How to Bake Coconut Brownies with Cream Cheese Icing
I don’t think I know anyone who does not like brownies, especially this recipe for Coconut Brownies with Cream Cheese Icing! It is just super delicious and everyone asks for more…and a few more. 😉 These goodies with their zebra striped deliciousness are a great treat anytime, but look especially wonderful on a Christmas dessert tray, or for a sweetheart for Valentine’s. How to Bake Coconut Brownies with Cream Cheese...
How to Make Superfine Sugar at Home
Confused as to what the heck Superfine Sugar is, and why it’s necessary at all? Well, superfine sugar is known to be used when making candies, canning, brining and other specialty applications. Basically, it’s just a finer grain of sugar than the caster sugar, and this is due to further processing, which you can accomplish in your very own kitchen. This way, you’ll always have superfine sugar when you need it without...
How to Make Flavored Finishing Sugars
Most of the time, sugar is, well, just sugar…Right? True…However, there are times when flavoring sugar for desserts, drinks, fruits, etc. can be simply amazing and truly perfect! A little something different…that “je ne sais quoi”! Typically speaking, you don’t use a lot when you’re talking about finishing or flavored sugars. They are simply to enhance flavor and give a marvelous twist. So,...
How to Make Kimberly’s Creamed Cheese Icing
Perfect for cupcakes or chocolate cake, or Carrot Cake, especially at Easter time…It may sound funny, but I use all organic ingredients for this recipe, even though it’s a dessert! ~ Kimberly Edwards ;D Type: Dessert Serve With: Kimberly’s Carrot Cake Prep Time: ~ 20 min Yield: Enough for 1 carrot cake or 12-16 cupcakes Ingredients: Instructions: 1. Using room temperature creamed cheese, cream well, add icing sugar...
Wild Blueberry & Clementine Parfaits + Video
Wild Blueberry & Clementine Parfaits are the perfect finish to a lovely meal. Fresh fruit with tang, paired up with fluffy, homemade whipped cream? You can’t go wrong! Sweet, wild, Canadian blueberries, are matched with little, jewels of splendor – citrusy clementine sections, giving a gorgeous contrast of colors & complimentary flavors, nestled in layered clouds of cream. What could be more divine? In this...
Gluten Free Holiday Brandied Tiger Nut Fruit Cake + Video
This Gluten Free Holiday Brandied Tiger Nut Fruit Cake will be the pièce de résistance of your Holiday table! Chock full of dried fruit, and topped with either fondant or icing, it’s not only a labor of love, but impressive beyond compare. Properly preserved, fruit cakes can be stored for many years – some stories we’ve heard have boasted serving 100 year old fruit cake. Gluten Free Holiday Brandied Tiger Nut Fruit...
How to Make Spiced Tiger Nut & Mango Mousse + Video
Spiced Tiger Nut & Mango Mousse: Type: Dessert Recipe Prep Time: 15 minutes Chill Time: 20 – 30 minutes refrigerated Yield: 4 servings The ingredients & instructions are listed below the video for measurements & directions. Please enjoy this webisode of Cooking with Kimberly: Ingredients: 2 large mangoes 3 1/2 tbsp Tiger Nuts Smoothie Mix 2 – 3 tbsp icing sugar – optional 1/4 – 1/2 tsp ground...
Gluten Free Holiday Tiger Nut Shortbread Cookies + Video
This recipe for Gluten Free Holiday Tiger Nut Shortbread Cookies will make your holidays complete! Kids love to help bake & decorate cookies –Â and these tiger nut shortbread cookies won’t disappoint! They are fun, easy to make & a bit healthier than what you’d typically bake for the holidays. No matter the cookie shapes you create, you can enjoy them on a plate, or make holes at the top of each cookie &...
How to Bake Dark Brandied Christmas Fruitcake
In our house, we love Dark Brandied Christmas Fruitcake with warm spices and delicious dried fruits, always reminds me of the aromas of the Holidays. Even those, who say they don’t like fruitcake, rave about this Dark Brandied Christmas Fruitcake. It just isn’t Christmas, if our favorite fruitcake isn’t on our dessert platter of goodies. Note: This recipe calls for nuts, and since some people don’t eat nuts, I...
How to Make Napa Valley Strawberry Balsamic Jello Parfaits + Video
For a delicious dessert that is easy & fun to make, try this recipe for How to Make Napa Valley Strawberry Balsamic Jello Parfaits! You will find that people who love their desserts and snacks, adults & children alike, will be excited to enjoy this unique combination of delicious ingredients. Napa Valley Strawberry Balsamic Jello Parfaits are perfect for Christmas or the middle of July. Napa Valley Strawberry Balsamic Jello...
Web Chef Review: PBfit Peanut Butter Powder
PBfit Peanut Butter Powder is a wonderful, new, healthy product that will surprise you. Peanut butter powder, you ask? Yes! Why would you want peanut butter in a powdered form? Let me tell you… When BetterBody Foods makes PBfit, first, they extract 75% of the oil from the peanuts. The peanuts are then finely ground, with some sugar & salt for flavor, and the consistency ends up being like that of icing sugar. Removing that...
How to Bake Blackberry Pie
Blackberry Pie is a true joy of summertime. When blackberries are in season, there is nothing more delicious than the plump, luscious blackberries in a pie with a little whipped cream, crème fraîche or ice cream on the side. This is really a treat for the eyes and the palate. Though, I prefer fresh blackberries, frozen blackberries are acceptable. How to Bake Blackberry Pie: I used my Mom’s recipe for the pie shell of this...
How to Bake a Christmas Chocolate Log + Video
This fabulously traditional recipe for How to Bake a Christmas Chocolate Log is perfect for the Holidays, even as a host/hostess gift. Chocolate log cakes are traditionally made & enjoyed for Christmas, but this cake can be made any time of the year. I found this spectacular recipe in an eBook called A Cornish Grandmother’s Family Favourites available on Amazon. In this eBook, the Chocolate Christmas Log recipe uses the same...