gala)
  • 2 Tablepoons of lemon juice
  • 2/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 3 Tablespoons flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 2 tablespoons butter

Crumble Topping

  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 6 tablespoons chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes

Directions

  1. Peel and slice apples and add lemon juice to prevent browning
  2. Combine all dry ingredients and toss together with apples
  3. Put into a prepared unbaked pie shell
  4. Top with pie pastry and add slits to allow steam to escape or top with a Crumble Topping.
  5. Bake at 425 degrees F for 15 minutes then turn down to 350 degees F for 45 minutes. If the edges are getting too brown, place strips of foil around the edge while baking.

Directions for Crumble Toppings

Mix together all ingredients until they resemble course meal and sprinkle on top of pie mixture

Pecan Snowball Cookies

24 Sunday Dec 2017

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Pecan Snowball Cookies

Ingredientswrks4me_terry_tested-11

  • 1 cup of flour
  • 1 cup finely chopped pecans
    (you can also toast them)
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 3 Tablespoon granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup of powdered icing sugar for coating cookies

Directions

  1. Put all ingredients (except icing sugar) into a bowl
  2. Mix all together with your hands
    (you can put in refrigerator for 1/2 hour if cookie mixture are too soft to roll into balls)
  3. Roll cookies by hand into 1 inch balls (1/2 Tablespoon)
  4. Place on a cookie sheet lined with either parchment paper or silicone pad
  5. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
    Watch them carefully as they can burn
  6. After they are cooked, roll them hot into the icing sugar which will “melt” over them. Once they are cooled, rolled them again (gently) in powdered sugar. Store loosely covered.

To Toast Nuts: Place them in an ungreased baking pan and bake at 350 degrees F for 8-10 minutes. Let them cool and then chop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Directions

  1. Put all ingredients (except icing sugar) into a bowl
  2. Mix all together with your hands
    (you can put in refrigerator for 1/2 hour if cookie mixture are too soft to roll into balls)
  3. Roll cookies by hand into 1 inch balls
  4. Place on a cookie sheet lined with either parchment paper or silicone pad
  5. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
    Watch them carefully as they can burn
  6. After they are cooked, roll them hot into the icing sugar which will “melt” over them. Once they are cooled, rolled them again (gently) in powdered sugar. Store loosely covered.

 

To Toast Nuts: Place them in an ungreased baking pan and bake at 350 degrees F for 8-10 minutes. Let them cool and then chop

 

Apple Orchard Bread Pudding

31 Tuesday Oct 2017

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Bread Pudding

Ingredients

  • 7 sliced of thick bread, cubed (5 cups/120 ml)wrks4me_terry_tested-11
  • 2 cups peeled and cored apples chopped
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 (385 mL) can of 2% Evaporated Milk
  • 1 cup water
  • 2/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
  • Maple syrup to drizzle overtop

Directions

  1. Combine bread crumbs and apples in a large bowl
  2. Beat eggs and stir in evaporated milk, water, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon
  3. Pour over bread mixture. Moisten bread completely.
  4. Sprinkle with chopped nuts
  5. Place in greased 8” square baking dish
  6. Place in a larger pan. Fill pan with hot water to 1” up the sides of the pudding dish.
  7. Baked at 350 degrees F for 60-65 minutes or until st and top is golden
  8. Serve warm with maple syrup

To test for doneness, insert knife in center and it should come out clean.

 

Death by Chocolate Bundt Cake

26 Wednesday Jul 2017

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Death by chocolate cake

Ingredients

  • 2 cups of flourwrks4me_terry_tested-11
  • 1 3/4 cups of sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda
  • 1 cup of unsalted butter
  • 1/3 cup of cocoa powder
  • 1 cup of water
  • 1/2 tsp of salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup sour cream (or use yogurt, cream, buttermilk)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

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FOR GANACHE

  • 4 ounces of dark chocolate
  • 1/2 cup of whipping cream

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
  2. Combine flour, sugar and baking soda into a bowl
  3. Put butter in pan and melt over medium heat, add cocoa powder, water and salt and heat till butter is melted and everything is incorporated (use a whisk)
  4. Make a well into the flour mixture pour in 1/2 of the cocoa mixture and whisk. Add remaining chocolate mixture and continue to stir
  5. Add one egg at a time and then the vanilla and finally the sour cream. Mix well with a whisk and pour into a oil sprayed silicon bundt pan preferably. Put the bundt pan on a cookie sheet and put in preheated oven
  6. Bake for 50 minutes and test with a wooden skewer
  7. Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack

To make Ganache

  1. Heat whipping cream  in a microwave til very hot
  2. Pour whipping cream over chocolate and stir til smooth and glossy
  3. Pour over top of cake

Optional Cream Cheese Icing

  • 2 cups of icing sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 cup of butter
  • 1 (250g) package of cream cheese

Put all ingredients into a mixing bowl and beat until smooth with a hand mixer

Serve and enjoy

Original recipe

 

