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brown butter rice crispy treats

So.. I love rice crispy treats but they are not kosher in the stores, and the kosher ones are so expensive. So I decided to make my own. This recipe is Fail Proof. Any one can make it. It’s so easy and soo good. Here’s how you make it

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Makes 16 2-inch squares or 32 1- x 2-inch small bars

Ingredients

4 ounces (1/4 pound or 1 stick) unsalted butter, plus extra for the pan
1 10-ounce bag marshmallows
Heaping 1/4 teaspoon coarse sea salt
6 cups Rice Krispies cereal (about half a 12-ounce box)

Directions

Butter (or coat with non-stick spray) an 8-inch square cake pan with 2-inch sides.
In a large pot, melt butter over medium-low heat. It will melt, then foam, then turn clear golden and finally start to turn brown and smell nutty. Stir frequently, scraping up any bits from the bottom as you do. Don’t take your eyes off the pot as while you may be impatient for it to start browning, the period between the time the butter begins to take on color and the point where it burns is often less than a minute.
As soon as the butter takes on a nutty color, turn the heat off and stir in the marshmallows. The residual heat from the melted butter should be enough to melt them, but if it is not, turn it back on low until the marshmallows are smooth.
Remove the pot from the stove and stir in the salt and cereal together. Quickly spread into prepared pan. I liked to use a piece of waxed or parchment paper that I’ve sprayed with oil to press it firmly and evenly into the edges and corners, though a silicon spatula works almost as well.
Let cool, cut into squares and get ready to make new friends.
This wonderful recipe was taken from smitten kitchen.

soft and awesome

Baked Sweet Potato with Marshmallows and Brown Sugar

Serves 2 people, one half of the potato per person.

Ingredients

1 Large sweet potato

1/4 cup brown sugar

5 marshmallows

Method

Double wrap the sweet potato in aluminum foil. Bake in the oven at 400 degrees for an hour and a half or if you have time, bake for two hours.

Right before eating, unwrap and cut potato in half. Then score the potato into squares.

Sprinkle brown sugar on top

Tear marshmallows in half then in half again and stick on top and in the crevices of the sweet potato.

Bake in the oven for another 5 minutes. Enjoy 🙂

This can be made as a dessert, it’s very sweet and just delicious.

Tip: You can add chopped pecans on top.

(Or cut the sweet potato as shown below. To create the look in the image below, you would need to bake 2 or 3 sweet potatoes, depending on how many people you are serving, and cut them into individual portions, turn them over on their sides, sprinkle marshmallows on top, and bake for 5 minutes)

The Best Passover Brownies

Ingredients

6 eggs
2 2/3 cups white sugar
1 1/2 cups potato starch
3/4 cup cocoa
2/3 cup oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (i used vanilla sugar)

Method

Mix all ingredients until batter is smooth.
Pour into a parchment paper lined 9×13 inch pan.
Bake at 350 F (175 C) for 30 until top is lightly brown and crispy.
Don’t over bake.
I got this recipe from
These Passover brownies are so good I am considering making them during the year too. I just copied and pasted the recipe it’s that good 🙂

Strawberry Sorbet & Tamarind Lemon Sorbet

If you want to have this dessert for dinner you have to make it very early in the morning. The preparation is quick and simple, the main process is the time it needs to freeze solid. If you want to eat at 9pm you have to get it into the freezer at 7am. It’s better to make it the night before your meal. I also put my freezer on high blast because I needed them to be frozen for our passover seder (a Jewish holiday dinner). Continue reading

Fazuelos – Moroccan Holiday Cookies ~ פזואלוס

fazuelos

 

Ingredients

1 kilo flour

8 eggs

1/2 cup oil

1/2 -3/4 cup water

Oil for deep frying

Powdered sugar for dusting

 

Directions

Mix flour eggs and oil in a food processor for about a minute

Add the water in slowly. Then knead the dough until it becomes smooth.

With a rolling pin roll out the dough on a floured surface to about 1/2 cm thick. (very thin)

Cut the dough into strips with a knife of about 5-7 cm Wide and 30 cm in length.

Heat up the oil in a big, wide pot and get ready to deep fry each cookie individually by the following method.

Using a fork, put one edge of a strip of dough in between two of the forks teeth. Then carefully, slowly, holding the other edge of the strip in the air, with your other hand and above the pot, dunk the edge with the fork –  into the oil – until it starts to bubble up and form what look like “blisters” (pockets of water you get on your skin) The dough bubbles as it fries let it fry slowly so that it gets an even fry in every layer as you move the fork.

Once it has fried for at least 20 to 30 seconds lower more of the dough into the oil and slowly with the help of the fork twirl the part that has been fried and continue lowering, frying and twirling. Twirl the last part around and take the fork out – you may have to push it down at te end so that it wont open up, until it fries into a solid shape. You will get a shape of a roll.

