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Triple Chocolate Pancakes

Breakfast, Dessert, Dinner Ideas February 5, 2013 Leave a comment
Triple Chocolate Pancakes

Triple Chocolate Pancakes

What can I say, breakfast, dinner, dessert? Not just one kind of chocolate but three kinds of chocolate. A complete gooey chocolaty overload. Serve with Hot Fudge Sauce, or fresh fruit and White Chocolate Yogurt sauce – recipe follows.

 

 

Ingredients for Pancakes:

  • 1-1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • ¾ cup milk
  • ½ cup buttermilk
  • 3 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled
  • 2eggs, separated
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 3 ounces bittersweet chocolate chips
  • 3 ounces white chocolate, chopped
  • Purchased or homemade Hot Fudge sauce

Directions

  • Mix first 5 ingredients in a bowl
  • Mix milk, buttermilk, egg yolks, and cooled melted butter into a second large bowl and beat well.
  • Add flour to the milk/butter mixture and mix well
  • Put egg whites in another bowl and beat until stiff peaks form
  • Fold a small amount of beaten egg white into the chocolate batter, then add the remaining egg white and fold until mixed.
  • Add the bittersweet chocolate chips and white chocolate chips to the batter
  • Heat skillet and spray with cooking spray
  • Pour about 2 tablespoons of batter onto skillet and cook on medium-low heat until tiny bubbles appear on the top, flip and cook for one minute more.
  • Keep cakes warm in a 250 F oven until all cooked.

White Chocolate Yogurt

  • 6 oz White Chocolate chopped
  • ¼ cup plain yogurt
  1. Put the chopped white chocolate into a bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water and melt slowly. Be careful not to get moisture or steam into the chocolate. OR microwave on 10 second intervals, stirring until melted.
  2. When melted, remove from heat and let cool slightly, beat in the yogurt until smooth and shiny. Serve cakes with hot fudge sauce and White Chocolate Sauce. Yummy

Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls – Famous Recipes

Dessert, Famous Recipes January 23, 2013 Leave a comment

Every mall and every airport I walk into I can immediately smell the unmistakable smell of Cinnaboncinnamon cooking.  In 1985 Rich Komen decided he would create an efficient outlet that could serve freshly made cinnamon rolls in shopping malls. It took him 9 months to develop the “freshest, gooiest, and most mouthwatering cinnamon roll ever tasted!

Ingredients – Rolls

  • 1-1/4 ounce package active dry yeast
  • 1 cup warm milk (105 to 110 F)
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup margarine, melted
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 cups all-purpose flour

Ingredients – Filling

  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 2-1/2 tablespoons cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup margarine

Ingredients – Icing

  • 1 stick margarine, softened
  • 1-1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • ¼ cup cream cheese
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt

Directions

  1. For the rolls, dissolve the yeast in the warm milk in a large bowl
  2. Add the sugar, margarine, salt, eggs, and flour, mix well
  3. Knead the dough into a large ball, using your hands dusted lightly with flour
  4. Place ball in a greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, or until dough has doubled in size
  5. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface.
  6. Roll the dough approximately 21 inches long and 16 inches wide, and ¼ inch thick
  7. Preheat oven to 400 F.

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  1. For the filling, combine the brown sugar and cinnamon in a bowl
  2. Spread the softened margarine evenly over the surface of the dough and then sprinkle the cinnamon and sugar mixture evenly over the surface.
  3. Working carefully from the top (a 21-inch side) roll the dough down to the bottom edge to create a spiral
  4. Cut the roll of dough into 1-3/4 inch slices and place 6 at a time, evenly spaced, in a lightly greased baking pan.
  5. Bake for 10 minutes or until light brown on top.

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  1. For the icing, combine icing ingredients, beat well with an electric mixer until fluffy
  2. Coat the rolls when they come out of the oven generously with icing.

Makes 12 rolls

 

 

Apple Cake

Dessert January 2, 2013 Leave a comment

I got this fabulous recipe from my good friend Judy.  It is a very easy dessert to make and you can substitute apples with rhubarb!

Apple Facts

  • The crab-apple is the only apple native to North America.Two pounds of apples make one 9-inch pie.
  • 2,500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States.
  • 7,500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world.
  • 100 varieties of apples are grown commercially in the United States.
  • Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free.
  • A medium apple is about 80 calories.
  • The pilgrims planted the first United States apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • Apple varieties range in size from a little larger than a cherry to as large as a grapefruit.
  • Apples were the favorite fruit of ancient Greeks and Romans.
  • Apples are a member of the rose family.
  • Charred apples have been found in prehistoric dwellings in Switzerland.
  • It takes the energy from 50 leaves to produce one apple.
  • In colonial time, apples were called winter banana or melt-in-the-mouth.
  • In 1730, the first apple nursery was opened in Flushing, New York.
  • Archeologists have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apples since at least 6500 B.C.
  • It takes about 36 apples to create one gallon of apple cider.
  • The old saying, “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.” This saying comes from an old English adage, “To eat an apple before going to bed, will make the doctor beg his bread.”
  • Many apples after harvesting and cleaning have commercial grade wax applied. Waxes are made from natural ingredients.

Apple or Rhubarb Cake

1 cup granulated sugarapplecake
½ cup margarine
1 egg
1+1/2 cup flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup warm coffee (the secret ingredient!)
2 cups of cut-up apple or rhubarb

Topping

½ cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup chopped nuts

Mix in order given. Pour in a greased and floured 8x12x2 inch pan (or close to it) Sprinkle the brown sugar mixture on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.  Enjoy!