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Irish Butter Shortbread
By cuznvin
Preheat oven to 300 degrees
- Makes about 3 dozen
- 1 cup (2 sticks) Irish unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface
Lemon Icebox Pie
By cuznvin
Directions Combine the cream cheese, milk, lemon juice, lemon zest, and vanilla in a large bowl
- Ingredients
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 (14-ounce) can condensed milk
- 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoons lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 prepared graham cracker crust
Fluffy White Buttercream Frosting
By cuznvin
We love the flavor of butter, but if your cake will be sitting in a hot place, using some (or all) vegetable shorte...
- 3/4 cup (5 1/4 ounces) granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt (ONLY if you use unsalted butter)
- 1/2 cup (4 ounces) boiling water
- 1/4 cup (1 ounce) meringue powder
- 1 tablespoon (1/2 ounce) vanilla extract
- 4 cups (16 ounces) sifted confectioners’ or glazing sugar
- 2 cups (4 sticks, 16 ounces) soft butter, vegetable shortening, or a combination of both*
Instant Chocolate Mousse
By cuznvin
Normally, you need to make chocolate mousse a good few hours, or better still a day, before you want to eat it,...
- 3 cups mini marshmallows
- 1/2 stick unsalted butter, softened
- 9 ounces best quality semisweet chocolate, chopped into small pieces
- 1/4 cup hot water from a recently boiled kettle
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Chocolate Thumbprints
By cuznvin
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Makes 90
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons coarse salt
- 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/3 cups sugar, plus more for rolling
- 2 large egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- Chocolate and Vanilla-Bean Ganache
Chocolate Peanut Butter Tart
By cuznvin
To make the filling In a medium saucepan, bring milk and salt to a simmer
- Cookie Crust
- 1 1 1 cup finely ground chocolate wafers
- 2 2 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 1 1/2 1/2 ounces (3 tbsp) unsalted butter, melted
- chocolate pb tart layerc
- Peanut Butter Filling
- 1 1/2 1 1/2 1/2 cups whole milk
- 1/4 1/4 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 3 3 large egg yolks
- 1/3 1/3 1/3 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 4 4 4 tsp all purpose flour
- 1/2 1/2 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 1/2 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1 1 cookie crust, baked & cooled (see recipe above)
- Glaze
- 3 3 3 ounces semi or bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 2 2 2 ounces (4 tbsp) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 1 1 tbsp light corn syrup
Cream Cheese Pound Cake
By cuznvin
This is a heavy, dense, extremely good pound cake
- INGREDIENTS:
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream
- cheese
- 1 1/2 cups butter
- 3 cups white sugar
- 6 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Apple Upside Down Cake
By cuznvin
1. Preheat oven to 350F. Place 1/3 cup butter in a 9×9×2-inch baking pan
- ⅓ cup butter, cut up
- ⅓ cup packed brown sugar
- 6 very small red cooking apples (1-1/4 to 1-1/2 lb.), halved, stems removed, cored
- 1 -⅓ cups all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. ground ginger
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- ⅔ cup milk
- ¼ cup butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- Vanilla ice cream (optional)
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies with Maple Cream Cheese filling
By cuznvin
Preheat oven to 350F. Prepare to baking sheets lined with parchment paper
- Pumpkin Whoopie Cookies
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 TBSP cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp ground fresh nutmeg
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1 cup canola oil
- 3 cups chilled pumpkin puree
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Maple Syrup Cream Cheese Filling
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 3 TBSP maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla
Crisp Oatmeal Cookies
By cuznvin
Crispy, delicious oatmeal cookies
- INGREDIENTS:
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup flaked coconut (optional)
- 1/2 cup miniature semi-sweet chocolate
- chips (optional)