On Saturday I had the family over for Hamin (a post for another day). I still had half of Shawn’s birthday decadent chocolate cake, but I it was of the Gluten-full variety. So after everyone ate and then had coffee and cake, my sweet tooth started nagging, and when it starts nagging – Lawd help me! So I decided to bake a quick yeast-cake-look-alike with my beautiful niece. We made ours with cinnamon, dark brown sugar and chopped walnuts, because we all love that filling, but you can make it with any yeast-cake filling – cocoa and sugar, pistacciou crème, almond crème, Nutella, etc. This is perfect when surprise guests…
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Chocolate Balls
Yummy chocolate balls in 10 minutes Ingredients for ~24 balls 250 gr. chocolate petite beurre biscuits (or vanilla/plain, or you can prepare your own using my Rosie-beurre recipe). 90 gr. butter or goats-milk butter (or margarine for dairy-free/parve) ½ cup sugar 2 tbsp. favorite liquor (I use Brandy) 1/3 cup milk (or rice milk or coconut milk or non-dairy cream) 3½ tbsp. cocoa powder Rainbow sprinkles/coconut flakes Preparation Set a side an empty lidded box and a bowl with sprinkles/coconut flakes. Melt the butter in your microwave. Add all ingredients (other than the biscuits) and mix well. In your food processor grind the biscuits to a powder, add to butter-cocoa mixture and…
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Decadent Chocolate Cake
I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday, kinda like I’d been run over by a tractor. BUT, it was our turn to bring refreshments to class since my king’s birthday is next week, and when it comes to letting down my baby there is no sick leave… So here she is, the queen of chocolate cakes… A favorite with kids and adults alike. When it comes to birthday cakes there is no other. The cake itself is a 100% dairy-free (parve), and the sauce can be made dairy or dairy-free – the choice is yours. Now that the king is in school, we wanted to upgrade the cake,…
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Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Garlic mashed potatoes go great with anything “saucy”, like meatballs in tomato sauce, and beef stew, or with grilled fish fillets. So there are two versions: dairy and non-dairy (Parve), so you can each make your preferred version. Ingredients 5-6 cooking potatoes, peeled and cubed 4-5 garlic cloves, peeled salt (optional) freshly-ground black pepper For the Dairy Version: 50 gr. butter ¼ cup milk For the Non-Dairy (Parve) Version: 50 gr. margarine ¼ cup of the cooking water Preparation Put the potatoes and garlic cloves in a sauce pan, cover with water (~4cm/2″ above potatoes). Cook until potatoes are tender (fork goes through a piece easily). Strain the potatoes and…
