Desserts

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Permalink Reply by Cee ( The Platysombat) on November 26, 2010 at 7:40pm

CHOCOLATE DR. PEPPER CAKE

Cake
1 cup butter
1 cup Dr. Pepper
4 tablespoons DARK cocoa
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional...I don't use it)
3 cups flour, sifted
2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs -- well beaten
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda

Dr. Pepper Frosting
1/2 cup Dr. Pepper
1/4 cup butter
3 tablespoons DARK cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar -- sifted
1/2 cup pecans -- chopped
1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

Heat Dr. Pepper with butter, but do not boil. Set aside. Sift together flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt, and cocoa. Beat together eggs, buttermilk, vanilla, and baking soda. Add hot Dr. Pepper mixture to dry ingredients. Stir in egg mixture, and blend well. Pour into greased and floured 15x10-inch sheet cake pan. Bake at 350 deg. for 25 minutes.

For frosting: About 5 minutes before cake is done, heat Dr. Pepper, margarine, and cocoa.
Stir in powdered sugar, pecans, and vanilla. Spread frosting on while cake is still hot.

Permalink Reply by Cee ( The Platysombat) on December 6, 2010 at 1:57am

Craisin Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients
3 cups of any brand old-fashioned rolled oats
1/2 cup dried craisins ( I luv Craisins)
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
3/4 cup unsalted butter,
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup (105 grams) all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees

In the bowl beat the butter and sugar until creamy and smooth then add egg & vanilla extract (beat again)
In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, salt, and ground cinnamon.
Combine the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and beat until well mixed. Stir in the oats, and dried cranberries and chocolate chips. (Yummy) feel free to sample cookie dough.

Bake the cookies for about 12 - 15 minutes or until light golden brown around the edges but still soft in the centers. Remove from oven and let the cookies cool
Makes about 20 or 24

Permalink Reply by Sarah M. A. (DancingDolphyn) on January 23, 2011 at 3:04pm

Here's a recipe for a Yule Log cake. Technically it's a Christmas dessert, but it isn't any less delicious at other times of the year! There's a picture of it on my profile page if you're interested.

Cake
3 eggs 3/4 C flour
1 C sugar 1/4 C cocoa
1/3 C water 1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla 1/4 tsp salt

Beat eggs till thick and lemon colored. Gradually beat in sugar, then water and vanilla. In a separate bowl, sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Add to egg mixture. Pour into a jelly roll pan lined with wax paper. Bake at 375 for 15 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes. Flip onto a dish towel sprinkled with powdered sugar. Remove wax paper. Roll up from short end, keeping the towel on it so the towel is rolled up in it. Let cool completely.

Filling
1 C whipping cream 2 Tbsp powdered sugar

Beat whipping cream until stiff. Add sugar. Unroll cake and spread cream on it. Re-roll the cake so the cream is inside, taking the towel off as you go. Place on a dish with the exposed edge underneath. Cut about 2 inches off one end and set it on top or on the side like a little stump.

Frosting
1/3 C cocoa 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/3 C margarine, softened 1-2 Tbsp hot water
2 C powdered sugar

Mix cocoa, margarine, powdered sugar and vanilla. Add hot water until smooth. Frost cake. Drag a fork through frosting to make it look like tree bark.

Permalink Reply by EPIC Pop-Tart (Winged Turcoon) on July 10, 2013 at 12:13pm

If you like chocolate (who doesn't?) this recipe is for you!!! It is awesome!

Brownie parfait

Ingredients:
Small tub of cool whip or any kind of whipped cream
Brownie mix
1-2 boxes Chocolate pudding (instant)
More than one Heath chocolate bar
Large glass bowl to layer the ingredients

Directions
1. Make the brownies according to package instructions and cut into small squares
2. Make the chocolate pudding according to package instructions
3. Break the Heath bar into small pieces. If you don't like Heath you can substitute for Hershey bars.
4. Layer the ingredients in this order: brownie, pudding, cool whip, Heath and then repeat
5. Enjoy this delicious chocolate wonder!

Permalink Reply by Victoria ( Mindfreak) on July 10, 2013 at 1:20pm

The Mythical Vanilla & Chocolate Pancakes /W ice cream of your choosing

A proper dessert pancake for chocolate lovers! Serve example with sliced banana and whipped cream or any ice cream of your choosing.

For four people you will need:
• 150 grams of dark or light chocolate
• 2 ½ cups flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 6 cups milk
• 3 eggs
• 3 tablespoons of butter

3 tablespoons of vanilla extract

To do this:
Melt the chocolate in a water block, that is, in a small bowl set in a saucepan of simmering water. Be careful that the water does not boil and splashed down into the chocolate, then it becomes grainy. Stir in the chocolate until melted. Then open up another bowl and mix together flour and salt. Beat in half of the milk and whisk until smooth.
Whisk then in the rest of the milk and eggs. Mix last in the melted chocolate. You leave the mixture to swell for about 30 minutes.
Melt half the butter in a pan and whisk it into the batter. Fry thin pancakes.

