Holiday Baking And Cooking 2012 Wrap Up
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Red Velvet Snowball Cake with Whipped Vanilla Frosting |
Allen and I went to visit his parents in northern California for Christmas. We spent 12 days there with family and friends, ate at some restaurants (posts to follow), baked and cooked a lot. Below you will find some of the things we made. I cannot think of spending time with family without making food and dessert for them.
December 24, 2012
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Red Velvet Cake out the oven |
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Red Velvet Cake out the oven |
For Christmas, I made one of my favorite red velvet cake recipes,
Red Velvet Snowball Cake. I think it is the perfect Christmas cake! I found this recipe awhile ago in
Redbook but used a different frosting recipe. The
Whipped Vanilla Frosting is from:
http://www.askchefdennis.com/2011/12/im-dreaming-of-a-white-christmas-cake-with-sweet-peony/. I was happy to use Allen's Grandmother's classic electric Braun mixer and cake pans. The frosting in the original recipe is great, but I wanted a really rich vanilla taste. This vanilla frosting was so fantastic, I also used it with
Ina Garten's Coconut Cake for New Years Eve! Chef Dennis makes note he slighted adapted the frosting recipe from
Sweetapolita.
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Making Whipped Vanilla Frosting |
The
Red Velvet Snowball Cake recipe is:
http://www.redbookmag.com/recipefinder/red-velvet-snowball-cake-recipe. I made this cake in 2011 as well so you can see my results:
http://twofrys.blogspot.com/2011/12/red-velvet-snowball-cake.html.
December 25, 2012
For Christmas we ate turkey, potatoes, sweet mashed potatoes with pecans, green beans, and rolls.
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Christmas Dinner |
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Christmas Dinner |
Here's how much
Red Velvet Snowball Cake was left after everyone got a slice.
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Red Velvet Snowball Cake |
I also made
Pecan Pie, but had to use a 9-inch cake pan since I had an
Apple Pie in the pie pan. As a result, the edges of the crust cracked as I took the pie out of the oven. The recipe this time around excludes bourbon, so just add a little more Pure Vanilla Extract if you do not have any on hand. The
Pecan Pie recipe is:
http://twofrys.blogspot.com/2012/11/bourbon-pecan-pie.html.
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Pecan Pie |
This
Rosemary, Thyme, Lemon Turkey is exceptional and I used the same recipe from Thanksgiving. The recipe is:
http://twofrys.blogspot.com/2012/11/thanksgiving-dinner.html.
You cannot go wrong with this turkey recipe, it is juicy and full of flavor from the compound butter, shallots, olive oil, salt, cracked black pepper, lemon, rosemary and thyme.
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Turkey |
December 30, 2012
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Coconut Cake |
Ina Garten's Coconut Cake is one of the best cakes I ever made. Everyone that tries this cake loves it, and it is a recipe I always bake at least once every year. You can find the recipe here: http://twofrys.blogspot.com/2010/09/two-amazing-cakes-that-always-please.html. I used the Whipped Vanilla Frosting recipe listed above with the Red Velvet Snowball Cake.
December 31, 2012
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Honey BBQ Wings |
Allen made some killer
Honey BBQ Wings. Use our standard chicken wings recipe with whatever BBQ or Hot Sauce you have. Allen used Sweet Baby Ray's Honey BBQ sauce. The recipe is:
http://twofrys.blogspot.com/2012/11/chicken-wings-with-dimples-bbq-sauce.html.
Here is
Ina Garten's Coconut Cake everyone enjoyed. Less people were over than at Christmas, so we had more cake leftover. Yay! :)
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Coconut Cake served with vanilla bean ice cream |
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Coconut Cake |
January, 1, 2013
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Apple Pie |
We were flying from SFO airport late in the evening today, so I baked my father in law an
Apple Pie. I made one earlier in the week, but wanted to leave him some dessert to enjoy for a few days after we were gone.
This is my go to
Apple Pie recipe:
http://twofrys.blogspot.com/2012/11/apple-pie.html. For this recipe, I used 3 Granny Smith Apples and 3 Red Macintosh Apples since he prefers a sweeter pie. Use whatever firm apples you like!
I hope you all had as great a holiday as we did.
-Sophia and Allen/Two Frys
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