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Waste Not, Want Not: What to Cook With Bacon Fat

Confess! Are you committing the cardinal sin of throwing away your bacon grease after frying a large batch or washing the pan immediately? Well, stop it right this instant! Because bacon grease is an amazing treasure you should take advantage of every day. It’s simple and fun to cook with bacon fat, so let’s get […]

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Amaretti and Prune Cheesecake

Enjoy the irresistible flavors of prunes by adding them to a cheesecake. They’re known to be good for digestion and so much more. Before using them, soak them in white rum. Make the buttery base from amaretti cookies and flavor further with espresso and vanilla. You’ll have to be patient though, but it’ll be worth the wait.

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Ingredients Needed for Amaretti and Prune Cheesecake

8 ounces of pitted prunes
rum
10 ounces of amaretti cookies
2 tablespoons of almond flour
3 ounces of melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
12 ounces of cream cheese
7 ounces of powdered sugar
3 egg yolks
¼ cup espresso
1 cup milk
gelatin sheets

How to Make Amaretti and Prune Cheesecake

Add the prunes to a smaller bowl, cover them with rum and let them soak overnight.
Add the cookies and almond flour to a blender and start mixing. Gradually, add the melted butter, in the process. Mix until even.
Line an 8 or 9-inch springform pan with parchment paper and evenly spread the crushed cookie mixture. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Add the rum-soaked prunes and the vanilla extract to the blender. Blend until smooth.
Evenly spread the prune mixture over the crushed cookie base. Refrigerate for 30 more minutes.
Add the cream cheese, powdered sugar, egg yolks, and espresso to a bowl. Mix until smooth using a spatula and a hand mixer. Set aside.
Soak 2-3 gelatin sheets for 5-10 minutes in a bowl of cold water. Add the milk to another bowl and microwave for 1 minute.
Transfer the gelatin to the milk bowl and mix until dissolved.
Transfer to the cream cheese mixture bowl. Mix until even.
Pour into the springform pan and refrigerate for 3 hours. Serve garnished with cocoa powder.

10 Awesome Cookie Ideas to Try With Your Cappuccino

What goes great with a nice cappuccino, equal parts foamy milk or whipped cream and some excellent coffee? A cookie! Or a whole platter of cookies, if you ask us. So if you’re looking for a few cookie ideas to have with a special hot beverage, we have you covered. You know how other people

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Mayonnaise Recipes: What to Make if You Have Too Much Mayo?

Sometimes you have too much of an ingredient on hand and when you’re thinking what to do with it, you’re drawing a blank. That’s why we compiled these mayonnaise recipes for you so that you can find all that you might need in one place. Recently I made a huge batch of mayo and all

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Chocolate Amaretti Cake

To you, Amaretti cookie fans out there! Say hi to the uber-crunchy and chocolatey Amaretti cake. Make it yourself from cookies soaked in a maple syrup-sweetened mixture of milk and coffee. Build the cake from milk chocolate-glazed cookie layers and be amazed.

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Ingredients Needed for Chocolate Amaretti Cake

2 cups of milk
2 tablespoons of coffee
¼ cup maple syrup
7 ounces of chocolate
10 ounces of amaretti cookies (80-90 cookies)

How to Make Chocolate Amaretti Cake

Add 1 cup of milk, the coffee, and maple syrup to a bowl. Mix shortly until even.
Add the other cup of milk and the chocolate to a pot over low heat. Cook and continuously stir until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is even.
Soak about 1/4 (about 20 cookies) of the Amaretti cookies in the coffee-milk mixture and use them to line the bottom of a 7 x 2 inches (18 x 5 cm) Springform pan. Crumble 1 or 2 cookies over this first Amaretti layer, then drizzle some the milk chocolate mixture.
Repeat the step before 3 times until you’ve used all the cookies and milk chocolate mixture. Strain cocoa powder on top and refrigerate for 2 hours.

What Will Celebrities Eat at the 2019 Oscars?

The most important night for Hollywood, this year’s Academy Awards gala is upon us. Others will tell you about the films that compete for the tiny gold men, but we want to talk here about the food that celebrities will be having at Sunday’s glamorous event. Here’s what the likes of Lady Gaga, Rachel Weisz

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Almond Chocolate Salami

Although there is a strong connection of this incredible dessert with Italy, it is also popular in Portugal and Romania. So, we let you give the verdict as regards to its origins. Use the bain-marie technique to melt together dark chocolate, butter, and heavy cream. Toss ginger cookies, candied orange, and almonds and get an incredible texture of mixed crunchy, slightly chewy and fluffy. The mother of all chocolate salamis!

