• 19Jul

    Cheesecakes Ought to Be a Beautiful Vision

    If you’re serving a gourmet cheesecakewith the meal, I endorse taking the extra step of considering the presentation of the cake. We get enjoyment from our food with our eyes, in addition to our taste buds. Always experiment, but here are a handful of ideas to get you started.

    New York Style Cheesecake: This is what most people would think of as the basic, plain or “unflavored” cheesecake. Frankly, it is anything but unflavored! However, its flavor will adapt well to nearly all additions. Well, maybe not broccoli! I suggest that you should consider complimenting the rich flavor of this versatile cake by placing a healthy amount of hot caramel topping around the plate.

    Blueberry Cheesecake: Purchase a high quality blueberry preserve. Stir in enough lemon juice to dilute the preserves so that it will come off a teaspoon on its own. Drizzle the diluted preserves in a zigzag pattern across the cake. The tartness of the lemon juice will provide a nice counterpoint to the sweet taste of the preserves and cake.

    Gourmet Turtle Cheesecake: This cheesecake has a variety of flavors incorporated, so it’s best not to try to introduce a new one. Instead, place a few petals from small blooms around the platter to add to the presentation. Yellow petals particularly enhance the color of the dessert.

    Pumpkin Cheesecake, a holiday time favorite, is even creamier than the more traditional pumpkin pie. Cut a festive hole in some paper–holiday tree shaped or a star. Center the paper over the top of the slice. In the hole you’ve cut in the paper, gently sprinkle cinnamon.

    Sugar Free Cheesecakes–no sugar added: No matter what the flavor of the cheesecake, a mint sprig on top of the widest part of the dessert, will dress it up wonderfully without additional sugar.

    The presentation is impacted not just by what’s on the plate but also the character of the plate, itself. Of course, your everyday dishes will serve your purpose. But the added storage space in modern kitchens permit many of us to have more creative alternatives. People have unique salsa and chip servers, instead of the old fashioned bowls. Why not choose plates that you use only for the special dessert celebrations?

    Cheesecakes are a terrific–and somewhat expensive–addition to an exquisite meal or a casual barbeque. Dedicate a bit of time to accentuate the smooth texture of this marvelous dessert with your signature additions.

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  • 18Jul

    Fabulous High Fiber Snacks and Desserts - Filling Weight Loss Foods

    Raw Dessert - Chocolate Cherry Tart

    Composition of a well balanced plated dessert

    A few points to consider:

    As per the very first thing many chefs mention is ‘keep it simple’ which is quite true, let me elaborate through a practical example I dealt with. Being a trainee in a kitchen at the emperors palace kitchen is really hard work and in order to impress you have to show you can manage the work so this is what happened under the mentor ship of a pastry chef I was given 100 plated desserts to make for a evening function which of course I could handle. I decided to make a warm custard dessert with a layered jelly and fruit volcanoes which at the time was brilliant and the chef agreed.

    Just before serving I plated the desserts and began adding the warm custard to the desserts, at which time the chef could not control himself from laughing, at the time I could not understand why until I viewed my plates and realized that the warm custard was melting the jelly and the plates were looking awful.

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine strawberries, apple, sugar, vanilla, and flour in a large bowl; stir to mix well. Spread mixture into a shallow baking dish and set aside.

    *You may substitute unsweetend frozen berries
    **In my opinion, Macintosh apples work the best.

    Topping:

    1/2 cup all-purpose flour
    1/2 cup rolled oats
    1/2 cup sliced almonds
    1/4 tsp nutmeg
    1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
    2 tbsps butter.

Combine flour, oats, almonds, nutmeg, and brown sugar in a medium bowl. Using a pastry blender or two knives, cut the butter into the flour mixture until it forms coarse crumbs. Sprinkle the crumbs over the top of the fruit mixture. Bake until the topping is light brown, about 25 minutes. Cool on wire rack for 15 minutes.

NOTE: This recipe can easily be used by diabetics by substituting Splenda for the sugar in the berry mixture (this substitution will go unnoticed in this type of recipe) and replacing the brown sugar in the topping with 2 firmly packed tablespoons of Splenda brown sugar blend.

STRAWBERRIES AND ICE CREAM COOKIE CUPS
1/3 cup hazelnuts, toasted
3 tbsps sugar
1 egg white
2 tbsps flour
1 tbsp butter, melted
1 pint French vanilla ice cream
1 pint fresh strawberries, washed and hulled
1/3 cup seedless strawberry preserves

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Grease a baking sheet.

