World apple day... with the Snow White...

13 Comments Posted by Leonor de Sousa Bastos at October 20, 2008 at 10:04 PM.



I rewrite the story...
I dare to get rid of the Wicked Witch and give the day off to the seven dwarfs...
I take the poisoned apple and turn it into a fairy cake...
The "lived happily for ever" still exist, even before the ending...
Light kisses, dream glass case...




Mashed apples and vanilla cake

Makes 3 little cakes:

125 g butter, melted
125 g light brown sugar
4 eggs
125 g cake flour, sieved.
3 apples
1/2 vanilla bean
5 tpsp sugar


Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC.
Grease and line with parchment paper small cake pans (12 cms diameter).
Mix together sugar and butter.
Add the egg yolks, one at a time, and then the whisked egg whites.
Add the flour.

Bring 2 apples to boil with sugar and vanilla until cooked.
Mash.
Peel and slice the remaining apple in thin slices.

Pour half of the batter into the pans.
Pour the mashed apples mixture.
Finish with the remaining batter.
Top with the apple slices.

Bake for 30-35 minutes.


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An apple a day keeps the doctor away

5 Comments Posted by Leonor de Sousa Bastos at October 15, 2008 at 10:26 PM.



I'm not a big fan of baked apples but today I'll make an exception...




Baked apples with mascarpone, Port wine, honey and hazelnuts

4 Egremont Russet apples
1 tbsp Port wine
200 g mascarpone
20 g honey
50 g chopped hazelnuts
Cinnamon and star anise

Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC.
Mix together wine, mascarpone, cinnamon and star anise.
Peel the apple and cut in thick slices.
In a baking dish put the apple slices with the mascarpone mixture between them.
Top with the remaining mixture and honey.
Sprinkle with the hazelnuts.
Bake for 30-40 minutes.


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Eve's apple

11 Comments Posted by Leonor de Sousa Bastos at September 22, 2008 at 7:13 PM.



Temptation serpentines through the tablecloth.

The apple becomes pie and Heaven comes down to Earth...

Today we are Adam and Eve and again the forbidden fruit is desired as in the original sin.




Apple pie

Crust:
250 g wheat flour
1 tbsp baking powder
100 g sugar
125 g soft butter
1 egg
1 pinch of salt
Egg yolk to brush

Combine all the ingredients together.
Cover the dough with wrap film and refrigerate for 1 hour.
Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC.
Roll out the dough on a floured work surface and line a pie pan.
Roll out the remaining dough and cut small stripes to cover the pie.


Filling:
7 apples
300 g sugar
Juice of 1 lemon
1 cinnamon stick


Peel the apples and cut in thin slices.
Bring to boil the apple slices with sugar and lemon until they are transparent.
Put the apple slices in te pie shell.
Finish with the crossed dough stripes.
Brush with egg yolk.
Bake for 25-30 minutes.

Brush the pie with a light coating of apple jelly.


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