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Happy New Year – May 2017 Be Sweet

09 Monday Jan 2017

Posted by snackingkitchen in Cake, Dessert, Uncategorized

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Happy New Year to you and yours. A week or so later, but I am wishing you a sweet, successful, healthy year. I started the year with this honey and walnut cake with sour cream frosting and bubbles. The cake was made by my mom, and is one of my favorite cakes.

What are you goals for the year, both in and outside of the kitchen?

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Chocolate and Hazelnut Tart with Apricots

04 Monday Apr 2016

Posted by snackingkitchen in Baking, Cake, Chocolate, Cooking, Dessert, Nuts, Recipe, Uncategorized

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This year, I decided to bake myself a birthday dessert. I wanted something simple to make, decadent, and filled with chocolate. I turned to Giada De Laurentiis recipe for Chocolate-Pistachio Fudge Tart and made a few changes to make it my own.

 

As I’ve been obsessing about Oregon hazelnuts from Trader Joe’s, I decided to replace pistachios with roasted hazelnuts. I also replaced the heavy cream with half & half to lighten up the texture and the calorie load. I was at first worried that using half&half would not set up the chocolate filling, but it worked just fine. As the chocolate was melting into the hot half&half, I added a few extra ounces of chocolate, to make the filling thicker.

The tart came out just right. A balance between the creamy, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate filling and the crunchy, slightly salty nut and graham cracker crust. The topping of dried apricots is optional. I liked the golden, slightly sour bursts of fruit. I can also see how this same recipe would work well with fresh raspberries or strawberries. Happy birthday to me!

 

Chocolate and Hazelnut Tart with Apricots

Ingredients

Crust:
1 1/2 cups roasted hazelnuts
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
6 whole graham crackers
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted

Filling:
10 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1 1/2 cups half&half
3/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup dried apricots, chopped

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch pie pan or springform pan with butter.
  2. Pulse hazelnuts in a food processor until roughly chopped. Add the graham crackers and pulse until finely chopped. Drizzle in the melted butter and pulse until incorporated. Press the mixture evenly over the bottom and sides of the pie pan. Bake until golden brown around the edges, about 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and lightly press the crust into the pan; cool completely.
  3. Heat half&half, vanilla extract, and salt until just beginning to simmer. Pour over the chocolate and let sit for 2 minutes. Whisk together until smooth and pour into the crust. Refrigerate until set, then sprinkle with chopped apricots and keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

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Fourth of July Allrecipes.com American Flag Cake ~ Photos and Video

29 Saturday Jun 2013

Posted by snackingkitchen in Allrecipes.com, Cake, Dessert, Holidays, Recipe, Video

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Happy 4th of July!  The Independence Day holiday is less than a week away and I wanted to present you with a gift that I worked on with Allrecipes.com.  Here it is!  The photos behind the shoot of the American Flag Cake and the video on how to put this incredibly gorgeous and patriotic cake together.

I know I keep on saying how fun my work projects can be, and this one surely was not an exception.  In fact, this might have been one of the more complicated projects, making it that much more rewarding at the end.  You and your family will oooh and aaah when you slice into this cake.

Enjoy!

Bake the cake – we used a cake box mix and added food color to create red and white layers.  The blue layers has a surprise inside!

Bake the layers and cut out the right number and amount to assemble the cake.
Frost the cake and use the leftover crumbs to decorate the top in a pattern of the American flag.



The cake is ready!

Now that you have seen the photos I took behind the scene during the shoot, it’s time for the video!
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