With the 4th of July being on a Tuesday this year I’m thinking BBQ’ing might be happening over the weekend so I wanted to remind you of some really great recipes to make your celebration a little easier!
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dessert
Banana Bread with Coconut and Pineapple
Let’s face it everyone has an amazing banana bread recipe, you know the one that all your friends ask you to make, it may or may not have chocolate chips in it and it usually has lots of oil in it making super moist.
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Oreo Cheesecake (Dirt Pie)
This recipe for Oreo cheesecake (dirt cake) was given to me by my cousin Nadine. We were visiting Connecticut and Nadine made this dessert as a contribution, what I mean by that is that there are about 30+ family members, a sit down traditional Italian dinner with pasta, meat (at least 2 different kinds), vegetables (at least 4-5 different vegetables) and at least 10 different desserts. Well, my daughter Kelsi loved this Oreo cheesecake so of course I asked for the recipe
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Mandarin Orange Cake with Pineapple Frosting
I have not been baking lately as my oven has not been working…I was blessed with a new oven from my landlords and was itching to bake a cake. My friend Susan came over last week and was going on and on about a mandarin orange cake that she just loved, it had pineapple, whipping cream “frosting.”
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Spiced Pretzels
What are spiced pretzels you might ask…well let me tell you, spiced pretzels are the most addicting snack food you can have and with super bowl Sunday right around the corner, I figured it was time to share this little treasure of a recipe.
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Chocolate Fudge Cake
I wanted to end the 2015 year off with this chocolate fudge cake and ran into complications in posting the recipe…since it was such an amazing recipe I figured one last guilty indulgent before year end wouldn’t hurt, right? The chocolate cake recipe didn’t post last week and even though I know most friends are on diets from chocolate as the season has come and gone, this recipe just had to be shared as it’s pretty amazing. Here is how the post started…
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Baked Figs with Honey and Cinnamon
When I was first introduced to baked figs with honey and cinnamon I thought I had died and gone to heaven…they were that good! I was in a restaurant and the baked figs were served on top of vanilla ice cream, as simple as this sounds, it was so amazing I asked the owner of the restaurant how she made them and she was kind enough to give me the basics.
I recently had some friends over for a dinner party where we made a few appetizers, including the apricot appetizer I blogged a few weeks back, some pasta and we finished it off with these amazing baked figs. Everyone loved the whole meal but even still to this day, my friend Bela will bring up the baked figs so I thought it was worthy of posting the recipe.
For this recipe you have to use fresh figs, not dried. Wash the figs, slice them in half and place in a baking pan
top with honey and cinnamon
bake for 30 minutes or until soft (I flipped mine 1/2 way through cooking)
place 3 pieces on a scoop of ice cream, preferably while hot, sprinkle a little sliced almonds on top and serve
Sometimes the simplest things are the best tasting. This is truly an amazing dessert that your friends will talk about long after the meal, just like my friend Bela. Let me know what you think of this?
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Baked Figs with Honey and Cinnamon
Ingredients
- 1 pound Fresh Figs, sliced
- 3 tablespoons Honey
- 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon, or to taste
- Sliced Almonds, optional
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place sliced figs in a baking pan, add honey and cinnamon to coat all figs. After 15 minutes, flip the figs, continue to bake for 15 minutes or until cooked through.
- Serve warm on ice cream (I usually do 3 pieces to 1 scoop of ice cream), garnish with sliced almonds. Enjoy!
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An Italian Chocolate Almond Cake for Passover
Being an Italian Catholic, Passover was not a holiday I celebrated and the Jewish holidays were foreign to me (click here if you would like to learn more about the Passover holiday). When I was married to a Jewish man, over the past 20 years, I learned all about the the traditions and celebrations of Judaism and hosted many holidays at our house and together we created our own traditions one thing that was very important to me was to always incorporate a little Italian in all my food.
Several years ago I decided I wanted to make an amazing dessert for the Passover and found this old recipe for chocolate almond cake, it worked perfect for the celebration as there was nothing in the dessert to make it rise, it doesn’t have flour and it has chocolate (not a requirement but always welcomed for Passover). I made this dessert and it was a home run…everyone loved it!
This is not a beginner recipe, there are many steps to it and I would challenge even an entry level baker to try, if you have any issues with it, email me at Patty@MmGood.com and I would be happy to assist you for next time. I happen to love orange in my cakes or with chocolate, if you do not like orange, then you can omit it from your recipe and it will be just as tasty.
