Friday, May 27, 2022

Lemon Doughnuts/#LemonWeek

This is the last day of Lemon Week. It has been such a fun making and sharing lemon recipes and checking out what everyone else cooked. All the recipes were so impressive and mouthwatering! I can't wait to try them!

My last recipe for the week ~ Lemon Donuts! These tasty donuts have lemon in the recipe, a           vanilla glaze, and a lemon curd in the middle of the doughnut. Full of fresh lemon yumminess,
 these doughnuts can be made the day before you want to serve them. Make this recipe easy by cooking the lemon curd first and refrigerate it, once it cooled down.

Cook the doughnuts the next day and store them in an air free container in the fridge, until you are ready to finish the doughnuts.

When you are ready to put your recipe together start by making the vanilla glaze, then set it aside.

These lemon doughnuts come together nicely, and they are fun to eat!

 Lemon Doughnuts

( makes 6 doughnuts)

(printable recipe at end of page)


Lemon Curd

3 Large Eggs at room temperature

Grated Rind and Juice of 2 Large Lemons

1/2 cup Salted Butter at room temperature

1 cup Superfine Sugar


Doughnuts

2 cups Flour

3/4 cup Sugar

2 teaspoons Baking Powder

1/2 teaspoon Salt

1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda

2 large Eggs, room temperature

3/4 cup Buttermilk

2 tablespoons unsalted Butter, melted and cooled a bit

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Zest of 1 Lemon


Vanilla Glaze

1/2 cup Powdered Sugar

1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract

3 teaspoon Water



To make the curd, beat the eggs lightly in a medium bowl. Mix in the lemon rind, juice,
butter and sugar.  Place the bowl over
a pan of hot water and heat gently. Stir until the sugar dissolves and the curd becomes thick. Pour the curd into a bowl with a lid and set aside.


In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.



In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs, buttermilk, butter, vanilla, and lemon zest.



Pour the liquid mix into the flour and stir together. 


Spray the donut pan with La Tourangelle All Purpose Baking Spray. 


Pipe the batter into the donut pan. Bake 12-12 minutes. Remove from oven when done and let the doughnuts cool for 5 minutes.



Mix together the powdered sugar, vanilla extract and water in a small bowl to make the vanilla glaze. Drizzle the glaze over the donuts and onto the plate. 


Add the lemon curd to the inside of the doughnuts. Enjoy!

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed todays recipe, my last recipe for #LemonWeek!

You can find my first recipe for this week, @  Lemon Refrigerator Cake  
and my second recipe of the week, @ Lemon Blueberry Tortilla Layer Cake.

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to enter our giveaway!

Thank you for joining me today! I hope you enjoyed this recipe!

Please let me know if you have any questions and don't forget to enter the #LemonWeek Giveaway!


Friday #LemonWeek Recipes

    Prize #1: Rodelle Prize Pack

    Rodelle Prize Pack includes:

    • 2 count Gourmet Madagascar Vanilla Beans
    • 2oz Almond Extract
    • 4oz Natural Baker’s Extract
    • 4oz Vanilla Paste
    • 8oz Gourmet Vanilla Extract
    • 25oz Organic Baking Cocoa



    Prize #2: La Tourangelle Prize Pack


    La Tourangelle Prize Pack includes:

    • Extra Virgin Olive Oil
    • Roasted Walnut Oil
    • Regenerative Sunflower Oil
    • 4oz Vanilla Paste
    • Fleur de Sel Almond Butter



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Prize #1: Rodelle Prize Pack Rodelle Prize Pack includes: 2 count Gourmet Madagascar Vanilla Beans 2oz Almond Extract 4oz Natural Baker’s Extract 4oz Vanilla Paste 8oz Gourmet Vanilla Extract 25oz Organic Baking Cocoa Prize #2: La Tourangelle Prize Pack La Tourangelle Prize Pack includes: Extra Virgin Olive Oil Roasted Walnut Oil Regenerative Sunflower Oil 4oz Vanilla Paste Fleur de Sel Almond Butter Who are Rodelle and La Tourangelle? Find out about our wonderful sponsors!! RODELLE https://rodellekitchen.com https://www.instagram.com/rodellevanilla/ https://www.facebook.com/RodelleVanilla/ As a company, Rodelle offers a complete line of superior baking ingredients, pure vanilla products, and gourmet spice blends that will elevate your meals into memories! If you’re looking for their products, they are available in stores nationwide and on Amazon and Walmart. Learn more about them and their focus on responsible sourcing of vanilla beans and supporting farmers through their partnership with Sahanala at www.rodellekitchen.com. LA TOURANGELLE https://latourangelle.com https://www.instagram.com/latourangelle/ https://www.facebook.com/latourangelleusa/ At La Tourangelle we are passionate about making high quality ingredients that are good for the table, community, and planet. Our natural products are crafted locally in California and France using traditional practices. We believe in making products that are authentic, delicious, and sustainable, and by doing so we can spread joy and well-being through food.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Lemon Blueberry Tortilla Layer Cake / #LemonWeek

Today for #LemonWeek I made a fun and easy treat, a Lemon Blueberry Tortilla Layer Cake! This recipe is simple to put together, has tasty fruits involved, such as lemon 😊, and will satisfy your urge for whipped cream, at least for a while! 

