Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Recipe: Bienenstich (Bee Sting Cake) Disney Copycat Recipe



Ingredients:

Cake:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup bread flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon yeast
2 tablespoon butter
2 each eggs
6-8 tablespoon milk

Topping:
1/4 cup sugar
3 tablespoons milk
1 cup almonds

Filling:
3 each instant vanilla pudding mix (3 1/8 ounce box)
4 cups milk
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
**This made about twice as much filling for my cake as needed. I suggest halfing the recipe and then making more as needed.

Honey and Sugar Mixture:
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup water
1/4 cup honey

Directions:

Cake:
Sift together the flours, salt and sugar.
Add the eggs one at a time until incorporated.
Then add the butter until mixed into flour mixture.
Heat milk until it is warm to touch. Add yeast to milk and dissolve.
In a mixing bowl, add the warm milk and yeast mixture to the flour until the dough pulls away from the sides but sticks to the bottom of the bowl.
Place on a floured surface and roll into a 10 inch circle to the thickness of 1/4 inch. Then place in a greased 10-inch cake pan.
Pre-heat oven to 350°.
Let sit in a warm place covered until the dough doubles in size.
Place topping mixture on top of proofed cake and bake in a 350° for 20-25 minutes or until the top is golden brown.
Let cool on wire racks. Once cooled, slice in half lengthwise using a serrated knife.
Brush both sides with the honey and sugar mixture.
Line a 10 inch cake pan with plastic wrap so it over hangs on the sides.
Place the bottom of cake in the pan. Spread the pudding and whipped cream mixture on the bottom of the cake. Then place the top portion of the cake on the pudding mixture.
Place in the refrigerator until cake sets.
Remove from pan carefully from by pulling the plastic wrap. Serve.

Baked, ready for filling.




Topping:
Warm milk. Add the sugar and mix until well dissolved.
Remove from heat and cool. Mix in the almonds.
This will be used as a topping for the cake.
Topping on and ready to bake.


Filling:
Add the pudding mix to the 4 cups of milk in a bowl.
Beat with a wire whisk or electric mixer at low speed for 2 minutes.
In a separate bowl whip the heavy cream until it forms soft peaks.
Fold the heavy cream into the pudding mixture until well incorporated.




Honey and Sugar Mixture:
Mix together the ingredients. Heat until sugar dissolves. Cool at room temperature.





Saturday, July 16, 2016

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [Themed Dinner]

Banyan Beef Skewer, Turkish Stewed Green Beans, and rice.

When you think of Indiana Jones - what do you think of? Snakes? Rats? Nazi's melted faces? Monkey Brains? Yeah, it's not the easiest theme to go with... unless you like Monkey Brains and BBQ'd rat (I don't). So I went with a benign option. With it being The Last Crusade I thought middle eastern meets Germany somehow...

With our themed meals also working towards a countdown to a Disney trip (Disneyland this time) I also decided that we could use a recipe or two from the parks - which comes in handy with Indy as Adventureland's food cart is basically outside of the Indiana Jones ride. So off I went to scour the internet for inspiration.

I came away with the Banyan Beef Skewer recipe for our main course. Anytime beef is involved I'm pretty much there. And then I went with a Turkish stewed green beans dish and rice for the side dishes. It tied together very well. The family liked it (I didn't, but that's because I'm picky). There was just enough kick in the sauce to grab your attention and get you ready to fight off the Nazi's to save the world and find the Holy Grail.

The colors and smell were divine.
For dessert we traveled to Germany as I created a Bienenstich, which translated means Bee Sting Cake. I was very nervous on how it would turn out as I am not the best at doing cake layers with filling, but I was determined to get it right. I spent most of Friday afternoon and evening preparing it. After it set overnight I was excited (and still nervous) to serve it, but all things considered (I put a little TOO much filling) it came out great! And I even enjoyed the cake! We all agree it could easily be a frozen/ice cream like cake. YUM! Germany, you do things fantastically!





Because Mom is Gluten Intolerant she couldn't have the Bienenstich, so I made her a gluten free black forest type cake. She ate it before I could snap a picture.

Recipes used to create this menu:
Banyan Beef Skewers from Bengal BBQ
Turkish Stewed Green Beans
Bienenstich from EPCOT's Biergarten Restaurant
1-minute Black Forest Cake (Gluten Free)

Monday, January 4, 2016

Disney-Pixar's Toy Story [Themed Dinner]

I originally posted this on my personal blog (Reitter's Block) on February 23, 2013 as part of my "Tasteful Countdown" project counting down to the family trip to Walt Disney World in October of 2013. This is the project that gave me the idea to create this blog. And then life got in the way... so I am starting it up again in the New Year.

Pizza, Cake, and a movie, what could be better?
January 31st marked Duane's 18th birthday. It also landed on a Thursday, so we mixed the two together. Duane's big party would happen that weekend, so we did a small deal with just us and his best friend. It worked out great because Toy Story was one of his favorites when he was small - and it has that "army man" element so we could still do the "Go Army" so it wasn't totally cheesey.

Well, there was cheese - I made homemade pizzas. Thanks to my awesome new KitchenAid pizza dough was so easy! I loved how simple it was, and for the first time of me making the dough I have to say it was excellent. I used a recipe a friend gave me, but didn't put in the total amount of yeast that it called for. It still rose well, and it didn't taste yeasty. A win-win for me as I hate the taste of yeast!

I forgot to save some white frosting for stars on the blue.
I also baked a cake from scratch - the first one I did the night before and it didn't go very well. I tried another recipe the day of and it came out better than the first, but I think I'm over mixing with the KitchenAid. I will have to keep working on it. However, I loved how the camo effect came out. That's right, I made a camo cake! The cake was green, brown, and black inside. It was frosted red white and blue and had toy army men in honor of both the movie and Duane's love of the Army.

The cake was two layers and had a chocolate mousse filling. It was pretty good and I'm not a cake fan.

You might be asking what my mom ate with all of this gluten loaded food - for the cake she had the mousse only (we had a lot more mousse than we did cake. It was not what we planned. Not sure what happened there. For the pizza we tried the pinterest craze of the cauliflower crust. It really works and it tastes great -and I hate cauliflower! Mom was happy enough with it - she still misses the regular crust, but at least she's found something that she not only can stomach but likes! Just a tip - use a ricer not a grater. The ricer looks to give you more cauli-meal for the crust.

With two 18 year old boys plus the three adults, we ate all but a couple of slices of pizza (we made four plus moms!) and ate half a cake. All in all a success even with the cake issues.

Very proud of how the camo came out! AWESOME!
Pizza Crust recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/basic-pizza-dough-recipe/index.html
Cauliflower crust recipe: http://whatsfordinner-momwhatsfordinner.blogspot.com/2012/06/cheesy-garlic-cauliflower-bread-sticks.html

*Note: the family drama started the night after this. I was unsure that I wanted to post this blog post, but honestly the pizza is one we make often because it is that good... and the camo cake is too cook not to share.