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What is your favorite thing to make for dessert at home?

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Please don't say anything like ice cream from the jar or drumsticks.

I make dutch strudel with dutch cheese. It is delicious, but it is difficult and me and my mom can only make it for holidays.

Heres our recipe.

Quark Strudel with Dutch Cheese

This Dutch dessert recipe is adapted from the book "Aunt Babette's Cook Book, Foreign and Domestic Receipts for the Household" by Aunt Babette, published by Bloch Publishing and Printing Company, Chicago, in 1889.

This is a delicious quark strudel recipe, and the addition of Dutch cheese makes it extra special.

Take about one pint of flour, sift it into a bowl, make a hole in the center of the flour, pour in it gradually one cup of lukewarm water, a pinch of salt, and a spoonful of butter or goose fat. Stir this slowly, making a nice smooth dough of it and adding a little more flour if necessary. Cover up the dough and set it in a warm place. Let it rest until you have prepared the cheese.

Take half a pound of cheese, rub it through a coarse sieve or colander, add salt, the yolks of two eggs and one whole egg, and sweeten to taste. Add the grated peel of one lemon, two ounces of sweet almonds, and about four bitter ones, blanched and pounded, four ounces of sultana raisins and a little citron chopped finely.

Now cover your kitchen table with a clean tablecloth, sift flour all over it and roll out your dough as thin as possible. Now use your hands, placing them under the rolled dough and stretch it gently, very gently, so as not to tear it, walking all around the table as you do this, to get it even and thin as tissue paper. Pour a few tablespoonfuls of melted butter or goose oil over the dough; spread the cheese.

Now take hold of the tablecloth with both hands about a yard apart, and begin to roll the strudel (it will roll itself almost -- just lift the cloth high enough). Now butter or grease a large cake pan, hold it up to the edge of the table and dump in the strudel. Bake a nice brown, basting with sweet cream.

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  1. Angel food cake with strawberries

    *1 1/2 cups egg whites (10-12 large), room temperature

    *1 1/2 cups superfine sugar, divided

    *1 cup sifted cake flour

    *1 tsp cream of tartar

    *1/4 tsp salt

    *2 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla paste

    *1/2 tsp almond extract

    Preheat oven to 325F.

    In a small bowl, whisk together 3/4 cup sugar and the cake flour. Set aside.

    Beat egg whites until frothy, the add cream of tartar and salt. Beat until fully incorporated then begin to add the remaining 3/4 cup of sugar 1-2 tablespoons at a time. When sugar has been added, beat egg whites to soft peaks. You will know when you have soft peaks because the egg whites will look like soft waves and when you lift the beaters, the peaks will droop back down into the batter. If your batter is falling in ribbons, it is not quite down. Don’t be afraid to slow down the mixer and check a few times as you get close. Do not beat all the way to stiff peaks. Once you have soft peaks, add the vanilla and almond extracts and beat for a few seconds to evenly distribute.

    Sift the flour/sugar mixture over the egg whites in 6-8 additions (depending on your proficiency with folding flour into egg whites) and gently fold it in after each addition. It is better to take your time and do it gently than to rush and deflate the egg whites.

    Spoon batter into an ungreased 9 inch tube pan with a removeable bottom. Smooth the top with a spatula and tap the pan on the counter once or twice to ensure that there are no large bubbles lurking beneath the surface.

    Bake for 50-60 minutes, until the top springs back when lightly pressed. Mine took 55 minutes. Don't cook it for too long because the outside can get too thick and hard.

    Remove from oven an invert pan over a bottle. Allow to cool completely or overnight.

    Gently run a thin knife around the sides, then around the bottom, of the pan to release the cake when you are ready to serve it.


  2. I like to buy an angel food or sponge cake and top it with fruit or just eat a bowl of fruit, cookies, pudding or ice cream with toppings. My hubby loves Jello. I like Jello Poke Cake too. Anything quick and easy.

  3. Thanks for sharing your recipe but I can see why you only have time to make it during special times of the year, it sounds fantastic! For me, during season, I try to incorporated Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with any fresh berries that are in season and within my budget. During the winter months, I love cobblers, hot baked dessert cups and hot chocolate smoothies!  Anything with hot chocolate excites me so the quadruple layer chocolate cake is my favorite. Email me if you would like the recipe, it's a staple in my family that my Mother has made for decades!  

  4. I like to bake a white cake and then you let it cool and you make the liquid of the jello and pour it all over the cake and then put it in the refrigerator over night then put cool whip

  5. Mom's Banana Dessert Recipe

      



    2 cups whipping cream

    2 tablespoons sugar

    15 cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies (recommended: Oreo), crushed

    4 bananas, sliced

    1/4 cup chopped pecans, toasted

    Chocolate syrup

    Whip the cream with the sugar until firm peaks form.

    Fill a large glass bowl or small parfait glasses with half the cookies, banana slices, nuts and half the whipped cream. Drizzle chocolate syrup over the cream, then layer the remaining cookies, bananas, remaining whipped cream, a little more chocolate syrup, and then toasted nuts. Serve.




  6. I like to make what I call miriamo sundaes... you take vanilla icecream and you put it in a bowl then you put chocolate sauce on it, different coloured sprinkles, banana slices, marshmallows and some caramel.

  7. I love to make really complicated desserts too.  Every December I make a huge table of desserts everything from streudel to dobosh torte, elaborate cheesecakes etc, etc.  But my favorite dessert to make at home is this one.

    Chocolate Truffle Tart

    ¾ cup whipping cream

    1/3 cup milk

    8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped

    1 egg, lightly beaten

    1 baked 9-in pie shell or tart shell

    Whipped Cream or (Cool Whip) for serving

    Preheat the oven to 350 F.  Combine the whipping cream and milk in a heavy 2-quart saucepan.  Cook over med heat until hot, stirring occasionally.  Remove from heat.  Add the chocolate, stirring until blended.  Let stand for 5 minutes.  Whisk in egg.  Spoon chocolate mixture into pie shell.  Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until the filling is set and firm to the touch. Cool. Serve at room temp for custardy texture. Serve cold for fudgy texture.

    Chill leftovers.

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