Desserts
What do today's recipes have in common? Nothing less than being yummy desserts. We have a little of this, a little of that, including Lattice Peach-Apple Pie and Watermelon Popsicles. Enjoy!
MINT-CHOCOLATE BROWNIES
This is from Betty Crocker, and begins, “Get a double dose of mint! Cool mint chips flavor these brownies, and a mint-chocolate glaze generously highlights the top.”
Prep Time: 15 minutes; Total Time: 2 hours 35 minutes; Servings: 16
To view this online, click here.
Ingredients
Brownies
1 box (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Supreme original brownie mix
Water, vegetable oil and egg called for on brownie mix box
2/3 cup mint-flavored chocolate chips
Mint Frosting
1 cup Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting (from 16 oz container)
1/4 teaspoon mint extract
Betty Crocker™ green gel food color, if desired
Shiny Chocolate Glaze
1/3 cup mint-flavored chocolate chips
4 teaspoons butter
4 teaspoons corn syrup
1 teaspoon hot water
Directions
Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Grease bottom of 9-inch square pan with shortening or cooking spray. Make brownie batter as directed on box. Stir in 2/3 cup chocolate chips. Spread in pan.
Bake 28 to 31 minutes or until toothpick inserted 2 inches from side of pan comes out almost clean. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 1 1/2 hours.
In small bowl, stir all Frosting ingredients using spoon until well blended. Spread frosting over brownies.
In 1-quart saucepan, heat Glaze ingredients over low heat, stirring occasionally, until melted. Stir in 1/4 teaspoon hot water at a time, until mixture is thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle over frosted brownies. Refrigerate about 30 minutes or until glaze is firm. Cut into 4 rows by 4 rows.
Expert Tips
Can't find mint chocolate chips? Use semisweet chocolate chips and add 1/8 teaspoon mint extract to the brownie batter.
What a refreshing combination! For another, try using raspberry-flavored chocolate chips for the mint ones and tint the mint frosting pink.
If you like nuts, pecans are delicious in this recipe. Stir in 2/3 cup when you add chocolate chips.
SEIS LECHES CAKE
This is from Sam Sifton in The New York Times cooking e-newsletter. Melissa wrote, "This recipe for a tres leches cake (a traditional syrup-soaked confection from Latin America) takes a good thing — namely the combination of milks that saturate its crumb — and doubles it. Instead of just the usual three milks (sweetened condensed, evaporated and heavy cream), it calls for six, adding coconut milk, condensed coconut milk and dulce de leche. Like the original version, it’s a dense, puddinglike cake flavored with cinnamon and rum. But here, notes of coconut and caramel lend complexity and even more richness. Serve this in small squares, preferably with a bitter espresso or some tea to sip between syrupy bites."
Yield: 18 servings; Time: 1 hour, plus cooling and chilling
This was featured in "A Milky Cake Where More Is More", and be viewed online at https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020805-seis-leches-cake.
Ingredients
5 tablespoons melted unsalted butter, plus more softened butter for greasing the pan
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup/200 grams granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus more for sprinkling
1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt, plus a pinch
6 large eggs, separated
3 tablespoons whole milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 (14-ounce) can unsweetened coconut milk
1 cup evaporated milk
3/4 cup sweetened condensed coconut milk (a 7-ounce can, or use more regular condensed milk)
2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
3 tablespoons dark or amber rum
1 cup dulce de leche
1-1/2 cups heavy cream
Preparation
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking pan. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, 3/4 cup sugar, the baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and 1/4 teaspoon salt. In a large bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, melted butter, milk and vanilla.
Using an electric mixer fitted with the whisk or beaters, set on medium speed, beat the egg whites until frothy, about 2 minutes. Add the cream of tartar, and beat until thick, fluffy and white but before peaks form, another 2 to 3 minutes. Add remaining 1/4 cup of sugar, a little at a time, and continue beating until the whites are glossy and firm peaks form when the beaters are lifted, another 3 to 5 minutes.
Whisk half the flour mixture into the yolks (it will seem like paste). Whisk a quarter of the egg whites into the yolk mixture to lighten it. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold in another quarter of the whites. Sift half of the remaining flour mixture over the batter and fold in. Fold in another quarter of the egg whites followed by the rest of the sifted flour and finally the rest of the whites. Scrape batter into the pan and smooth the top with the spatula.
