Category Archives: Recipes
Eggcake
Aug. 2015 Update: Current recipe:
Ingredients: 1 egg, 1/4 cup apple sauce, 3 TBL flour, 1/4 tspn baking powder, 1/4 tspn baking soda, 1 tspn ground cinnamon (to taste), and optionally a couple TBLs of shredded cheese.
Instructions: Scramble together the ingredients in a bowl, then melt/brown a little butter in a small fry pan, pour in your batter, cover the pan with a lid and let it cook for 5-6 minutes. It should have bubbles on the surface like a regular pancake, and solid enough to flip. Cook another 5-6 minutes. You can continue to flip and cook until you think both sides are done enough. Serve and eat.
Looks like a pancake, but is mostly egg. Here’s what I did this morning, on whim, in an effort to make my fried egg more interesting:
- Scramble together 1 egg, 2 TBL apple sauce, 1 TBL flour, 1/4 tsp baking powder. (bacon bits and shredded cheese if you like)
- Brown 1/2 TBL butter is small fry pan. Pour in your egg batter, cover and let cook until top is firm enough to flip (5-7 mins on lowest setting here).
- Flip and let it cook for at least another 5 mins on the other side.
- Make toast and layer with a slice of swiss for a sort of fried egg sandwich.
It was good but needs to be tweaked before it becomes great. I think I might add more pancake ingredients and leave off the toast. Needs more flavor. Could add cinnamon to go with the apple sauce. Or add more cheese to the mix itself.
Rum Cake
I made a white rum cake with black-strap rum glaze. The glaze is so delicious I could just eat it with a spoon.
Recipe here: www.tasteofcuba.com/bacardirumcake.html
Changes: (1) No nuts, (2) 1 cup white Cruzan rum in the cake (no water), (3) Black strap Cruzan rum in the glaze
Pumpkin Monkey Bread
I made a cinnamon pumpkin pull-apart “bread”. It’s sort of like a coffee cake really, and delicious.
I started with the recipe here: www.thelawstudentswife.com/2013/10/pumpkin-pull-apart-bread/
Changes: (1) Tripled the amount of cinnamon called for. (2) I mixed the butter with the sugar and cinnamon topping and made it like a streusel or coffee cake topping. Then rolled balls of dough in it and filled the pan. Added the remaining topping at the end.
Next time I would try a larger pan for sure. Maybe less sugar in the topping. Also want to try a variant with apple sauce.
Orange Buttercream Frosting on Chocolate Cupcakes
Homemade orange buttercream frosting. Yum!
0.5 cup butter, softened
Zest from 1/3 to 1/2 a regular sized orange (wash it first)
3 cups powdered sugar (more if you need it to be thicker)
1.5 tsp vanilla extract
6 TBL orange juice concentrate (More if you need it thinner)
[chocolate cupcakes from box mix]