Strawberry Mousse Cake

26 Wednesday Jul 2017

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Strawberry mousse cake

Ingredientswrks4me_terry_tested-11

  • 1 (28 oz) Gelatin powder
  • 30 grams of boiling water
  • 135 grams digestive cookies
  • 40 grams of melted butter
  • 450 grams of whipping cream
  • 60 grams of sugar
  • 1 teaspoons of vanilla
  • Lady Finger6-8 Giant Lady Fingers (ie Milano brand)
  • Half strawberries for lining the sides of the springform pan (see photo above)
  • Strawberries pieces for middle
  • Sliced Strawberries for decoration of top

Strawberry mousse cake 2

Start by making Strawberry Purée

  • 3 tablespoons of sugar
  • 200 grams of frozen or fresh strawberries
  • 3 tablespoons of cold water
  • 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
  • 9″ springform pan
  • 28 grams of gelatin powder
  • 30 grams of boiled water

Directions

  1. Prepare gelatin by adding 30 grams of boiled water to 1 (28 gram) package of Gelatin in a heat proof bowl
  2. Let sit for 10 minutes


Continue to make the rest of the cake 

STEP 1

  1. Put Digestive cookies in a plastic zip bag and crush
  2. Put into a bowl
  3. Add 40 grans of melted butter
  4. Press into the bottom of a 9″ springform pan
  5. Take the strawberry halves and arrange them along along the bottom and touching the sides of the pan facing out (see photo above)

STEP 2

  1. Put 200 grams of frozen or fresh strawberries in a food processor and dice
  2. Put strawberries, lemon juice and sugar in a pot
  3. Heat on low heat
  4. Add gelatin to warm strawberries
  5. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes
  6. Make sure the strawberries are a purée or use a hand blender to smooth it out
  7. Cool down as the purée will be added to the whipped cream mixture

STEP 3

  1. In a cool bowl add 450 grams of whipping cream
  2. Whip cream with a mixer until soft peaks form
  3. Add the 45 grams of sugar and the 2 teaspoons of vanilla  a little at a time until peaks are glossy

STEP 4

Fold the cooled strawberry purée into the whipped cream and mix carefully

STEP 5

  1. Pour half of the mouse mixture into the bottom of the springform pan
  2. Layer the soft lady fingers on top the mousse mixture
    (if using hard lady fingers dip the both sides into some milk with a little vanilla in it)
  3. Add a small amount of mousse and then add the diced strawberries as a layer
  4. Add the remaining strawberry mousse mixture and spread the top flat

Step 6

  1. Arrange sliced strawberries starting from the outside in rows.
  2. For the second row start the strawberries row by layering strawberries over the first row and offset them between the first row strawberries
  3. Continue with additional rows and finish with a single whole strawberry in the middle (check photo above)

STEP 7

Cool overnight to set

Serve cold and enjoy

 

 

 

Cheerio Cookies

11 Sunday Jun 2017

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Cherrio Cookies

Ingredientswrks4me_terry_tested-11

  • 1 cup butter or margarine
  • 1 cup of white sugar (or sugar substitute)
  • 1 cup brown sugar (or sugar substitute)
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 3 cups of Cheerios or similar cereal (I use multi-grain)
  • 1 (6 ounce) package chocolate chips

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
  2. Cream butter, peanut butter and sugars together
  3. Add vanilla and eggs
  4. Sift in flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder together and fold into mixture
  5. Add oatmeal (rolled oats), Cheerios and chocolate chips
  6. Drop by full tablespoon or small cookie scoop onto a parchment lined cookie sheet
  7. Bake for 10-12 minutes (depending on oven)
  8. Cool on a cookie rack

Enjoy

Original Recipe

 

Choco-Coconut Low Sugar Brownie Cookie

09 Tuesday May 2017

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Ingredientswrks4me_terry_tested-11

  • 1 1/3 Cups Golden Crisco Shortening (325 ml)
  • 1 cup Splenda sugar substitute (250 ml)
  • 2 cups Splenda brown sugar substitute (see below)
  • 1 Tbsp Vanilla  (15 ml)
  • 4 eggs, slightly beaten
  • 1 cups almond flour
  • 2 cups coconut flour
  • 2/3 cup Cocoa Powder (150 ml)
  • 1 tsp baking soda (5 ml)
  • 1 tsp salt (5 ml)
  • 1 cup milk or cashew milk
  • 1½ cups walnut pieces (375 ml)
  • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (250 ml) (subsitute sugarless chocolate chips if you can)
  • 1/2 cup of shredding coconut

Directions

Preheat oven to 325°F

  1. COMBINE Golden Crisco, Splenda sugar, Splenda brown sugar and vanilla in large bowl and
  2. BEAT with electric mixer on low speed for 1 minute or until creamy.
  3. ADD beaten eggs
  4. COMBINE Almond and Coconut flours, cocoa, baking soda and salt. ADD to creamed mixture alternatively with milk, beating on low speed about 1 minute, or just until blended.
  5. STIR in with spoon, nuts,chocolate chips and coconut
  6. DROP dough by heaping spoonfuls (about 2 Tbsp for each cookie) on parchment lined cookie sheet.
  7. BAKE at 325°F for 10 to 12 minutes. Cookies will still appear soft and moist when baked, but firm upon cooling. Cool 2 minutes.