Bake until the cake is golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool for 20 minutes.
While the cake is cooling, in a small saucepan over medium heat, stir together the coconut milk, evaporated milk, condensed coconut milk, condensed milk, rum and a pinch of salt. Heat until steaming, stirring to dissolve any lumps.
Use a fork to poke holes all over the top of the warm cake, then cut it into 18 pieces but don’t take the pieces out of the pan. Pour milk mixture evenly over the cake. Cover and chill cake for at least 8 hours or preferably overnight (or up to 3 days).
No more than 4 hours before serving, spread 3/4 cup dulce de leche over top of the cake. Whip the cream with the remaining 1/4 cup dulce de leche until thick and mousse-like. Spread the whipped cream on the cake, and sprinkle with more cinnamon.
LATTICE PEACH-APPLE PIE
This is a yummy recipe from that infamous long-since-forgotten emailing list. This one begins, “What a great combination! Get the best of two fruits, tart apples and sweet peaches, baked in one delicious pie.
Ingredients
Double-Crust Pastry (See Below)
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 medium fresh peaches, sliced (2 cups)
2 medium green cooking apples, peeled and thinly sliced (2 cups)
1/4 cup sliced almonds
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
Directions
Heat oven to 425ºF. Make Double-Crust Pastry.
Mix sugar, flour and cinnamon in large bowl. Stir in peaches and apples. Spoon into pastry-lined pie pan. Sprinkle with almonds and dot with butter. Trim overhanging edge of pastry 1 inch from rim of plate.
Roll other round of pastry into 10-inch circle. Cut circle into 1/2-inch strips. Place 6 strips across filling. To make lattice top, weave a cross-strip through center by first folding back every other strip going the other way. Continue weaving lattice, folding back alternate strips before adding each cross-strip, until lattice is complete. Trim ends of strips. Fold trimmed edge of bottom crust over ends of strips, building up a high edge; seal and flute. Cover edge with 3-inch strip of aluminum foil to prevent excessive browning.
Bake 35 to 45 minutes, removing foil during last 15 minutes of baking, until crust is brown and filling is bubbly. Cool on wire rack. Serve slightly warm.
DOUBLE-CRUST PASTRY
Ingredients
2 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons shortening
4 to 6 tablespoons cold water
Directions
Mix flour and salt in medium bowl. Cut in shortening, using pastry blender (or pulling 2 table knives through ingredients in opposite directions), until particles are size of small peas. Sprinkle with cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, tossing with fork until all flour is moistened and pastry almost leaves side of bowl (1 to 2 teaspoons more water can be added if necessary). Gather pastry into a ball. Divide in half and shape into 2 flattened rounds on lightly floured surface. Wrap flattened rounds of pastry in plastic wrap and refrigerate about 45 minutes or until dough is firm and cold, yet pliable. This allows the shortening to become slightly firm, which helps make the baked pastry more flaky. If refrigerated longer, let pastry soften slightly before rolling. Roll one round on lightly floured surface, using floured rolling pin, into circle 2 inches larger than upside-down 9-inch glass pie plate. Fold pastry into fourths; place in pie plate. Unfold and ease into plate, pressing firmly against bottom and side.
CHRISTINA TOSI'S CROCKPOT CAKE
This comes from Same Sifton in The New York Times cooking e-newsletter. Sam wrote, "Christina Tosi, the pastry chef and an owner of Momofuku Milk Bar, sits near the beating heart of David Chang’s eclectic and innovative Momofuku restaurant empire. Off the clock, though, her cooking runs to inspired simplicity, as in this simple, tangy, slightly-caramelized at the edges slow-cooker cake, a version of which appears in her cookbook from Clarkson Potter, “Milk Bar Life.” Slow-cooker recipes invariably tell you to make something at night and enjoy them in the morning, or to make them in the morning and eat them after work. That only works if you don’t sleep much, or have a part-time job. This is a recipe for a weekend afternoon, or for cooking from the moment you get home until the very near end of a dinner party. It is a four-to-six hour affair."
Yield: 6 to 8 servings; Time: About 5 hours
This was featured in "The Slow Cooker, Redeemed", and can be viewed online at https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017227-christina-tosis-crockpot-cake.
