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Death by Chocolate Bundt Cake

26 Wednesday Jul 2017

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Chocolate, Dessert, ganache, Sour Cream

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

Death by chocolate cake 2

FOR GANACHE

  • 4 ounces of a dark chocolate Bar (sweetened) or milk chocolate bar
    (DO NOT USE Bakers – unsweetened chocolate squares – WILL BE BITTER)
  • 1/4 -1/2 cup of whipping cream (2 oz to 4 oz)

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
  4. Note: Start with small amount of whipping cream and stir. If too thick add more cream until smooth. As it cools it will thicken up more.

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 & video directions

 

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Apple Streusel Cake

06 Friday Jan 2017

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apples, Baking, Dessert, Recipes

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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
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  9. Sprinkle topping mixture over apples
  10. Bake in a spring form pan (1 hour) or until toothpick comes out clean

Enjoy

 

 

Low Carb Keto Fudge

04 Friday Nov 2016

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Chocolate, Coconut, Cream Cheese, Dessert, Keto Diet, Low Sugar Diet, Recipes, Walnuts

keto-fudge

Ingredients

  • Baker’s Chocolate 2 oz 57 grams
  • Cream Cheese 12 oz 340 grams (microwave 30 seconds to soften
  • Vanilla 1.5 tablespoons
  • Butter 113 grams
  • 1 cup of sweetener (different sweeteners offer different degrees of sweetness, so start with 1/2 cup and and keep addding and adjusting accordingly
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1/2 cup of coconut (unsweetened)

Preparation

  1. Add butter and chocolate on low pan
  2. Stir well
  3. Add Vanilla Extract
  4. Add 1/2 cup of Sweetener
  5. In a seperate bowl add Cream Cheese
  6. Pour chocolate mixture with cream cheese
  7. Use a hand blender to mix together
  8. Fold in coconut and walnuts
  9. Put into a greased 8″ x 8″ pan
  10. Put into freezer until hardened
  11. Take out and give it 5 minutes to soften before cutting. Store in fridge

Enjoy

 

Microwave Fudge (sucre a la crème) ~ wrks 4 Ginette

02 Sunday Oct 2016

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Baking, Dessert, Fudge, Ginette, Microwave, Recipe, Sugar

Ingredients

  • 2 cups of packed brown sugar
  • 3/4 cups of softened butter
  • 1 tbsp of vanilla
  • 2 cups of icing sugar
  • 1 can of Eagle Brand condensed milk

Directions

  1. Mix together in a microwave safe bowl, brown sugar and softened butter
  2. Place in microwave on high for 8 minutes taking it out every 2 minutes until mixed
  3. After 8 minutes add 1 tbsp of vanilla and let sit for 5 minutes
  4. Mix in 2 cups of icing sugar and beat on high speed for 5 minutes. Pour into 9″ X 13″ buttered pan and place in refrigerator for one hour before cutting.

Chocolate, Strawberry Mousse

21 Wednesday Sep 2016

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Chocolate, Cocoa, Dessert, Low Sugar, Mousse, Protein, Protein Powder, Recipe, Strawberry, Terry Tested

Ingredients

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  • 1 Cup Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 1 Tbsp Stevia
  • 3 Strawberries chopped
  • 1.5 Scoop Chocolate Whey Powder (Protein Powder)
  • 1 Tbsps unsweetened Cocoa

Instructions

  1. Combine Whipping Cream, Stevia and Whey powder in bowl
  2. With a hand blender or electric mixer whip until stiff peaks
  3. Fold in stawberries
  4. Put into serving dishes

Enjoy

Terry’s Chocolate Cow Chips

19 Monday Sep 2016

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Chocolate, Dessert, Peanut Butter, Pretzels, Recipe, Terry Tested, Terry's

This is a simple recipe that the kids would love to make.

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups of chocolate chips
  • 2 tablespoon of butter (add more if necessary)
  • 2 cups of salted pretzel sticks

Directions

  1. Chop pretzel sticks into bite size pieces
  2. On top of a double boiler, melt chocolate and butter, stirring often.
    (You can also use a microwave to melt chocolate)
  3. Take pot off the stove and add pretzes
  4. Spoon onto a lined baking sheet and refrigerate for 20 minutes until firm

Options:

Peanut Butter Cow Chips

  • 1 1/2 cups of chocolate chips
  • 1 cup of butterscotch chips
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup smooth peanut butter
  • 2 cups of salted pretzel sticks
  • 1 cup of salted peanuts

 

Terry’s Crunchy Biscotti

19 Monday Sep 2016

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Almonds, Baking, Biscotti, Cookie, Dessert, Orange Rine, Recipe, Terry Tested, Terry's

biscotti

These are so good, I’d suggest doubling the recipe

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Ingredients
  • 1-3/4 cups of all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 3/4 cup whole unblanched almonds
  • 2 eggs
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup butter, melted
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp almond extract
  • 1-1/2 tsp grated orange rine
  • 1 eggs white, lightly beatened
  1. In large bowl, combine flour and baking powder; stir in almonds. Whisk together eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, almond extract and orange rind; stir into flour mixture until soft, sticky dough forms.
  2. Transfer dough to lightly floured work surface; with hands, form into smooth ball. Transfer to an ungreased baking sheet and form into a log. Brush tops with egg white and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees F.
  3. Remove from oven and let cool on a rack for 5 minutes. On a cutting board cut diagonally into 3/4 inch slices. Bake for 20 minutes long or until golden brown. Remove biscotti to rack and let cool.

Makes 24 cookies

Enjoy

 

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