Nuts – Page 2

Chocolate Nut Cake

Today we made Chocolate Nut Cake!

1/4C butter, 1C sugar, 2 eggs, 1 1/2C flour, 1t baking powder, 1/2C milk, 6 oz (1C) chocolate chips, 1/6C unsweetened cocoa powder, 1/2C coarsely chopped walnuts, 1/2C coarsely chopped roasted almonds with sea salt

Preheat oven to 350F. Cream butter with sugar.

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Add eggs.

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In separate bowl, sift together dry ingredients. Melt 1/2C chocolate chips. Cool.

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Add to wet ingredients.

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Alternately add dry ingredients and milk to wet, beginning and ending with dry, just until blended.

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Stir in nuts and 1/2C chocolate chips.

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Turn into greased extra large loaf pan.

Choc Nut Cake

Bake 45-50 minutes or until knife inserted in center emerges clean. Drizzle with chocolate syrup if desired.

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Apple Nut Choc Chip Cake

Today we made Apple Nut Choc Chip Cake!

1/2C butter, 1C sugar, 1C flour, 3/4t baking soda, 1T cinnamon, 2 eggs, 1 extra large Granny Smith apple, chopped into 1/2″ pieces; 1/3C coarsely chopped cashews, walnuts and roasted lightly salted almonds; 1C chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F. Cream butter with sugar.

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Add eggs to butter mixture. Blend well.

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In separate bowl, sift flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Make a well in these dry ingredients and stir in wet until mostly blended.

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Fold in apples.

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Stir in nuts and chips.

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Turn into greased 9″ round cake pan.

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Bake 45-50 minutes or until knife inserted in center of cake emerges clean.

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Pistachio Cookies

Today we made Pistachio Cookies!

1/3C whole pistachios with shells removed, chopped coarsely; 1 egg, 1 1/2C flour, 1/2C honey, 1T lemon juice, 1/2t baking soda, 1/4C sugar

Beat honey, butter and sugar. Batter will curdle.

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Stir in egg. Blend well.

Pistachio Cookies

In separate bowl, sift flour and soda. Stir into wet ingredients alternately with lemon juice, beginning and ending with dry, until just blended.

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Stir in pistachios. Chill batter 30 minutes.

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Preheat oven to 350F. Drop by T onto greased cookie sheets.

Pistachio Cookies

Bake 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 5 minutes. Remove from cookie sheets.

Pistachio Cookies

Apple Almond Cake

Today we made Apple Almond Cake!

1/2C butter, 1/2C sugar, 3 eggs, 1t salt, scant 1 1/2C flour, 2t baking powder, 3 medium apples, peeled and sliced in crescents; 1C coarsely chopped, salted, roasted almonds, 1T almond extract

Topping: 1T lemon juice, 2t cinnamon, 1/4C brown sugar

Preheat oven to 325F. Sift together dry ingredients. In separate bowl, beat butter with sugar.

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Add eggs and extract.

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Beat in dry ingredients.

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Stir in almonds.

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Spread into greased, rectangular cake pan.

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Press one half the apple crescents into batter in desired pattern. Mix topping ingredients into a paste.

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Spread on apples.

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Place remaining apples on top. (For more intense topping flavor, double topping amounts and spread on top layer of apples.)

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Bake 45-55 minutes or until cake is lightly browned.

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Chocolate Nut Cookies

Today we made Chocolate Nut Cookies!

1/2C coarsely chopped walnuts, 1/2C coarsely chopped roasted lightly salted almonds, 12 oz chocolate chips, 1/2C sugar, 2T butter, 2 eggs, 1/2C flour, 1t baking powder

Preheat oven to 350F. Melt 1 CUP chocolate chips. Cool. In bowl, sift together flour and baking powder. In separate bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy.

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Beat in eggs. Blend well.

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Stir in melted chocolate.

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Stir in dry ingredients.

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Mix in nuts and remaining chocolate chips just until blended. Bake on well greased cookie sheets 12-15 minutes

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or until slightly cracked on top.

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Banana Nut Pie

Today we made Banana Nut Pie!

3 eggs, 1C skim milk, 2 small bananas, mashed, 1 graham cracker pie shell, 1C coarsely chopped, smoked salted almonds; 1C coarsely chopped walnuts, 1C brown sugar

Preheat oven to 350F. Mix all ingredients except nuts and pie shell. Blend well.

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Stir in nuts.

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Spread in pie shell.

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Bake 40-45 minutes or until set in center.

Banana Nut Pie

Apple Peanut Scones

Today we made Apple Peanut Scones!

2C flour, 1/2C coarsely chopped salted roasted peanuts, 1/4C creamy peanut butter, 3T brown sugar, 2 medium Granny Smith apples, peeled and chopped into 1/2″ to 1/4″ pieces, 1/2C skim milk, 3T sugar, 1T baking powder, 1T butter

Preheat oven to 350F. Sift together flour, baking powder and sugar. In separate bowl, mix chopped apples with peanut butter, brown sugar and chopped peanuts.

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Blend well. Blend butter into flour mixture. It should still be powdery. Mix in milk.

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Stir in apple mixture until just blended.

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Drop by T onto greased cookie sheets 1″ apart.

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Bake 15-18 minutes or until lightly browned.

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Drunken Strawberry Almond Ice Milk

Today we made Drunken Strawberry Almond Ice Milk!

1 pint strawberries, coarsely chopped into 1/2″ pieces; 1C dry gin, 1T almond extract, 2T sugar, 14 oz sweetened, condensed milk; 1C skim milk, 4 oz almonds, coarsely chopped

In medium bowl, stir together gin, almond extract and sugar.

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Add strawberries. Blend well.

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Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill 2 or more hours. Mix together milks.

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Drain and stir in strawberries, and almonds.

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Freeze until of desired consistency.

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Apple Almond Biscotti

Today we made Apple Almond Biscotti!

1 extra large apple, peeled and finely chopped; 3C flour, 1C brown sugar, 1T cinnamon, 1 1/2t baking powder, 1/2C butter, 2 eggs, 1/2C roasted, salted whole almonds, coarsely chopped; 1/2T almond extract

Preheat oven to 350F.

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Mix eggs with brown sugar.

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Add cooled butter to egg mixture.

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Stir in cinnamon.

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Add extract.

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Add sifted flour and baking powder.

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Make a sticky dough. Work in apples and almonds.

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Shape 1 large loaf about 10″ long. Place on greased cookie sheet.

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Bake 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned.

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Cool 20 minutes. Cut diagonal slices 1/2″ wide X 4 or 5″ using a serrated knife. Lower oven temperature to 325F. Put back on sheet and bake another 10 minutes. Turn slices over and bake another 10 minutes or until crisp.

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