Ingredients
1/2 pound unsalted butter (2 sticks), at room temperature
1-1/4 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
3 large eggs
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 cup buttermilk
1/3 cup neutral oil, like canola or grapeseed
1-1/2cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
Preparation
Put all but 1 tablespoon of the butter and the sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer and cream with the paddle attachment at medium-high speed, until the mixture is smooth and pale, approximately 3 to 4 minutes. Mix in the eggs and vanilla, then continue to mix for another 3 minutes, until fluffy. Add the buttermilk and oil and mix briefly to combine.
Set the mixer to a very low speed and add the cake flour, baking powder and salt, mixing for a minute or so and scraping down the sides of the bowl once or twice, until the batter has just come together, with no lumps.
Use the remaining tablespoon of butter to grease the interior of a 4- to 6-quart slow cooker, then pour the batter into the pot. Cover and cook on low for somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 to 6 hours, until the cake has set and is cooked through at the center. To serve, run a knife around the edge of the slow cooker to loosen the cake and then carefully invert onto a platter, or simply spoon the cake out of the slow cooker.
WATERMELON POPSICLES
This is from 2Bleu on Food.com, and can be viewed online at https://www.food.com/recipe/watermelon-popsicles-260546.
Ready in: 11 hours 30 minutes; Yield: 24 popsicles
Ingredients
1 small watermelon, seedless
1 cup sugar
1⁄2 cup mini chocolate chips
2 pints lime sherbet, softened
Directions
Scoop out and measure 10 cups watermelon pulp. Puree watermelon and sugar in batches in blender until smooth.
Push puree through mesh strainer into a large bowl. Cover and freeze until puree is slushy but not solid, about 3 hours.
Remove from freezer, stir in chocolate chips. Place 24 3oz disposable cups in 2 shallow baking pans (spoon puree into cups to within 1/2" of rim). Place pans in freezer until puree is solid but not rick hard, about 2 hours.
Spread softened sherbet on top of each portion of puree so that it comes up to edge of cup. smooth top off with the edge of a butter knife. Cover each cup with plastic wrap and cut small slit in center. Insert popsicle stick into each cup so it reaches the bottom. Freeze until solid, about 6 hours and up to 2 days.
To unmold: Let pops sit at room temperature for about 1 minute. then gently pull out from cups. Or you can peel away the cups from the pops.
MINT-CHOCOLATE BROWNIES
This is from Betty Crocker, and begins, “Get a double dose of mint! Cool mint chips flavor these brownies, and a mint-chocolate glaze generously highlights the top.”
Prep Time: 15 minutes; Total Time: 2 hours 35 minutes; Servings: 16
To view this online, click here.
Ingredients
Brownies
1 box (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Supreme original brownie mix
Water, vegetable oil and egg called for on brownie mix box
2/3 cup mint-flavored chocolate chips
Mint Frosting
1 cup Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting (from 16 oz container)
1/4 teaspoon mint extract
Betty Crocker™ green gel food color, if desired
Shiny Chocolate Glaze
1/3 cup mint-flavored chocolate chips
4 teaspoons butter
4 teaspoons corn syrup
1 teaspoon hot water
Directions
Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Grease bottom of 9-inch square pan with shortening or cooking spray. Make brownie batter as directed on box. Stir in 2/3 cup chocolate chips. Spread in pan.
Bake 28 to 31 minutes or until toothpick inserted 2 inches from side of pan comes out almost clean. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 1 1/2 hours.
In small bowl, stir all Frosting ingredients using spoon until well blended. Spread frosting over brownies.
In 1-quart saucepan, heat Glaze ingredients over low heat, stirring occasionally, until melted. Stir in 1/4 teaspoon hot water at a time, until mixture is thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle over frosted brownies. Refrigerate about 30 minutes or until glaze is firm. Cut into 4 rows by 4 rows.
Expert Tips
Can't find mint chocolate chips? Use semisweet chocolate chips and add 1/8 teaspoon mint extract to the brownie batter.
What a refreshing combination! For another, try using raspberry-flavored chocolate chips for the mint ones and tint the mint frosting pink.
If you like nuts, pecans are delicious in this recipe. Stir in 2/3 cup when you add chocolate chips.
