Showing posts with label secret. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secret. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Jammers for Junes Secret Recipe Club
Jammers for Junes Secret Recipe Club
Now just to be clear I am not talking about the kind of jammers that you wear to bed. Im talking about the kind that you eat. Thats right Jammers are cookies! I had never heard of such a cookie until I was browsing through Frans Favs for a recipe to make for my June
Secret Recipe Club choice. Imagine my delight when I came across such a cookie recipe! I love the idea of a tender shortbread crust with a layer of sweet jam and then a sprinkling of brown sugar crumble all coming together to create a cookie. Magic!
I was just as delighted to be assigned Frans wonderful blog as I was to find this recipe for Jammers. Her blog is completely packed with mouth watering recipes. Honestly, it was very hard to chose just one recipe to make from her blog. I really look forward to making her Carrot Cake -which looks like the moistest carrot cake I have seen in a LONG time! - and then the Coffee and Donuts Cake she created is out-of-this-world adorably yummy looking! Such talent that gal Fran has! I have a special little soft spot for Fran because she too originates from New England as a Bostonian. Hooray for Boston! I live just under 2 hours away from Boston in Southern NH. Lets meet up Fran next time you visit Boston. I would love to meet you in person! :-)
Fran suggested using either english muffin rings or whoopie pie molds to make these cookies. Muffin top molds would also work well for these cookies. I used my whoopie pie mold to make my Jammers. Yup, I really enjoy saying that word - "Jammers"...sorry that was just a side note. :-)
Jammers
(recipe from Frans Favs)
Shortbread Dough Ingredients:
2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup powdered sugar
3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
2 large egg yolks, at room temperature
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
Jam of your choice - I used Strawberry and Peach-Mango
Brown Sugar Crumble Topping Ingredients:
3 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup lightly packed brown sugar
1 Tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp ground cinnamon
Directions:
1. Beat butter until smooth in a large bowl. Add in sugars, cinnamon and salt and beat all together until well blended, about 1 minute. Mixture will be smooth and velvety, not fluffy and airy.
2. Add in egg yolks and vanilla extract and mix on low speed. Beat until mixture is homogeneous.
3. Add in flour all at once. Cover mixer with a clean dish towel to protect yourself from any flying flour. Pulse mixer on low speed a couple of times to incorporate flour into batter. Mix on low speed for about 30 seconds more - just enough for the dough to look uniformly moist. The dough will have the consistency of play-doh - soft, moist and clumpy.
4. In the mold of your choice (whoopie or muffin top molds or english muffin rings) fill each cup with dough and flatten with your fingers. The dough should be slightly lower than the top of the pan. Chill mold or rings in freezer for about 15 minutes until dough firms up.
5. Make streusel while dough is chilling.....
Melt butter in small saucepan on stove or in microwave. Add to melted butter the remaining streusel ingredients all at once. Stir all together with a fork to form coarse crumbs. Cover streusel and set aside until ready to use. The crumbs will harden a litthe as the mixture cools off.
6. Spread a couple of teaspoons of jam on top of chilled shortbreads. Sprinkle with streusel....
Pop pan in oven and bake for 15-18 minutes until edges of cookies are light brown. Larger molds will take longer. Remove from oven and cool for 15 minutes before removing from molds. Allow cookies to cool completely before serving.
Share these cookies with those that you adore, cherish and love. They are some special cookies. Above and beyond dlish!
Happy Jammers Baking!
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Friday, February 3, 2017
It Is Secret Recipe Club Time!
It Is Secret Recipe Club Time!
Recently I joined a fun cooking group online called, The Secret Recipe Club. Oh. My. Goodness what fun! I was assigned a LOVELY blog and from that blog I got to choose a recipe to make and then share with all of you. But I couldnt reveal the blog or the recipe until today! So without any further waiting my secret recipe for today is, Mini Pumpkin Muffins....
.... from the wonderful blog, Everyday Sisters. :-)
Not only did I enjoy this recipe (as I am sure you guys will too) but I fell head over heels in love with this blog! Four (yes, FOUR...two of which are identical twins and all four of which are just lovely inside and out - I can tell by their sweet smiles.) sisters have created and contribute to Everyday Sisters. All of them are just lovely - I feel like I know them personally now that I have been following them for the past month. I felt honored to get to know them via their blog. I love the variety of recipes that they offer such as Bistro Style Pasta Neapolitano (super yum looking and simple to throw together), White Zinfandel Sangria (one of my all time favorite kinds of drinks...the recipe lots so GOOD!) and Blueberry Cheesecake (which won an award!). Yup, I did a lot of drooling as I looked through their blog. So many yummy recipes!! :-)
.... from the wonderful blog, Everyday Sisters. :-)
Not only did I enjoy this recipe (as I am sure you guys will too) but I fell head over heels in love with this blog! Four (yes, FOUR...two of which are identical twins and all four of which are just lovely inside and out - I can tell by their sweet smiles.) sisters have created and contribute to Everyday Sisters. All of them are just lovely - I feel like I know them personally now that I have been following them for the past month. I felt honored to get to know them via their blog. I love the variety of recipes that they offer such as Bistro Style Pasta Neapolitano (super yum looking and simple to throw together), White Zinfandel Sangria (one of my all time favorite kinds of drinks...the recipe lots so GOOD!) and Blueberry Cheesecake (which won an award!). Yup, I did a lot of drooling as I looked through their blog. So many yummy recipes!! :-)
I loved these Mini Pumpkin Muffins! These little gems only required 5 ingredients - simple, yummy and fun. Nothing better than that. Amen! And because they were so yummy and simple to make I made a batch to send to my oldest daughters Halloween party at school today. I think all the kiddos will love them!
Mini Pumpkin Muffins
(recipe from Everyday Sisters)
Ingredients:
1 box yellow cake mix
1 can (15 oz.) pumpkin (NOT pie filling)
3 eggs
1/3 cup oil (I used canola)
sunflower seeds - optional - (I used chocolate covered sunflower seeds as that is what I had on hand... which worked out pretty well!)
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease mini muffin tins or line with cupcake liners.
2. In a large bowl combine all ingredients except for sunflower seeds. Mix until well combined.
3. Stir into batter sunflower seeds or you can wait until muffin batter has been scooped into tins.
4. Scoop batter into muffin tins. I did so with my small scoop from Pampered Chef.
5. Bake for 11-13 minutes. Cool for a couple of minutes in pan and then remove to serve and enjoy.
YUM!
A special thank you to Ellen, Nanci, Karen and Susan from Everyday Sisters for being part of the Secret Recipe Club so that I could have you as my first Secret Recipe Club blog. Also, Id like to thank Amanda who created this cooking club and Tami for hostessing my group. I cant wait to find out which blog I get for the month of November!
Happy Mini Pumpkin Muffin Baking!
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