Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions === SWEET-TART DOUGH === 9 tb Unsalted butter; room -temperature 1 c Confectioners’ sugar; plus 2 tb Confectioners’ sugar 1 3/4 c All-purpose flour; plus more 1 pn Salt 1 lg Egg; lightly beaten === FILLING === 1 1/2 md Lemons 2 lg Whole Eggs 1 lg Yolk 6 tb Granulated sugar […]

Ingredients & Directions === CRUST === 1 1/4 c Flour 1/2 ts Salt 1/2 c Butter 2 tb Ice water -; (to 4 tbspns) === FILLING === 3 Leeks -; (to 4) 3 tb Butter Salt 6 oz Fresh morel mushrooms or Other aromatic wild -mushrooms Such as chanterelle or -porcini 1/2 lb Grated Gruyere […]

Ingredients & Directions 4 Eggs and 1 egg yolk 1 ts Sugar 250 g Plain white unbleached flour 1 ts Salt 65 g Unsalted butter 1 sm Onion 2 tb Olive oil 8 Fresh or canned artichoke -hearts 200 g Gruyere cheese 1 Handful fresh flat-leafed -parsley Salt & pepper To make the pastry put […]

Ingredients & Directions -PASTRY DOUGH- 1/2 c Unsalted butter 1 Egg yolk 1/4 c Sugar 1 1/4 c Cake flour 1 ts Vanilla extract -PASTRY CREAM- 1 c Milk 3 tb Flour 1/4 c Sugar 1 ts Vanilla 3 Egg yolks FINISHING 3 pt Fresh red currants 1/2 c Toasted, sliced almonds – rinsed and […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 c Syrup, corn 3/4 c Flour 1/3 c Sugar 1/2 c Sugar 1 tb Cornstarch 1/3 c Butter 1 1/2 c Cranberries 1 c Oats 2 Pears 1 Eggs Preheat oven to 400. Peel and slice pears. Grease 9″ baking pan. Combine corn syrup, sugar, and cornstarch in saucepan. Stir in […]

Ingredients & Directions -CRANBERRY FILLING- 2 1/2 c Cranberries; fresh or — previously frozen — and defrosted 1/4 c Fresh orange juice 1/2 c Sugar ALMOND COOKIE CRUST 1 c Ground blanched almonds 1 2/3 c Unbleached all-purpose flour 1/2 c Sugar 1/2 ts Baking powder 1 ts Ground cinnamon 1/4 ts Ground mace 1/2 […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Flour 1 ts Salt 3/4 c (about) water 1 ts Vegetable oil FILLING 12 sl Bacon, cut in 1/2″ pieces Cream 4 md Thinly sliced onions 1 tb Vegetable oil 4 c Small curd cottage cheese, 1/2 ts Salt Pureed until almost smooth 1/4 ts Nutmeg 5 tb Creme fraiche […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Slivered almonds 1/2 c Butter; cut up Brown sugar 1 1/2 c Flour 1 Egg 1/4 c Orange juice 1 Envelope unflavored gelatin 1 c Orange marmalade 4 1/2 c Fresh or frozen cranberries In food processor, chop almonds until ground. Add butter, 3 tablespoons packed brown sugar, 1 cup […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 tb Dry yeast 2 1/2 c White flour, preferably 2 1/2 c WARM water -unbleached Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water in a pottery or glass bowl, then stir in flour and 2 cups warm water; mix well. Pour into plastic, glass, or crockery container, cover, and let stand 3 […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Slivered almonds 1/4 c Orange juice 1/2 c Butter; cut up 1 Envelope unflavored gelatin Brown sugar 1 c Orange marmalade 1 1/2 c Flour 4 1/2 c Fresh or frozen cranberries 1 Egg In food processor, chop almonds until ground. Add butter, 3 tablespoons packed brown sugar, 1 cup […]