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Grilled Pineapple Cake Delight - The New Way to Serve Dessert

Nothing would beat a nice dessert after a good meal - ice cream, cakes, pies and other sweets is an awesome choice. Everyone enjoys a tasty dessert, unless you are diabetic. Ending the meal with a desert is a tradition practiced by almost everyone. The word desert came from the old French language desservir; originally practiced by the western culture but due to foreign influences, no longer it is exclusive to western meals. We are truly blessed with the wide variety of sweet delights, which is present in the food business. If you haven't noticed, people have been paying attention to sweets served to them after their meals. Grilled desserts are starting to get the attention of the public; most are intrigued with the taste and nutrition of such a food. A recipe called grilled pineapple cake delight is starting to be noticed by many.

We will need
One can sliced pineapple, at least 20 ounces
One teaspoon butter
Half teaspoon brown sugar
One-fourth teaspoon vanilla extract
One-eight teaspoon ground cinnamon
One-eight teaspoon ground nutmeg
Six sliced pound cake
Vanilla ice cream
Caramel ice cream topping

How to prepare
Drain the pineapple; set aside six ring slices and one-third cup juice (the remaining pineapple juice should be saved for other usage). Mix the brown sugar, butter, vanilla, cinnamon, and reserved pineapple juice in a bowl. Grill the pineapple rings and cake for at least 1 to 2 minutes. You must not forget to apply the mixture occasionally. Make sure that the color of the pineapple is golden brown. When it is done, put the cooked pineapple in a serving plate, together with a caramel topping and one scoop of ice cream. This is good for 5 to 6 servings.

More and more people are starting to be aware of the food they eat; this is a nutritional move on their part. Desserts are the reason why we stay longer on the table after a meal. Seldom would we see a person skip a good dessert. Though it is not required in our meal, we all would demand for it; nutrition experts are advising us to consume minimal sweets. They know we cannot control ourselves, once a tasty treat is being served on the table.

Cake Recipes - Traditional Cake Recipes in Poland Part 1

Welcome again. As you know I'm writing culinary articles and the task of these texts is to give you some interesting and helpful information about cooking and about different kinds of meal. I'm really doing my best to provide you the best information about work in the kitchen. In this article I'm going to provide you some information about traditional Polish cake recipes (and cakes of course). Traditional Polish cakes are very big, colorful and very tasty.

Let's start with the poppy-seed cake. This kind of cake is god for every occasion in Poland. It's very cheap, tasty and easy to prepare. Traditional poppy-seed cake is made of poppy-seed, flour, butter, yeast, sugar, eggs, salt, powdered sugar. There are many poppy-seed cake recipes. You can add apple to them or other additions such as meringue, nuts etc. I really recommend this very tasty cake for every occasion. It's perfect for Easter, Christmas, birthday or you can prepare it without any occasion. I'm sure that your family will be very happy about that.

The next kind of traditional Polish cake is dame which is made of sand cake (it was described in my previous article, I was also describing dame in my previous articles). It's very cheap and tasty kind of cake. You can eat it and you don't have to worry about being overweight because of eating it. Typical ingredients for it are: sand cake, sugar and eventually some additions, for example chocolate custard. Of course there are many recipes for this cake, so everybody can find something that fits his/her requirements.

The last kind of a cake that I'm going to describe is ginger cake. There are many ginger cake recipes in Poland. It can be prepared in a form of cake and in form of biscuits. The best ingredients for typical Polish ginger cake are honey, sugar, butter, flour, eggs, soda, milk, ginger cake relish, salt and some fat to form. These ingredients are very cheap, so the cake is very cheap too. I want to add that it's very tasty. It's perfect for Christmas. In many households it's one of traditional 12 meals on Christmas Eve table. I recommend this cake. There are lots of ginger cake recipes so this kind of cake is very varied.

Is Red Velvet Cake Really Made From Beets?

The answer is that it all depends upon who is making it. Where did this cake come from? There is one story, which I leave you to decide whether authentic or not, that it was made at the request of a guest at the Waldorf Astoria for a guest. They made the cake and charged her $100 for the privilege of receiving the recipe. In revenge she passed it out to anyone who would take it.

The Waldorf version is said to use beets for color. Nowadays it is made all over the place, but especially in the South Some of the attraction is at least the slightly unusual ingredients. One theory is that the red food coloring was added when Dutch cocoa began to be used as this has an alkali added so is less likely to produce the traditional mahogany red.

A quick search reveals there are a number of variations on the theme Usually these include a cream cheese or cooked frosted icing, but for a less rich version a simple drizzle of glace icing works as does just a sprinkle of icing sugar. Try doing this through a doily which, if you remove it extremely carefully, will leave a beautiful pattern.

Ingredients for Red Velvet Cake

1/2 cup of low fat spread

1 1/2 cups of granulated or Castor sugar

2 eggs

2 tablespoons of cocoa powder ( drinking chocolate is a little too sweet).

2 teaspoons of red food coloring

1 teaspoon of salt

2 1/2 cups of cake flour or self raising flour

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1 cup of buttermilk or plain yogurt

1 teaspoon of baking soda

1 tablespoon of vinegar

Method.

