If you have leftover cranberry sauce whether homemade or canned, whole berry or jellied - do yourself a favor & make a parfait out of it. My mom used to make my brother & I cranberry sauce parfaits around the holidays.
She would coat the bottom of a plastic cup with whipped cream, then add cranberry sauce, top with canned (pitted) dark cherries/pie filling, generous layer of dark cherry/mixed berry/vanilla Greek yogurt, another layer of cranberry sauce & cherries/pie filling & then top with more whipped cream.
It's fucking delicious.
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Ingredients
1 jar (10 oz) red maraschino cherries with stems
1/2 cup vanilla-flavored vodka (or your favorite liquor)
2 squares (about 3 oz) vanilla-flavored candy coating (almond bark), chopped (from 20-oz package)
1 tablespoon each green crystallized sugar and holiday nonpareils
Steps
Drain cherries; discard cherry juice. Return cherries to jar. Pour vodka over cherries in jar; replace cover. Refrigerate 12 to 24 hours.
Line large cookie sheet with cooking parchment paper. Drain cherries; discard or use vodka in your favorite cocktail. Pat cherries dry with paper towels.
In medium microwavable bowl, microwave candy coating uncovered on High 45 to 60 seconds, stirring until melted and smooth. Dip bottom half of each cherry into candy coating, then into green sugar. Place on cookie sheet. Let stand about 10 minutes or until coating is firm. Store tightly covered in refrigerator up to 2 days.
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Blinis
Making Blinis is easy. They are a delicious little cushion for leftover Manuka Honey and Gin Cured Salmon, and if you have too many, they freeze nicely; so you can bring them out anytime you wish, for a solo treat, slathering them with taramasalata; or should guests show up unexpectedly!
Ingredients (makes 30):
1 tablespoon unsalted butter (+ more for cooking the blinis)
1 cup plain flour
½ buckwheat flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs
1 cup milk
In a large, flat frying pan, melt butter over a low flame until just foaming. Remove from the heat. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine plain flour, buckwheat flour, baking powder and salt. Dig a well and break in the eggs and add the milk, whisking until combined. Add melted butter and whisk, until well-blended. Cover the bowl with a tea towel, and allow to rest, one hour.
Melt a little butter in the large frying pan, over medium-high heat. Spoon a heaped tablespoon of the batter onto the hot frying pan, repeating until full. Cook, for a couple of minutes. When mixture start bubbling flip blinis on the other side and cook, 2 minutes more. Repeat with remaining batter and butter until you have about 30 blinis.
Blinis freeze very well; you can store them up to 6 months.
Serve Blinis warm, with Cured Salmon, Cured Mackerel, or Cured Trout.
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Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Pie Recipe
Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Pie Recipe
Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Pie Recipe
Reese's. Need I say more? This may be my favorite cheesecake. I love the combination of chocolate with peanut butter! I created this recipe one day when I was having one of my cravings. I made it into a pie so I wouldn't be tempted to eat an entire cheesecake! Even though cheesecake freezes well, I'd rather eat it right away.
Crust:3/4 cup crushed Oreo’s3…
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Recipe for Syrup on the Bottom French Toast Casserole
Challah bread soaked in a cinnamon egg batter is baked atop a layer of syrup for a sweet, upside-down version of French toast casserole perfect for holiday mornings. 1.5 teaspoons ground cinnamon, 4 large eggs beaten, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup whole milk, 1 loaf challah bread cut into 1/2-inch slices, 3 tablespoons white sugar, 2.5 cups whole milk, 1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract, 3/4 cup unsalted butter, 1.5 cups dark brown sugar, 6 tablespoons light corn syrup
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Gingerbread Amaretto Chocolate Tart
MAKES: 10"
PREPARATION: 45 MIN
COOKING: 25 MIN
INGREDIENTS
GINGERBREAD BASE (or shortcust pastry + all the spices)
65 g / scant 1/3 cup coconut oil (I use this one)
220 g / 1 + 2/3 cup all purpose flour*
2 level tsp ground ginger
2 level tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground all spice
tsp ground cloves
½ tsp ground nutmeg
¼ tsp baking soda
a good pinch of fine sea salt
65 g / 1/3 cup dark muscovado sugar
30 ml / 2 tbsp aquafaba*
75 ml / ¼ cup + 1 tbsp maple syrup or molasses
GANACHE FILLING
300 g / 10.5 oz 70% dark vegan chocolate (I used Green & Blacks cooking chocolate)
120 ml / ½ cup coconut cream (solid part of full fat coconut milk* only)
150 ml / ½ cup + 2 tbsp almond milk
80 ml / 1/3 cup amaretto (I used Disaronno)*
80 ml / 1/3 cup maple syrup
GINGERBREAD BASE (or shortcust pastry + all the spices)
Place the coconut oil in a small pot and melt it on the lowest setting. Let it cool down.
Sift the flour, all the spices, baking soda and salt into a medium size bowl. Mix really well.
Place the cooled coconut oil, sugar and aquafaba in a large bowl. Cream them together with an electric whisk until well combined and slightly thickened. Add the maple syrup and whisk some more until you get a thick, homogeneous mixture.
Fold ½ of the flour mix into the wet ingredients and, once combined, add the remaining half. Make sure there are no flour pockets and everything is well combined, but do not knead. The dough will be quite loose and sticky, that’s fine, it’s the way it should be. Wrap the dough in a piece of cling film (glad wrap) and place it in the fridge for at least 1 hour. You can safely keep it in the fridge overnight too.
Allow the dough to come to room temperature and then roll it slowly and gently between two sheets of baking paper or on a lightly floured surface.
Roll the dough into a 3 mm thin circle that is large enough to cover the base of the tart tin and the sides.
Roll the rolled out dough onto a rolling pin, place the rolling pin over the tart case and gently unroll the dough on the top of the tart tin.
Mould the dough into the tart case (making sure it fits really snugly everywhere) and trim the excess with a sharp knife. Patch up any holes or thin edges with the off-cuts and pierce the bottom of the pastry with a fork in a few places.
Place the lined tart case back in the fridge while you heat up the oven to to 175° C / 350° F.
Once the oven is ready, line the inside of the pastry case with a large piece of baking paper (I crumple it first so that it’s more flexible) and then arrange baking beads (or whatever you use instead) on top of the pastry. Blind bake for 15 minutes.
After 15 minutes, take the beads and the baking paper off and return to the tart to the oven for another 10-15 minutes. Allow it to cool completely.
GANACHE FILLING
Place the broken up chocolate pieces and coconut cream in a clean glass or metal bowl over a bain marie (water bath). Warm them both up on the lowest setting (the water underneath should barely simmer and not boil) until the chocolate has been melted. Make sure the water does not touch the bowl the chocolate is in.
Once the chocolate has melted, whisk it into the cream with a wire whisk, then add almond milk, amaretto and maple syrup. You can adjust the amount of syrup to taste, but make sure you compensate by adding more almond milk (if you end up using less maple syrup than I did).
Allow the mixture to cool down and fill the tart case.
Transfer the filled tart case into the fridge. Allow it to set for at least 8 hours (overnight is best).
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