Carrot Cake Whoopi Pie

Carrot Cakes Cookies:

2 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup dark brown sugar

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs, room temperature

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup quick oats

1 ½ cups finely grated carrots (about 3-4 carrots)

1 cup raisins

Cream Cheese Filling (recipe follows)

Pre-heat oven to 350°. 

Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon together. Set aside.

Cream butter and sugars until creamy. Mix in eggs and vanilla until well combined. 

Gradually add flour to butter mixture; mix on a low speed to combined. Mix in oats, carrots, and raisins.

Drop cookie dough onto parchment paper, leaving 2 inches between cookies. Bake until light brown, about 15 minutes. 

Let cookies cool completely.  Spread 2 teaspoons of the cream cheese filling on one cookie, and top it with a second cookie to form a sandwich.

Serve at room temperature. If make ahead, cookies can be assembled and stored in the refrigerator.

Cream Cheese Filling:

Makes about 2 cups

1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, room temperature

½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature

1 ¼ cup powdered sugar

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Add all of the ingredients in a mixing bowl, and beat until smooth and well blended. 

Note: Recipe adapted from this site.

Buttermilk Waffles

Ingredients:
1 1/2 C. Flour
1/2 t. Baking powder
1 t. Baking soda
3 T. Sugar
Pinch of salt
1 Egg, beaten
2 C. Buttermilk
4 T. Butter, melted
2 t. Vanilla

Preparation:
In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt.
Add egg, buttermilk, butter, and vanilla to the dry ingredients and fold to combine.
Pour 1/2 cup of batter into a hot waffle iron and cook until golden. Serve warm.
Yield about 5 waffles.

Swiss Roll

Swiss Roll

1. Make the cream filling.
2. Preheat the oven 375 F.
3. Make the cake.
4. Assemble the roll.

Cream filling:

3 T Shortening

6 T power sugar

4 T butter

1/2 C Heavy whip cream

Add shortening, sugar, and butter together and mix well. Gradually add heavy whip cream. Beat until creamy.

Cake:

5 egg white

3/4 C sugar

1/4 t salt

Beat egg white until foamy. Gradually add sugar and salt. Beat to almost stiff peak. Set aside.

5 egg yolks

1/3 C sugar

Cream together. Set aside.

1 1/2 T instant coffee (or 4 t vanilla)

1/4 C hot water

1/4 C vegetable oil

Mix liquid together. Add to the egg yolk mixture.

1 C cake flour

1/4 t baking powder

Sift flour and baking powder together. Add to the yolk mixture.

Fold egg white mixture into the yolk mixture until smooth.

Pour batter into a 11 x 17 pan lined with parchment paper.

Bake at 375 F for 9 minutes. (reduce the time for thinner cake).

Cool the cake well. 

Assemble the roll:

Peel off the parchment paper. 

Spread cream filling over the cake evenly. 

Gently roll the cake and wrap with the parchment paper. 

Chill the roll for 30 minutes before cutting.

Cream Puffs

Cream Puffs

Filling:

3/4 C Sugar

1/2 C Corn starch

2 1/2 C Evaporated milk

1/2 C water

1 Tbsp vanilla

2 Tbsp butter

1. In a bowl, add sugar, corn starch, evaporated milk, water and mix well.
2. Cook the mixture over low heat and stir constantly until start to bubble. The mixture will be thick. Take off from heat.
3. Add butter and vanilla. Stir until well incorporated.
4. Let cool.

Shells:

1 1/4 C All Purpose flour

1 tsp Sugar

1/2 C butter

1 C water

5-6 eggs (extra large) depending on the size of eggs

1. Preheat the oven to 375 F.
2. Sift flour and set aside.
3. Boil water, butter, and sugar. Don’t stir.
4. Mix flour in the liquid mixture. Stir quickly until well incorporated.
5. Pour mixture in the mixing bowl, add egg 1 at a time and mix until smooth.
6. Grease and flour the baking pan.
7. Add the mixture in a piping bag with a Star tip. Pipe cream puffs 1 inch apart from each other. 
8. Bake cream puffs at 375 F for 22-25 minutes or until golden.
9. Let cool, then fill with filling.

Butter Mochi Cake with Red Bean

Ingredients

1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 cup white sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups rice flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 cups milk
1 (18.75 ounce) can sweetened red bean paste

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch Bundt pan or a 9x13 inch baking pan.
2. In a large bowl, mix together the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and milk. Stir in the rice flour and baking powder. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Drop red bean paste by scant teaspoonfuls onto the top of the cake. If spoonfuls are too big, the filling will sink to the bottom.
3. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until cake springs back when lightly touched. If using a Bundt pan, invert the cake onto a serving plate. Cake must be completely cooled before unmolding from Bundt pan, or it will be too soft to hold its shape. Serve small slices of this very rich cake at room temperature or slightly warmed.

Bot's English Rocks

Bot's English Rocks

Makes 8 dozen

1 C. soft butter (I use salted)

1 1/2 C. light brown sugar

3 eggs

3 C. flour

1 t. baking soda

2 t. cinnamon

1/2 t. all spice

1/2 C. buttermilk

3 C. pecan halves

6 slices candied pineapple diced

2 C. coarse diced pitted dates

1 lb. whole candied cherries

Sift dry ingredients together and set aside.

Cream butter and sugar. Add egg one at at time. Beat until smooth and creamy.

Add sifted dry ingredients and buttermilk, mix well.

Pour over mix fruits & nuts.

Drop from teaspoon on greased cookie sheet (I use parchment paper).

Bake at 325 F for 20-23 minutes.

Spring Rolls

Spring rolls:

1 pack spring roll wrapper

1 head red leaf lettuce, chopped

2 cucumber, julienned

1 bunch cilantro, chopped

mint leaves, chopped

Thai basil

2 chicken breasts, boiled, shredded

1 lb shrimp, boiled

Dip a wrapper in water to moisten. Add vegetables and meat, then wrap. Serve with dipping sauce.

Spring roll dipping sauce:

1/4 onion, chopped

1 cup Lee Kum Kee hoisin sauce

2 T Dynasty hoisin sauce

2 t Vietnamese chili sauce

2 t peanut butter

1/4 cup water

Blend all ingredients together.