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Best Apple Crisp Recipe
Recipe: The Very Best Apple Crisp Recipe
Known, as apple crumble in the UK, apple crisp in the United States and Canada is the name of a dessert which is made with baked apples and topped with a crisp crust. It usually features cooked apples, brown sugar, oats, cinnamon and sometimes nutmeg. You can switch the apples for pears, berries, peaches or other fruit. Rhubarb is also nice in a fruit crisp recipe. It is believed that apple crisp is a fairly new dessert, dating back to 1924, or at least that is when the recipe first appeared in print. This recipe is traditionally made in the fall when there are plenty of ripe apples to use up. It is as popular in Canada as it is in the United States and the UK.
This is the best apple crisp recipe ever. You can use any apples to make it but a tart apple such as Granny Smith usually works the best. Do not slice the apples too thinly, else they will overcook. Half inch slices work fine. Other ingredients in the apple mixture include cinnamon and nutmeg, and the topping combines oats, flour and pecans with brown sugar and more, for a crunchy, crumbly topping. Serve this delicious apple crisp recipe with vanilla ice cream or with whipped cream if you prefer.
Perhaps you have made similar desserts before. Apple cobbler is an old recipe which tops apples with clumps of dough. Apple Brown Betty consists of apples layered with sweetened buttered bread, and Eve’s pudding is a British dessert which tops a layer of apples with a layer of sponge cake. You will find that the best apple crisp recipe is a wonderful dish for a fall evening and it is really satisfying and delicious.
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Whatever kind of apples you make this best apple crisp recipe with, the results are sure to be wonderful. The apples become soft and juicy, and the nutmeg and cinnamon work really well with their flavor. The crispy topping is also delicious and adding a scoop of vanilla ice cream to this hot apple crisp finishes the dessert off in style. This is a traditional dessert for the fall and if you fancy something warming and tasty, you cannot go wrong by making the best apple crisp recipe for your family. This dessert is easy to prepare and it can be enjoyed hot or cold.
Best Apple Crisp Recipe with Nutmeg and Cinnamon
Ingredients
- 10 cups peeled, cored, sliced apples
- ¼ cup water
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 cup white sugar
- Vanilla ice cream, to serve
For the Topping:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- ½ cup quick-cooking oats
- ½ cup melted butter
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup brown sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Arrange the sliced apples in a 13 x 9 inch pan.
- Combine the white sugar with 1 tablespoon of flour, the nutmeg, and the cinnamon and sprinkle this over the apples.
- Pour the water over the apples.
- Mix the topping ingredients together and crumble this over the apples.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
- Serve with vanilla ice cream.
- (Serves 10)
Chocolate Pudding Pie Recipe
Recipe: Chocolate Pudding Pie Recipe with Cocoa
If you want to make something extra special, the following chocolate pudding pie recipe is a great idea. The rich chocolate cake is sandwiched together with a sweet vanilla frosting and the pie is decorated with grated chocolate. This luxurious dessert will thrill everyone.
First of all you need to make the chocolate pudding mixture, which comprises cocoa, vanilla, eggs, milk and more, and then this is baked into a bake. The next step is to make your almond and vanilla frosting, and this is used to sandwich the pudding pie cake together and to top it. The final touch is sprinkling some grated chocolate over the top, and you can choose whether to use dark chocolate, milk chocolate or white chocolate for this.
This is a very filling dessert so you only need to give people small portions. If you are looking for a chocolate pudding pie recipe which is like a cake rather than made in a pastry crust like a conventional pie, why not give this easy recipe a whirl? It is ideal for anyone who likes creamy, chocolate-rich desserts.
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Serve this delicious chocolate pudding pie recipe with a cup of tea like the one you can see in the picture, or with a glass of milk or coffee. Anyone who enjoys rich, creamy desserts will find this absolutely mouthwatering, and that goes for the grownups just as much as the kids do. You can grate your favorite kind of chocolate over the top of this chocolate pudding pie recipe, so whether that is dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate or even a mixture of these, you can finish off the cake however you want.
Vanilla and Chocolate Pudding Pie Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup boiling water
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ¾ cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups white sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 ¾ cups sifted flour
For the Frosting:
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup Crisco
- 1 lb powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup water
- 3 oz grated chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Stir the salt, cocoa powder, white sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and flour together in a big bowl.