  


I used some special flour tortillas to use as the layers. This recipe is totally no bake. I whipped up some whipping cream to use as the frosting portion of the cake. Add some lemon and blueberries and you will have a delicious, quick to put together, last minute snack cake!


Welcome to #LemonWeek 2022 hosted by Lynn from Fresh April Flours  and Rebecca from Devour Dinner.  This week is sponsored by Rodelle and La Tourangelle. I may have received product samples from these sponsors to help in the creation of my recipes. All opinions are my own. Come join me and my fellow Lemon Week bloggers as we bring you recipes from appetizers to drinks to entrées and desserts!


Lemon Blueberry Tortilla Layer Cake

(printable recipe at end of page)

(feeds 2-3 people)

Heavy Duty Whipping Cream

Sweet Hawaiian Flour Tortillas Street Tacos (10ct, pkg)

Fresh Blueberries

1 Fresh Lemon

Yellow Sprinkles

Cake Decorating Tip 

Cake Decorating Bag


   Place one tortilla on a clean surface. 

    Using a zester, apply lemon zest and the berries to      the top of the whipped cream.         

  

Add a tortilla to the top of the  blueberries. Add the lemon zest and the blueberries to the top like you did to the first tortilla.  Then add a third tortilla to the top of the stack.

 Add a whipped cream layer on top of the tortilla. This layer will get just a few blueberries. Cut a thin slice of lemon, twist it on to the top. Zest more lemon to the top layer and add yellow sprinkles and a few blueberries.

Enjoy!


Thank you for joining me today! I hope you enjoyed this recipe!

Please let me know if you have any questions and don't forget to enter the #LemonWeek Giveaway!


More amazing recipes below:

Wednesday #LemonWeek Recipes


    Check out the amazing prizes you can win in our #LemonWeek Giveaway!

Prize #1: Rodelle Prize Pack


Rodelle Prize Pack includes:

  • 2 count Gourmet Madagascar Vanilla Beans
  • 2oz Almond Extract
  • 4oz Natural Baker’s Extract
  • 4oz Vanilla Paste
  • 8oz Gourmet Vanilla Extract
  • 25oz Organic Baking Cocoa



Prize #2: La Tourangelle Prize Pack


La Tourangelle Prize Pack includes:

  • Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • Roasted Walnut Oil
  • Regenerative Sunflower Oil
  • 4oz Vanilla Paste
  • Fleur de Sel Almond Butter







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Monday, May 23, 2022

Lemon Refrigerator Cake / #LemonWeek

As the weather warms up a bit, I am excited and looking forward to all the outdoor fun that summer brings us! I also love the fact that spring and summer means it is time for home grown fruits. No matter if you grow them yourself or buy them at the grocery, fresh fruits are the best! I have a lot of ideas for some yummy recipes you and your family will love, so this week I am sharing them with you as a part of Lemon Week! This week you will find recipes from bloggers joining together to bring you fun and tasty lemon recipes that I know you, your family and your friends will love!

My first recipe to share with you this week is a Lemon Refrigerator Cake! If you haven't made a refrigerator cake, I think you will find it great fun, easy to make and very tasty! 


Welcome to #LemonWeek 2022 hosted by Lynn from Fresh April Flours  and Rebecca from Devour Dinner.  This week is sponsored by Rodelle and La Tourangelle. I may have received product samples from these sponsors to help in the creation of my recipes. All opinions are my own. Come join me and my fellow Lemon Week bloggers as we bring you recipes from appetizers to drinks to entrées and desserts!

The first thing you do when making this cake is to decide on the cookies you want to use. The cookies will become the cake, so the cookies that you use are important. In other words, the cake can be made with pretty much any cookie as long as it has no frosting or icing on it. If you do want to use a cookie with frosting, you will have to scrape the frosting off before you make the cake. The cookies need to be able to absorb the frosting you will be covering it in. If you want to use a cookie like an Oreo, you can. You have to scrape the white cream from the center before using them. For this cake, I used Lemon Cookies. I wanted to maximize the lemon flavor. The cookies I bought had a creamy lemon slice on one end of the cookie, so I just scraped it off. It worked great!


