Cakes are a huge part of holiday, birthday, oh heck, just about any kind of celebration. And cake design has truly evolved into an art form. Some individuals to their entire careers to the art of cake design. You can walk by some bakeries and glanced through the window at some truly beautiful creations. I met a culinary artist recently and learned some very interesting things about the art of cake design.
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Archive for February, 2007
Artistic Cake Design
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Shrimp Cheesecake Recipe
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Time after time I wondered about making this particular cheesecake; will it be good or will it be a fly by night idea? After all, who ever heard of putting shrimp into cheesecake?! Well it turned out to be a fantastic idea and you just can’t believe how good it really is…
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Chocolate Cheesecake
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
A chocolate lovers dream come true.
1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons butter or margarine melted
2 pounds cream cheese
1 cup sugar
8 ounces sour cream
1/4 cup cocoa
2 eggs
1 cup flour
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
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New York Style Cheesecake 2
Sunday, February 18th, 20071 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons butter ir margarine melted
2 pounds cream cheese
1 cup sugar
8 ounces sour cream
2 eggs
1 cup flour
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
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Italian Rum Cake
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Cake:
6 whole eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon rum concentrate
1 cup cake flour
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Chocolate Rasperry Cake
Sunday, February 18th, 2007This is a moist chocolate cake recipe, it is a 3 layer cake with 2 layers of raspberry cream filling and topped with a chocolate raspberry butter cream icing. Are you salivating yet?
To make this cake use your favorite chocolate cake recipe or for the inexperienced baker just use 2 dark chocolate cake mixes.
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Polish Easter Cake
Sunday, February 18th, 2007This polish easter recipe is sure to please.
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup warm water
1 (1/4 ounce active dry yeast)
2 eggs beaten
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup chopped almonds
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 cup confectioners sugar
Whole candied cherries for garnish
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Jewish Coffee Cake
Sunday, February 18th, 2007Now here is a coffee cake that will make you want no other coffee cake, and once you prepare this coffee cake and get a real working idea about this cake you can become very creative and use some different jams, jellies, fruits and so on.
Always remember that there is a lot that you can do with a recipe providing you don’t exceed the parameters of the original recipe.
All ingredients should be at room temperature.
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Grandma’s Fruitcake
Sunday, February 18th, 2007As a child around 1920’s or so, while living on a farm in Pennsylvania which at that time there were a great amount of people who came from Europe, you needed to be able to do for yourself, she learned from her mother how to make a most delicious white fruit cake, a white fruitcake is a fruitcake that does not have any molasses, molasses which is very bitter, not having the molasses in the fruitcake gives it a lighter color, this gives it the name white fruitcake.
This fruitcake in the days in which my mother lived as a child with her parents this was only made during Christmas because the only time you could get walnuts, cherries, and some other ingredients was in the fall of the year, remember now they didn’t go to the store to buy what they needed, they had to grow them, raisins were dried by the people themselves, they even had to shell their own walnuts, and candy their own cherries, and such the pineapple and coconut I do believe they must have purchased.
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Christmas Cheesecake
Sunday, February 18th, 2007This is a cheesecake that I have been making for over 20 years if you follow the recipe to the “T” you won’t have any problem, it is also colorful as well as the most wonderful piece of pastry that you ever put in your mouth.
1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons butter or margarine melted
2 pounds cream cheese
1 cup sugar
8 ounces sour cream
2 eggs
1 cup flour
¾ cup heavy whipping cream
2 cup in total chopped candied cherries red and green raisins, walnuts, candied pineapple
½ cup small chocolate chips
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