Ham and Spinach Quiche

This ham and spinach quiche is a lovely dish for brunch, lunch or dinner, with cubes of leftover ham, spinach and loads of extra sharp cheddar cheese. 

If you are trying to use up leftovers, you can’t beat baking quiche. Quiche is like an omelet: You can put anything and everything in it. If you have lots of leftovers, you might also want to check out my Omelets with Super Powers post.

Creating a quiche in two or three easy steps:

1. Choose a cheese (Cheddar, blue, Brie, Camembert, Gouda, Emmental, Swiss, etc.)

2. Choose a vegetable (Broccoli, tomato, cauliflower, asparagus, potato, onion, etc. Quick cooking vegetables can be added raw, for instance, tomatoes. Others, like broccoli and asparagus, should be parboiled. Still others, like potatoes or carrots, should be fully cooked.)

3. (Optional) Choose a cooked “meat” (Ham, bacon, chicken, beef, lamb, fish, shrimp, etc.)

Then, of course, you will add eggs, milk and cream.  Your quantities of everything will depend on the width and depth of your pie plate or quiche pan. 

The pie crust recipe I use is here. It is versatile and works just as well with savory and sweet fillings. It is the pie crust of my quiches, as well as my banana cream pie and apple rhubarb strawberry pie and pecan pie and so on. I am asked for the recipe often, but I cannot take credit. I come by it honestly: The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook, 1980 edition, Zoe Coulson, ed.  

This cookbook was a gift from my mother-in-law on our first married Christmas in 1986 and it has been so well-used (read: falling apart) that I am on my THIRD copy now, purchased on Ebay. I had to have the same edition! Perhaps later editions have all the same recipes. I’ll never know. But in the 1980 edition, I know where everything is.  

I could wax eloquent about the Before You Cook section, amply used by my newlywed husband to cook wonderful meals for me upon his return from offshore, with its illustrations of kitchen tools and pots and pans and equipment, essential for a newbie. Or the Color Index with photographs of every one of the more than 900 recipes. Or the illustrated, step-by-step instructions.

Suffice to say, this book is one of only two we have taken in the luggage to every new overseas posting in 35 years of marriage. The second book is a binder of photocopied and handwritten recipes I have amassed over the years from friends and family.  

Ham and Spinach Quiche

My quiche pan was a wedding gift and I’ve used it more times than I can count over the last 35 years. It measures 10.5 in or 27cm across and is 1.5 in or 4cm deep. The ingredient amounts below fill it to perfection. You can also bake this in a normal pie plate. 

Ingredients

1 unbaked pie crust (I use this recipe.)

6 oz or 170g leftover baked ham 

4 1/2 ounces or 127g extra sharp cheddar, grated

3 1/2 oz or 100g frozen spinach (thawed, then drained)

4 eggs

3/4 cup or 180ml cream 

1/2 cup or 120ml milk

1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt

freshly ground black pepper  

Method

Preheat your oven to 400°F or 200°C and fit your pie crust into your pie plate or quiche pan. Dock it with the pointy end of a knife or the tines of a fork. 

If your ham is in one big piece, cut it into smaller pieces. I think cubes are always fun but you can just chop it up. 

In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the eggs, cream and milk. Fold in the ham, cheese and spinach along with the salt. 

Give the mixture a few good grinds of black pepper and stir again. 

Pour this mixture into your pie crust and bake for 10 minutes in your preheated oven. My oven doesn't heat evenly so I like to put my quiche pan on another larger pan to make rotating it in the oven easier. 

After the initial 10 minutes, turn the temperature down to 350°F or 180°C and bake for an additional 25-30 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean. If your oven doesn't heat evenly, gently turn the pan around about three quarters of the way through the cooking time. 

Remove the pan from the oven and leave the quiche to cool for about 10 minutes before cutting it into slices to serve. 

I usually serve each slice of quiche with a tomato salad or even a green salad on the side but truly, it is a meal all by itself. 

Enjoy! 

Today is Easter Sunday and if you are reading this early in the day, you probably haven’t eaten your Easter dinner yet (I mean, if you do celebrate) but my Sunday FunDay friends and I are thinking ahead! At the instigation of our host, Wendy from A Day in the Life on the Farm, we are sharing recipes designed to use up your Easter dinner leftovers! Check out all the recipes below.

• Au Gratin Potato and Ham Casserole from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Broccoli Ham and Swiss Casserole from Palatable Pastime
• Chef Salad from Amy's Cooking Adventures
• Ham and Cheese Buttermilk Biscuits from Making Miracles
• Ham and Spinach Quiche from Food Lust People Love
• Leftover Brown Rice Cakes from Sneha's Recipe
• Toasted Croissant Croutons from Culinary Adventures with Camilla

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Strawberry Mint Glazed Roasted Rack of Lamb

A tart and fruity strawberry and mint glaze makes a wonderful sticky topping for this strawberry mint glazed roasted rack of lamb. It’s the perfect dish for date night or the ingredients are easily doubled for a family dinner. 

