Desserts

Pecan-Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake

Tips

  • Mix cheesecake ingredients very slowly to prevent cracking

  • Bake cheesecake over water bath

  • Use steel spring form pan

  • Be sure to spray baking oil in the spring form pan

  • Bake crust for 15 minutes in preheated oven

  • Bake cheesecake at 350° for 70 minutes

  • Mix ingredients at room temperature

  • After 70 minutes, turn off the oven and open the door for one hour

  • Place aluminum foil over cheesecake and put in refrigerator for a minimum of six hours

Crust Ingredients

  • 2 cups of cookie crumbs

  • ½ cup pecan pieces

  • 1 stick of melted butter

  • ¼ cup of sugar

  • 1 Tsp. salt

Topping Ingredients

  • ¾ stick of melted butter

  • 1 cup of toasted pecans

  • ¼ cup brown sugar

  • optional 1 jigger bourbon

Cheesecake Ingredients

  • 3 bars room temp cream cheese

  • 1 cup sour cream

  • 4 eggs

  • 1 TBS. corn starch

  • 1TBS. pumpkin spice

  • 1 cup sugar

  • ¾ cup canned pumpkin

Coconut Cream Pie

Tips

Watch the video before you start.

Ingredients

* Four egg yolks lightly beaten

* ¾ cup granulated sugar

* ¼ cup cornstarch

* 1/8 teaspoon salt

* 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

* 2 ½ cups whole milk

* 2 teaspoons pure vanilla

* ½ stick of unsalted butter at room temp

* 1 cup shredded sweetened coconut

* coconut flakes ( bake the flakes at about 350° for two minutes or until nice golden brown.)

In a saucepan mix eggs, sugar, cornstarch, nutmeg, salt and milk. Place on the stove at low/medium heat. Keep stirring for 10 to 18 minutes until the mixture becomes very thick. Do not stop stirring or you will have a disaster. Remove from the stove and add vanilla, butter and coconut. Cover the mixture with plastic and place mixture in the refrigerator until it is cool. Pour into a pre-baked pie crust. Garnish with whipped cream and the toasted coconut flakes. The flakes should be baked until light brown in the oven at 350 degrees. You can eat the pie while is cool but it will taste better at room temperature.

CINNAMON ROLL BREAD PUDDING

Place bread or cinnamon rolls in large baking dish

 Add two or 3 cups of fresh peaches or raisins

 Mix ingredients together and pour over bread and fruit

 Let ingredients soak for at least 20 minutes

 Bake for one hour at 350°

 

Ingredients

 

·     4 or 5 cups of bread or cinnamon rolls

·     1 cup sugar (1/2 if using cinnamon rolls)

·     ½ cup brown sugar (1/4 if using cinnamon rolls)

·     three eggs

·     3 cups half and half

·     1 & ½ Tbs. vanilla extract

·     3 cups of fresh peaches

 

 

Whiskey Sauce

·     ½ cup white sugar

·     ¼ cup brown sugar

·     ½ stick melted butter

·     one or two jiggers whiskeys

·      blend together over low heat and stir until slightly thickened

Pumpkin Cheesecake

 Tips

 Mix ingredients well until they are creamy

 Bake for 70 minutes at 350°

 Turn the oven off and open the door for one hour and let the cheesecake cool down

Put the cheesecake in the refrigerator for a minimum of six hours

 Use a springform pan or your cheesecake will be a disaster

Ingredients

·      2    8 ounce packages of Philadelphia cream cheese

·      ¾    cup of sugar

·      16 ounce can of pumpkin

·      just a touch of salt

·      tablespoon of cinnamon

·      ¼     teaspoon of ginger

·      ¼     teaspoon of nutmeg

·      room temperature eggs

Panna Cotta

This is really easy! You can’t mess it up!   But beware, this stuff is really addictive. Eat at your own risk.

