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Tatli Pastane Kurabiyesi – Bakery Style Cookies

April 3, 2023 By donika Leave a Comment

These butter cookies are melt in your mouth delicious, very similar to my un kurabiye recipe but this has egg yolks and instead of icing sugar, regular sugar is used.

I like to use my homemade freezer jam for this, but you can use your favourite store bought jam.

You can use any kind of chocolate you want, I use chocolate chips as I always have them.

What you will need:

  • 1 cup softened unsalted butter
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 2 cups flour

Other ingredients needed:

  • Chocolate chips
  • Jam of your choice
  • Sprinkles
  • Coconut
  • ground nuts if desired

I make this by hand in a big bowl, if you find the dough to be dry add some softened butter, margarine or shortening to make the dough soft, about a tablespoon worth. The dough shouldn’t be crumbly or hard.

Prepare a piping bag with tip 6B also known as a open star tip.
Fill a piping bag with some cookie dough and pipe small amounts on a baking sheet, I place a piece of parchment on the sheet. Pipe small amounts about a 1 inch in length, they do rise as they bake.

Bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes.

Cool and then sandwich with your favourite jam. If you don’t want to sandwich them you can dip each individual cookie in the melted chocolate.

Melt some chocolate chips in a double boiler or microwave if you have one (I don’t).

Add sprinkles in one bowl and coconut in another bowl, after you sandwiched your cookies dip the one end into the bowl of melted chocolate then quickly dip into the sprinkles, coconut and or nuts.

If you are not sandwiching your cookies, just dip each cookie into the chocolate and add the toppings.

Peach, strawberry and raspberry jams are my favourite
They look straight from the bakery

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Tiramisu Ice Cream

June 22, 2020 By donika Leave a Comment

Once upon a time I use to make and sell ice cream, but since I don’t have plans of doing that anymore I figured I can share my recipe for my most popular flavour! You will need a ice cream maker to make this recipe.

What you will need:

  • 2 cups 35% whipping cream
  • 1 cup 2% milk
  • 3/4 cup + 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1/2 pkg of cream cheese
  • dash of salt
  • 1 tsp of vanilla
  • 5 lady fingers dipped in strong coffee
  • 1/2 tsp cocoa

Combine the cream cheese with sugar and vanilla, stir until blended well, add in the milk and cream and the dash of salt, stir and mix until blended well.

Refrigerate for 4 hours or over night.

Churn in the the prepared frozen ice cream bowl for about 22 minutes.

In the meantime, dip the lady fingers in the coffee, sprinkle with a little cocoa and cut into small pieces.

Add in the lady fingers at the 19 minute mark.

Pour ice cream in a freezer safe container, freeze until ready to serve.

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Ricotta Filled Filo Puffs – Lor Tatlisi

February 19, 2019 By donika Leave a Comment

If you are like me and use filo pastry regularly, this recipe will be easy to follow. If, however, you are new to filo and you feel adventurous enough, go ahead and try it!  We love ricotta desserts and this is one of the ways I love to use ricotta. My husband calls this lor, lor is a cheese filled pastry in Turkish.

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Burma Baklava ~ Crinkled Lady Finger Baklava

October 21, 2018 By donika 2 Comments

I decided to share this recipe with you for two reasons: firstly and most importantly is that I had posted my lady finger baklava recipe many years ago and when I updated my blog something happened to the post; I was not able to edit it or revise it. I then had to make a new post. A couple years later same thing happened to that post. It has happened to other older posts as well, some I deleted out of frustration and some I kept. I kept both of the lady finger baklava posts up with hopes that I could someday go in and revise and organize as it got all messed up with the update. The second reason was to share this other style of making it, a crinkled version; it looks bakery style and fancy….

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Crescent and Star Baklava

September 29, 2018 By donika 4 Comments

It has been a while since I last posted. I haven’t been active on here or on social media, for that I do apologize. I cannot promise I will be on much,  but I will try to come on when I can. I promised I would share this baklava with you so I finally got around to making it again and taking photos for you. Hope you enjoy this post, let me know in the comments below! …

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Excited for Ramadan 2018! Sugar Cookies and Date Balls

May 9, 2018 By donika Leave a Comment

It has been a while since I posted last… I have been super busy plus my laptop broke and I am trying so hard to figure out how to use my new one. Took me over an hour to figure out how to upload photos! I finally got it, so yay! My house is upside down at the moment; I was hoping to get everything done before Ramadan started but doesn’t look like that is gonna happen. …

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Portakalli Lokum- Orange Flavoured Turkish Delights

March 1, 2018 By donika Leave a Comment

If you love orange flavoured candy, you will love these lokuma! It isn’t so hard to make if you are familiar with candy making and or Turkish delights. Growing up I always watched my grandfather make Turkish delights, so I find it rather easy to do. …

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Berry Delicious Cake

December 31, 2017 By donika Leave a Comment

My daughter Dina loves to bake… gee, I wonder who she took after? She loves to incorporate fresh fruit to her desserts, and in this cake she uses it for decorating and filling. You can choose to make vanilla or chocolate cake, or even strawberry flavoured. You can use a cake mix or make a homemade cake batter, whichever you prefer.  …

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Pumpkin Spice Marshmallows

December 19, 2017 By donika 2 Comments

Are you in love with anything pumpkin spice like me? Pumpkin has always been a favourite of mine. Recently I have been addicted to pumpkin spice lattes and coffee and creams. So I thought hey why not in marshmallows!

It would make my hot cocoa and lattes even better and I was right! Honestly these marshmallows tastes just like a pumpkin spice latte, so flavourful and delicious!

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Barley Pudding with Dates- Ramadan Pudding

June 17, 2017 By donika Leave a Comment

I call this Ramadan pudding as I often make it during Ramadan, my mom and my son love this, especially at sahur time, I top it with lots of pomegranate seeds and nuts.

This is a delicious and healthy or ‘healthier’ dessert, so either when you begin your fast or when breaking it,  this pudding is the perfect thing to start off or to finish the day with.

This is much like my ashure recipe, just a bit easier for Ramadan time.

Dates, barley and pomegranate are all a good source of fiber as well as they contain many other health benefits.

What you will need:

  • 1 cup barley
  • 5 to 7 medjool dates
  • handful of dried cranberries (be generous)
  • 1 peeled orange cut into small pieces
  • 1 tbsp orange zest
  • 1-15 oz can of chick peas (rinsed and drained)
  • 1 1/4 cup cane (non gmo) sugar

If desired you can top with these ingredients. 

  • walnuts
  • pistachios
  • pomegranate seeds

Rinse the barley, and add to a large pot filled with water (about 14 cups worth), add in the chick peas. Cook on medium heat for about an hour, then add in the chopped dates, orange pieces, orange zest, cranberries and sugar, cook for another hour or so or until thickened on low heat.

Serve warm or cold. Top with pomegranates, and if desired walnuts and or pistachios.

Refrigerate leftovers.

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