Place fried rolls on a baking sheet lined with paper towels. Continue frying each cookie individually.

Before serving, dust with powdered sugar 🙂

fyi – This was hard to make but really good and I intend to perfect it!! Also I scaled down the recipe in half.

my first time making them by myself

 

 

Hamantashen – Jewish Holiday Cookies ~ אוזני המן‎

Powdered Poppy Seed Hamantashen

The Dough

2.5 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
pinch of salt
200 grams margarine/butter (2 sticks minus a small chunk)
grated orange zest of 1 orange
2 egg yolks
2-4 teaspoons orange juice

Two variations of the poppy seed filling

Version 1 – Semi home made
Solo Canned Poppy Seeds (I can definitely vouch for this version)
1/2 cup walnuts (then chop them small)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon water
Version 2 – From scratch (harder process well worth mastering)
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup sugar
150 grams ground fresh poppy seeds
2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon lemon juice
. . .
[1/2 cup dried blueberries soaked in rum overnight]
OR [1/2 cup walnuts (chopped) and a teaspoon of vanilla]

Also you will need

Apricot Preserves (You need to use preserves because Jam is too soft and does not work well with this cookie)
Flour to roll out the dough
1 egg white to brush on before and after baking the hamantashen
1 teaspoon cold water to mix with the egg white
Powdered sugar to dust [using a strainer] over the cookies once they are cooled

Method

  1. Preheat Oven to about 320-340 degrees F
  2. Combine flour baking powder salt and sugar with a mixer. mix 2-3 minutes. Add grated orange zest and butter until combined. Add the egg yolks mix until the dough is crumbly.
  3. Add two tablespoons orange juice. Or more until the dough is more or less smooth. Cover the dough and place in refrigerator for 2 hours. (I left it for 30 minutes but the more you chill it the better)
  4. Poppy seed filling instructions above.
  5. Before rolling out the dough, prepare a small bowl with the water and egg white and a brush to brush them on. Take out the dough and place it on a floured surface. cut the dough into 4 pieces and return 3 pieces into the fridge.
  6. Using a lightly floured rolling pin roll the dough to 3-4 millimeters
  7. Using a medium sized cup or round cookie cutter dipped in flour – punch out circles in the dough.
  8. Brush the the circles with the egg white before placing the filling inside.
  9. Put 3/4 teaspoon filling (apricot preserves straight from the jar or the cooled poppy seed) in center, and make the triangle shape. Pinch it closed – line the cookies on a baking sheet that has wax paper and which has also been sprayed with PAM- place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes (After which, I took them out, brushed them quickly with egg white on all sides and baked them right away).
  10. Bake cookies for 15 minutes exactly
  11. Place on cooling racks immediately. Wen they are cool dust them with powdered sugar. Place in airtight container.

Makes about 35 cookies.

Enjoy!!

"ozney haman" a Jewish holiday cookie

great dough, filling not too sweet, powdered sugar, it's just right

Easy Mini Cheesecake Pecan Pies

mmm...<3

You will need:
-About 18 Mini ready graham pie crusts or 1 large crust (recommended: Keebler)
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filling

-8 oz cream cheese
-1/3 cup sugar
-1/4 teaspoon salt
-1 teaspoon vanilla extract
-1 egg

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-1 1/4 cups chopped pecans
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topping

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-3 eggs
-1/4 cup sugar
-1 cup dark or light corn syrup
-1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and bake for about 17-20 minutes

Take out two bowls. In one bowl place all the ingredients for the filling; cream cheese, sugar, salt, vanilla and an egg. Mix well. In the second bowl, place all the ingredients of the topping; corn syrup, sugar, vanilla and eggs. Mix well.

*There is no need to bake the crusts first to avoid the crusts from shrinking. Pour in a few spoons of the cream cheese mixture, midway. then put in some chopped pecans. Then pour in the syrup topping till the top of the pie.

*Note: You can also make one big graham cracker pie instead of 18 mini ones.

very yummy!! 🙂

*adapted from http://audgbodge.blogspot.com/2010/01/mystery-pecan-pies.html

The Perfect Brownie

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I want to share with you a wonderful brownie recipe that has been passed down to me and I think you’ll love.

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cups cocoa
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 4 eggs
  • 2/3 cup oil
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Place all wet ingredients in a medium sized bowl and mix briefly. Add in the dry ingredients one at a time and mix well with a hand blender or a mixer. You can add in the walnuts at this time, and mix them in very briefly.

Lightly grease a 7’11” pan (medium rectangular pan) pour brownie mixture in and place in the oven for approximately 25 minutes. Check for done-ness with a toothpick until the toothpick comes out clean.

****Important note: Cool brownies completely. Hold yourself back from cutting and eating your brownies right away, these brownies need to cool completely before serving. (This is because the brownies develop a wonderful flavor as they settle)

*Makes about 12 nice size brownies