 

Ingredients

·      2 ¼ cups of heavy cream

·      ¾ cup of sugar

·      Zest from one lemon

·      1 tablespoon of vanilla extract

·      2 tablespoons of lemon cello

·      one package of gelatin powder

 

Combine cream, sugar, lemon zest, and limoncello into a sauce pan and bring to a froth.

 Add cold water to the gelatin powder and let it set up

 Add the gelatin  to the hot cream and stir until the gelatin is mixed in. Pour into ramekins and add toppings to suit your taste. Refrigerate for at least 12 hours.

 

 

 That’s it! It really is that easy.

Oklahoma-Texas Pecan Pie

Tips

Bake slowly for two hours at 225°.  Many recipes say you could bake this for a much shorter time and higher temperature, for example 30 to 45 minutesat 350°, but if you do, you will get a fudgy pie filling.  Pecan pie is meant to be more like a very thick golden colored jam.

Avoid using pecan pieces for your pie filling. However, whole pecan halves make the pie difficult to cut into nice unbroken wedges. So, to solve this problem I simply break the pecans in half before I put them into the pie filling.

My personal preference is to put the pie into the refrigerator and let it cool off before I serve it. However, room temperature is OK. You are not likely to have a good experience if you try to serve the pie warm out of the oven.

 

 Ingredients

·        1 1/3 cup of light corn syrup

·        1 1/3 cup of sugar

·        1 teaspoon of salt

·        1 tablespoon, or perhaps a little more of vanilla extract

·        1 ½ tablespoon of melted butter

·        Six Whole brown eggs

·        About 3 cups of pecan halves

·        Optional-a small jigger of Kentucky or Tennessee bourbon

 

Peanut Brittle

INGREDIENTS

          

o   3 cups of raw Spanish peanuts

o   3 cups of white sugar

o   1 1/8 cups of white Karo

o   ½ cup of water 

o   3 teaspoons of butter

o   1 teaspoon of vanilla

o   2 ½ teaspoon of baking soda

 

DIRECTIONS

 

Boil the sugar, Karo and water until the thread spins and snaps when placed in Cold water.   Add raw Spanish peanuts and stir until they are golden brown. Remove from the stove and add butter, vanilla, and baking soda. Pour onto a buttered cookie sheet and wait a few minutes until it cools and the gets stretchy. Stretch the brittle as thin as you can. Let it cool until it breaks crisply. Enjoy!

 

 

 

OKLAHOMA PEANUT BRITTLE

 

 INGREDIENTS

          

o   3 cups of raw Spanish peanuts

o   3 cups of white sugar

o   1 1/8 cups of white Karo

o   ½ cup of water 

o   3 teaspoons of butter

o   1 teaspoon of vanilla

o   2 ½ teaspoon of baking soda

 

DIRECTIONS

 

Boil the sugar, Karo and water until the thread spins and snaps when placed in Cold water.   Add raw Spanish peanuts and stir until they are golden brown. Remove from the stove and add butter, vanilla, and baking soda. Pour onto a buttered cookie sheet and wait a few minutes until it cools and the gets stretchy. Stretch the brittle as thin as you can. Let it cool until it breaks crisply. Enjoy!

Ginger Snaps

Tips

 

 Blind/mix slowly adding flour 1 cup at a time

 

Chill the dough for at least one hour before you roll it into balls

 

Bake the cookies on parchment paper for 7 to 9 minutes depending on the size of the dough balls

 

When you bring the cookies out of the oven drop the cookie sheet on the table and this will flatten them

 

Cool for a few minutes on an aerated wire rack

 

 

Ingredients

 

·      4 cups of flour

·      2 cups of sugar

·      1 ½ cups of shortening

·      ½ cup of molasses

·      two eggs

·      ½ teaspoon of salt

·      2 teaspoons of baking soda

·      2 teaspoons of cinnamon

·      2 teaspoons of ground cloves

·      2 teaspoon of ginger