Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions TART SHELL Pastry for one crust 9-inch -pie -PASTRY CREAM- 1/4 c Sugar 3 tb All-purpose flour 1/4 ts Salt 1 c Milk 4 Egg yolks 1 pk (6-oz) Nestle Toll House -semi-sweet chocolate -morsels 2 tb Butter 2 ts Vanilla extract 2 pt Strawberries; washed and -hulled 2 tb Strawberry jelly […]

Ingredients & Directions FOR THE DOUGH 1 1/2 c All purpose flour 1 Pinches salt 1/4 lb Butter; chilled, cut into ; tablespoon sized ; pieces 4 tb Chilled shortening 4 tb Ice water; up to 5 -FOR THE TART- Flour for rolling out the -dough 1/2 c Apricot jam or raspberry -jam; strained 2 […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 tb Butter 1/2 c Sugar 1 Square baking chocolate — Melted 1 Egg 1/2 ts Vanilla 1 1/4 c All-purpose flour 1/8 ts Baking soda 1/4 ts Salt 8 oz Cream cheese 1/2 c Sugar 1 Egg 1/2 c Maraschino cherries — Finely chopped 24 Maraschino cherry halves Cream butter and […]

Ingredients & Directions 2/3 c Oil; or shortening* 2/3 c Sugar 2/3 c Cocoa 3 Eggs 1 c Batter; Amish Starter 1 3/4 c Flour 1 ts Salt 1/2 ts Baking powder 1 1/2 ts Baking soda 1 ts Vanilla 1/2 c Water; 3/4 cup* Beat together oil, sugar and cocoa. Beat in eggs one […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 Egg 1 ts Dijon mustard Juice of one lemon 1/2 c Chopped onions 2 ts Chopped garlic 1/4 c Dill pickles Salt; to taste Freshly-ground black pepper; -to taste 1 c Vegetable oil 1 Dozen Fresh smelts 1 c Flour Bayou Blast; see * Note Oil; for frying 1 c Fresh […]

Ingredients & Directions 3 Sq. bittersweet chocolate 12 Unbaked med. tart shells 3/4 c Lightly packed brown sugar 1/4 c Corn syrup 1 Egg 2 tb Butter; softened 1 ts Vanilla 1 ts Vinegar pn Salt 1 Sq. bittersweet chocolate -melted Chop each of three squares of chocolate into 16 pieces. Place 4 chunks into […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 lb Redfish 2 c Buttermilk Salt; to taste Freshly-ground black pepper; -to taste Emeril’s Essence; see * Note 3 1/2 c Cornmeal 1/2 c Flour Hot oil 2 c Homemade mayonnaise 1 c Roasted corn kernels 1/2 c Minced onions 2 tb Minced shallots 2 ts Minced garlic Juice of two […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Flour (all purpose) 1/4 c Firmly packed light brown -sugar 1 oz Chocolate; unsweetened, -grated 1/2 c Butter; cut into 1/2 inch -pieces, well chilled 2 tb Milk 1 ts Vanilla 3 oz Unsweetened chocolate 3 oz Semisweet chocolate 1/2 c Butter; room temperature, -cut into 1 tblsp pcs 1 […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Mayonnaise 1 tb Capers 1 tb Chopped pickles 3 tb Bayou Blast; plus 1 1/2 ts Bayou Blast; see * Note Oil; for deep-frying 1 Whole Flounder – (abt 1 lb); -cleaned, gutted Salt; to taste Freshly-ground black pepper; -to taste 1/2 c Flour 2 Eggs – (to 3); beaten […]

Ingredients & Directions Premade pastry crust Filling: 1/2 c Salted butter 6 oz Unsweetened baking chocolate 2 lg Eggs 1 c Dark brown sugar 1/2 c Dark corn syrup 2 ts Vanilla extract 1 1/2 c Walnuts; chopped Topping: 24 Walnut halves 1/2 c Heavy cream 1/4 c White sugar 1 ts Almond extract Filling: […]