Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions FOR THE ALMOND PASTRY 3 c Unbleached all-purpose flour 2 ts Vanilla extract 18 tb Unsalted butter; chilled 4 tb Sugar – cut into small pieces 1 ts Salt 2 Eggs 1/2 c Finely chopped almonds 1 tb Milk Flour -FOR THE FILLING- 3 7-oz tubes almond paste – in extra-light syrup […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 Recipe Pate Sucree 5 lg Apples (about 2 1/2 pounds) 1 Lemon, Juice of 4 tb Butter 3/4 c Plus 1 tablespoon sugar 1/3 c Cranberries, optional Make the dough. Form into a 5-inch disk, wrap in plastic and chill one hour, or up to 3 days. Remove the dough from […]

Ingredients & Directions 1/4 c Miracle Whip Salad Dressing 1 ts Dry minced onion 1/4 c Mayonnaise 1 ds Black pepper 1/4 c Sour cream Few drops ofTabasco sauce 1 tb Prepared yellow mustard 1/4 c Sweet pickle relish 1 ts Granulated sugar In mixing bowl, add all ingredients except relish; blend well. Fold in […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 3/4 c All purpose flour 1/4 c Powdered sugar 1 ts Ground ginger 1/4 ts Salt 10 tb Chilled unsalted butter, Cut into pieces 4 lg Egg yolks 3 tb Water 1 c Whole milk 1 One inch long piece fresh Ginger, Peeled, thinly sliced 1/2 Vanilla bean, split Lengthwise 1/2 […]

Ingredients & Directions A; (1/2-pound) frozen ; puff pastry sheet, ; thawed 1 bn Scallions; (white and pale ; green parts only), ; sliced thin ; (about3/4 cup) 1 tb Unsalted butter 1 lb Asparagus; trimmed and cut ; diagonally into ; 1/4-inch-thick ; slices, reserving ; tips 3 lg Eggs A; (3 1/2-ounce) log […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 cn (16-oz.) whole cranberry -sauce 1/3 c Granulated sugar 1 1/2 tb Cornstarch 3/4 lb Rhubarb stalks, cut into -1/2- inch pieces Pastry dough for 9-inch -single crust pie Confectioner’s sugar Preheat oven to 375. In a mixing bowl, comine cranberry sauce, sugar and cornstarch. Stir in rhubarb. Pour mixture into […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 1/2 ts Best-quality chocolate ice -cream 2 1/2 c Miniature chocolate chips; -divided 3/4 c Heavy cream; chilled, -divided Put ice cream in large bowl. Let soften enough to form into 4 large balls, using a large ice-cream scoop. Place ice-cream balls on waxed paper in a pie tin and immediately […]

Ingredients & Directions —–COOKING LIGHT; NOV/DEC -1993—– 2 c Fresh cranberries 1/4 c Plus 2 tablespoons firmly -Packed brown sugar 2 tb Amaretto (almond-flavored -Liqueur) 2 tb Semisweet chocolate -Mini-morsels 1/3 c Firmly packed brown sugar 1 Tub (8-ounce) light process -Cream cheese product 1/2 ts Vanilla extract 1 Egg 1 Egg white Butter-flavored vegetable […]

Ingredients & Directions 4 oz Beef filet; or other lean 1 pn Each: salt, pepper, paprika -steak, scraped not ground -and Worcestershire sauce 1 Egg yolk 1 sl Toast; buttered, crusts 1 ts Olive oil -removed 1 ts Ketchup 1/2 oz Fresh caviar 1 Anchovy; chopped 1 tb Onion; minced 5 Capers; chopped 1 Gherkin […]

Ingredients & Directions Enough sweet pastry to line -flan tin 4 Eggs 1 c Castor sugarl Finely grated rind of 1 -medium lemon 2 tb Cream 1/2 c Lemon juice 1/2 c Orange juice 1 Extra lemon Icing sugar for dusting Preheat oven to 180?/350?. Roll pastry out to a thickness of about 3 mm […]