Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions FOR THE SHELL 1/2 c Firmly packed light brown -sugar 1 c Old-fashioned rolled oats 1 c All-purpose flour 1/2 ts Double-acting baking powder 1/2 ts Salt 1 Stick unsalted butter; -melted and cooled ; (1/2 cup) For the filling 1/3 c Honey 3/4 c Firmly packed light brown -sugar 1 Stick […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 Egg Yolks; Slightly Beaten 2 c Milk 1 pk (3 oz) Vanilla Pudding Mix; -Regular 2 pk (3 oz) Cream Cheese 2 Egg Whites 1/4 c Granulated Sugar 8 Baked Tart Shells; 3 -1/2-inch Diameter You can add this as your dessert to your E=Experimental Thanksgiving Day Dinner menu. Few flavors […]

Ingredients & Directions FOR THE PATE BRISEE 1 1/4 c All-purpose flour 3/4 Stick cold unsalted butter; -cut into bits (6 ; tablespoons) 2 tb Cold vegetable shortening 1/4 ts Salt 3 1/2 oz Bittersweet chocolate; -chopped 3/4 c Firmly packed brown sugar 3/4 c Light corn syrup 2 tb Unsalted butter; cut into -bits […]

Ingredients & Directions 4 oz Shortcrust pastry 2 oz Dark chocolate; melted 4 oz Cream cheese; at room -temperature 1 tb Double cream 1/2 oz Caster sugar Vanilla essence Fresh fruit: strawberries; -raspberries, sliced peaches Apricot jam or red currant -jelly, melted and sieved Line tartlet tins with the pastry (use boat-shaped tins if you […]

Ingredients & Directions —–crust—– 1 1/2 c Fine graham-cracker crumbs ( 3 tb Canola oil 2 tb Honey —–filling—– 1/3 c Orange juice 2/3 Plain gelatin 5 lg Ripe bananas Juice of 1/2 lemon (about 1 3 Plums; sliced 1 c Red raspberries 1/2 c Blackberries or black raspbe —–glaze—– 1/3 c Frozen apple-juice concentra […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 Flour tortilla (whole wheat or white) 1 md Pear; (ripe) 1 ts Butter or margarine; cold 1 tb Sugar 1 pn Nutmeg 2 ts Apricot jam Cooking spray Preheat oven to 400 F. Lightly spray tortilla and place oil side down on a baking sheet. Peel, core, and thinly slice pear […]

Ingredients & Directions -CRUST- 10 tb Butter, sweet; room temp 1/3 c Plus 1-1/2 tbsp sugar 1 Egg yolk 1 ts Vanilla extract 1 3/4 c Flour FILLING 1 1/2 c Half and half 1 1/2 tb Honey 1 Vanilla bean, split -lengthwise 7 tb Sugar 10 ts Cornstarch 1 lg Egg 1 lg Egg […]

Ingredients & Directions 140 g Sugar 120 g Butter; cut into 1/2 inch ; cubes 10 Comice pears; (depending on -size), ; up to 15 1 ts Cinnamon powder 250 g Puff pastry; rolled out and -cut ; into a 10 inch disc ; and pierced with a ; fork 100 ml Cream 1 Sachet […]

Ingredients & Directions CHILE AND CORN FRITTERS 4 Green anaheim chiles 3 c Corn kernels, scraped from — the cob 3 Green serrano chiles, seeded — & chopped 1 ts Salt 1/2 ts White pepper 3 tb All purpose flour 3/4 c Ghee -JULIENNE OF APPLES- 1 tb Ghee 6 sm Green apples, cored & […]

Ingredients & Directions 3/4 c Granulated sugar 3 tb Water 4 tb Unsalted butter 8 Medium-sized pears Pate brisee; or puff pastry 1. Preheat the oven to 375 F. 2. Place the sugar and water in a 9-inch cast-iron skillet, and cook until amber-colored. 3. Remove from the heat and stir in the butter. 4. […]