Posts by Friday Baking Project
Cranberry Orange Cake
PRINT Cranberry Orange Cake 1 9 ½â€ cake # of Servings: 10 Method: Creaming Ingredients: Cake: 3 cups (14 oz / 397 g) all-purpose flour1 ½ tsp (.20 oz / 6 g) baking powder ¾ tsp (.15 oz / 4 g) baking soda ¼ tsp (.20 oz / 6 g) salt ¼ cup (1.8 oz…
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Martha’s Vineyard in the fall has its own unique beauty and seasonal rhythm. The crowds thin out, up-island beaches no longer require permits and driving to down-island towns no longer demands careful time planning. In the 1980s at Morning Glory Farm in Edgartown, there was a pot of clove-laden apple cider on the roaring wood…
Read MoreTriple Chocolate Mousse
This elegant and chic dessert, is perfect for a small dinner soir©e. It features a trio of chocolate mousses – dark chocolate, mocha (milk chocolate), and a white chocolate mousse which interplay harmoniously with each other. Surprisingly for a mousse dessert it slices beautifully, allowing for thin slices to be placed on your nicest dessert…
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PRINT Yield: 6 individual cakes # of Servings: 6 Ingredients: Ganache: ¼ c + 2 tbl (3 fl oz) heavy cream3 oz chocolate, 58% to 64%, wafers or chopped Cakes: 12 oz chocolate, 58% to 61%, chopped6 tbl (3 oz / 85 g) unsalted butter, cut into pieces 5 large egg yolks6 tbl (2.8 oz…
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In the mid-1990s, while working as the pastry and event chef for Restaurant Associates’ catering division, the executive chef asked me to come to his office. The chairperson for an upcoming event for 860 guests at the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Ocean Life had requested the popular molten chocolate cakes for dessert.…
Read MorePlum Kuchen
PRINT Yield: 1 9.5†kuchen # of Servings: 8 Ingredients: ½ recipe Sweet Yeast Dough 7 to 8 plums, just starting to ripen, rinsed ¼ cup (1.75 oz / 50 g) sugar ¼ tsp cinnamon Butter, as needed for greasing the cake ring or springform pan Special tools and equipment needed DirectionsDay one: Day two:
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In this variation on kuchen, thin plum slices are artfully arranged on top of a circle of sweet yeast dough, then dusted cinnamon sugar prior to baking. Plum Kuchen is perfect for those who enjoy a just barely sweet breakfast pastry with their morning coffee. In the afternoon, it becomes a dessert with a scoop…
Read MoreCherry Cheese Kuchen
PRINT Yield: 1 9.5†kuchen # of Servings: 6 Ingredients: ½ recipe Sweet Yeast Dough 1 recipe Cream Cheese Filling 1 recipe Crumb Topping 3 ½ cups (15.5 oz / 439 g) frozen sweet cherries, defrosted and drained Butter, as needed for greasing the cake ring or springform pan Special tools and equipment needed DirectionsDay…
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I was wondering how to use the pitted sweet cherries in my freezer, and the idea of making a kuchen, a German yeast coffee cake, came to mind. In this Cherry Cheese Kuchen, the cherries are placed atop a vanilla and lemon-scented cream cheese filling, which rests on a circle of sweet yeast dough. Lastly,…
Read MoreSweet Yeast Dough
PRINT Yield: 3 lb dough Ingredients 1 ½ tbl (.5 oz / 14 g / 2 envelopes) active dry yeastâ…“ cup warm water2 tbl (1 oz / 28 g) sugar 2 cups + 2 tbl (10 oz / 283 g) bread flour 1 ¼ cups (10 fl oz) milk. 80 °F 2 eggs, large, lightly…
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