- Add the oil, milk, vanilla, and eggs, and beat with an electric mixer for 2 minutes on a medium speed.
- Stir in the boiling water and divide the batter between a pair of greased, floured 9 inch cake pans.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean.
- Let the cakes cool for 10 minutes, and then turn them out of the pans.
- Beat the Crisco until it is fluffy, and then beat in the almond extract, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and water for 5 minutes.
- Spread ½ the frosting over one cake layer, and add the second cake layer on top.
- Spread the remaining frosting over the top, and then sprinkle the grated chocolate over the cake.
- Serves 8
Number of servings (yield): 8
Bisquick Cobbler Recipes
Recipe: Quick and Easy Bisquick Cobbler Recipes
Bisquick is a real timesaver in the kitchen. This pre-mixed baking product contains flour, salt, baking powder, and shortening and it was invented in 1930. One of the top sales executives at General Mills met with a train dining car chef who presented him with some tasty biscuits. The dining car chef admitted he had used a pre-mixed biscuit batter containing flour, salt, baking powder and lard, and the kept it on ice so he could make fresh biscuits quickly. The sale executive liked the idea and Bisquick hit the shelves soon afterwards. The recipe was changed and the hydrogenated oil meant the product did not need to be refrigerated.
Bisquick was first invented for making biscuits but its popularity grew and so did the recipes for it. Bisquick can be used to make dumplings, snickerdoodle cookies, pancakes, pizza dough, and even Bisquick cobbler recipes. Using Bisquick to make a fruit cobbler cuts down the preparation time and allows you to make a really flavorful cobbler. If you do not have any Bisquick for the following blackberry cobbler recipe, you can make your own. To get one cup of Bisquick, you need to combine a cup of flour with half a teaspoon of salt, a tablespoon of melted butter or oil, and one and a half teaspoons of baking powder.
The following recipe contains fresh blackberries but you could use thawed berries if you prefer. If you want to, then make sure they are well defrosted and drained. This recipe calls for a few of the fresh ones to be used as a garnish but if you are using canned or thawed ones, then omit the garnish. Vanilla ice cream or whipped cream are very nice with easy Bisquick cobbler recipes, and you can also serve this recipe chilled instead of warm from the oven if you prefer.
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As the picture shows, this colorful and fresh-looking Bisquick blackberry cobbler is really appealing. The plump fresh blackberries sit on top of a wonderfully juicy fruit cobbler which is topped with a simple Bisquick mixture and baked to perfection. Serve this with ice cream, whipped cream or simply as it is, for a hearty and satisfying dessert which is great after any kind of meal. You will find that Bisquick cobbler recipes are popular with adults and kids alike and once you have made this for the family they will be begging for a repeat of this treat.
Juicy Blackberry Cobbler with Cinnamon
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 2 cups fresh blackberries
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- ¾ cup white sugar
For the Topping:
- 1 cup Bisquick
- ¼ cup milk
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 2 teaspoons white sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Combine the water, cinnamon, cornstarch, and sugar with 1 ½ cups of the blackberries.
- Bring this mixture to a boil and cook for 2 minutes.
- Transfer it into a casserole dish.
- Combine the Bisquick with the milk, butter, and sugar.
- Cover the blackberry mixture with the Bisquick mixture and bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown on top.
- Serve in individual glasses, garnishing with the remaining blackberries.
- (Serves 4)
Number of servings (yield): 4
Soft Sugar Cookie Recipes
Recipe: The Best Soft Sugar Cookie Recipes
These delicious soft sugar cookies are great for adults or kids. If you want them thicker and even softer, roll them out to half an inch thickness instead of quarter of an inch. You can use almond extract in soft sugar cookie recipes instead of the anise extract if you prefer it, or if that is what you have in the pantry. The end flavor will be slightly different but just as good.
Keep an eye on them during baking. As soon as they start to turn brown around the edges they are ready. Cooking times vary depending on your oven so see how long they take, then bake the next batch for the same time. You can make these tiny or large, depending on how you want them and the size of your cookie cutters. If you make them very small, you might get seventy. If you make them big, you might get thirty.
The dough is very sticky until you chill it firm. This might take anywhere from two to three hours, or you can refrigerate the dough for up to twenty four hours if you like. Soft sugar cookie recipes are really attractive and they taste great too.
