Nutella Eclair Cake

Posted By on January 27, 2012

Let me interupt the Valentine’s Day Breakfast in Bed for Two series to bring y’all a little something chocolate-y.  I made this rich cake for my Nutella-holic friends over at Bella Nutella.  It’s a gussied up version of Eclair Cake: vanilla bean Frangelico pastry cream layered between graham crackers smeared with Nutella.

To get the recipe for this dessert (which I think you should eat on the couch with your Valentine straight out of the pan with one fork), click here.

 

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Cheddar Biscuit Breakfast Sandwiches

Posted By on January 24, 2012

For all of you that I sent running in the other direction with my neon green smoothie with spinach, this recipe is for you.  I modified my standard half-dozen buttermilk biscuits to make cheddar garlic biscuits.  Consider it an apology for freaking you out with a vegetable on a dessert website.  This is one mouth-watering and savory apology from me to you.

The recipe makes 7 biscuits instead of the usual 6 because the addition of cheddar.  These biscuits are so tender and melt-in-your-mouth (just like the ones at that restaurant chain that sells large crustaceans of a certain color…ya hear me?).  I don’t think you’ll have any trouble finding space for the spare biscuit.  If odd numbers bother you as much as they do me, just eat one straight out of the oven before anyone else sees.

Other recipes in the 2012 Valentine’s Day Breakfast in Bed series so far:
Pina Colada Smoothie
Creme Brulee French Toast

To browse all of my small breakfast recipes, click here. 

Cheddar Biscuit Breakfast Sandwiches
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makes 7 small 3″ biscuits
Ingredients
  • 1 1/3 cup flour
  • 1/4 + 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 + 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder (not garlic salt)
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • 2 tablespoons shortening, chilled
  • 1 1/2 tablespoon unsalted butter, chilled
  • 1/2 cup milk (I used 1%)
  • 3/4 cup freshly grated sharp cheddar cheese
  • For sandwiches:
  • We use 1 egg + 1 egg white and 2 strips of bacon per 2 biscuits.
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 450 and have ready a small round pan or a cast iron skillet.
  2. In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, garlic powder and black pepper.
  3. Cut the shortening and butter into small pieces and add it to the flour mixture, cutting it in with a pastry cutter or two knives. When all of the pieces of fat are the size of rice and are coated in flour, add the cheese and pour in the milk. Knead it slightly, and add additional milk 1 tablespoon at a time if the biscuit dough seems dry or crumbly.
  4. Tip the dough out onto a floured counter and pat it out to 1″ thick. Dip your 3″ biscuit or cookie cutter in flour and cut out 4 biscuits. Gather up the scraps and gently pat them out in order to cut out 3 more biscuits.
  5. Arrange the dough in the pan–you want the biscuits to be closer together. Bake for 10 minutes, or until lightly golden on top. If you want, brush with extra melted butter as they come out of the oven.
  6. Feel free to do whatever egg:bacon ratio you like.
 

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Pina Colada Smoothie

Posted By on January 20, 2012

Next up in the Breakfast in Bed For Two series is a delicious, rich and indulgent smoothie.  By delicious, I mean rum.  By rich, I mean rum.  And by indulgent, I mean rum.  All before noon.

I always try to take care of you health nuts out there.  Last year, I made y’all mulled wine poached pears.  This year, I’m bringing you a luscious smoothie that won’t make you feel guilty, because it contains spinach.  If a green smoothie coming towards your sweetheart on a tray would make him jump out of bed and run in the other direction, just leave out the spinach.  But, really, y’all, you can’t taste the spinach at all.  So, why not fill your loved one with 1 cup of spinach before lunchtime and smile the rest of the day at your good deed?

If you’re admiring my barbed wire basket tray up there, I bought it from sweet Milisa over at Miss in the Kitchen.  Her sons made them with spare barbed wire from their ranch, and I snatched it up while she still had them on Etsy.  If we all ask her nicely, maybe they will make some more?  Please, Miss? Love ya.

Stay tuned for a little something sweet to stuff in that tray next to these smoothies.

 

Pina Colada Smoothie
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makes 2 smoothies
Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups lite coconut milk, cold
  • 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
  • 1 tablespoon dark rum (optional)
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup (or sorghum syrup)
  • 1 small banana, frozen
  • 1 cup chopped pineapple
  • 1/4 cup plain yogurt
  • 2 cups loosely packed baby spinach
  • 2 tablespoons flaked coconut, toasted (optional garnish)
Instructions
  1. In a large blender, combine all ingredients (except toasted coconut, if using). Blend until very few specks of the baby spinach remain. Enjoy garnished with toasted coconut.

 

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