Basbousa-Harisi
There is so many names for this delicious, sugary sweet and yummy dessert. Either Basbousa, Namora or Harisi as we call it in my house.
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Baking cookies
After All the Banana chips cookies Banana chips cookies I made the other day were gone; (thats how delicious they were) I had to bake another batch, but this time I doubled the recipe to accommodate the demands for these delicious cookies… Continue reading
Cranberry and Protein powder muffins
I made these babies yesterday, these are made without flour or butter, I used the protein powder shake that is sold at the Health stores….
Chocolate birthday cake
Tomorrow we have two birthdays at the office, so i am making my delicious chocolate cake…
Everyone loves this cake, it’s so chocolaty and moist.. Continue reading
Mahalabia pudding
The best desert to eat in this cold weather is this delicious, tasty, hot and flavorful pudding!
Thanksgiving Treats
My oven was having a pie party tonight, i been baking for a while and i am officially done with the pies for thanksgiving!
Sugar free Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate Chips Cookies
Sugar free Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate Chips Cookies
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These Oatmeal cookies are filled with delicious Raisin and Chocolate Chips, I love making them and my granddaughter loves to eat them.
preheat oven to 350
1 Cup Splenda brown sugar
2 Cups all purpose flour
2 Tsp. baking soda
1/2 Tsp. fine salt
1 1/2 Cups old fashion oats
1/2 Tsp. cinnamon
1/2 Tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
1 Cup of raisins
1 Cup mini chocolate chip
2 sticks of unsalted butter soften
2 eggs at room temperature
1/2 Tsp. ground vanilla or extract
line 3 cookie sheets with parchment paper and set a side.
Add butter and brown sugar in to a stand mixer bowl with the flat beater attached, mix for 2 minutes on medium speed until it has smooth consistency.
Add eggs one at a time making sure its fully incorporated.
Add Vanilla and mix well for a 1 minute.
In a separate bowl mix flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon, add to the sugar and butter mixture in third, mix well for 1-2 minute.
With a medium size ice cream scope, scope the cookie dough on to the prepared cookie sheets making sure to leave 2 inches between each cookie.
Bake for 12-15 minutes.
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Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes on the cookie sheet, remove to cooling racks and let them cool completely, store in airtight container for up to two weeks, if they last that long 🙂
Enjoy!
Orange Juice Cupcakes
Orange Juice Cupcakes
The smell of baked goods is one of the best aromas to have in the kitchen!
I love using fresh or bottled juices in my baking, and i always try different flavors.
Today i made up a recipe of orange juice cupcakes, they turned out delicious, added extra vanilla, and the combination was amazing!
This is the only recipe you will need for quick cake or cupcakes; it does not take more than 23 minutes to bake and not more than eight ingredients to prepare it.
.1 cup coconut oil melted and measured in liquid measuring cup
.2 cups sugar
.2 tbsp vanilla
.3 large eggs
.3 1/2 cups cake flour
.1 1/2 tbsp. baking powder
.1/2 tsp salt
.1 1/2 cups orange juice with pulp
Preheat oven 375
Line cupcake pans with liners and set aside.
In a bowl of stand mixer with the flat beater attachment, add coconut oil and sugar, mix well until combined.
Add eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition.
Add vanilla and mix for 2 minutes until the mixture is somewhat thick and all the sugar dissolved.
In other bowl, sift cake flour with baking powder and salt.
On low speed add the flour mixture in third alternating with the orange juice, start, and finish with the flour.
Mix well for 1 minute, remove the bowl, and with rubber spatchela scrape down the sides of the bowl and stir, making sure all combined.
With 1/2 measuring cup fill each of the lined cupcakes pan all the way up.
Bake for 20-23 minutes, making sure to rotate the pans to ensure even baking.
Remove pans and cool on cooling racks for 5 minutes, remove cupcakes and cool completely before serving.
You could top the cupcake with homemade whip cream or cream cheese frosting, but there is no need for it, since they are delicious on their own, Enjoy!
Lemon Lime Cookies
Lemon Lime Cookies
Pucker up everyone these cookies are lemony and limey in the most delicious way you could imagine.
The lemon and lime mixture brings out the summery sunshine in these cookies, I had a lot of lemons and limes in my refrigerator, and I have not made these delicious cookies for a while.
