Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer for Gourmet Cake Recipes
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It is very creative work to make homemade cakes and it is a way to healthier solution for all gourmet cakes lovers, with all natural ingredients, less calories and better taste.
To make good desserts, you need to have good kitchen equipment. This is long term investment and it is better to be good. Kitchen aid stand mixer is basic of kitchen appliances.
I highly recommend KitchenAid KSM90WH Ultra Power Series 4-1/2-Quart Stand Mixer White made of stainless steel with 10 speeds.
You can use it for everything: for normal to heavy mixtures, for mixtures that need air incorporated and for mixing and kneading yeast dough.
In my experience, quality stand mixer is real time saver and helpful kitchen equipment that will help you to make real miracles in your own kitchen.
Take a look at all kitchen aid appliances, the best friends in our homemade cakes adventure.
Turkish Desserts – Easy Baklava Recipe
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Recipe ingredients:
- 500 grams thin layers of dough (you can buy it in Turkish store, you’ll get 10-16 layers of dough)
- 800 grams sour cherries
- Cooking oil
Filling ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 150 grams biscuit crumbs
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup cooking oil
Syrup ingredients:
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup water
Syrup recipe: pour sugar in water to boil for 5 minutes and remove it from the heat. Leave it to turn cold.
Filling recipe: mix all filling ingredients together.
Easy baklava recipe: grease the cake pan and put ingredients in this order:
- 2 thin layers of dough (spread one tablespoon of oil between them)
- spread 2-3 tablespoons of filling
- repeat, till you spend half of dough layers
Pour sour cherries on it (drain them gently before) and continue to arrange 2 thin layers of dough – filling – 2 thin layers of dough. Do not apply fill on top of the cake, just grease it with two tablespoons of oil.
Cut the cake and bake it in preheat oven to 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.
Pour syrup on the cake and return it in turned off oven for 10 minutes more, to absorb the syrup. Serve it cold. Turkish dessert recipes are really delicious and I gladly make them. Easy baklava recipe will excite even the biggest gourmand for sure .
Gourmet Fruit Cake Recipe with Apples and Bananas
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Recipe ingredients:
- 3 apples, middle sized
- 3 bananas
- 1/2 lemon juice
- 200 grams sugar powder
- 250 grams grounded walnuts or almonds
- 150 grams biscuit crumbs
- 250 grams unsalted butter, room temperature
- chocolate frosting
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Grate apples and gently squeeze juice from them (you can drink it – it’s very refreshing juice). Squeeze the juice from half of a lemon and drench apples wit it, so they keep a
bright color. Cut bananas into small pieces and mix into apples.
Mix sugar, walnuts and biscuit crumbs together and add fruits in it. Stir it well and mix butter in it on the end.
Pour this compact mass in the cake pan and make a rectangular shape of it. Ice your gourmet fruit cake with chocolate frosting and refrigerate it over the night.
Gourmet fruit cake recipe with apples and bananas is healthy homemade cake with all natural ingredients, perfect for a kids birthday cakes.
Cake Icing with Rum and Chocolate
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Recipe ingredients:
- 150 grams chocolate
- 2/3 cup whipped cream
- 1/2 cup rum
Melt chocolate in steam or in low temperature and remove it from the heat. Stir melt chocolate to cool it. Pour whipped cream and rum in it and mix it all together.
You can use cake icing with rum and chocolate like ice cream topping.
Russian Cap Gourmet Cookies
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Cookie dough ingredients:
- 280 grams all-purpose flour
- 200 grams sugar
- 100 grams melted unsalted butter
- 100 grams melted chocolate
- 1 egg
Cookie filling:
- 250 grams grounded walnuts
- 1/2 cup milk
- 100 grams unsalted butter, room temperature
Topping ingredients:
- 100 grams melted chocolate
- 100 grams grounded walnut
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Mix flour, sugar, chocolate, butter and egg and knead a cookie dough. Make a circle shape cookies with a mold. Bake it for 20 minutes in the preheated oven to 350 degrees.