SEIS LECHES CAKE
This is from Sam Sifton in The New York Times cooking e-newsletter. Melissa wrote, "This recipe for a tres leches cake (a traditional syrup-soaked confection from Latin America) takes a good thing — namely the combination of milks that saturate its crumb — and doubles it. Instead of just the usual three milks (sweetened condensed, evaporated and heavy cream), it calls for six, adding coconut milk, condensed coconut milk and dulce de leche. Like the original version, it’s a dense, puddinglike cake flavored with cinnamon and rum. But here, notes of coconut and caramel lend complexity and even more richness. Serve this in small squares, preferably with a bitter espresso or some tea to sip between syrupy bites."
Yield: 18 servings; Time: 1 hour, plus cooling and chilling
This was featured in "A Milky Cake Where More Is More", and be viewed online at https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020805-seis-leches-cake.
Ingredients
5 tablespoons melted unsalted butter, plus more softened butter for greasing the pan
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup/200 grams granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus more for sprinkling
1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt, plus a pinch
6 large eggs, separated
3 tablespoons whole milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 (14-ounce) can unsweetened coconut milk
1 cup evaporated milk
3/4 cup sweetened condensed coconut milk (a 7-ounce can, or use more regular condensed milk)
2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
3 tablespoons dark or amber rum
1 cup dulce de leche
1-1/2 cups heavy cream
Preparation
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking pan. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, 3/4 cup sugar, the baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and 1/4 teaspoon salt. In a large bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, melted butter, milk and vanilla.
Using an electric mixer fitted with the whisk or beaters, set on medium speed, beat the egg whites until frothy, about 2 minutes. Add the cream of tartar, and beat until thick, fluffy and white but before peaks form, another 2 to 3 minutes. Add remaining 1/4 cup of sugar, a little at a time, and continue beating until the whites are glossy and firm peaks form when the beaters are lifted, another 3 to 5 minutes.
Whisk half the flour mixture into the yolks (it will seem like paste). Whisk a quarter of the egg whites into the yolk mixture to lighten it. Using a rubber spatula, gently fold in another quarter of the whites. Sift half of the remaining flour mixture over the batter and fold in. Fold in another quarter of the egg whites followed by the rest of the sifted flour and finally the rest of the whites. Scrape batter into the pan and smooth the top with the spatula.
Bake until the cake is golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool for 20 minutes.
While the cake is cooling, in a small saucepan over medium heat, stir together the coconut milk, evaporated milk, condensed coconut milk, condensed milk, rum and a pinch of salt. Heat until steaming, stirring to dissolve any lumps.
Use a fork to poke holes all over the top of the warm cake, then cut it into 18 pieces but don’t take the pieces out of the pan. Pour milk mixture evenly over the cake. Cover and chill cake for at least 8 hours or preferably overnight (or up to 3 days).
No more than 4 hours before serving, spread 3/4 cup dulce de leche over top of the cake. Whip the cream with the remaining 1/4 cup dulce de leche until thick and mousse-like. Spread the whipped cream on the cake, and sprinkle with more cinnamon.
LATTICE PEACH-APPLE PIE
This is a yummy recipe from that infamous long-since-forgotten emailing list. This one begins, “What a great combination! Get the best of two fruits, tart apples and sweet peaches, baked in one delicious pie.
Ingredients
Double-Crust Pastry (See Below)
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 medium fresh peaches, sliced (2 cups)
2 medium green cooking apples, peeled and thinly sliced (2 cups)
1/4 cup sliced almonds
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
Directions
Heat oven to 425ºF. Make Double-Crust Pastry.
Mix sugar, flour and cinnamon in large bowl. Stir in peaches and apples. Spoon into pastry-lined pie pan. Sprinkle with almonds and dot with butter. Trim overhanging edge of pastry 1 inch from rim of plate.
Roll other round of pastry into 10-inch circle. Cut circle into 1/2-inch strips. Place 6 strips across filling. To make lattice top, weave a cross-strip through center by first folding back every other strip going the other way. Continue weaving lattice, folding back alternate strips before adding each cross-strip, until lattice is complete. Trim ends of strips. Fold trimmed edge of bottom crust over ends of strips, building up a high edge; seal and flute. Cover edge with 3-inch strip of aluminum foil to prevent excessive browning.
Bake 35 to 45 minutes, removing foil during last 15 minutes of baking, until crust is brown and filling is bubbly. Cool on wire rack. Serve slightly warm.