They are sweet and buttery without the fat from the butter, they are healthy in a way since they are sugar free also…
.4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
.1 tsp baking powder
.1 tsp. salt
.2 cups coconut oil
.1 1/2 cups sugar substitutes
.4 tbsp. lemon zest
.4 tbsp. lime zest
.2 tbsp. vanilla extract
.6 tbsp. lemon juice
.2 tbsp. lime juice
.2 cups of powder sugar substitutes
.2 eggs room temperature
Preheat oven to 375
Line up three cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
In a bowl of a stand mixer, combine the coconut oil and 1 1/2 cups of sugar, mix well until creamy.
Add eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition.
Add vanilla extract and mix well until mixture is fluffy, about 1 minute.
Sift flour; baking powder and salt, on low speed add the flour mixture in third and mix well after each addition.
Add 1 tbsp. of each, lemon zest and lime zest. Add 1 tbsp. lemon juice and mix for few seconds until all incorporated.
With a tablespoon dollop the cookie dough on to the prepared cookie sheets leaving 1-2 inches apart between them.
Pour the lime juice on to a flat plate, and add the remaining sugar in to another flat plate, dip the bottom of drinking glass in to the lime juice and then dip in to the sugar, flatting each cookie to about 1/2 inch each. Repeat until all the cookies are done.
Bake for 18-19 minutes depending on how chewy or crispy you want them.
Remove and cool in the pan for 5 minutes, carefully remove from the pan and cool completely on cooling rack.
Mix the remaining lemon juice, lemon zest, lime zest with the powder sugar, adding more sugar and lemon juice , or less depending on how thick or thin you want the glaze.
With a tablespoon drizzle the glaze on to the cookies evenly and let it stand for few hours or until the glaze is set. Enjoy!
Chocolate-Puffs
Chocolate-Puffs
I am not a chocolate lover; my kids take after their dads, for me it has to be a delicious dessert in order for me to enjoy chocolate! Also I am not a lover of overly sweet desserts… However, with these Puffs filled with all this ooey gooey chocolaty goodness, won me over today when I made them…
I had a package of whole-wheat Puff pastry squares and I did not know what to make with them, I have made them with cheese most of the time and they are absolutely, amazingly delicious, but I wanted to make a sweet treat, so I came up with this one.
I choose dark chocolate, and dusted it with sugar free powder sugar so my husband will be able to eat some of these delicious puffs.
These chocolaty puffs could be prepared quickly to serve after dinner or at any gathering.
Preheat oven 375
Line up a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
In a small bowl, beat the egg with water and set aside.
.1 package of whole-wheat puff pastry, 22 oz. thawed overnight in the refrigerator
.1 bag dark chocolate morsels
.1 egg
.1 tbsp. water
.1/4 cup sugar free powder sugar
Roll out each square of puff pastry in one direction to create a 1/2 inch thick long sheet, cut to two strips.
In each strip line up 10 chocolate morsel length wise, roll the pastry tight and making sure all the chocolate covered.
Repeat until all the puffs are used.
Line up in on cookie sheet leaving 2 inches space between them.
With pastry brush, lightly brush the puffs with the egg wash.
Bake for 25-35 minutes.
Let the puffs cool in the pan for 5 minutes, dust with powder sugar and arrange on serving platter. Enjoy!
Carrot Cake – sugar free
Carrot cake- sugar free
Today was my co-worker Rosie birthday, and as I normally do with any of my co-workers birthday’s, I bake a cake for that day, and I would not have it any other way! each of my other co-workers brought snacks so we could have a little party after lunch.
I remembered a while back Rosie told me that Carrot cake is her absolute favorite cake to have on her birthday, so I decided to bake one for her last night, and I brought it to work today.
She was completely surprised because we had to hide everything, and she thought we forgot her birthday, the look on her face was priceless.
The cake turned out absolutely delicious, everyone loved it, the combinations of the spices is just amazing; it had delicious, tender and moist crumbs that melts in your mouth kind cake!
Cake is completely sugar free including the frosting.
Preheat oven 350
.2 cups all-purpose flour
.1 1/2 cup sugar substitutes
.4 eggs room temperature
.3 cups shredded carrots
.1 tsp. salt
.2 tsp. baking powder
.1 tsp. baking soda
.1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
.1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
.1/2 tsp. ginger
.1/2 tsp. nutmeg
.1/4 tsp. clove
.1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts divided
.1 cup chopped pecan divided
.1/2 cup raisin
.1/4 cup apple sauce
Spray 2 – 9 inch cake pans with vegetable spray, cover bottom with parchment paper and spray again,set aside.