Cream the sugar and low fat spread. Separate the eggs and beat the yolks. Incorporate them into the creamed mixture. Sieve the cocoa and mix with the food coloring before adding to this mixture together with the vanilla. Add the salt to the flour and mix this in alternately with the buttermilk or yogurt. Beat the egg whites to a fluff and fold this in to make a light mixture. Mix baking soda with vinegar and mix this in stirring well. Bake in 2 9 inch pans for 30 minutes at 350F, 190C, Gas 5. If you use smaller pans you will need 3 and a slightly shorter cooking time. Allow to cool and then fill and glaze as you like. Strawberry or apricot preserves are good.

A fluffy topping can be made by combining ingredients in a double boiler and beating as it cooks. You will need :-

The whites of 2 eggs,1 1/2 cups of icing sugar, pinch of salt, 1/3 cup water, 2 teaspoons light corn syrup. Cook this mixture for about 7 minutes, stirring all the time and then mix in 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Let it cool before using. The result has been described by one writer as 'the Dolly Parton' of cakes. Well it is certainly a star - it even featured in the film 'Steel Magnolias' although there it was armadillo shape and had
grey icing. It probably tasted just as indulgent nevertheless.

Variations

Other recipes use the eggs whole rather than separated. Almost all versions include cocoa which contains anthocyanin, a natural coloring which appears redder in the presence of acid, hence the vinegar. One recipe unbelievably uses half a bottle of coloring - which I think is a bit over the top - but then it is that sort of cake.

Motivation Video Valentine's Day

All suggestion should be taken lightly. Do what you think is best and consult a doctor if you feel you need to. This is a comedy. Have fun with diets. Laugh at your blunders and do it and lose it and share your changes with anyone who cares. Lots of Love and Have a Happy Valentine's Day. More to Come. Note: I was doing fine with my diet until the monthly visitor arrived the Big"P" I inflated like a blowfish and I just gobbled up the ice cream cake and drank parrot bay coconut rum and coca cola. I was about to give up when I said I'm going to make water work for me not against me hence I started the lemonade diet and included "diruretic" dinners at night. Yes. The bloating is horrible but it is natures way of taking care of things and it's only a few days. This I believe is the number one reason woman give up on diets. The Lemonade Diet but to me I call it the Lemon "Aid" diet (because it aids in something) consisists of 1. 2Tbsp of lemon or lime juice 2. 2 Tbsp genuine maple syrup 3. 1/10 Tsp cayenne pepper (red pepper) or to taste. In my case I put massive amounts. :) It got me drinking extra water lol 4. Water. medium hot (spring or purified)Note: You can drink it cold. I did. Instructions are on page 17 of the Master Cleanser pamphlet by Stanley Burroughs. It is important to use fresh lemons or limes The darker grades of maple syrup are preferred. I used grade A but the next time I'll look for grade B as I will be reducing food intake and working to going 100% Lemonade ...



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Pineapple Upside Down Cake

I heard the cake was good cuz you know I didn't eat any. Coconut flakes are usually added to the pan after adding the brownsugar. However you make yours is yours. Do YOU!



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Birthday Cake History

The birthday cake has been an integral part of the birthday tradition in Western cultures. The cake is served to a person on his or her birthday, and is often decorated with small novelty candles, with the person's name and/or a message of congratulations inscribed with icing. The phrase "Happy Birthday" did not appear on birthday cakes until the song Happy Birthday to You was popularized in the early 1900s.

Tradition holds that the person with the birthday may make a wish, which will come true if all the candles can be blown out in one breath. US patent 6319530 relates to a "method of photocopying an image onto an edible web for decorating iced baked goods." This invention enables one to ink jet print a food-grade color photograph on the cake surface.

History of Birthday Cake can be traced back to the ancient Greeks who made round or moon shaped honey cakes or bread and took it to the temple of Artemis -the Goddess of Moon. Some scholars, however, believe that the tradition of Birthday cake started in Germany in middle Ages. This special birthday cake later reemerged in Germany as a Kinderfest or the birthday celebrations of a young child. Germans also baked another special kind of a cake called Geburtstagorten as it was baked in layers. This was sweeter that the coarse and bread like cake that were usually made at that time.

In earlier times, Birthday cakes were mostly round in shape. Scholars associate religious beliefs and technical compulsions for the same. Greeks offered round shape cake to the Goddess of Moon - Artemis as it signified moon. They even placed candles on the cake to make the cake glow like the moon.

Technical reason given for the roundness of the cake is that most cakes we know off advanced from the bread. In ancient times breads and cakes were made by hand. Typically, these were fashioned into round balls and baked on hearthstones or in low, shallow pans. Hence, these naturally relaxed into round shapes. With the progress of times baking pans of various shapes were developed and today we see cakes in imaginative shapes and sizes.

In medieval times people of England used to place symbolic objects like coins, rings and thimbles in the batter of the cake. It was believed that those who found coin in the cake would be wealthy while the unlucky finder of the thimble would never marry. If the cake fell while baking it was considered to be a bad omen and signified bad luck for the person in the coming year.
Thus in the midst of many superstitions and beliefs, merged the tradition of Birthday cakes which is so popular all over the world today.