Pour boiling milk on the grounded walnuts and mix butter in it to make cookie filling. Use it to glue two cookies together.
Dip cookies lateral side in the melted chocolate and then roll it in grounded walnut.
It would be the best to serve russian cap gourmet cookies day or two after you’ve made it, to become soft. It’s very tasty and decorative easy cookie recipe.
Sesame Sticks Baking Recipe
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Baking ingredients:
- 500 grams whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1,5-2 teaspoon salt
- 150 ml vegetable oil
- 200 ml white wine
- 100 grams grounded poppy seeds
- 100 grams sesame seeds
- warm water
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Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Make a hole in the middle of flour and pour oil in it. Start to knead a dough, gradually adding wine in it. When you got soft dough that don’t stick to your fingers, stretch it to be about 0,5 centimeter thick. 
Wet a dough with a few tablespoons of warm water and spread poppy seeds all over it. Softly roll over poppy with rolling pin, so it sticks to the dough.
Turn over the dough ( I cut it in a half first, cause it was more easy to turn it), wet it with a few tablespoons of warm water and spread sesame seeds over it. Softly roll over sesame with rolling pin.
Cut it (1 x 10 centimeter), twist it gently like spiral and put it on wax paper in baking pan. Bake it for 20 minutes in the preheated oven to 350 degrees.
Floating Island Gourmet Dessert Recipe
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Recipe ingredients:
- 1 liter milk
- 5 egg whites, room temperature
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- 5 egg yolks, room temperature
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
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Beat egg whites with 5 tablespoon of sugar (you can add to it few drops of lemon juice, so you can beat it better).
Pour beaten egg whites in boiling milk (be sure to boil milk in deep pot, so your milk could not boil over), reduce the heat and boil it for a few minutes, till egg whites clot. Turn them around with a spoon and cook it for a minute more. Remove it from heat and take your floating island out of milk in another pot.
Beat egg yolks with vanilla and 5 tablespoon of sugar and pour it in milk, that you had just used for cooking egg whites. Stir it all the way while you cook it (5 minutes).
Pour milk with egg yolks over clotted egg whites and refrigerate it at least one hour.
Floating island gourmet dessert is very refreshing easy dessert recipe for hot summer days and soon we will all need it.
Gourmet Cookies with Coconut
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Recipe ingredients:
- 4 egg whites, room temperature
- 200 grams sugar powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 200 grams shredded coconut
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Mix egg whites with sugar powder, vanilla and cinnamon for about 5 minutes. In beaten egg whites pour shredded coconut and stir it gently with spoon ( not with mixer, cause it might lose foamy look).
First preheat oven to 350 degrees. With the help of two teaspoons, form coconut cookies on wax paper in bake pan. Bake it for 20-25 minutes.
Gourmet cookies with coconut are easy cookie recipe that kids just adore.
Cake Icing with Coffee and Chocolate
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Recipe ingredients:
- 1/2 cup strong black coffee
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup shredded chocolate
- 2 tablespoons chocolate liqueur
In low temperature get warm coffee. Pour sugar and chocolate in it and when it begins to boil, pour liqueur also. Mix it all up and remove it from the heat.
You can use cake icing with coffee and chocolate to ice a cake, or you can serve it in glasses as gourmet dessert.
Recipe for Gourmet Rum Cakes
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Ingredients:
- 50 grams sugar
- 4 tablespoons honey
- 125 grams unsalted butter
- 100 grams chocolate
- 100 grams chopped corn flakes
- 100 grams raisins
- 1/4 cup rum
- 100 grams sesame seeds
- 100 grams chopped unsalted peanuts
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Soak up raisins in rum at least 30 minute.
Melt sugar and honey in the deep pot and boil it for about 5 minutes. Pour butter in it to melt also and then add chocolate, stir it all the way. When all previous ingredients are melted, pour corn flakes, raisins, sesame and peanuts in it. Stir it and remove it from heat.
Pour cake in the greased cake pan and spread it equally. Put it in refrigerator for a few hours and then cut it as you wish. Your gourmet rum cake is ready to be served. Enjoy!
