Tag Archives: fridge

Dec 4

Apple pie

The most famous American Pie!

Ingredients for crust

Ingredients for filling

 

Directions for pie crust

  1. Combine flour, salt and sugar in a bowl.
  2. Add margarine.
  3. Mix using your hands.
  4. Add 1 tablespoon of ice water a time  and mix with your hands until you have a compact dough.
  5. Split the dough in 2 pieces.
  6. Put each dough in plastic wrap and put in the fridge at least 1 hour, up to 2 days.

Directions for filling

  1. Peel the apple, core it and cut in slices.
  2. In a bowl, add apples, brown sugar, granulated sugar, butter, flour, cinnamon, butter, salt, nutmeg,  and lemon zest.
  3. Stir all the ingredients and cover the bowl with plastic wrap.
  4. Keep refrigerated for 30 minutes.
  5. Preheat oven to 390º F.
  6. Remove one dough from the fridge and let at room temperature at least 10 minutes in order to soften.
  7. Spread flour sprinkles over a surface and put the dough.
  8. With your hands make a circle.
  9. Using a rolling pin spread the dough circle. The dough should be bigger than the pie plate.
  10. Roll in in the rolling pan the dough and then roll out over the pie plate.
  11. Press the pie dough down and to sides.
  12. Using scissors, trim the dough about 2 inches from the edge of the pie plate.
  13. Remove from the fridge the filling and fill the pie. Put in order the apples to fill all space inside the pie.
  14. Remove the second dough from the fridge.
  15. Spread flour sprinkles over the kitchen surface and put the dough.
  16. Make a circle with the dough.
  17. Using a rolling pin, spread the dough circle.
  18. Roll in the dough in the rolling pin and roll out to cover the pie.
  19. Using your hands, seal the edges of the crust.
  20. Cut a small hole on the top of the crust to vent.
  21. Put in the oven for 50 to 55 minutes.

Suggestions

I love apple pie slice with two vanilla or butter pecan ice cream! Yummy !

Let cool before enjoy!

Nov 27

Red Velvet Cake

Here the recipe to bake a yummy red velvet cake!

Red Velvet Cake ingredients

Cream cheese frosting ingredients

You can make your own buttermilk adding 1 tablespoon of white vinegar to 1 cup of whole milk. After 15 minutes, you’ll have buttermilk.

Directions for cake

  1. Preheat oven to 355º F.
  2. Stir in a bowl flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa powder. and mix using a whisk.
  3. In a different bowl mix butter with sugar until creamy.
  4. Add the vanilla extract and eggs, one a time, and beat until mix.
  5. Add red food coloring to buttermilk. Be careful with stains! It’s very hard to leave from clothes!
  6. Add dry ingredients from the first bowl (flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa powder) in 3 times, alternating with buttermilk, and beat.
  7. Put in a round cake pan. or in two small round cake pans.
  8. Put in the oven about 40 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the cake tests clean.
  9. Let cool.

Directions for frosting

  1. Beat the cream cheese until creamy in a bowl.
  2. Add butter and vanilla extract and beat.
  3. Finally, add confectioners’ sugar and mix well.

Finishing

  1. Cut the cake horizontally in 2 pieces. If you’ve baked it in two cake pans, don’t have to cut it.
  2. Spread the top of first layer with frosting using a spatula. Add the second layer and spread more frosting. Then, spread the cream cheese frosting to cover the entire cake.
  3. Keep refrigerate for 4 hours.

 

Suggestions 

You can bake cupcakes instead a cake. Put a cupcake pan and fill paper cupcake liners with the batter using two spoons. Put in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until a inserted toothpick tests clean. Use cream cheese frosting to decorate cupcakes.

Nov 20

Pumpkin pie

This is a traditional pie for Thanksgiving day!

Ingredients for crust

Ingredients for filling

Directions for pie crust

  1. Combine flour, salt and sugar in a bowl.
  2. Add margarine.
  3. Mix using your hands.
  4. Add 1 tablespoon of ice water a time  and mix with your hands until you have a compact dough.
  5. Split the dough in 2 pieces.
  6. Put each dough in plastic wrap and put in the fridge at least 1 hour, up to 2 days.
  7. Remove one dough from the fridge and let at room temperature at least 10 minutes in order to soften.
  8. Spread flour sprinkles over a surface and put the dough.
  9. With your hands make a circle.
  10. Using a rolling pin spread the dough circle. The dough should be bigger than the pie plate.
  11. Roll in in the rolling pan the dough and then roll out over the pie plate.
  12. Press the pie dough down and to sides.
  13. Using scissors, trim the dough about 1inche from the edge of the pie plate.
  14. Cover with plastic wrap and keep refrigerated.

Directions for filling

  1. Preheat oven to 400º F.
  2. In a medium-size bowl, combine pumpkin purée, sugars (granulated and brown), salt, ginger, cinnamon, and flour, and mix until combine.
  3. In small bowl, combine eggs, cream, milk, and vanilla, and beat lightly to mix.
  4. Pour the egg mixture into the pumpkin mixture, stirring to blend.
  5. Remove the pie shell from fridge and pour the filling into the shell.
  6. Bake for 50 to 55 minutes or until the filling is almost set. The center should still look slightly undercooked.
  7. Stop the oven and keep inside for 5 minutes. Residual heat will continue to cook the filling.
  8. Remove from the oven and let cool at room temperature before enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

 

Nov 8

Cheesecake

The cheesecake is one of my favorite cakes. This is an American recipe for a wonderful cheesecake.

Ingredients

 

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
  2. Place a small saucepan over low heat and add the butter. Heat until butter melts and remove from the stove.
  3. Stir in the melted butter the crushed graham crackers and granulated sugar and then mix.
  4. Put the mix in a round cake pan and press tightly into the bottom.
  5. Put the cake pan in the oven and bake for 10 minutes and then, let cool in a wire rack.
  6. Increase the oven temperature to 400ºF.
  7. With a electric mixer, beat the cream cheese until creamy in a bowl.
  8. Add gradually sugar and flour and beat until smooth.
  9. Increase the speed beat in the vanilla extract and add the eggs and yolks one a time.
  10. Finally, beat in heavy cream using the mixer‘s fastest speed. The mixture will be light and creamy.
  11. Grease the sides of cake pan with butter, pour in the filling and smooth the top.
  12. Bake the cheesecake for 15 minutes.
  13. Reduce the temperature to 200ºF and bake for additional 30-40 minutes.
  14. Turn off the oven and let the cheesecake inside for 3 hours to cool.
  15. Put the cheesecake in the fridge and refrigerate overnight.

 Suggestions

You can use Oreo cookies for a chocolate base instead of graham crackers. You have to remove the cream filling from the cookies!

Cheesecake

Cheesecake