DOUBLE-CRUST PASTRY
Ingredients
2 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons shortening
4 to 6 tablespoons cold water
Directions
Mix flour and salt in medium bowl. Cut in shortening, using pastry blender (or pulling 2 table knives through ingredients in opposite directions), until particles are size of small peas. Sprinkle with cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, tossing with fork until all flour is moistened and pastry almost leaves side of bowl (1 to 2 teaspoons more water can be added if necessary). Gather pastry into a ball. Divide in half and shape into 2 flattened rounds on lightly floured surface. Wrap flattened rounds of pastry in plastic wrap and refrigerate about 45 minutes or until dough is firm and cold, yet pliable. This allows the shortening to become slightly firm, which helps make the baked pastry more flaky. If refrigerated longer, let pastry soften slightly before rolling. Roll one round on lightly floured surface, using floured rolling pin, into circle 2 inches larger than upside-down 9-inch glass pie plate. Fold pastry into fourths; place in pie plate. Unfold and ease into plate, pressing firmly against bottom and side.
CHRISTINA TOSI'S CROCKPOT CAKE
This comes from Same Sifton in The New York Times cooking e-newsletter. Sam wrote, "Christina Tosi, the pastry chef and an owner of Momofuku Milk Bar, sits near the beating heart of David Chang’s eclectic and innovative Momofuku restaurant empire. Off the clock, though, her cooking runs to inspired simplicity, as in this simple, tangy, slightly-caramelized at the edges slow-cooker cake, a version of which appears in her cookbook from Clarkson Potter, “Milk Bar Life.” Slow-cooker recipes invariably tell you to make something at night and enjoy them in the morning, or to make them in the morning and eat them after work. That only works if you don’t sleep much, or have a part-time job. This is a recipe for a weekend afternoon, or for cooking from the moment you get home until the very near end of a dinner party. It is a four-to-six hour affair."
Yield: 6 to 8 servings; Time: About 5 hours
This was featured in "The Slow Cooker, Redeemed", and can be viewed online at https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017227-christina-tosis-crockpot-cake.
Ingredients
1/2 pound unsalted butter (2 sticks), at room temperature
1-1/4 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
3 large eggs
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3/4 cup buttermilk
1/3 cup neutral oil, like canola or grapeseed
1-1/2cups cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
Preparation
Put all but 1 tablespoon of the butter and the sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer and cream with the paddle attachment at medium-high speed, until the mixture is smooth and pale, approximately 3 to 4 minutes. Mix in the eggs and vanilla, then continue to mix for another 3 minutes, until fluffy. Add the buttermilk and oil and mix briefly to combine.
Set the mixer to a very low speed and add the cake flour, baking powder and salt, mixing for a minute or so and scraping down the sides of the bowl once or twice, until the batter has just come together, with no lumps.
Use the remaining tablespoon of butter to grease the interior of a 4- to 6-quart slow cooker, then pour the batter into the pot. Cover and cook on low for somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 to 6 hours, until the cake has set and is cooked through at the center. To serve, run a knife around the edge of the slow cooker to loosen the cake and then carefully invert onto a platter, or simply spoon the cake out of the slow cooker.
WATERMELON POPSICLES
This is from 2Bleu on Food.com, and can be viewed online at https://www.food.com/recipe/watermelon-popsicles-260546.
Ready in: 11 hours 30 minutes; Yield: 24 popsicles
Ingredients
1 small watermelon, seedless
1 cup sugar
1⁄2 cup mini chocolate chips
2 pints lime sherbet, softened
Directions
Scoop out and measure 10 cups watermelon pulp. Puree watermelon and sugar in batches in blender until smooth.
Push puree through mesh strainer into a large bowl. Cover and freeze until puree is slushy but not solid, about 3 hours.
Remove from freezer, stir in chocolate chips. Place 24 3oz disposable cups in 2 shallow baking pans (spoon puree into cups to within 1/2" of rim). Place pans in freezer until puree is solid but not rick hard, about 2 hours.
Spread softened sherbet on top of each portion of puree so that it comes up to edge of cup. smooth top off with the edge of a butter knife. Cover each cup with plastic wrap and cut small slit in center. Insert popsicle stick into each cup so it reaches the bottom. Freeze until solid, about 6 hours and up to 2 days.
To unmold: Let pops sit at room temperature for about 1 minute. then gently pull out from cups. Or you can peel away the cups from the pops.
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