Prepare the baking pan by lining it with parchment paper, I sprayed the bottom first with oil and then I layed the parchment on top
put the almonds and 1/4 cup of sugar in a food processor
process until fine, place the processed almonds in a bowl and set aside
do the same for your chocolate chips and place in a bowl
using a mixer, beat your yolks with the remainder of the sugar and orange zest
do this until the yolks are pale
add the ground chocolate chips and almonds your mix will be very thick
whip the whites of the eggs with a pinch of salt until firm peaks (about 6 minutes)
add the whipped egg whites to the almond/yolk mixture, do this by folding the egg whites into the mixture as you are not wanting to deflate the whites
Bake for 30-35 minutes or until the cake is cook through
make your chocolate topping by melting the chocolate in the microwave in 30 second intervals until it’s completely melted. When the cake is cooled off, add the chocolate to the topping
I forgot that I liked chopped nuts on my cake so here is an old photo of the cake (I gave this cake to a friend for passover and forgot to top it prior to giving it away, silly me but don’t skip this process.
This is a great recipe for anytime of the year, especially around Passover or Easter. For beginners I know it’s a lot of steps involved but go slow, try not to over mix the egg whites with the almond mixture and make sure to beat the whites until firm. I’d welcome any photos anyone wants to send me at Patty@MmGood.com. Enjoy!!!
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An Italian Chocolate Almond Cake for Passover
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups Almonds, whole, not toasted
- ¼ cup Sugar
- ¾ cup Sugar
- 5 large eggs, separated
- Zest of 1 orange
- 1 cup Chocolate chips, divided
- 1 tablespoon Milk, whole
- Pinch of Salt
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, prepare an 8" springform baking pan by spraying it with oil and laying parchment paper on the bottom.
- Grind the almonds in a food processor with 1/4 cup of sugar until fine and powdery, set aside. Process 1/4 cup of chocolate chips in the same processor and process until fine.
- Meanwhile, beat the yolks with 3/4 cup sugar and orange zest until thick and pale.
- Fold the ground up chocolate and almonds into the egg yolk mixture and mix until it is all incorporated.
- In a new bowl, beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until soft peaks form, 4-6 minutes.
- Gently fold the egg whites into the egg/almond mixture making sure not to over mix or you will deflate the batter.
- Bake 30-35 minutes, until cooked through the middle. Cool on a rack.
- Melt the remaining chocolate in the microwave with 1 tablespoon milk in 30 second intervals until it is melted and smooth, stir in between intervals, you are looking for the chocolate to reach a smooth consistency. Spread the chocolate onto the cake, decorate with a few chopped almonds and serve.
Recipe belongs to Patty @MmGood.com, please contact me to use for personal use
Death By Chocolate Cake
It’s the holidays and when better to splurge on eating chocolate, cakes and cookies??? That’s what New Years resolutions are all about, losing the weight from the holiday festivities. I was going to a Christmas Day party and was asked to bring a dessert, I thought I’d be original and make a chocolate cake thinking chocolate would be original. I was wrong, chocolate was the main ingredient for all the desserts, there were chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate cakes, brownies and cookies, silly me.
Nonetheless, I tried this recipe and I have to say it was very good and super easy to make. The “death by chocolate” comes from 3 different types of chocolate, chocolate cake mix, chocolate pudding and chocolate chips, does it get any better than that? The recipe I found was on food.com and I did modify the recipe by the espresso powder, if you do not have expresso powder you can use instant coffee or you can just omit the coffee altogether, the coffee brings out the flavor of the chocolate, I even use it in my Red Velvet Cake (secret ingredient :))
You basically put your eggs, water, oil and sour cream in a bowl
then I creamed them until they were light in color
I added the cake mixes
mixed really good and added my chocolate chips (I folded the chocolate chips in)
I thought it would be nice in a bundt pan
I put it in the oven and baked it for about 48 minutes and here it is…YUMMY!
Do not follow the cake package instructions for this recipe as this is a modified recipe. I filled my centers with chocolate wafer cookies but for valentines, you can fill them with chocolate kisses. I’m not a huge bundt cake person but I liked how it looked…I will note changes to my next bundt cake recipe a I did learn a few things.
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Death By Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 4 large Eggs
- 3/4 cup Sour Cream
- 1/2 cup Oil
- 1/2 cup Water
- 1 small package Instant Chocolate Pudding
- 1 package Chocolate Cake Mix
- 1 cup Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips
- 1/2 teaspoon Espresso Powder or Instant Coffee (optional)
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl add you eggs, sour cream, oil and water, beat on medium until mixture is light and fluffy.
- Add your cake mix, pudding mix and espresso powder (optional). Beat on medium for 2-3 minutes are until well mixed.
- Add your chocolate chips and fold them in into the mix.
- Pour the mixture into a greased bundt pan and 45-50 minutes. Enjoy!
Recipe belongs to Patty @MmGood.com, please contact me to use for personal use
Secret Ingredient for my Angel / Sponge Food Cake
You know when your friends come over for dinner and you serve something and they ask “how was yours better than mine” and you just smile as you know you made a small change that created amazing results? This is what happened when I made my angel food cake from a box one day long ago.
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