1. Preheat oven to 350°. Scatter hazelnuts on a baking sheet and toast 15 to 18 minutes, or until nuts are lightly browned and skins are cracked. Remove as much of brown skins as possible by rubbing nuts in a kitchen towel. Crack nuts into coarse pieces by ..
1. Place the ricotta cheese, sugar, and vanilla extract in a food processor or blender. Process until light and creamy.
2. Place 1 heaping teaspoonful of the cheese mixture in the center of each cookie, and press a strawberry half into the
MAKING
1) Cut shortening and rub into flour till it resembles coarse crumbs.
2) Beat eggs and mix with it.
3) Gently add red wine and stir well.
4) Knead the dough to a ball and cover and keep aside for 15 minutes.
5) Into a lightly floured surface place ..
Italian Cannoli makes a very good wrapping for sweet or savory stuffing. It is good to serving as a snack in parties and to kids. Cannoli adds a twist to the regular snack items. It can be filled with foods that kids often don't like to eat.
GETTING READY
1) Heat oil in heavy pot to 365°F, 5 minutes prior to frying.
MAKING
2) In a clean bowl, gently mix together salt, sugar, cinnamon, and flour.
3) Cut the butter in small cubes and blend it in the bowl mixture.
4) Stir in water, egg and wine ..
MAKING
1. Sift flour with sugar and cinnamon onto a board.
2. Make a well in center fill with port and gradually blend flour into port with a fork.
3. When dough is stiff enough to handle, knead about 15 minutes until dough is smooth and stiff.
4. If too ..
Halve the apricots and remove the pits.
(It's not necessary to peel them.) Whip the ricotta until it is quite creamy, beating in 2 tablespoons of the honey.
Stir in the chocolate and cinnamon.
Place 4 apricot halves in dessert dishes.
Spoon 1/4 cup of ricotta ..
Coarsely chop pistachio nuts in blender or Sunbeam Food Processor.
Empty onto a sheet of waxed paper.
Add ricotta cheese, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla extract to blender or food processor.
Process until smooth.
Fill Dessert Crepes with 2 tablespoons of ..
To make the pastry: Sift together whole wheat flour, unbleached white flour and cinnamon into a medium-size bowl.
Cut in butter until mixture resembles meal.
In a small bowl, mix together vinegar, water, honey, and egg.
Pour into flour mixture and blend until ..
Shells Sift flour with Ground Chocolate, salt and baking powder.
Cut in butter, gradually adding wine.
Knead well.
On floured board, roll dough to 1/16 inch thick..
Cut into 4-inch squares.
With rolling pin, roll squares into ovals.
Wrap each oval around ..
To make the cannoli shells: In a large bowl, blend the butter and sugar.
Add the egg whites, almond extract and vanilla; beat to combine.
Stir in the flour.Coat 2 baking sheets with no-stick spray.
Place 3 mounds of batter (1 tablespoon each) on each sheet; ..
MAKING
1. In a large bowl, with portable electric mixer, beat ricotta cheese 1 minute.
2. Add 2-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar and beat until light and creamy for about 1 minute at low speed adding chocolate, citron, cherries and cinnamon until well ..
Put flour in bowl; add egg, 1 egg yolk, oil, lemon rind, cinnamon, coffee, and 1/4 cup sugar.
Mixing with hands, add just enough sauterne to hold ingredients together to form a dough.
Put on floured board and knead until smooth and elastic.
Chill for several ..
In large bowl of electric mixer, beat eggs and sugar on medium speed until thick, about 5 minutes.
Gently fold in flour and butter; pour into greased and floured 8-inch round cake pan.
Bake at 350°F 40 minutes or until cake feels firm when touched in
Combine ricotta, 1 cup granulated sugar, and vanilla.
Depending on firmness of cheese, stir or beat till smooth.
Fold in chocolate.
Cover; chill.
Combine flour, 1/2 cup granulated sugar, cinnamon, and salt.
Cut in shortening till mixture resembles small ..
In a bowl, whip cream until it holds soft peaks.
In another bowl, combine cheese, 1/2 cup pistachios, liqueur, rum, sugar, chopped chocolate, and candied peel with syrup.
Mix well; fold in whipped cream.
If made ahead, cover and chill 2 hours or up until next ..
Prepare Press-in Pastry and let cool.
In a medium-size bowl, beat cream until it holds soft peaks.
In a large bowl, combine ricotta cheese, 1/2 cup of the pistachios, rum, liqueur, sugar, chopped chocolate, and candied orange peel.
Mix well; fold in whipped ..
1. In a large bowl, combine the flours, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt, if desired, and stir to mix well. In a small bowl, combine the water, vinegar, liqueur, and vanilla extract. Add the vinegar mixture to the flour mixture, and stir to mix well.
2. ..