In a bowl of stand mixer add oil, sugar substitutes, and mix well.
Add eggs one at a time making sure it is well incorporated before each addition, add apple sauce.
Sift flour, spices, salt, baking powder,and baking soda. Reserve 3 tbsp. of flour mixture and set aside.
Add the remaining flour to the eggs and oil mixture, making sure just to mix for a few seconds.
In a large bowl, mix 1 cup walnuts, 1/2 cup of pecans, raisin, and carrots with 3 tbsp. of reserved flour, add to the mixer and on low speed mix well for 30 seconds.
Bake for 40 minutes.
Remove and cool on cooling racks in the pans for 10 minutes.
Remove from the pan and cool completely before frosting with your favorite cream cheese frosting, about 40 minutes.
I frosted the cake with my sugar free cream chees frosting and topped it with the remaining nuts mixture.
Enjoy!
Vanilla Ice Cream
Vanilla ice cream
Few weeks ago, I bought two gallons of ice cream, one was cookies and cream, and the other one was sugar free Vanilla ice cream.
The cookies and cream was gone in few days, few days you ask! Yes, as my son puts it, “it’s his duty to finish it in few days otherwise why did I buy it?!
The sugar free vanilla was setting in the freezer because gods forbid he eats a healthier version or sugar free ice cream!!
I had a box of cream filled cookies so I chopped them and made my own version of the cookies and cream ice cream in no time at all.
I gave him a taste and all of the sudden the ice cream is delicious and no one to touch it…
It is really easy to dress up a simple ice cream with any flavors or fruits you have on hand.
.1 gallon soften vanilla sugar free ice cream 1.5 QTS
.1/2 box of chocolate cream filled cookies
Bring ice cream in to room temperature, about 20 minutes.
In a large glass bowl, work the ice cream with a rubber spatula until its smooth.
Chop the cookies in to big chunks and add to the ice cream saving some for topping.
Mix well and return to the container, freeze for few hours.
Top with the reserved chopped cookies and Enjoy!
Jello-Sugar Free
Jello-sugar free
Who does not love Jello, little kids and big kids loves it.
I created this recipe for the fact we could not eat store bought Jello, because it contained pork gelatin, and for a long time I searched the internet for the alternative Halal / Kosher key ingredient to create it.
When I found beef gelatin few years back I was in haven and I been making homemade Jello ever since.
Fruit could be added to the Jello before refrigerating(I use sugar free caned fruit)and top with homemade whip cream before serving.
I always use plastic cups when I am serving this delicious treat to the little kiddos. Easy to handle and no one breaks my nice glassware.
.8 cups boiling water
.3 packets Kool-Aid any flavor, I used Cherry
.2 1/2 cups of Sugar Substitutes
.1/2 cups beef gelatin
Line up baking sheet with 12, 20oz plastic cups, set aside.
In a large heatproof bowl, add Kool-aid, sugar substitutes and beef gelatin.
Carefully pour the boiling water while whisking, keep whisking until everything dissolved and no lumps.
By using a small gravy ladle, carefully fill the plastic cups all the way.
Refrigerate overnight.Enjoy!
Banana Nut Bread Muffins – Sugar free
banana nut bread muffins
This dessert is so easy to make!
I love making banana bread for my husband, the man would eat that every day if he could help it :):) but this time I decided to make them as muffins instead of the usual loaf.
.1 cup of chopped walnut
.2 cups of all purpose flour
.1 1/2 cup of sugar substitutes
.1 stick room temperature margarine
.1 tbsp. banana extract
.2 tsp. baking powder
.1 tsp. baking soda
.3/4 cup buttermilk
.2 eggs room temperature
.1/8 tsp. salt
.1/8 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
.1/8 tsp. cinnamon
.2 medium small diced banana
.1 tbsp. vanilla extract.
Preheat oven 375
In a stand mixer add margarine, sugar and mix until smooth, add vanilla extract, banana extract and eggs one at a time, mixing after each addition.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon, add chopped walnut and mix well.
On low speed add the flour mixture to the eggs mixture in three addition alternating with the buttermilk, mix for few seconds.
By hand mix in the chopped bananas making sure all incorporated.
Line muffins pans with muffins paper, add the batter with an ice cream scoop.
Bake for 30 minute or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Cool in the pan for 10 minutes remove and cool completely on a cooling rack!
Coffee Cake-Grated-Mabroshi
Mabroshi
According to a known TV host that she read, this cake is a “Bulgarian cake”!
