Recipes-Desserts
Dessert recipes
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Cappucino Knots
Another recipe to use your basic sweet dough is to make cappucino knots . It’s not hard , it’s quite easy , so if you’re a coffee lover , this might be your next favorite thing to snack on ! Direction : 1 recipe of basic sweet dough 4 tbsp. of melted butter , slightly cooled 2/3 cup of sugar 1 tbsp. of espresso powder / coffee powder For the glaze : 1 cup of powdered sugar 1 tbsp. of coffee powder 1/4 cup of heavy cream 1. Divide the dough into 12 equal balls , then roll it into 8-9 inch long rope . Do the same with the…
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Mountain Meatballs
Made these yummy meatballs from Jamie Oliver’s cookbook , one of my favorite chef . Seems like everything that i cooked from his recipes always turned out yummy . This was not exception , although i have to admit , i wasn’t sure about adding more than a cup of coffee into the sauce making . As it turned out , it was really good and i couldn’t even tell there was coffee mix in there !! The meatballs were a breeze to put together , they’re easy and since they’re humongous , they didn’t take much time to make at all . Unlike swedish meatballs , they’re tiny and…
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Lemon Birthday Cake
It’s no secret that anything to do with lemons , are my husband’s favorite . That includes , lemon rice soup , lemon pie , lemon meringue pie , lemon yogurt cake .. anything lemon he loves ! Me ? not so much .. it’s okay .. it’s not my favorite thing . So being a good wife that i am , i asked him , what kind of cake should i make for his birthday ? I imagined he’d say chocolate cake .. anything that has birthday in my mind .. i always picture it with chocolate .. Well i was surprised when he said ” Lemon cake ”…
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Kue Lapis Tepung Beras ( Traditional Layer Cake )
This is what we call layer cake in Indonesia . Unlike the layer cake with cinnamon and more like cake texture , this one was supposed to be the traditional type , made easily with coconut milk and rice flour , no spices whatsoever . They sell this in most of indonesian ‘tradional bakery’ , sometimes you can find them being sold in the ranch market too . They’re only good to be eaten for that day , you can’t save it for the next day since it’s made from coconut milk , and it is called ” kue basah ” if i translated that literally would means ” wet…
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Banana Bread
I made banana bread yesterday , it’s been a long time and i happened to have overripe bananas laying around on the counter . The problem with banana bread is , there are tons of recipes out there , throughout the years i’ve tried plenty recipes , sometimes i forget which one that tasted the best , and which one is the okay so so version . So going through my recipe box was tricky , i had to try to remember which one was this . But the one that i picked yesterday was the one without butter , so i considered it a little healthier version .. 😀…
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Thai Sticky Rice minus Mango
I love thai sticky rice , near the town where i live there is this thai restaurant that we occasionally go to . Me and my friends like to have lunch over there too , their price was very reasonable and they have a very yummy curry . But what i like the most was their dessert , thai sticky rice . I figured it shouldn’t be too hard to make , and so i googled it and i was right , it was super easy . As long as you have the sticky rice , and coconut milk , whether you have mango or not , it’s not a…
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Sweet Red Bean Paste
When you go asian bakery , chances are you will find items with sweet red beans fillings . Growing up in southeast asia , i found one dessert with beans , but not red beans , so this is all new to me also . I thought red beans are only for main dish , who would have thought it’s also for dessert , esp. it’s very famous in asian bakery . I decided to put my red azuki beans to a good use over the weekend , i thought it’s not going to be hard to make . I soaked the beans overnight . I tried cooking it without…
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Durian Cake
Over the weekend we went to check out the other asian market in the same area where the korean market was located at . At that asian market , i was thrilled because i found so many indonesian items , just like the store that we used to go back in Chicago , a whole aisle dedicated especially for indonesian food . Well , anyway , i also found durian , which i was really thrill to see . The last time i had durian was about 4 or 5 years ago , yes it’s been a long time .So i picked it up and bought it .. This morning…
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Strawberry – Rhubarb Crunch w/ Vanilla Ice Cream
I had never tried rhubarb before . From what i heard they go great when cooked with strawberry , and people said it has quite similar taste with strawberry . So it is full spring down south , and i figured it should be easy to find rhubarb , and it should be widely available . So yesterday when i went grocery shopping , my eyes was set to find rhubarb . I found them , those long red stalk , not to be mistaken with swiss chard by the way 🙂 But it happened , when i was about to pay for my grocery , the girl didn’t know…
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Chocolate Stout Cake
chocolate stout cake how to
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Coconut Friands
French friands , delicious snack for afternoon tea
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Madeleines
how to make french cookies Madeleines
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Texas Brownies
What is Texas Brownies ? I have no clue , all i know is .. that it’s a sheet chocolate cake with chocolate icing . And in my case , it is a really moist cake !! Why do they call it brownies ? They’re not even chewy like most brownies are .. I wonder about that too sometimes . Maybe i should as a true Texan , born and raised and who knows maybe one will be able to give me the answer . The first i made this was years and years ago , from a Taste of Home magazine that my MIL subscribed into . I thought…
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Lemon Bars
how to make lemon bars with perfect tartness
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Red Velvet Cupcake
easy red velvet cupcake
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Chocolate Cinnamon Wreath Bread
how to make wreath bread , chocolate cinnamon wreath bread
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Tea Cookies
how to make earl grey shortbread cookie
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Berlinerkranser ( Butter Knot Cookies )
how to make butter knots , berlinerkranser
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Dream Bars
how to make dreambars , from very old pillsbury cookbook
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Incredibles
how to make peanut butter chocolate bar , incredibles
