RESTAURANT REPLICAS : CELEBRATE THE SEASON WITH SWEET KNOCKOFFS.Byline: Natalie Haughton and Harriet Part 'Tis the season to indulge and enjoy holiday sweets - and we have some delicious copycat versions that you can whip up easily for parties, family get-togethers, dinner finales and whenever the occasion warrants. The Raspberry Streusel streu·sel n. A crumblike topping for coffee cakes and rich breads, consisting of flour, sugar, butter, cinnamon, and sometimes chopped nutmeats. Bars are a facsimile of a delicious one sampled at Perfectly Sweet, a wonderful dessert shop hidden in an obscure mini-mall in Eagle Rock. The bars are among the shop's offerings of terrific cakes, cookies, tarts, pies and special holiday goodies such as Buche de Noel and Croquembouche A croquembouche is a French dessert, a kind of pièce montée often served at weddings. It is a high cone of profiteroles (choux filled with pastry cream) bound with caramel, and usually decorated with threads of caramel, sugared almonds, chocolate, flowers, or ribbons. (a tree of cream puffs with a spun sugar drizzle). The Raspberry Streusel Bar base and crumbly crum·bly adj. crum·bli·er, crum·bli·est Easily crumbled; friable. crum  bli·ness n.Adj. 1. topping goes together with butter, flour and sugar and contains nuts and coconut for nice texture. Although the base of the Perfectly Sweet version seemed crunchier than ours, tasters gave ours the thumbs up. The filling is a combination of seedless Seed´less a. 1. Without seed or seeds. Adj. 1. seedless - lacking seeds; "seedless grapefruit" seedy - full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" seedless adj → raspberry jam in combination with a cornstarch-thickened frozen raspberry mixture. The shop sells the bars (in 3-inch squares) for $1 each. Cut the homemade version into large squares like the pastry shop does - or if you're planning to use them on a holiday cookie platter or as gifts into smaller pieces. If you don't have time to bake, give some of the shop's specialties a try. Everything we've tasted has been delicious. For an interesting take on cheesecake for this year's festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. , give our Banana Cheesecake version, a knockoff knock·off n. Informal An unauthorized copy or imitation, as of designer clothing: "the place to go for quality knockoffs" Women's Wear Daily. Noun 1. of one sampled at Marmalade Cafe in Sherman Oaks, a whirl. Fill a pre-baked chocolate crumb crust with a creamy mixture of cream cheese, mashed banana, sugar, whipping cream Noun 1. whipping cream - cream that has enough butterfat (30% to 36%) to be whipped light whipping cream cream - the part of milk containing the butterfat and banana-flavored liqueur liqueur (lĭkûr`), strong alcoholic beverage made of almost neutral spirits, flavored with herb mixtures, fruits, or other materials, and usually sweetened. The name derives from the Latin word to melt. . The liqueur enhances the banana flavor - so pick up a small bottle at a liquor store for best results. Top the baked and cooled cake with Chocolate Ganache ga·nache n. A rich icing made of chocolate and cream heated and stirred together, used also as a filling, as for cakes or pastry. [French.] and stash stash Drug slang noun A place where illicit drugs are hidden in the refrigerator until serving time. Garnish slices with whipped cream and chopped nuts, if desired. Last in today's replica trio is a Holiday Eggnog Cake reminiscent of one tasted at Mimi's Cafe in Chatsworth. Although it's not an exact facsimile, the flavors are similar - and we've kept preparation to a minimum for holiday cooks by utilizing a white cake mix and vanilla pudding mix. Prepare the cake mix according to package directions and bake in three 9-inch round cake pans. The filling and frosting frosting the slight graying of the haircoat around the face, particularly muzzle, in dogs with aging and as a regular feature of some breeds such as the Belgian shepherd dog. is made in a jiffy A fraction of time that has numerous interpretations depending on who uses it. It may refer to one computer clock cycle, one nanosecond, one millisecond or one AC power cycle. There may be others. See nanosecond. 1. with instant vanilla pudding and pie filling mix beaten with eggnog and ground nutmeg. To lighten the mixture, fold in whipped cream and it's ready to use. Once the cake is assembled - the same mixture is used for the filling and frosting - be sure to keep it refrigerated re·frig·er·ate tr.v. re·frig·er·at·ed, re·frig·er·at·ing, re·frig·er·ates 1. To cool or chill (a substance). 