Guide to Desserts/Baking

From Carroll Pellegrinelli, your Guide to Desserts/Baking via email Homepage Email "Holiday baking?" you say. Yes, you can begin your holiday baking now. This is a good time to double whatever your baking right now and freeze half of it to have ready for the holidays. I especially like to do this with pound cakes, cookies and quick breads. It makes life so much easier when the stress of the holiday cheer is lessened by just the opening of the freezer door.

Pound Cakes Pound Cakes are one of the most versatile desserts. You can eat them plain, warm, room temperature, with frosting or a glaze, without frosting or a glaze, as part of a trifle or even as part of an ice cream sundae. Got last minute dinner guests or want to invite people right after church, the pound cake is your go-to dessert. This works well during the holidays, too. Keep two in your freezer at all times, and you'll be ready for anything. Lil's Pound Cake 7UP Pound Cake Brown Sugar Pound Cake Hershey Bar Cake More Pound Cakes

Bundt Cakes Although, a lot of pound cakes are made in Bundt Cake pans, not all bundt cakes are pound cakes. Typically, Bundt Cakes are big. The next time you bake one, freeze half of it for later. Bundts don't need icing to look pretty. They are already shaped in lovely designs, which make them perfect for freezing. Bacardi Rum Cake Limoncello Cake Black Russian Cake Kahlua Cake

Quick Breads I don't know about you, but all through the holidays I have company coming and going. It's nice to just pull out an extra loaf of banana bread or a few already-made muffins from the freezer. Don't forget the real butter! (When I buy lots of butter, I keep it in the freezer, too.) Very Best Banana Bread Chocolate Zucchini Muffins Cranberry-Orange Bread Walnut Bread Jalapeno Cornbread More Quick Bread Recipes

Cookies! The more time you spend on your cookie dough in the beginning, the less it will be when you take them out of the freezer. Of course, you could bake the cookies and freeze them, but I prefer to freeze the cookie dough. Then, you truly are eating freshly baked cookies even though the dough came out of your freezer. I also prefer to shape my dough into 2 to 3-inch balls for drop cookies. This way I can bake them just as they come out of the freezer. For sugar cookies, I prefer to freeze the dough into disks, that can be rolled out later. Freezing Cookie Dough Sugar Cookies Drop Cookies A Gallery of Cookies

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