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Peanut Butter Crunch Ice Cream

Peanut Butter Crunch Ice Cream Ingredients Crunch 300 grams OR 10 oz. semi-sweet chocolate ½ cup peanut butter Melt these two items together. While it is still warm, stir in 1 and 1/2 cups cornflakes or rice krispies. Mix this well. Ice Cream Base 6 eggs, separated 1 cup sugar 2 packets of vanilla sugar…

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Almond-Apple Cake

Almond-Apple Cake A moist cake with only the goodness of apples used as sweetener. Great for Rosh Hashanah! Submitted by Toby Weinper of Hamodia Magazine Makes 1 round cake, 16 pieces Ingredients 3 eggs 1/4 cup oil 1 cup unsweetened applesauce 3/4 cup unsweetened apple juice concentrate (canned) 2 & 1/4 cups whole wheat flour…

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Crushed Peanut Cookies

Crushed Peanut Cookies These are NOT a peanut-butter cookie! Makes about 50-60 cookies of the size shown in the photo. Ingredients 4 eggs 1 cup oil 1¼ cups sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla 3 teaspoons baking powder small pinch of salt 5½ cups flour (you may need a bit more if the dough is too sticky)…

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Sprinkle Cookie Sticks

Sprinkle Cookie Sticks Makes about 70 small sticks Ingredients 4 eggs 1 cup oil 1 1/4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 teaspoons baking powder pinch of salt 5 1/2 cups flour (you may need a bit more if the dough is too sticky) Method Preheat the oven to 350° F/180° C. In your mixer,…

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Applesauce Cranberry Ices

Applesauce Cranberry Ices So refreshing at the end of a seuda… Ingredients 1 ½ – 2 cups applesauce 2 cans cranberry sauce (the one without the whole berries) 1 cup Sprite soda 1 cup orange juice Optional (I did not use it): 1-2 Tablespoons fruit flavored liqueur Method Mix this up by hand in a…

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Pomegranate Glazed Apple Strudel Squares

Pomegranate Glazed Apple Strudel Squares You don’t need the mixer for this recipe, it is easily hand done.and this smells amazing while baking! Ingredients 4 cups flour 1 ½ cups trans fat free or reduced margarine 1 ½ cups sugar 2 eggs 7 medium sized any kind apples 1 Tablespoon lemon juice ½ cup sugar…

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Incredible Honey Cookies

Incredible Honey Cookies Here’s a GREAT make-ahead Rosh Hashanah recipe that I made last year and taped up on my notice board then, specifically so that I wouldn’t forget to share it with all of you this year… A very dear and special lady, Rebbetzin Sarah Meisels, gave me this recipe. She told me they…

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Pomegranate Flavored Glaze

Pomegranate Flavored Glaze 1 cup powdered sugar 2 tablespoons oil 2-4 tablespoons juice You don’t need to buy expensive real pomegranate juice. I just used one of those Spring boxes of pomegranate ‘juice’ drink. It works fine. Mix these ingredients together with a spoon, starting with only 2 tablespoons of the juice, until they are…

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Apple Beet Cake

Apple Beet Cake Great idea just in time for Rosh Hashana! Here’s a sweet, new idea on how to creatively incorporate some of our ‘regular’ Rosh Hashana foods in newer ways, beets, apples and a healthy sweet cake! This freezes great and with all the beets, apples and whole wheat it is a healthier alternative…

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Healthy, Margarine-free Apple Crisp

So good you will use this often I prefer this apple crisp served cold but if you are the kind that likes it warm, leave it on top of another pot on the blech for 2 hours before serving it. Healthy Apple Crisp No margarine, no white flour and plenty of good things in this…

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    Three Generations Enjoying Challah

    I bought two of your challah cookbooks and I gave one to my daughter. Well, here is a picture of my twin grandchildren reaching for the bread we baked. They kept trying to grab the bread and saying "hot" as we snapped pictures! They will be 2 years old in September. Enjoy the photos.