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Ingredients Needed for Almond Chocolate Salami

4 ounces of dark chocolate, broken into pieces
¼ cup heavy cream
3 ounces of butter
7 ounces of ginger cookies, crushed
2 ounces of candied orange
½ cup chopped almonds

How to Make Almond Chocolate Salami

Fill a medium cooking pot halfway with water and heat it. Place a heat-proof bowl on top and add the chocolate, heavy cream, and butter. Cook and continuously stir until melted.
Add the cookies, melted butter chocolate, candied orange, and almonds to a bowl. Mix until even.
Place a parchment paper over a larger plastic wrap on the work surface. Add the chocolate mixture on the parchment paper and roll. Try to give it a cylindrical form. Also, wrap it in plastic. Refrigerate for 60 minutes.

7 Chocolate Valentines to Share With Your Significant Other

Valentine’s Day is upon us and we all know what that means. Just another excuse to have something sweet with your most-loved one. Forget about expensive jewelry and other gifts. Chocolate Valentines are all you might need. Yes, dark chocolate is a healthy food now, even Harvard researchers agree. Cocoa is full of plant chemicals

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Essential Baking Pans: What Are the Can’t Miss Items?

If you’ve just started baking, you might be confused by the variety of pans out there. So what are the essential baking pans to own? We let you know right now. We can’t all get all the items we might want for our kitchen. For some of us, the storing space in our cupboards is

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Anxiety Baking – How Did It Become a Thing?

As life continues to be so much more stressful for younger generations like the Millennials, they are developing new procedures for self-care. Chief among them? Anxiety baking, a simple and pretty affordable habit for them. A new piece in The Atlantic highlights the rise of anxiety baking as a coping mechanism for the stressful times

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Cookie Mascarpone Cake

Choose your favorite cookies for this one. There is no type or brand written in stone. Fill your cookie lined springform pan with two types of soft and creamy mixtures. The chocolatey one will end up on top. Enjoy layers of crunchiness and creaminess stacking on top of each other.

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Ingredients Needed for Cookie Mascarpone Cake

1 cup mascarpone
1 ½ cups of whipped cream
⅓ cup powdered sugar
½ cup chocolate cream, store-bought
14 ounces of cookies
½ cup milk

How to Make Cookie Mascarpone Cake

Add the mascarpone, whipped cream, and powdered sugar to a bowl. Mix until even using a hand mixer. Equally, distribute the mixture to two bowls.
Add the chocolate cream to one of the two whipped cream bowls. Mix until even using a hand mixer.
Line an 8 x 3 inches (20 x 8 cm) springform pan with parchment paper. Place cookies in it to form a base layer.
Layer the chocolate and whipped cream mixture over them and evenly spread it.
Add a second layer of cookies. Also, line the pan’s edge with cookies. Fill with 1/2 from the mascarpone and whipped cream mixture. Evenly spread it.
Make another cookie layer, but this time submerge the cookies in milk first. Continue by lining the pan’s edge with more cookies.
Top with the remaining mascarpone and whipped cream mixture. Refrigerate for 5 hours.
Remove from fridge and place a flat plate upside down over the pan. Turn over and remove the parchment lining.

No-Bake Forest Fruit Cake

This big guy has a creamy and extra-sweet filling with a touch of tangy berries and kiwi. It is covered by milk-soaked cookies and rests on a sponge cake base. You can serve it garnished with chocolate syrup and even with some raspberries.

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Ingredients Needed for No-Bake Forest Fruit Cake

1 cup milk
10 ounces of cookies
1 ½ cups of cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1 ½ cups of whipped cream
4 ounces of raspberries
3 ounces of blueberries
1 small kiwi, diced
3 tablespoons of caramel sauce
1 sponge cake, store-bought
chocolate syrup for garnishing (optionally)

How to Make No-Bake Forest Fruit Cake

Add the milk to a smaller bowl. Line a big bowl with plastic wrap. Dip the cookies into the milk and line the plastic-lined bowl with them.
Refrigerate for 60 minutes.
Add the cream cheese, vanilla extract, and lemon zest to a bowl. Mix until even using a hand mixer.
Add the whipped cream and mix it in. Add the raspberries and blueberries. Mix them in. Do the same for the kiwi.
Fill the cookie-lined bowl with 2/3 of creamy berry mixture. Crush a cookie or two over it and drizzle 2 tablespoons of caramel.
Layer the remaining berry mixture and top with the sponge cake. Refrigerate for 60 minutes.
Optionally, serve garnished with chocolate syrup.

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