Tag Archives: Dessert

Lofthouse Sugar Cookies

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Sugar CookiesWay back in Junior High, over 20 years ago, I had a very good friend who made the best Sugar Cookies ever. Seriously , my best friend and I still talk about how good they were. No sugar cookie has ever lived up to the memory. The cookies are so great in my mind that no cookie ever will live up to the memory. So I decided to start a sugar cookie search, and find the perfect recipe, and I must say the first try was great! That was a short search after all. Moist, great icing, this is one great cookie. Thanks to Jennifer over at Mother Thyme where I found this recipe.

  • 1 cup butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 Tbsp sour cream
  • 3 cups cake flour
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • Frosting :
  • 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
  • 3 cups icing sugar
  • 3 Tbsp milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • sprinkles, or food coloring (optional)

1. Cream butter in mixing bowl. Add sugar and cream until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, vanilla and sour cream. Beat in cake flour, baking powder, and salt. Refrigerate dough for one hour.

2. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Gather about 3 Tbsp dough and roll into ball, flatten slightly with palm of your hand. Bake each batch for 10-12 minutes. Cool.

3. To make frosting, beat together butter and icing sugar one cup at a time, alternating with 1 Tbsp milk. Beat in vanilla. If you are tinting the frosting add food coloring now. Spread frosting a cooled cookies. ( Do not frost warm cookies as frosting will stick).

4. Eat and enjoy!

 

 

Double Chocolate Banana Bread

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chocolate banana breadThis week I made a delicious chocolaty breakfast treat. It has been to long since I     reached for the cocoa powder in the baking section of the pantry. Those chocolate chips were calling my name. Yes, I was having a chocolate craving. Chocolate of the best kind, baking! I have had this bread recipe pinned for a while now, the original recipe is from a great blog, The Sister’s Café , and yes it was worth making. Banana bread is definitely on the top of my favorite foods list, as is, of course, chocolate. so combine the two and what you have achieved is heavenly results! Thanks Sisters, for the recipe!

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 1/4 cups mashed bananas (about 3)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup cocoa
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

1. Beat together first 5 ingredients in mixing bowl. Add dry ingredients and beat until just combined, don’t over mix. Stir in chocolate chips.

2. Pour into greased loaf pan. Bake for 65 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool.

3. Eat and enjoy!

Sour Cream Brown Sugar Ice Cream

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Brown Sugar Ice CreamHappy Valentine’s Day Everybody! Do you have big plans? A quiet night at home? My husband is in the restaurant business which means a quiet night at home… alone, while he works. That’s okay though, we celebrated earlier in the week, and honestly that guy loves me like no other. It is nice to have a sweetheart on this day :)

Earlier in the week you may remember I made a delicious Butter Rum-Glazed Applesauce Cake. It was super-duper yummy. I served it with this Ice Cream, and man did they all work well together. It was one yummy night!

Anyhoo, I have a busy day, so that’s all you get from me today, except of course the recipe, that I got from the cookbook Ice Cream Year Round

  • 1 1/2 cups whole milk
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 6 Tbsp brown sugar, divided
  • 2 egg yolks, at room temperature
  • 3/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • pinch kosher salt
  • 1 cup sour cream

1. Stir together the milk, cream and 2 Tbsp of the brown sugar together in small pan. Whisk and cook until very warm.

2. Beat together the egg yolks, vanilla and salt. Add about 1/4 cup of the hot milk mixture and whisk in. Continue adding milk 1/4 cup at a time, until you have about 1 1/2 cups(this is so you don’t have scrambled eggs in your ice cream). Stir all milk and egg together and return to stove. Heat until about 185 degrees, whisking constantly, but do not boil.

3. Remove from heat and stir in sour cream. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours.

4. Pour mixture in ice cream maker and use according to directions. During last-minute, add remaining 4 Tbsp brown sugar. (You don’t want it fully mixed in).

5. Place in freezer safe container, and freeze for 3 hours.

6. Remove from freezer 15 minutes before you want to eat it. Eat and enjoy!

 

Jack Astor’s- Calgary

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CalamariYesterday was my anniversary. We sent the kids to babysitters for the whole day ( much thanks guys) and spent the day hanging out together. It was pretty low-key, went to the zoo, did some shopping,saw a movie and decided to have lunch at Jack Astor’s. We hadn’t actually planned where we were going to eat, but we were right by it, and I love a menu with lots of options. Everything was delicious, We shared, caesar salad, chicken bow ties with chicken and calamari, but the best part of the meal was dessert. It has been years since I have had a restaurant dessert that I have liked so much. We shared, well I think hubby only had two bites ,the Jack Louis. Basically a homemade Joe Louis but made with Red Velvet Cake and smothered with Hot Fudge Sauce. It was huge we took more than half of it home, I will be sharing with the kids later today so I don’t eat the rest by myself. So if you go , get the dessert, but share with friends. Advice from your friendly neighbourhood food blogger.The Jack Louis
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