Height and size Always a classic when sitting in a nice restaurant and your dessert is being placed on the table and it has fallen over, I always use to believe that it was the waiters negligence that tipped the dessert over until I became a chef, now I blame incompetent chefs who compile magnificent desserts but do not evaluate its practicality.

  1. Keep desserts at a realistic height, at a height where it may stand without having to feel like you balancing a pin on your finger.
  2. and if you looking to give it super height use a steady base such as fruit, or piped chocolate.
  3. and of course do not allow your dessert to be so big it takes up the entire plate, ensure proper portioning.

Cookies are easy to make healthy! Old Fashioned Molasses cookies are a fantastic treat and so good for you to! So are Chewy Oatmeal-raisin cookies. The best way to make a cookie healthy is use honey or agave syrup for the sugar substitute. Also, use unbleached flour or whole wheat pastry flour instead of bleached white flour. Applesauce or yogurt is a good substitute for oil and or butter.

For desserts, a fruit crisp or cobbler is easy and delicious! If you like chocolate, these Dutch cocoa fudge brownies will surprise you with their rich chocolate flavor and fudge like texture. They’re a fast and simple treat. Combine 2 tablespoons butter, 1 cup of sugar, ½ cup unsweetened applesauce, 1 egg, and 2 teaspoons of vanilla in a bowl and mix. Then slowly beat in ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder and ¾ whole-wheat pastry flour. Bake for 25 minutes in a 350* degree preheated oven. Quite a treat!.

Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez H.
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  • 07Jul

    Dessert Is the Most Enjoyable Time of Day With Turtle Cheesecake

    I was a bit different as a kid.  I mean compared to other children.  I preferred meat, fruit and even some vegetables to desserts.  I know that might sound a bit strange to most parents.  My preferences might have been tied to the reality that my mother fed me baby foods until I was about twenty-eight.  As I reconsider it, the folks at Gerber didn’t produce a pureed version of German chocolate cake.

    I also ate very little candy.  On Halloween, I would come home from trick or treat, and  my mother and I would sit on the floor sorting my take for the evening.  We would sort my collection into three piles.  I didn’t really get to assign anything to a particular pile; I was mostly an observer in the annual ritual.  Into one of those piles would go everything that was made by the generous Mrs. Robertson.  Those went straight into the garbage, because Mom was sure that Mrs. Robertson let her fourteen cats walk all over the kitchen counters.  The second pile contained a couple of apples and a small box of raisins.  That was the pile I ended the night consuming.  I can’t say for certain what happened to the third grouping–the one that contained all the candy, the caramel apples and the popcorn balls.  As soon as the sorting was finished, my mom hastily took those into my parent’s bedroom.  They never again appeared.  My only tastes of candy came when I visited my one pair of grandparents.  (My other grandparents only tried to give me buttermilk.  I resent cows to this day.)

    In defense of my mother, I believe that this sort of behavior is taught in the top secret motherhood school.  I know this because my wife exhibited the same behavior with our son on Halloween that my mother employed.  That was typically followed by a couple weeks of repeated, “Do I look fat to you?”  It didn’t take me long to realize that such a question demands a very rapid response; one should not even pause for a breath.

    At twenty-nine, just as I was beginning to learn that meat, vegetables and applesauce do not have identical textures in their natural states, I discovered dessert in the form of a gourmet cheesecake.  Well, I guess it really wasn’t gourmet.  It came from a discount food warehouse, in a flimsy box with a cellophane peep hole that revealed the only attractive portion of the product.  Remember that my taste buds had been accustomed to the miracle recipes of the baby food makers.  To me, the cheesecake was the definition of heaven.

    Some years later, as I went through my gastronomical adolescence, my recreational use of foods helped me to realize that cheesecake didn’t really taste like cardboard, as my first experience had led me to believe.  In addition, I discovered that cheesecake, the wonder food, actually comes in lots of different flavors.

    Dessert is now my favorite time of day. My favorite way to complete a nutritious mean of two jars of beef, two jars of mashed peas and a pureed apple with cinnamon is with a slice of turtle cheesecake.  But please don’t tell my mother; she’ll just take it from me.

    Unfortunately, I don’t have the foggiest notion of how to go about actually making a cheesecake.  If you have a recipe for one that doesn’t involve using either a mixer or an oven, please let me know.  I can operate a blender, though, since I took notes while my mother prepared the Christmas ham one year.

    Author’s note:  I may have taken some creative liberties with slight exaggerations here and there, but I’m not concerned about being caught.  My mother is still not sure what the Internet is.

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