2. To preserve (food) by chilling. until serving time. Before serving, garnish the top with several small green candy wreaths (made with molds and melted green coating candy from cake or candy decorating shops) embellished with little red bows or berries of candy coating. Or use unwrapped holiday chocolate candy in decorative shapes. Be sure to keep any leftover cake refrigerated. For a change of pace, use a chocolate cake, if desired. This recipe is a terrific way to use holiday eggnog. Cheers! Happy holidays RASPBERRY STREUSEL BARS 1 package (12 ounces) frozen raspberries, thawed and undrained 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch cornstarch, material made by pulverizing the ground, dried residue of corn grains after preparatory soaking and the removal of the embryo and the outer covering. It is used as laundry starch, in sizing paper, in making adhesives, and in cooking. 1/2 cup seedless raspberry jam 2 cups flour 3/4 cup sugar 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter, cut into pieces 5 tablespoons whipping cream 2 teaspoons vanilla 3/4 cup shredded coconut 3/4 cup walnut piecesDrain juice from raspberries into a small saucepan; reserve raspberries. Whisk cornstarch into juice in pan. Heat to boiling over medium heat, whisking constantly. Boil 1 minute, whisking constantly until clear and thickened thick·en tr. & intr.v. thick·ened, thick·en·ing, thick·ens 1. To make or become thick or thicker: Thicken the sauce with cornstarch. The crowd thickened near the doorway. 2. . Stir in raspberry jam, then carefully stir in raspberries. Set aside to cool. In bowl of a food processor, combine flour and sugar with a few on and off pulses. Add butter, cream and vanilla and process with on and off pulses until mixture becomes crumbly. Add coconut and walnuts; process with 3 to 4 pulses; dough should still be crumbly but in pieces size of small peas. Remove 1 3/4 cups dough and reserve for top. Press remaining dough into bottom of a buttered 9x13-inch baking pan. Bake in preheated 350-degree oven 20 to 22 minutes or until light golden brown. Spoon raspberry mixture on top of warm crust; spread evenly with a serving knife. Sprinkle top evenly with reserved dough, crumbling as you go. Return to oven and continue baking 20 to 25 minutes until top is golden. Cool completely before cutting into bars. Makes 18 large bars or several more smaller ones. BANANA SPLIT CHEESECAKE 2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs 5 tablespoons butter, melted 4 packages (8 ounces EACH) cream cheese, softened 1 1/4 cups sugar 3 eggs 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (3 medium bananas) 1/4 cup whipping cream 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 cup banana flavored liqueur Chocolate Ganache Combine cookie crumbs and melted butter and press into bottom and part way up sides of a 9-inch springform pan. Bake in preheated 400-degree oven 6 minutes. In a large bowl of an electric mixer, beat cream cheese with sugar, eggs, mashed bananas, cream, vanilla and banana liqueur until smooth. Turn into crumb-lined pan. Bake in preheated 400-degree oven 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F and bake 60 to 65 minutes or until almost set. Let stand 1 hour, then refrigerate re·frig·er·ate tr.v. re·frig·er·at·ed, re·frig·er·at·ing, re·frig·er·ates 1. To cool or chill (a substance). 2. To preserve (food) by chilling. until cool. Spread Chocolate Ganache evenly over top of cake and refrigerate. Serve slices topped with a dollop of whipped cream, if desired. Makes 1 cheesecake. CHOCOLATE GANACHE: Combine 1 1/2 cups semisweet sem·i·sweet adj. Having a small amount of sweetening: semisweet chocolate. Adj. 1. semisweet - having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness bittersweet chocolate chips, 2 tablespoons butter and 1/2 cup whipping cream in a microsafe bowl. Heat in microwave oven on high (100 percent) power 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Stir until smooth. Cool until mixture has thickened but can still be easily spread over cheesecake. HOLIDAY EGGNOG CAKE 1 package (18.25 ounces) white cake mix (NOT pudding included) 2 cups whipping cream 2 cups eggnog 3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 2 packages (3.4 ounces EACH) INSTANT vanilla flavor pudding and pie filling mix 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips, melted (optional) Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Turn into 3 greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans. Bake in preheated 350-degree oven 20 to 25 minutes, until golden and cakes test done. Let cool in pans. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, beat cream with an electric mixer on high speed until stiff; set aside. In a medium bowl, combine eggnog, nutmeg and pudding mix. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until well blended, 1 to 1 1/2 minutes. Fold pudding mixture into whipped cream until no white streaks remain. Use immediately to fill and frost the 3 cake layers. Drizzle top with melted chocolate, if desired, or garnish with red and green candy wreaths. Refrigerate cake until serving time. Keep any leftover cake refrigerated. Makes 10 to 12 servings. CAPTION(S): Drawing Drawing: No Caption (Piece of pie) |
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