Gourmet Turkish Desserts – Poppy Seed Baklava Recipe

Gourmet Turkish desserts recipe ingredients:

• 500 grams thin layers of dough (you’ll get about 16 layers)
• cooking oil

Poppy seed filling ingredients:

• 250 grams poppy seeds, grind
• 150-200 grams nuts, grind
• 100 grams raisins (soak them in rum or hot water for a half hour)
• 10 grams baking powder
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 liter buttermilk

Sugar syrup ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 cups water
• 10 grams vanilla sugar
• 1 lemon, sliced

Sugar syrup recipe: Pour sugar and vanilla in water to boil (to melt sugar) and remove it from the heat. Put slices of lemon in hot syrup and let it cool like this. Remove lemon before you pour it over baklava.

Poppy seed filling recipe: Mix poppy seeds, nuts, raisins
(soaked and then strained) and baking powder. Beat eggs, add them in the poppy seed mix and stir it. Pour buttermilk in mixture and mix all together.

Poppy seed baklava recipe: grease the pan and put ingredients in this order:

1. 1 thin layer of dough
2. grease it with one tablespoon of oil
3. put 1 thin layer of dough over that
4. spread about 3 tablespoons of poppy filling
5. repeat first 4 steps, till you left last 2 dough layers
6. repeat first 3 steps and grease the last dough layer
7. cut the baklava into pieces

Bake it in the preheat oven to 350°F (180°C) for about 25 minutes.

Pour sugar syrup over poppy baklava and return it in turned off oven for 5 minutes more, to absorb the syrup. Serve it cold.

Chocolate Coconut Dessert Rolls Recipe – Chocolate Coffee Cake Recipe

Chocolate coffee cake recipe ingredients:

• 350 grams graham cracker crumbs
• 200 grams confectioner’s sugar
• 100 grams dark chocolate, melted
• 16 tablespoons cold coffee

Coconut filling recipe ingredients:

• 100 grams confectioner’s sugar
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 100 grams unsalted butter
• 100 grams shredded coconut

Chocolate coconut dessert rolls recipe instructions:

Mix graham crumbs, sugar, melted dark chocolate and coffee to get compact dough mass (if dough is crumbling, add more coffee and if it’s too sticky, add more graham crumbs), and stretch the mixture in the rectangle shape.

Melt sugar in milk in low heat. Add butter in melted sugar to melt also, remove it from the heat and stir coconut in it. Cool it.

Stretch coconut mixture over coffee chocolate mixture. Roll it like salami, cover it with foil and cool it in the fridge for few hours.

Cut it in the fine slices before you serve it. It’s great recipe for Christmas holidays. Enjoy it!

Quick and Easy Tomato Cake Recipe

Quick and easy tomato cake recipe ingredients:

• 200 grams sugar
• 1 egg
• 50 ml cooking oil
• 150 ml tomato juice
• 250 grams flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 50 grams confectioners’ sugar
• 10 grams vanilla sugar

Easy cake recipe instruction:

Beat egg with sugar and mix cooking oil and tomato juice in it.

Combine flour, baking powder and cinnamon, and mix it in egg mixture to become smooth mass.

Place wax paper in the bake pan and pour tomato mixture in it. Bake it in 350°F for about 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Take cake out from the pan, cool it, cut it in cube shape and sprinkle it with combination of confectioners’ sugar and vanilla sugar.

Easy Sugar Free Cake Recipe – Quick Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe

Quick Christmas fruit cake recipe ingredients:

• 3 bananas
• 1 big apple
• 2 eggs
• 250 grams whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 cup cooking oil
• 1/4 cup rum
• 50 grams raisins
• 50 grams dried dates, chopped
• 50 grams dried figs, chopped
• 50 grams nuts, chopped

Easy sugar free cake recipe instruction:

Blend apple and bananas in food processor (you’ll get about 1 3/4 cups of fruit mush).

Mix eggs, flour, baking powder and oil in the mashed fruits.

Combine moistened raisins in rum, dates, figs and nuts and mix it in flour mixture.

Bake your fruit cake in preheated oven to 350°F for about 40 minutes.

Cool it for a while, cut the cake and serve it.

Eggless Cake Recipe – Honey Buttermilk Jelly Cake Recipe

Honey almond cake recipe ingredients:

• 150 grams honey
• 40 grams unsalted butter
• 200 grams fine chopped almonds

Buttermilk filling recipe ingredients:

• 40 g gelatin powder
• 15 tablespoons water
• 2 3/4 cups buttermilk (or fruit yogurt)
• 5 tablespoons honey
• 30 grams vanilla sugar
• Grated lemon peel (from 1 lemon)
• Lemon juice (from 3 lemons)
• 1 1/4 cups whipped cream
• Shredded chocolate

Eggless cake recipe instruction:

In low heat warm up the honey to melt, add butter to melt also and, on the end, stir almonds in it. Cook it for about 10 minutes to get caramel and stir it all the way.

Pour it in the greased cake pan, spread it quickly cause it thickens fast (moist the spoon, or whatever you use to spread the cake, before every move if it is to thick).

Cool it in a refrigerator, till you make buttermilk filling.

Honey buttermilk jelly cake recipe instruction – filling:

Stir the gelatin powder with 15 tablespoons of water (to be without lumps).

In separate bowl whisk buttermilk, honey, vanilla sugar, grated lemon peel and lemon juice to get compact mixture.

Add gelatin in buttermilk honey mixture, whisk it and let it thicken for a while.

Mix thick buttermilk filling with a mixer, gradually adding whipped cream in it.