Untrue…
This cake is a hundred percent middle eastern!!! its made for every occasion, every birthday, holiday, family get together and I could go on and on!
My mom made this cake hundreds of times growing up and I was 15 years old when I made this cake for the first time, it was my first year in culinary class in high school in Israel, Since then I fell in love with baking and cooking.
I made this cake for years, every time I make it with a different filling, whatever jam I have in my pantry at that time. the reason it’s called Mabroshi because of the dough is grated with box grater.
Mabroshi is an Arabic word that means Grated in English.
Ma’moul Cookies
Ma'moul
When I make some of these delicious cookies it reminds of me of my mom when we used to make them for the holidays, they are the most famous and delicious cookies made in the middle east at that time of the year.
Every home you visit or bakery you walk by the aroma of butter and Ajwa (date paste) is in the air.
Ajwa is grinded dates that mixed with nutmeg and all spice; it is delicious in cakes and cookies.
Banana Nut Bread
Banana nut
Nothing tastes quite as delicious as banana nut bread, this recipe full of flavor and it is sugar free.
I made this delicious banana bread for my husband, he is diabetic and of course he loves sweet…
.1 cup of chopped Walnuts or Pecans
.2 1/4 cups All Purpose flour
.2 Cup Sugar Substitutes or regular sugar
.1 Tbsp. Baking Powder
.1 Cup Buttermilk
.2 Eggs
.1/8 Tsp. Salt
.1/8 Tsp. Nutmeg
.1/8 Tsp. Clove
.1/8 Tsp. Cinnamon
.2-3 Medium Smashed Banana
.1 Tbsp. Vanilla extract
Pre heat oven to 375
In a stand mixer add sugar substitutes and butter, mix well for few second, add eggs one at a time and beat for a minute or two, add vanilla.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon.
Add buttermilk to the eggs mixture alternating with the dry ingredient, starting and ending with the flour mixture; gently stir in the smashed banana and Walnut.
Add the batter to a greased loaf pan with the bottom covered with parchment paper.
Bake for 55-60 min or until toothpick comes out clean.
Cool completely before serving.
Enjoy!!
Sugar Free Pumpkin Jam
Pumpkin jam
Finally it worked, it is the perfect guilt free dessert.
Pumpkin Pie.
Pumpkin pie
Everyone in my Family is on watch / diet this year, so I came up with this sugar-free fresh Pumpkin Pie recipe and it was outstanding!!!
Blueberry, Apple, and Cranberry jam
Jam
Tangy and sweet but its sugar free sweet!
Blueberry, Pecan, and Raisin Muffins
Blueberry pecan muffins
I created this scrumptious muffins recipe today for my older brother Gus, he is diabetic and not allowed to eat sweets anymore, so to satisfies his sweet tooth I made these scrumptious muffins for him and I wanted to share it with you.
.1/2 Cup Dry blueberry
.1/2 cup white Raisin
.1/2 cup chopped pecans
.1 Tsp. Baking Powder
.1 Tsp. Baking Soda
.1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
.1/2 cup quick oats
.1 Cup all purpose flour
.1 1/2 cup wheat flour
.1/2 Tsp. salt
.1 Cup Butter Milk
.1/2 cup Vegetable oil
.3 Eggs
.1 1/2 Sugar Substitutes
.1/4 Tsp. Ground Cloves
Pre heat oven to 370
In a large bowl mix Eggs, Sugar Substitutes and oil until pale yellow, add vanilla extract, and mix well.
In other bowl combine flours, salt, ground clove, quick oats, baking powder and baking soda, add dry ingredient to the egg and sugar mix alternating with the buttermilk starting and ending with the dry mix.
Add dry blueberry, Raisin and Pecan and stir well, do not over mix.
Scope the batter in to lined muffins pan with an ice cream scooper almost all the way full, they do not rise that much.
Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Makes 16-18 muffins
Lime cake with Lime and mint glaze-sugar free
Lime cake
My friend gave me a bag full of fresh limes from his tree and I did not know what to do with all of these limes. I came up with some good recipes today and this sugar free lime cake is one of them. it came out moist and crumbly, it was delicious.
I toped it with Sugar free Lime and Mint glaze.
Chocolate Chip Cookies-sugar free
Chocolate chip cookies
These scrumptious cookies for the diabetic chocolate lover in your life.
Cheese cake-sugar-free
Cheese cake
This one is a winner, it came out delish and the sugar free berry’s jam is out of this world delish, a match made in food haven :).