Permalink Reply by Mean Chunga (Putz) on January 14, 2015 at 12:43pm

Chocolate Banana Ravioli

For pasta

3 1/2 cups of All Purpose Flour

1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 cup of powered sugar

1 T of vanilla extract (pure or imitation, it really doesn't matter)

1/2 t of salt

Filling

1 T of nutella (per ravioli)

3 small slices of banana (per ravioli)

Sauce

1/4 cup of honey

1 T of cinammon

pinch of salt

whatever water comes with the ravioli from being boiled.

1 c chopped pecans (optional)

in a large bowl mix together all of the dry ingredients with a fork until they are fully integrated. Make a well in the flour in the bowl and pour in the eggs and the vanilla. Whisk the eggs with a fork and gradually incorporate the flour mixture until you can no longer see any of the egg. Turn it out on a clean counter or cutting board and start kneading everything together. (depending on the weather you may need to add additional liquid to the mix if your dough is dry. That is no big deal just add some tap water a little at a time until your dough is more manageable). Keep kneading the dough for 3-4 minutes until it is stretchy and is no longer sticking to the board or counter top. At this point let it rest for a minimum of 20 minutes.

Once your 20 minutes is up you can start rolling out your dough. If you have a pasta machine, that is awesome ... but I don't. Cut your dough in to 4 pieces, doing this will make the rolling process much easier and much more manageable. Roll your dough to about 1/8 of an inch thick this should give you ample room to make 2 nice and large ravioli. All you will need to do is cut the dough in half and make sure that the half that you are going to place over the filling is slightly larger than the one on the bottom, after all; it has more stuff to cover.

Once you get your filling down use water to wet the pasta around the filling and edges, doing this will seal the pasta. Some people swear up and down that you have to use an egg wash to do this and you can do that but the added protein from the egg will make the pasta more tough around the edges so if you like your pasta even chewier use the egg, if you like them a little less on the chewy side, go with the water. After you have wet down the pasta with your wetting medium of choice go ahead and lay the top layer over the bottom and use your fingers to push out any air that might have gotten trapped. Air is bad in ravioli, it makes them go boom. Boom is not good with ravioli. Repeat these steps until you have no more dough to make pasta.

To cook the ravioli get a large stock pot and fill it with water. Now this time we are going to get a little strange, not only are we going to salt the water but we are going to sugar the water too. While those are cooking get a saute pan out and put the honey and cinnamon in it and put it over low heat. Now if you really wanted to gild the lily you could at this point add chopped pecans to the honey mixture and I can't think of anyone who would fault you for that.

Once the ravioli are floating at the top of the water move them directly from the boiling water to the saute pan, do not put them in a colander or anything like that. once you have them out, toss them a few times and serve them in a large bowl with a sprinkling of powdered sugar over the top.

Enjoy!

Permalink Reply by Clementine"Tiney"Carver on July 22, 2017 at 4:54am

Okay, so I'm a chef, and the first restaurant I worked in was a gourmet Italian restaurant called Parlamento (So named because it is across the road from the Parliament building in Sydney's CBD). Anywho, I was head of the Larder section (the larder section deals with salads, sides, entrés, and occasionally dessert. One of the things I had to make daily, is a beautiful Tiramisu. Here's my recipe:

***NOTE: BECAUSE THIS RECIPE IS USED IN A RESTAURANT, IT YIELDS ABOUT TWO TRAYS (DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF YOUR TRAYS), IF YOU JUST WANT TO MAJE ONE TRAY, JUST HALF THE QUANTITIES :)****

INGREDIENTS:
1.5kg Mascarpone cream cheese
300ml Masala (1 lot of 90ml and 1 of 210ml)
6 egg yolks
6 egg whites
400g (2 lots of 145g and 1 lot of 110g)
3 gelatine leaves (softened in water, briefly)
300ml Espresso "syrup" (Mix 145g sugar with steaming hot black coffee)
Roughly 3 packets of sponge fingers.

METHOD:
1. Mix 6 egg yolks with 145g sugar and 3 softened gelatine leaves (works best in a Kitchen Aid, or electric mixer)
2. In a separate bowl, mix 6 egg whites with 110g sugar
3. Mix coffee "syrup" with 210ml Masala.
4. Fold together your egg white and egg yolk mix, then fold through 90ml Masala, being careful not to knock too much air out of the mix.
5. Fold Mascarpone through the mix.
6. Soak sponge fingers in the coffee syrup.
7. Now layer the sponge fingers and mascarpone mix, in large and deep trays
8. Put in Fridge to set (it should take around 3 hours to set, depending on the temperature of your fridge. The colder your fridge, the quicker it will set).

ENJOY!! :D

Permalink Reply by Clementine"Tiney"Carver on July 22, 2017 at 8:52am

Just realised I put 400g, but didn't say what you need 400g for! It's sugar. You need 400g of sugar. Sorry guys! Excuse my stupidity. #super embarrassed.