Pour jelly filling onto cooled honey almond cake and return it in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.

You can decorate your jelly cake with shredded chocolate or with pieces of fruits.

Chocolate Coffee Cake Recipe – Dark Chocolate Truffle Cake Recipe

Dark chocolate truffle cake recipe ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder

Dark chocolate ganache ingredients:

• 300 grams dark chocolate
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon strong coffee
• 3/4 cups whipped cream
• 50 grams cocoa powder

Baking cake recipe instruction:

Beat eggs with sugar. Combine sugar, flour and cocoa and mix that in beaten eggs. Pour egg mixture in the greased cake pan and bake a thin cake (in the preheat oven to 350°F for about 10 minutes).

Dark chocolate ganache recipe:

Melt 200 grams of chocolate in a steamer. Cook a heavy cream in saucepan (in low temperature) to boil, pour it onto melted dark chocolate and whisk it. Add coffee in the chocolate cream and whisk it again.

Set 3 tablespoons of creamy chocolate mixture aside and cool it in freezer to thicken enough to form truffle balls from it.

Chocolate truffle recipe:

Hand roll thicken mixture into 1 inch round balls, dip them into 100 grams of melted chocolate and roll them into cocoa. Place them on wax paper. Refrigerate truffles until coating sets (for about 1 hour).

Chocolate coffee cake recipe instruction:

Cool the rest of chocolate ganache mixture as well and whisk whipped cream in it.

Spread the chocolate coffee cream over baked cake in the cake pan. Sprinkle cocoa powder over cream and decorate a cake with a cooled chocolate truffles.

Keep the chocolate truffle cake in a refrigerator.

Easy Fudge Brownies Recipe with Nutella Cream

Homemade peanut brownies recipe ingredients:

• 3 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup warm milk
• 4 tablespoons melted butter
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup cocoa powder
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 4-5 tablespoons nutella cream

Easy fudge brownies recipe instruction:

Beat egg whites with half of sugar and vanilla.

Separately beat egg yolks with rest of the sugar and mix butter, peanut butter and milk in it.

Combine cocoa, flour and baking powder and mix that in egg yolks.

Whisk beaten egg whites in the egg yolks mixture. Put a wax paper in the cake pan and pour the cake mixture in it. Bake it in preheat oven to 350°F for about 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Spread nutella cream on the hot fudge cake and your cake is finished.

If you want to make nutella cream in your kitchen, take a look at homemade nutella recipe.

Cool brownies in the pan and cut them into squares.

Gourmet Tiramisu Cake – Strawberry Tiramisu Recipe

Strawberry tiramisu recipe ingredients:

• 220 grams mascarpone cheese (or Philadelphia cheese)
• 4 1/2 cups cold milk
• 2 instant vanilla puddings
• 1 cup whipped cream with strawberry flavor
• 2 cups chopped strawberries
• 250 grams lady fingers
• 50 grams chocolate, shredded

Gourmet tiramisu cake recipe:

Mix mascarpone cheese with 3 1/2 cups of milk to become creamy. Add vanilla puddings in it and mix it again to become compact and smooth mixture.

1. Dip half of lady fingers in some milk and arrange them in the cake pan
2. Pour half of mascarpone pudding cream over lady fingers
3. Half of whipped cream spread on pudding cream and 1 cup of strawberries on top of it
4. Dip other half of lady fingers in milk and arrange them over strawberries
5. Pour other half of mascarpone pudding cream over lady fingers
6. Half of whipped cream spread on pudding cream and 1 cup of strawberries on top of it
7. Decorate it with shredded chocolate

Cool it for about 3 hours before you serve your strawberry tiramisu cake.

Raspberry Jam Cake Recipe – Linzer Torte Recipe

Cake dough recipe ingredients:

• 200 grams flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 150 grams sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon grounded clove
• 1 teaspoon grounded cinnamon
• 1 egg
• 150 grams butter
• 150 grams grounded almonds

Filling ingredients:

• 150-200 grams raspberry jam

Glazing recipe ingredients:

• 1 egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon milk
• Sifted powdered sugar

Easy Linzer torte recipe:

Combine cake dough ingredients and make dough (if it is sticky, cool it in refrigerator for a while). Cut the dough in half.

Roll first half of dough and put it onto greased and floured bottom of 10-inch tart pan with removable bottom.

Spread raspberry jam onto dough in the pan.

Roll the second half of dough and cut it in strips (about 16 strips, same wide). Arrange strips of dough over jam layer crosswise.

Beat egg yolk with milk and spread it over dough strips.

Bake it preheat oven to 350 degrees for about 25-30 minutes.

Sprinkle with powdered sugar and your raspberry jam cake recipe is finished.

If you like to make your own healthy homemade jams take a look at Homemade Jam and Jelly Recipes.

Sugar Free Cake Recipe – Easy Healthy Fruit Cake Recipe

Easy healthy fruit cake recipe ingredients:

• 3 bananas
• 1 apple
• 2 eggs
• 250 grams whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 deciliter cooking oil
• 50 grams chopped raisins
• 50 grams chopped dried apricots
• 50 grams chopped prunes
• 50 grams chopped almonds

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Sugar free cake recipe instruction:

Mash bananas and apple (it should be about 4 deciliters of mushy mixture).

Stir beaten eggs in it. Pour flour and baking powder in it too and mix it, till you get compact mixture.

Pour oil and all chopped fruits into mixture and mix it good again.

Bake it in preheat oven to 350 degrees for about 35 minutes. Cut it when it is cold.