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You can decorate soft sugar cookie recipes however you like. Add the sprinkles before baking or after if you are going to frost them. As you can see from the photo, contrasting colors look really nice and you could make some with cinnamon and sugar, some with seasonal colored sprinkles and let the kids design the remainder. Soft sugar cookie recipes are easy to follow and they bake very quickly. These tasty little treats are very nice with coffee, milk or your favorite soda, and they are bite-sized so you are entitled to eat more than one!
Super-Easy Sugar Cookies with Vanilla
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon anise extract
- ⅔ cup butter
- 4 teaspoons milk
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ⅓ cups white sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 box multicolored sprinkles
Instructions
- Stir the cream of tartar, baking soda, salt, and flour together.
- Stir the eggs, milk, anise, and vanilla extracts together in another bowl.
- Beat the butter in a third bowl, using an electric mixer on a medium speed, for 1/2 minute, and then add the white sugar.
- Beat until fluffy.
- Alternatively add the flour mixture and egg mixture, beating until combined.
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap or waxed paper and chill it until it is firm enough to handle.
- This might take a few hours.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Roll the dough out to ¼ inch thickness on a lightly floured work surface.
- Cut shapes using cookie cutters.
- You can re-roll the trimmings and cut them as necessary.
- Arrange the cookies an inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets and add the multicolored sprinkles.
- Bake for 6 minutes or until the edges are light brown.
- Cool on the cookie sheets for a minute, and then let them cool completely on a wire rack.
- (Makes 30 to 70 Depending on Size)
Best Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe
Recipe: The Best Moist Chocolate Cake Recipe
It might surprise you to know that German chocolate cake has no German origins. The name comes from Sam German, an American who invented a dark chocolate baking bar in 1852 for the Baker’s Chocolate company. Baker’s named this delicious moist chocolate cake after him. Originally called German’s Chocolate cake, this is now known simply as German chocolate cake, so no wonder the origin of the name is misunderstood.
German chocolate cake is usually served with a pecan and coconut frosting, which is generously applied on top and between the two cake layers. German chocolate cake is the best moist chocolate cake recipe to make for birthdays and other celebrations and you can either buy it from a bakery or, better still, make your own.
The following recipe does not contain too many ingredients or take too long to bake. It is important to make sure the melted chocolate is completely cool before adding it to the cake mixture. Also, use fresh ingredients for this recipe and do not swap the butter for margarine or the cake will lose its rich flavor. the eggs, buttermilk, and butter should be at room temperature for the best results.
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This is the best moist chocolate cake recipe you can make and it is a classic cake, having really stood the test of time. If you love chocolate you are going to love this authentic recipe whether you are making it for a birthday or another celebration, or simply because you want to spoil your family. The coconut and pecan frosting on this best moist chocolate cake recipe is really flavorful and this cake is so easy to make. Serve this with a glass of milk, a cup of coffee or even a glass of Merlot for an extra special treat.
Authentic German Chocolate Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 ⅓ cups cake flour
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- ⅔ cup butter, at room temperature
- 4 oz Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate, melted and cooled
- 1 cup buttermilk
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the Frosting:
- ¾ cup evaporated milk
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 3 lightly beaten egg yolks
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 ⅓ cups Baker’s Angel Flake coconut
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Grease a pair of 9 inch cake pans and line the bottoms with waxed paper.
- Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, and salt together.
- Cream the butter and add the flour mixture, as well as the vanilla and 3/4 cup of the buttermilk.
- Stir the mixture until the dry ingredients are moistened, then beat with an electric mixer at medium speed for 2 minutes.
- Scrape the bowl from time to time.
- Add the eggs, remaining buttermilk, and melted chocolate and beat for 1 more minute.
- Pour the batter into the prepared cake pans and bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Combine the evaporated milk, brown sugar, white sugar, vanilla extract, and butter to make the frosting.
- Bring this mixture to a boil, stirring all the time, and then take it off the heat.
- Stir some of this hot liquid into the egg yolks and return the mixture to the pan, stirring well.
- Bring it back to a boil, stirring all the time, then take it off the heat and stir in the pecans and coconut.
- Let it cool, beating occasionally.
- Cool the cake in the pans on a wire rack for 15 minutes.
- Remove from the pans and cool completely on the wire racks, then frost with the cooled coconut pecan frosting.
- (Serves 10)







