Its my birthday today and I want to make a special desert for myself.Any suggestions?!
I'm alone and just want to make something special for myself!.Thank you for your ideas!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
This is cheap, easy and restaurant quality!. Peel an apple and slice it as if it was for an apple pie!. put the slices in a microwave safe dish - sprinkle with a little sugar (or artificial sweetener- I use sweet & Low) , some cinnamon and add a pat or two of butter - yes I use real butter!! microwave for a few minutes until apples are tender -- using a very high quality vanilla ice cream!. put a couple of scoops of ice cream in your dish and top with the apple mixture!!! make sure the apples are nice and hot and use some of the buttery juice and you will have a desert which is easy, delicious and quite memorable - Happy Birthday!!Www@FoodAQ@Com
These are great!
BANANA SPLIT CHEESECAKE
2 cups HONEY MAID Graham Cracker Crumbs
1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted
3 (8 ounce) packages PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
1/2 cup mashed ripe bananas
1 cup halved strawberries
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 banana, sliced, tossed with lemon juice
1 (8 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F!. Mix graham crumbs, butter and 1/4 cup of sugar!. Press onto bottom of 13x9-inch baking pan!.
Mix cream cheese, remaining 3/4 cup sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended!. Add eggs; mix just until blended!. Stir in mashed banana!. Pour over crust!.
Bake 30 minutes or until center is almost set!. Cool!. Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight!. Cut into squares!. Top with strawberries, sliced banana and pineapple
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Chimpanzee Cheesecake
CRUST
1-1/2 cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
1/4 cup Sugar -- Granulated
1/2 c butter, melted
CHEESECAKE
1 pound Cream Cheese
1/4 cup Sugar -- Granulated
2 teaspoons Lemon Juice
4 each Eggs -- Large
1 cup Sour Cream
1 cup Bananas; Mashed (app!. 3 bananas)
CRUST:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F!. Place the crumbs in a mixing bowl and add the butter and sugar!. Blend well!. Press the crumb mixture onto the bottom and partly up the sides of a greased 9-inch springform pan!. Smooth the crumb mixture along the bottom to an even thickness!. Bake for about 10 minutes in the oven at 350 degrees F!. Cool before filling!.
CHEESECAKE:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F!. In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar and lemon juice together!. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition!. Stir in the sour cream and the mashed bananas and blend well until very smooth!. Pour the mixture into the prepared crust and bake for 1 hour!. Cool in the oven, with the door propped open, until the cake is at room temperature!. Chill until serving time!.
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Best in the World Sugar Cookies
3 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp nutmeg
20 Tbsp!. (2? sticks) unsalted butter, room temp
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 375oF!. Whisk dry (first 4) ingredients together, set aside!. Cream butter and sugar!. Add egg and vanilla!. Blend in dry ingredients just until incorporated!. Chill dough at least two hours!. Roll out half of the dough 1/4 inch thick and cut out!. (or some into a ball and pressed into circle w/ bottom of a glass) Place 1” apart on greased baking sheet!. Bake in middle rack of oven for 10 minutes
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Apple Pie - Best Recipe By a Country Mile
Pastry:
2 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup Crisco brand shortening*
1 teaspoon kosher or coarse salt
6 tablespoons ice water
Filling:
8 medium (4 pounds) tart green apples
1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon kosher or coarse salt
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 egg white, beaten lightly - optional
1 teaspoon sugar for sprinkling (coarse sugar is nice) - optional
Mix flour and salt in mixing bowl!. Cut shortening into the flour with a pastry cutter, until mixture resembles the texture of tiny split peas!. Do not use your hands to try and mix it, the heat from you hands will melt the shortening, causing the pastry to be "heavy", not light and flaky!.
When mixture is the right texture, add the ice water and combine with a fork!. It may appear as if it needs more water, it does not!. Quickly gather the dough into a ball!.
Divide dough into two balls and flatten each into 4-inch-wide disk!. Wrap each in plastic, and refrigerate at least 30 minutes!.
Remove one piece of dough from refrigerator!. If stiff and very cold, let stand until dough is cool but malleable!.
Roll one dough disk on a lightly floured surface into a 12-inch circle!. To transfer dough, carefully roll it around the rolling pin, lift and unroll dough, centering it in an ungreased 9-inch regular or deep-dish pie plate!. (Or you can fold dough in quarters, then place dough point in center of pie pan and unfold dough, whatever is easiest for you!.)
Gently press dough into sides of pan, leaving portion that overhangs edge of pie pan in place!. Refrigerate while preparing apple filling!.
Adjust oven rack to center position and heat oven to 425*F (220*C)!.
Peel, core, and cut apples into slices no larger than 1/2-inch thick!. Gently toss the apple slices with the lemon juice!.
Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt!. Add sugar mixture to the apple slices and gently toss to coat well!. Turn apple mixture into into chilled pie shell and mound slightly in center!. Dot with butter!.
Roll out second dough disk and place over filling!. Trim overhang to 1-inch from edge!. Tuck this rim of dough underneath itself so that folded edge is flush with pan edge!. Flute edging or press with fork tines to seal!. Make several slits in top crust to allow steam to escapeWww@FoodAQ@Com
BANANA SPLIT CHEESECAKE
2 cups HONEY MAID Graham Cracker Crumbs
1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted
3 (8 ounce) packages PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
1/2 cup mashed ripe bananas
1 cup halved strawberries
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 banana, sliced, tossed with lemon juice
1 (8 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F!. Mix graham crumbs, butter and 1/4 cup of sugar!. Press onto bottom of 13x9-inch baking pan!.
