Famous Russian Desserts

If you like to learn about famous international desserts and make your own, it might interest you to know a bit about famous Russian desserts. In Russia, desserts are usually served at breakfast or eaten after an entree at dinner.

Pancakes, or blinis, are very popular. You might have tried these with smoked salmon or caviar but in Russia these little buckwheat pancakes are often served with honey, jelly or sour cream. Oladi are like blinis but thicker and more filling. Tvorog is Russian cottage cheese and this is served with berry jam or honey.

Pastries are very popular in Russia, especially apple pastries. Syrniki are made with fried cottage cheese and served with jelly, sweet dressings or honey. Russian teacakes are little cookie which are rolled in powdered sugar.

How to Adapt Russian Dessert Recipes

You might like to make your own Russian desserts to surprise your family but perhaps you want to tweak the recipes a little. If you enjoy making jello recipes, what about combining it with Russian recipes?

For example, Russians love to eat fruit pastries and you can make your own pastries using jello to hold the fruit topping in place and to add flavor. Try making a strawberry pastry with fresh strawberries in a layer of strawberry jello.

You can also pour jello over Russian cakes to add flavor and texture. Another way to adapt classic Russian recipes is to change what they are served with. Honey is a popular accompaniment to Russian desserts but you can try maple syrup or your favorite ice cream syrup.

Recipe for Authentic Russian Fruit Cake

This delicious recipe is perfect for fruit cake fans. There are various types of fruit cake. Perhaps you enjoy fruit cakes with plenty of nuts and a touch of whiskey or fruit cakes with lots of cherries. This Russian fruit cake contains various fruits and nuts and sherry for flavor. This is an easy fruit cake recipe but you do need to let the fruit stand in the sherry overnight so start this cake recipe a day before you want to bake it.

What you will need:

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup plus 3 tablespoons sherry
3/4 cup chopped dried apricots
1 beaten egg
1/2 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup chopped raisins
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup chopped candied fruits
1/2 cup sourdough starter
1/3 cup butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sliced almonds
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon

How to make it:

Stir the fruits into 1/2 cup of the sherry and let them stand overnight. Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F. Cream together the butter, spices and sugars until the mixture is light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, then add the sourdough starter and stir the mixture. Add the almonds and fruit mixture. Sift the salt, baking soda and flour into the sourdough mixture and combine well.

Cover a cake pan with wax paper, and then grease it well with oil. Transfer the cake batter into the cake pan and bake for 30 minutes or until done. Let the cake cool on a wire rack, and then remove the wax paper. Sprinkle the rest of the sherry over the cake.

Russian dessert recipes are full of flavor and fun to make. You can adapt classic Russian recipes with modern ingredients like jello. Sometimes you might want to make international desserts for the family and other times make something easy like a chocolate mousse instead, for variety.

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famous Russian Desserts

If you like to learn about illustrious international desserts and make your own, it might interest you to know a bit about illustrious Russian desserts. In Russia, desserts are normally served at morning meal or eaten after an entree at dinner.

Pancakes, or blinis, are very popular. You might have tried these with smoked salmon or caviar but in Russia these dinky buckwheat pancakes are often served with honey, jelly or sour cream. Oladi are like blinis but thicker and more filling. Tvorog is Russian bungalow cheese and this is served with berry jam or honey.

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Pastries are very popular in Russia, especially apple pastries. Syrniki are made with fried bungalow cheese and served with jelly, sweet dressings or honey. Russian teacakes are dinky cookie which are rolled in powdered sugar.

famous Russian Desserts

How to Adapt Russian dessert Recipes

You might like to make your own Russian desserts to surprise your family but perhaps you want to tweak the recipes a little. If you enjoy manufacture jello recipes, what about combining it with Russian recipes?

For example, Russians love to eat fruit pastries and you can make your own pastries using jello to hold the fruit topping in place and to add flavor. Try manufacture a strawberry pastry with fresh strawberries in a layer of strawberry jello.

You can also pour jello over Russian cakes to add flavor and texture. Other way to adapt classic Russian recipes is to turn what they are served with. Honey is a popular accompaniment to Russian desserts but you can try maple syrup or your popular ice cream syrup.

Recipe for Authentic Russian Fruit Cake

This yummy method is excellent for fruit cake fans. There are assorted types of fruit cake. perhaps you enjoy fruit cakes with fullness of nuts and a touch of whiskey or fruit cakes with lots of cherries. This Russian fruit cake contains assorted fruits and nuts and sherry for flavor. This is an easy fruit cake method but you do need to let the fruit stand in the sherry overnight so start this cake method a day before you want to bake it.

What you will need:

1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup plus 3 tablespoons sherry 3/4 cup chopped dried apricots 1 beaten egg 1/2 cup all purpose flour 3/4 cup chopped raisins 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 cup chopped candied fruits 1/2 cup sourdough starter 1/3 cup butter 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sliced almonds 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon

How to make it:

Stir the fruits into 1/2 cup of the sherry and let them stand overnight. Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F. Cream together the butter, spices and sugars until the blend is light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, then add the sourdough starter and stir the mixture. Add the almonds and fruit mixture. Sift the salt, baking soda and flour into the sourdough blend and integrate well.

