Archive for March 2009
Strawberry cake with strawberry and whipped cream filling
Posted by: realistic bird on: March 31, 2009
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My brother got a strawberry plant as a gift. It is a very nice looking plant so I took some pictures of it (below). I guess it is a reminder that fruits don’t come in plastic packages.
This is another quick-to-do cake.
Cake:
Bring a strawberry cake mix package and prepare the cake as instructed on [...]
Confectionery with nuts
Posted by: realistic bird on: March 29, 2009
These Arabic sweets usually contain four main ingredients: sugar, nuts, glucose and starch. I found in one of my Arabic cook books recipes to do some of them. I will share the recipes after I translate them.
Marzipan “ain el gazal”
This is mainly made of almond paste and translates into eye of the deer. There are [...]
Banana cake with coconut honey topping
Posted by: realistic bird on: March 27, 2009
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You need about 3 bananas for this recipe
Ingredients:
¾ cup coconut
90g butter
½ cup castor sugar
2 eggs
¾ cup self-raising flour (if none add 1 ½ teaspoons of baking powder to ¾ cup of plain flour)
¼ plain flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
¼ cup milk
1 cup mashed banana
Coconut honey topping:
30g butter
2 tablespoons honey
1 cup shredded or fine coconut
Method:
1) Grease a [...]
Cold dried fruit tart
Posted by: realistic bird on: March 25, 2009
Serves 10
Ingredients:
1 tablespoon orange juice
55g mixed glace fruit, chopped (I used dried fruits)
450ml
4 teaspoons gelatin
100g sugar
½ teaspoon salt
3 eggs
250ml whipping cream
Crust:
170g digestive biscuits, crushed
70g butter, melted
1 tablespoon sugar
Method:
1) Crust: Mix the crushed biscuits, butter, and sugar. Press evenly and firmly over the bottom and side of a 9in (23cm) pie plate. Refrigerate until firm.
2) In [...]
Orange cake with orange filling
Posted by: realistic bird on: March 23, 2009
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Ingredients:
Cake:
Orange cake mix package, prepare the cake as instructed on the box. I used a pan that makes small loaf cakes. After the cake(s) is cold split in half to spread with orange filling.
Orange Filling
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 1/2 teaspoons grated orange peel
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup water
2 large egg yolks
2 [...]
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