Mix cream cheese, remaining 3/4 cup sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended!. Add eggs; mix just until blended!. Stir in mashed banana!. Pour over crust!.
Bake 30 minutes or until center is almost set!. Cool!. Refrigerate 3 hours or overnight!. Cut into squares!. Top with strawberries, sliced banana and pineapple
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Chimpanzee Cheesecake
CRUST
1-1/2 cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
1/4 cup Sugar -- Granulated
1/2 c butter, melted
CHEESECAKE
1 pound Cream Cheese
1/4 cup Sugar -- Granulated
2 teaspoons Lemon Juice
4 each Eggs -- Large
1 cup Sour Cream
1 cup Bananas; Mashed (app!. 3 bananas)
CRUST:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F!. Place the crumbs in a mixing bowl and add the butter and sugar!. Blend well!. Press the crumb mixture onto the bottom and partly up the sides of a greased 9-inch springform pan!. Smooth the crumb mixture along the bottom to an even thickness!. Bake for about 10 minutes in the oven at 350 degrees F!. Cool before filling!.
CHEESECAKE:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F!. In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar and lemon juice together!. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition!. Stir in the sour cream and the mashed bananas and blend well until very smooth!. Pour the mixture into the prepared crust and bake for 1 hour!. Cool in the oven, with the door propped open, until the cake is at room temperature!. Chill until serving time!.
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Best in the World Sugar Cookies
3 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp nutmeg
20 Tbsp!. (2? sticks) unsalted butter, room temp
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 375oF!. Whisk dry (first 4) ingredients together, set aside!. Cream butter and sugar!. Add egg and vanilla!. Blend in dry ingredients just until incorporated!. Chill dough at least two hours!. Roll out half of the dough 1/4 inch thick and cut out!. (or some into a ball and pressed into circle w/ bottom of a glass) Place 1” apart on greased baking sheet!. Bake in middle rack of oven for 10 minutes
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Apple Pie - Best Recipe By a Country Mile
Pastry:
2 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup Crisco brand shortening*
1 teaspoon kosher or coarse salt
6 tablespoons ice water
Filling:
8 medium (4 pounds) tart green apples
1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon kosher or coarse salt
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 egg white, beaten lightly - optional
1 teaspoon sugar for sprinkling (coarse sugar is nice) - optional
Mix flour and salt in mixing bowl!. Cut shortening into the flour with a pastry cutter, until mixture resembles the texture of tiny split peas!. Do not use your hands to try and mix it, the heat from you hands will melt the shortening, causing the pastry to be "heavy", not light and flaky!.
When mixture is the right texture, add the ice water and combine with a fork!. It may appear as if it needs more water, it does not!. Quickly gather the dough into a ball!.
Divide dough into two balls and flatten each into 4-inch-wide disk!. Wrap each in plastic, and refrigerate at least 30 minutes!.
Remove one piece of dough from refrigerator!. If stiff and very cold, let stand until dough is cool but malleable!.
Roll one dough disk on a lightly floured surface into a 12-inch circle!. To transfer dough, carefully roll it around the rolling pin, lift and unroll dough, centering it in an ungreased 9-inch regular or deep-dish pie plate!. (Or you can fold dough in quarters, then place dough point in center of pie pan and unfold dough, whatever is easiest for you!.)
Gently press dough into sides of pan, leaving portion that overhangs edge of pie pan in place!. Refrigerate while preparing apple filling!.
Adjust oven rack to center position and heat oven to 425*F (220*C)!.
Peel, core, and cut apples into slices no larger than 1/2-inch thick!. Gently toss the apple slices with the lemon juice!.
Combine sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt!. Add sugar mixture to the apple slices and gently toss to coat well!. Turn apple mixture into into chilled pie shell and mound slightly in center!. Dot with butter!.
Roll out second dough disk and place over filling!. Trim overhang to 1-inch from edge!. Tuck this rim of dough underneath itself so that folded edge is flush with pan edge!. Flute edging or press with fork tines to seal!. Make several slits in top crust to allow steam to escapeWww@FoodAQ@Com
It's my husband's birthday too!. I made pizza and pumpkin cake with whipped cream!. I rolled him out his own pizza, and let him put bell peppers on it!. I'm allergic, so he never gets peppers on his pizza!. I also bought a six pack of Guiness!.
We're a little low on funds this month, so it wasn't fancy, but it sure was good!Www@FoodAQ@Com
We're a little low on funds this month, so it wasn't fancy, but it sure was good!Www@FoodAQ@Com
A banana split cheese cake is perfect for any occasion!. Get a box of Jello no bake cheese cake and prepare according to the directions!. Layer with sliced strawberries, sliced banana's, drained crushed pineapple, cherries and top with thawed cool whip and nuts!.
Happy Birthday!Www@FoodAQ@Com
Happy Birthday!Www@FoodAQ@Com
Love that Apple Recipe,,,,,,,,perfect for the
season !! Just wanted to say
" HAPPY BIRTHDAY "
for the fun of it !!
~<{ ; o )Www@FoodAQ@Com
season !! Just wanted to say
" HAPPY BIRTHDAY "
for the fun of it !!
~<{ ; o )Www@FoodAQ@Com