Sfinge: Italian Doughnuts Filled with Ricotta
These gorgeous pastries are zeppoles aka Italian doughnuts. They are filled with chocolate chip ricotta cream. Perfect Hanukkah fried dessert! Happy Hanukkah! 1 cup water 1 tablespoon sugar ½ teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons butter 1 ½ cups flour 4 eggs ½ tablespoon baking powder [...]
Baked Doughnuts in Record Time
For those who prefer baking to deep fat frying, you will love these doughnuts which use Pepperidge Farm prepared puff pastry. The doughnuts bake up in 20 minutes. You can then decorate them with various glazes and toppings. They are beautiful, tasty, and fun to [...]
Hanukkah Doughnuts in Record Time/Fried
No time to make doughnuts for Hanukkah? No problem. You can whip these beauties up in no time, using Pepperidge Farm Puff pastry. These are much easier to make than sufganiyot and they look and taste amazing. Happy Hanukkah! vegetable oil for deep fat [...]
1-2-3-4- Potato Latkes
There are so many variations of potato latkes--zucchini, carrot, beet, sweet potato, celery root--just to name a few. But my favorite latkes are the classic potato latkes. I call my recipe the 1-2-3-4 latke recipe. The numbers make it easy to remember the amounts of [...]
Challah with Friends
Challah is a delicious egg-based bread similar to brioche. If you've never never made a bread before, this is the recipe to start with. The dough mixes up in the food processor in just a few minutes. With just a few other simple steps [...]
Pumpkin Pecan Bundt Cake
Here’s a great autumnal cake to serve on Sukkot. Pumpkin pecan cake is one of my favorite go-to autumn cakes. Moist and tender and infused with pumpkin, warm spices and studded with pecans, this cake is the quintessential autumnal dessert. Pumpkin pecan mini bundt cake [...]