Lemon Refrigerator Cake
(makes enough for 8 slices)
(printed recipe at end of recipe)


1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
1 cup Heavy Duty Whipping Cream
1/2 teaspoon Lemon Extract
1/4 teaspoon Rodelle Vanilla Extract
1-8.5 oz package Lemon Dipped Shortcake Cookies
1 Lemon
Yellow Sprinkles

Vanilla Frosting

3/4 cup Warm Water

5 tbl. Meringue Powder

1 teaspoon Cream of Tartar

2.25 lbs Powdered Sugar


    Mix the warm water, meringue powder, cream of tartar, and      powdered sugar together in a medium sized bowl until it is        creamy and smooth. Cover the bowl with a piece of plastic,        or pour the frosting into an air tight container.

I used 15 cookies for my cake. If you want your cake larger,       use more cookies. If your cookies have any kind of frosting on them, from when they were made, scrap the frosting off. This will help the frosting we are putting on the cookies to adhere.

 

Use a knife or a flat spatula to spread frosting onto each of the cookies. Stack them as you finish applying the frosting.

Once the frosting is on the cookies, lay them down on the plate.


Spread the entire cake with the frosting. Anytime you stop working on the cake, even for a few minutes, just slip it in the fridge until you can come back to it. That way there is no danger of the frosting melting!


Crush some of the cookies you didn't use, and sprinkle them over the cake and on the plate. Use a zester to remove some of the outer skin of the lemon, and sprinkle it onto the cake.


Finish the dessert by cutting three thin slices of lemon. Cut the edge of each lemon so the lemon can be twisted like in the picture, Place the lemons on top of the cake. Garnish the top of the cake with yellow sprinkles and serve!

Thank you for joining me today! I hope you enjoyed this Lemon Refrigerator Cake recipe.

     Please let me know if you have any questions
and
Don't forget to enter the #LemonWeekGiveaway!

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Friday, May 13, 2022

Cactus Candy/#BBQWeek

This post is sponsored in conjunction with #BBQWeek.  The sponsors, Rainier Foods and Intensity Academy generously provided samples to participants to aid in the creation of the #BBQWeek recipes and prize packages to give away to the readers.  However, all opinions are mine alone.

Today I made what I call "Cactus Candy"! They are simply melted candy melts, poured into a mold and after they are set up, they are decorated.

I thought they'd make a fun dessert to round out the week. My other recipes were Cowboy  Caviar for an appetizer and Southwestern Chicken Skewers as a main dish. Cactus Candy seems like the perfect end to a week of fun!!


Cactus Candy

(Printable recipe at end of page)

1 Cactus Candy Mold

1 bag Light Green Candy Melts

1 bag Dark Green Candy Melts

1 bag Pink Candy Melts

Dark Green Sprinkles

Light Green Sprinkles

4 Mini Flower Pots

a few small Styrofoam Pieces

1-13 ounce package Blond Oreo Thins


Place the cactus cookie cutter on a piece of foil. Place the foil and cutter on a solid piece of wood or plastic. You need it to be sturdy. I used a small and strong plastic cutting board. It has to be able to fit in the freezer. 


Melt the dark green candy melts in a bowl. Follow the directions on the back of the bag for time and power. Once the melts are melted, place the cookie cutter, also know as the mold, on a piece of foil. Pour some of the candy melt into the mold, approx. 1/2 way up the sides. Place three dots of the light green melts on top of the dark green ones. Use a toothpick to swirl the two colors together.

Place a few light and a few dark sprinkles onto the wet surface. These are your cactus needles. Place the mold into the freezer. I left them in for 30 minutes each time, but longer is fine also. 

This cactus uses the same colors, just reverse.


Crush the Oreo Thins in a plastic bag. They should be crushed to a fine quality. 

Start building your Cactus Candy.

Tape the bottom inside of the pot to cover the     hole. Melt 6-10 pieces of candy melts. Place some styrofoam in the pot so the candy will have more height.


Pour a spoonful or two of candy melt, on the base to keep the cactus secure. The pots can be placed in the freezer to let the candy melt set up. It takes about 30 minutes. The cactus is secured by the candy melt.


Once the candy melts have secured the candy, pour the crushed cookies into the little pot to cover everything but the cactus.

To eat the cactus, just remove it from the pot.





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Two (2) winners are selected at random from entries received. The prize packages are fulfilled by and sent directly from the giveaway sponsors.  #BBQWeek bloggers are not responsible for the fulfillment or delivery of the prize packages. Bloggers hosting this giveaway and their immediate family members in their household are not eligible to enter or win the giveaway.  No purchase necessary.  Void where prohibited by law. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter or any other social channel mentioned in the #BBQWeek posts or entries.







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