Note: These cookies do not flatten out

How to make brown sugar with Splenda

  • 1 cup of Splenda
  • 1 teaspoon molasses
  • 1 or 2 drops of extract of maple

Put Splenda, molasses and maple extract into a cup and mix together with a fork until well blended

 

 

Salted Cracker Toffee

10 Tuesday Jan 2017

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Ingredients

  • 36-40 salted saltine crackers or enough to line your cookie sheet pan
  • 1 to 1 1/4 cups unsalted butter (dependent on size of cookie sheet)
  • 1 to 1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar (dependent on size of cookie sheet)
  • 2 cups milk chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • (optional) 1 cup chopped pecans or your favourite nuts

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
  2. Line a cookie sheet with a layer of crackers
  3. Put sugar and butter into a pot and bring to a boil. Continue to boil for approximately 3 minutes until it turns a deep caramel colour. Do not burn
  4. Pour over the cracker and spread to completely cover them
  5. Bake in the over for 5-6 minutes
  6. Remove from oven and sprinkle the chocolate chips over the all. When they have melted, begin to spread over crackers.
  7. Add optional nuts
  8. Allow to cool before serving and break into pieces

Originally recipe

Apple Streusel Cake

06 Friday Jan 2017

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Ingredientswrks4me_terry_tested-11

Streusel Topping

  • 1/2 cup (65 grams) all purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup (55 grams) firmly packed light brown sugar
  • 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons (40 grams) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
  • 1/2 cup (50 grams) toasted and coarsely chopped nuts (can use almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts or pecans)

Batter

  • 3 cups of diced apples (either delicious, cortland, macintosh, honey crisp, empire, spartan apples)
  • 1 cup of flour
  • 2 teaspoons of baking powder
  • 1/4 cup of vegetable oil (canola)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 eggs + 1 egg yolk
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • Zest of 1 orange
  • 3 large apples (sliced for top of cake)

Note: For Keto (low carb diet) substitute 1 cup of flour for 1/2 cup of gluten free flour mixture and 1/2 cup of Almond flour. Instead of 2 eggs + 1 yolk substitute with 3 egg white, whipped to soft peaks and add 1/2 teaspoon of cream of tarter along with 1 egg yolk. For the topping use Splenda instead of brown sugar and use gluten free flour mixture.

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

Topping

Put flour, cinnamon, salt and brown sugar into a bowl. Cut in cold butter and with your hands combining until mixture resembles a coarse meal. Mix in the nuts. Set aside

Batter

  1. Mixture 1: In a bowl combine eggs and sugar and vanilla and beat until light and fluffy
  2. Mixture 2: Take 2 cups of apples and put in a food processor and pulse to make small pieces. Put into a bowl and add the remaining apple pieces and orange zest
  3. Mixture 3: Combine flour and baking powder in a bowl
  4. Combine mixture 1 and 2 together. Then stir in mixture 3 (flour combination) a little at a time to the combined mixture 1 and 2
  5. Add 1/2 cup of vegetable oil and stir
  6. Grease and flour a spring form pan
  7. Pour batter into pan
  8. Slice your 3 large apples and arrange on top of the batter
  9. Sprinkle topping mixture over apples
  10. Bake in a spring form pan (1 hour) or until toothpick comes out clean

Enjoy

 

 

Blueberry Pie Perfection

22 Thursday Dec 2016

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INGREDIENTS

Crust

  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
  • 1 cup cold butter, cut into pieces
  • 1/4 cup ice water

Filling

  • 6 cups blueberries (fresh or frozen)
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoon butter

DIRECTIONS

Crust

  1. Put flour, sugar, salt into a mixing bowl
  2. Add cold butter and with your hands mix between finger until mixture resembles coarse meal
  3. Add water a little at a time and mix until dough is crumbly and holds together
  4. Divide dough into 2 balls and wrap in plastic and put in refrigerator at least 1 hour or up to 2 days before using
  5. Unwrap and roll out for the bottom pie shell. Unwrap second piece and roll out for top of pie shell. You can keep it simple or add some flair by cutting pieces into strips and create a braid. Or you can create a lattice effect.

Filling

  1. Put all ingredients except for butter into a large bowl and mix thoroughly
  2. Spoon into a pastry lined pie plate
  3. Divide butter into pieces and dot them around the filling
  4. Cover with top pastry and cuts slits into pastry if using an crust without vent holes such a lattice
  5. Cover the edges with 2 or 3 inch strips of foil to prevent browning
  6. Bake for 10 minutes at 425 degrees F and then turn oven down to 375 degrees F and continue to bake for another 30 minutes and then remove the foil and bake until the crust is golden brown and the center is bubbly.
  7. Cool on a rack