Brownie bars 🍬 🥨
📝 Ingredients:
-4 cups mini pretzels crushed
-1 cup unsalted butter
-1 cup brown sugar, beaten
-1 can (400 g) sweetened condensed milk
🔔 Manufacturing instructions:
Step 1: Prepare the bottom
-* Crunch Crackers *: Place crushed mini pretzels in a large bowl. Make sure to crush it, but don’t crush it into powder.
-* Shaping bottom *: In a baking dish (about 23 x 23 cm), spread evenly with a layer of shortbread crumbles.
Step 2: Prepare the caramel
-Melt butter * *: Melt butter in a pan over medium heat.
-Add the sugar * *: Once the butter is melted, add the brown sugar and stir until melted.
-Add condensed milk * *: Pour the sweetened condensed milk into a pan and cook over low heat for about 5-7 minutes, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens and takes on a caramel color.
Step 3: Mix the ingredients
-Pour in the caramel * *: Pour the prepared caramel over the shortbread in the mold. Make sure the caramel coats all pretzels evenly.
-Cool * *: Place the molds in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours until the mixture is firm.
Step 4: Serve
-Cutting * *: Once hardened, cut into pieces to your preferred size.
-* Eat *: Refrigerated and served as a dessert or snack.
Preparation time 15 minutes | Cooling time: 2 hours | Total time: 2 hours 15 minutes | Portion per person: 12 servings
🎄 Creamy vanilla and pine nut cake on New Year’s Eve 🍰
📝 Ingredients:
Bottom material
-200 grams of digestive biscuits, crushed.
-100 g melted butter
Stuffing
-500 ml whole milk
-200 ml whipped cream
-4 egg yolks
-100 g of sugar
-2 teaspoons vanilla extract
-1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
-30 g cornstarch
-a pinch of salt
🔔 Manufacturing instructions:
Step 1: Prepare the base material.
-Mix cookies and butter * *: In a bowl, combine crushed cookies with melted butter until well incorporated.
-To make the cake base * *: Press the cookie mixture into the bottom and sides of a 23 cm tart tin. Place in the fridge to chill while preparing the filling.
Step 2: Prepare the filling
-Heat milk and cream * *: In a saucepan, heat milk and cream over medium heat until they come to a boil. Out of the fire.
-Whisk yolks and sugar * *: In a large bowl, whisk yolks with sugar until the mixture is lightly creamy.
-Add cornstarch and salt * *: Add cornstarch and a pinch of salt to the egg yolk mixture and mix well.
-Mix with milk * *: Slowly pour the warm milk mixture into the egg yolk mixture, stirring constantly to prevent the eggs from cooking.
-Cook the filling * *: Pour the mixture back into the pan and cook over medium-medium heat, stirring constantly, until thickened (about 5-7 minutes). Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract and cinnamon powder.
Step 3: Assembly and Cooling
-Pour in the filling * *: Pour the hot filling over the prepared cookie base.
-Cool * *: Cool to room temperature, then chill in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours, or until fully set.
Step 4: Serve
-Garnish and Serve * *: Refrigerate the pie and serve, sprinkling the top with cinnamon powder for garnish if desired.
Prep time: 20 minutes | Cook time: 15 minutes | Total time: 4 hours and 35 minutes (including refrigeration time) | Serves 8 people
Hickory Foam vs. Hickory 🥜 🍰
📝 Ingredients:
For the bottom:
-15 Graham cookies, crushed into squares
Walnut Ingredients
-250 g unsalted butter
-200 g brown sugar, whipped
-225 g chopped pecans
-1/2 tsp vanilla extract
-1/4 tsp salt
🔔 Manufacturing instructions:
Step 1: Baking Preparation
-Preheat oven * *: Adjust temperature to 175 °C. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil and arrange the Graham cookie squares in a single layer to cover the entire baking sheet.
Step 2: Prepare the ingredients
-Heat ingredients * *: In a medium pan, heat butter and brown sugar over medium heat. Stir constantly until ingredients are completely melted and start to boil. Cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring constantly.
-Add nuts * *: Remove from heat and stir in chopped pecans, vanilla extract and salt.
Step 3: Mix the ingredients
-Pour in ingredients * *: Pour the nut mixture evenly over the cookies and gently spread it out so that it covers all cookies.
Step 4: Bake
-Bake * *: Bake for 8-10 minutes until the surface is golden brown and bubbly.
Step 5: Cool and Serve
-Cool * *: Remove from oven and cool completely. Once cool, cut into pieces and enjoy!
Preparation time 5 minutes | Baking time: 10 minutes | Total time: 15 minutes | Each serving: 12 pieces
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