Cover a cake pan with wax paper, and then grease it well with oil. Change the cake batter into the cake pan and bake for 30 minutes or until done. Let the cake cool on a wire rack, and then remove the wax paper. Sprinkle the rest of the sherry over the cake.

famous Russian Desserts

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Create Famous Restaurant Desserts Recipes at Home

"Eat dessert first because life is uncertain." This may be the best test of whether restaurant desserts recipes are truly famous. If, for instance, when you visit your favorite Red Robin restaurant, you order the Mountain High Mudd Pie before you order dinner, that's a famous dessert.

Once you get your dessert ordered, order your dinner, then sit back and relax. When the dessert comes, start watching for the chef so you can ask for the recipe. Begin by praising the heavenly concoction. Then call him or her a genius, a master dessert chef, or anything else that will get you that recipe.

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Of course, you can take a portion of your dessert home and try to ascertain the ingredients. If you have a fairly simple dessert, like Peach Cobbler from Hardee's, you'll be able to figure that out right away. However, if you're lucky enough to be enjoying the Ritz Carlton's Baked Chocolate Mousse, you might want a bit of help duplicating that recipe.

In this case, I would start by searching for a similar recipe online. Here's one for the chocolate mousse you may want to try:

Baked Chocolate Mousse

1 pound semisweet chocolate
6 tbs unsalted butter
1 c heavy cream
1/4 c Kahlua
6 large eggs, at room temp
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 325 and line a 9 inch springform with parchment paper.

Place the chocolate and butter in a microwave safe bowl and microwave until the chocolate is just about to melt. Stir until everything is melted and well combined. Set aside.

Whip the cream and Kahlua until you get stiff peaks, then refrigerate.

Whip the eggs, sugar and salt together in a large bowl. Once they are well combined, whip for 5 to 6 minutes at high speed. Don't overmix. Stop when you notice it starts to lose volume. Fold the chocolate mixture into the cream mixture using a spatula.

Pour the mouse into the spring form pan, then bake for about 1 hour. Allow it to cool completely.

A stroll through a bookstore or a click or two on the internet should provide you with some good choices for restaurant desserts recipes, including some of the more complicated famous desserts. You can enjoy that fabulously famous dessert now because you can create Baked Chocolate Mousse in your own home!

Why not whip up a decadent and famous restaurant dessert tonight and surprise your family.

Create Famous Restaurant Desserts Recipes at Home

Are you ready to jump in and cook your favorite restaurant recipe? Then visit http://www.cookrestaurantrecipes.com for a cookbook that includes some all-time favorites including Golden Coral's Banana Pudding and Olive Garden's Brownie Banana Fantastico.

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South American Famous Dessert - Dulce De Leche

Dulce de leche is a favorite in most South American countries. It can be eaten as a dessert, as part of a dessert, filling cakes, topping cakes, as candy, over toasts, over loaves of bread, with crackers, or by the spoonful!

In each country dulce de leche has a different name and its recipe is slightly different, except in Argentina and Uruguay, where the recipe is the same and is called the same.

Actually it is impossible to determine whether it is a Uruguayan dessert, a Argentinean dessert or from another country. Some years ago, in 2003, Argentina claimed before the UN that the dulce de leche be proclaimed an Argentinean product and Uruguay asked it to be proclaimed a Rio de la Plata product, thus making it clear that the origin is really unknown.

So here we will try to make up the history of this famous dulce de leche, which is not an easy thing to do!

-One legend takes us way back, as it is said that the dulce de leche can be found in very old cultures, and it is named in the Ayurveda (thousands of years ago), and was then named Rhabadi Ayurveda, "Science of Life", traditional medicine from India, (5000 years ago) is also one of the most modern methods of alternative medicines in our days.

-Another of the oldest legends is originated in Europe, in the 14th century where a dessert called "confiture de lait" in the Normandy region was already enjoyed by the people there.

-Years later, one of Napoleons' cooks, making sweetened milk for the troops, by accident ended making dulce de leche!

-We have heard also that origins are called to be Mediterranean, having it been started to prepare in Spain, XIX century, where no longer is made now.

-Chileans claim that the dulce de leche came to their country, when the Libertador San Martin crossed the Andes. It was called "Manjar Blanco" and goes back to the XVIII Century, since then Chileans are enjoying it.

-Argentineans say that the dulce de leche was originated in their country, when one of the maids of the Juan Manuel de Rosas household was preparing sweetened milk for her master, and because she had to attend Juan Lavalle who came to sign a peace treaty with Juan Manuel de Rosas, she was distracted and when she went back to continue preparing breakfast, she found this caramel color paste in the pan, and Juan Manuel de Rosas tried it and found it very good and tasteful.

-Uruguayans say that the dulce de leche was born when the slaves that were brought by the end of the XVIII Century had a great need for a more nourishing meal and they invented adding sugar to the milk and letting it boil long enough. The slaves showed it to their masters and they started to enjoy it too. After that it started being produced in large amounts.

Also, in other South American countries dulce de leche is known and enjoyed as well, though it has different names in each country:

--Mexico, called Cajeta, and is made with goats' milk
--Colombia, Venezuela and Panama called Arequipe
--Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Peru, Manjar Blanco (sometimes only Manjar)
--Brasil, it is called doce de leite
--In Cuba it is called dulce de leche "cortado" (cut, as they cook it differently, and it is not as soft a paste as in other countries)

The food of South America is full of interesting flavors and recipes, learn more about them visiting http://www.foodofsouthamerica.com

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