DESERT RECIPES

Baked Peach and blue berry recipes

  Prep Time: 15 Min 

  Cook Time: 15 Min 

  Total Time: 30 Min 

  Yield: Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 4 peaches, peeled and sliced 
  • 1 1/2 cups fresh blueberries 
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • Dash of salt 
  • 5 tablespoons honey

How to Make It:

 

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350-degrees F.

Step 2: Spread sliced peaches and blueberries in baking dish. Sprinkled with cinnamon, salt and Honey.

Step 3: Bake at 375 F for about 15 to 20 minutes, then adjust oven settings to a low broil and broil for about 5 minutes, or until bubbly.

Step 4: Serve warm, or let cool, cover and refrigerate and serve with ice cream.

 

Bread Pudding recipe

  Prep Time: 15 Min 

  Cook Time: 45 Min 

  Total Time: 60 Min 

  Yield: Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 10 slices Artisan Bread (left over bread)
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 cups light cream
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • ½ Cup Mixed Nuts like Almonds, Cashew Nuts, Pistachio
  • ½ Cup Dried Fruits Raisins, Cranberries
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 tablespoons butter 
  • 2 tablespoons butter melted

How to Make It:

 

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter an 8-inch baking dish.

Step 2: Cut bread into 1″ pieces and place on a baking sheet. Bake 4 minutes (or until slightly dried) and cool.

Step 3: Meanwhile, in a medium bowl whisk together eggs, cream, sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon.

Step 4: Pour the egg mixture over the bread. Add dry fruit and nuts and toss lightly. (I recommend using your hands for this to avoid bread breaking up).

Step 5: Place the bread mixture in baking dish. Drizzle butter over the mixture.

Step 6: Bake 35 – 40 minutes until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean

Step 7:  Serve warm or room temperature

 

 

Lemon, poppy and millet loaf

  Prep Time: 15 Min 

  Cook Time: 55 Min 

  Total Time: 1 hour and 10 min 

  Yield: 1 loaf - serves 6 slices

Ingredients:

  • Dry Ingredients:
  • 400 gms whole wheat flour
  • 150 gms cup white sugar
  • 20 gms tablespoons poppy seed
  • 20 gms proso millets
  • 5 gms baking powder
  • 2.5 gms baking soda
  • 2.5 gms salt
  • Wet ingredients:
  • 250 ml plant-based milk (such as soy or almond)
  • 100 ml oil (such as canola or vegetable)
  • 50 ml lemon juice (2-3 lemons)
  • 5 gms lemon zest
  • 5 ml vanilla extract
  • For the lemon icing:
  • 200 gms powder sugar
  • 20 ml lemon juice
  • 2 gms lemon zest

How to Make It:

 

Step 1: Preheat your oven to 375F (190 C). Lightly grease a loaf pan.

Step 2: In a large bowl whisk together all the dry ingredients.

Step 3: In a medium bowl whisk together the wet ingredients. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and gently mix together. Don't over mix, lumps are totally fine.

Step 4: Pour the batter into at the prepared loaf pan and bake for 45 - 55 mins, rotating once midway through. The loaf is ready when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Step 5: Let cool completely before icing. When cool, mix the lemon icing ingredients together in a bowl. Set the loaf on a cooling rack over a baking sheet to catch all the excess icing. Drizzle the icing over the loaf. Let the icing set for about 30 minutes before slicing.

 

 

Whole Grain Millet Burkina Pudding

  Prep Time: 15 Min 

  Cook Time: 25 Min 

  Total Time: 50 Min 

  Yield: Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • · 100 gms Millet Soaked
  • · 200 gms Sweetened Greek Yogurt
  • · 100 g Raspberries
  • ·  20 ml Honey
  • ·  1 Orange 
  • ·  5 gms Salt

How to Make It:

 

Step 1: Soak millet for an hour, wash, rinse, pour into a saucepan, add salt and bring to a boil on high heat until soft.

Step 2: Take off heat, drain and let cool off.

Step 3: Mix with honey and scoop into the serving glass.

Step 4: Top with layer with sweetened yogurt, raspberries, orange.

Step 5: Burkina pudding is ready to serve.

 

 

Chocolate Fondue

  Prep Time: 15 Min 

  Cook Time: 15 Min 

  Total Time: 30 Min 

  Yield: Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1/3 cup heavy cream
  • 12ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  •  Dipping options - strawberries, bananas, peaches, apple, Marshmallow, cookies, etc

How to Make It:

 

Step 1: In a pan, combine the chocolate, milk and cream and heat on low, stirring often, until the chocolate is completely melted and the mixture is smooth. Don't let it come to a boil; keep it on low heat.

Step 2: Once melted, stir in the vanilla extract. If needed, add in heavy cream or milk a tablespoon at a time to adjust for a thinner consistency. Pour the mixture into a fondue pot or small slow cooker to keep warm while serving.

Step 3: Serve with dippers of your choice. (Strawberries, bananas, peaches, apple, Marshmallow, cookies, etc.

 

Donut Icing

  Prep Time: 15 Min 

  Cook Time: 15 Min 

  Total Time: 30 Min 

  Yield: Serves 10-12

Make the ultimate glazed donut. With a 3-ingredient base, my donut glaze recipe has no limitations

Ingredients:

Vanilla Donut Glaze

  • 1 ½ cups (6oz/172g)) powdered sugar
  • 2-3 tablespoons milk
  • 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

Funfetti Donut Glaze

  • 1 ½ cup (6oz/172g) powdered sugar
  • 2-3 tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¼ teaspoon almond extract 
  • 1 small drop pink food coloring

Chocolate Donut Glaze

  • 1½ cups (6oz/172g) powdered sugar
  • 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 3 tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Maple Donut Glaze

  • 1 ½ cups (6oz/172g)) powdered sugar
  • 1-2 tablespoons milk
  • 4 tablespoons maple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Cinnamon Sugar

  • 1 cup (8oz/225g) granulated sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cinnamon
  • ⅛ teaspoon salt

How to Make It:

Vanilla Donut Glaze:

 

Step 1: In a medium bowl, whisk together all of the ingredients.

Step 2: Whisk until silky and smooth.

Step 3: If you want it thinner add a little more milk.

Step 4: Store the icing at room temperature in an airtight container for 2 weeks.

 

Funfetti Donut Glaze

 

Step 1: In a medium bowl, whisk together all of the ingredients.

Step 2: Whisk until silky and smooth.

Step 3: If you want it thinner add a little more milk

Step 4: Store the icing at room temperature in an airtight container for 2 weeks.

 

Maple Donut Glaze:

 

Step 1: In a medium bowl, whisk together all of the ingredients.

Step 2: Whisk until silky and smooth.

Step 3: If you want it thinner add a little more milk.

Step 4: Store the icing at room temperature in an airtight container for 2 weeks.

 

Cinnamon Sugar:

 

Step 1: Combine sugar with cinnamon in a medium bowl.

Step 2: Dip donuts into cinnamon sugar while still warm.

Step 3: Cinnamon sugar can be covered and stored for up to 2 years.