1 3/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 stick butter, soft
4 oz cream cheese
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1 large egg
Sift flour and baking powder.
Beat butter, sugar and cream cheese until fluffy. Add egg and slowly add flour and extracts.
Bake 350 degrees for 10 minutes
EASTER CUT OUT COOKIES
My kids love these cookies. It was always good to have the dough in freezer, so when was "nothing to do" after school, they were happy to cut out different shapes for fun.
1 cup butter
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
3 cups unbleached flour
1/2 teaspoon
Cream butter with sugar, add egg. Add remaining ingredients. Chill for couple hours.
LIGHT APPLE RICCOTA BREAKFAST TART
2 eggs, seperate
1 cup Riccota cheese
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 teaspoons vanilla
2 tablespoons flour
2 apples , peeled off the skin and cut in 1/8 pc.
Mix together Riccota, yolks, sugar and vanilla. Add flour and corn starch.
In separate bawl beat the egg whites and mix it gently to the flour mixture.
Pour dough in 9 inch pan and orange apple pieces on top. You can also orange apple pieces in the pan first and than pour dough over. Either way taste very good.
Bake in pre-heated oven to 375 F for 45 minutes.
Serve warm or cold.
STRAWBERRY TART
This tart is very, very good, All the time when I make it , people want this recipe.
I used strawberries, blueberries and kiwis, but you can use \ strawberries only.
1 1/4 cup flour
7 tablespoons butter, cold
2 yolks
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
also 1/2 cup peach jelly
Mix butter, flour and sugar until crumbly. Add the rest of ingredients and put to refrigerator for 1 hour.
Than roll out dough to 10 inch tart pan.
Bake in pre-heated oven to 375F for 15 minutes. Cool, spread over peach jelly.
On top spread cream { recipe below} and put over cut strawberries.
Cream recipe:
1 3/4 cup milk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup potato or corn starch
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/4 cup milk put to boil. Rest of t he milk and all the other ingredients. Mix well. while cooking.
When milk start to boil, add the mixed ingredients and slowly add to it mixing well.
Spread warm cream over jelly.
CHOCOLATE SANDWICH COOKIES WITH NUTELLA
OR CREAM
This cookies are called in Polish MARKIZY. They are chocolate sandwich cookies with nutella they taste heavenly. My family love them.
1 1/2 cup unbleached flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoons cocoa
3 tablespoons almond meal or flour
1 stick butter, soft
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg
Mix butter with sugar until fluffy.. Add egg and mix in quickly.
In separate bowl sift flour, baking powder and cocoa, add almond meal and mix into butter, egg mixture.
Cut with cookie cutters as desire.
Bake for 10-12 minutes in pre-heated oven to 375F.
If the dough is to dry add 1-2 tablespoons milk.
THE BEST POUND CAKE EVER!!
This is the best pound cake ever. I tried many pound cake recipes but this is the best.
My grandson loves it.
1 stick butter or margarine
2 1/2 cup sugar
5 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup milk
1/2 cup oil { canola }
lemon or almond extract a few drops
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Mix butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at the time and slowly alternate flour with baking powder with milk. Make ready 2 4x 8 inch bread pans. Bake in pre-heat to 350 F oven for 60 minutes or until until wooden stick comes out clean.
