Posts Tagged ‘Desserts’
Sometimes, you just want delicious dessert recipe ideas to make for family and friends.
Recipe for Lemon Lime Coconut Cream Cake
What You Need
- 2 ½ cup sifted flour
- 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup softened butter or margarine
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 Tablespoons cornstarch
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup orange juice
- 2 Tablespoons lime juice
- 2 Tablespoons lemon juice
- ¼ cup water
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 Tablespoon lime zest
- 1 Tablespoon lemon zest
- Green food coloring
- 2 cups chilled heavy cream
- ½ cup sifted confectioners’ sugar
- 1 can flaked coconut 4 ounce
- 3 thin slices lime cut in halves
How to Make It
Soften the butter or margarine by placing it onto the counter at least 20 minutes before preparation time.
Prepare three 9 x 1 ½ inch round pans by greasing and flouring them, set aside until needed.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Sift flour, baking soda, and ½ teaspoon of salt into a large mixing bowl. Set aside until needed.
Using a large mixing bowl and a mixer on high speed, add the softened butter or margarine and 2 cups of sugar. Beat until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time while beating each to combine. Read the rest of this entry »
This is the trifecta of dinner party desserts: incredibly easy, made ahead of time, and delicious! It’s also open to a lot of augmentation. You can make it a ginger chocolate pie with some candied ginger in the pudding. You can make a graham cracker crust and add vegan marshmallow fluff for a S’mores Pie. Chocolate lends itself well to orange, mint, and raspberry flavors, so any of these can be swapped in for the vanilla in the filling. However, I’m partial to the classic, as it’s hard to go wrong with these clean, chocolate flavors.
Chocolate Cookie Crust
1 ½ cups chocolate cookie crumbs
6 tablespoons non-dairy butter
¼ cup sugar
Melt the butter. Mix cookie crumbs and sugar in a bowl. Add the melted butter to the dry ingredients, and mix together with a fork. Pour the crumb mixture into a greased pie pan and press evenly across the bottom and the sides of the pan. Place in the freezer for 20 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »
There are some foods that most people don’t outgrow or take off their favorites list even after decades. Cookies are great example of these as young kids and the young at heart truly enjoy eating cookies whether as snacks, desserts or sometimes even as the main course. You can always express your creativity in making cookies. Whether in the shape, mixture, or taste, cookies never fail to impress and are something that many people crave for. Cookie recipes can come in many varieties and with some simple changes to the ingredients, the shape, and the presentation, you can make cookies that everyone will remember and love.
* Make your cookie recipe more exiting by adding chopped nuts to your mixture. Everyone is sure to enjoy this nutty treat as the mild saltiness can give contrast to the sweetness of the cookie. Additionally, the crunch texture of the nuts is also something that many people will enjoy, whether your cookie is soft, crumbly or chewy.
* For variety, add raisins to your cookie or any dried fruit such as cherry or apple. This can give texture to the otherwise boring plain cookie mix. Dried cranberries and mango pieces are also worth experimenting with. Read the rest of this entry »
Only because a menu is served in a region other than its where the food originally came from, the concept of ‘typical food’ is derived. This ‘typical food’ is popular among new coming citizens in a foreign country, because these newcomers wish that they can still have the meals from where they are coming from. As to local citizens, the food offers a brand new flavor they never tasted in their own meals, so a new experience in eating the food is sensed. Therefore the food gives certain new impression. The same logic applies when it comes to talk about Italian food and American food.
Italian food is named ‘Italian’ because the food is served in other regions other than Italy itself. And so is American food. Italian food comprises menu which uses massively tomatoes, potatoes, bell peppers and maize. American food, in the other hand, is characterized by its fatty, giant, and oily ingredients which tastes yummy but is unhealthy.
So when mentioning Italian food we remember pizza, spaghetti and lasagna. At the other side, when mentioning American food we remember burger, hot dog and sausage.