Years ago I discovered quite by accident that a rack of lamb takes only 45-60 minutes to roast, which is so much quicker than the leg, my usual part of a lamb to roast. As much as we love lamb chops, I had never bought them all hooked together still. 

One day I arrived home to find a care package with big prawns, some smoked salmon and a vacuum-packed rack of lamb stashed in my refrigerator. One of the catering contractors who supplied my husband’s drilling rigs had dropped it all off as a thank you for the business.

Those were the days of achingly slow dial-up internet so I consulted my trusty Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook (1980 edition.) Right there on page 227, the instructions were so simple: Season with salt and pepper. Roast for 1 hour or until you reach your desired internal temperature. In the last 15-30 minutes, brush with an apricot glaze aka warmed apricot jam. Honestly, does it get easier than that? Who knew!

Good Housekeeping ended with the instructions of how to remove the back bones on one side of the rack so the chops can be easily cut apart. Let me offer you a little tip. Ask your butcher to do this before you even bring that rack of lamb home. Roasting and serving is quicker and easier without those back bones to deal with. 

Strawberry Mint Glazed Roasted Rack of Lamb

Instead of the Good Housekeeping recommendation of apricot glaze, you can use any fruit you like so this can be a wonderfully seasonal dish. This time I used strawberries and mixed them with the more traditional accompaniment to lamb, classic mint sauce. Any leftover glaze can be served with the roasted rack of lamb, to spoon over the chops. So good! 

Ingredients

For the strawberry mint glaze/sauce:

7 oz or 200g strawberries

Pinch salt

1­-2 teaspoons sugar (if needed, depending on the sweetness of your strawberries)

2 tablespoons prepared mint sauce (Not mint jelly! Proper mint sauce has a bite from the vinegar. I recommend Colman's Classic Mint Sauce.)

For the rack of lamb:

1 1/2 lbs or 680g rack of lamb, preferably with a nice layer of fat on top

1 teaspoon flakey sea salt 

1 large clove garlic

1⁄2 teaspoon peppercorns (I use mixed peppercorn but just black are fine.)

Method

Start your oven preheating to 375°F or 190°C. 

Use a sharp knife to score the fat on the top of the rack of lamb. Don't cut all the way through to the meat.

Use a mortar and pestle to crush the peppercorns, garlic and salt salt into a paste.

Rub the seasonings into the scored fat then place it on a rack in a baking pan. Set aside. 

To make the strawberry mint glaze, hull the strawberries and chop them into quarters. Cook them until soft in a small covered pot over a medium flame, with the pinch of salt and a splash of water.

Taste the strawberries and add a little sugar if they aren’t sweet. 

Mash the strawberries with a fork and cook them down until they are a thick sauce. Remove from the heat and stir in the mint sauce. Set it aside

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When your oven has reached the proper temperature, put the pan in the oven and roast the rack of lamb for about 30 minutes or until the internal temperature reaches about 115°F or 46°C, for rare chops.

Remove the rack from the oven and brush it all over thickly with the strawberry mint glaze.

Return the rack to the oven for another 15 minutes or until the internal temperature is about 135°F or 57°C. Remove it from the oven and tent it with foil for about 10 minutes.

Slice into six chops and serve the remaining strawberry mint sauce alongside the chops.

Enjoy! 

It’s Sunday FunDay again and this time I’m hosting and we are sharing lamb recipes. Check out all the delicious recipes below. 

• Handi Mutton Mughlai from Sneha's Recipe
• Lamb Meatballs in Tomato Sauce from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Lamb Stew from Making Miracles
• Stinging Nettle and Lamb Börek from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Stir-fried Mongolian Lamb with Scallions from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Strawberry Mint Glazed Roasted Rack of Lamb from Food Lust People Love

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Red Cabbage Apple Mandarin Salad

Crunchy and light, this Red Cabbage Apple Mandarin Salad is a great side dish with seasonal cabbage, citrus and crisp apples to brighten a winter day. 

This salad is inspired by one created by Chef Katy Sparks that I found a few years ago when I was searching online for winter salads. We love salads all year round and this one is one of my favorites because of the mix of tart and sweet with the added boost of flavor from the orange syrup. 

You will have some of the orange syrup left over. Drizzle it over pancakes or even hot buttered toast. Hope it brightens your day too! 

Red Cabbage Apple Mandarin Salad

If you can’t find mandarin oranges, use clementines, navel oranges or whatever sweet citrus you do have to hand. Blood oranges would be good in this salad too. Larger oranges can be cut into big sized pieces. I’ve given the weights of my onion, cabbage, apple and mandarins below but know that if yours weigh a little more or less, it’s all good. This salad is very forgiving. It’s also easily doubled or trebled. 

Ingredients

For the mandarin orange double syrup:

1/2 cup or 50g sugar

1/4 cup or 60ml water

zest peeled thinly from 1 mandarin (see photo below)

For the salad:

1/2 Spanish onion (6.5 oz or 184g whole) 

1/4 cup or 60ml walnut or cider vinegar

1/2 large green apple (9.5 oz or 270g whole)  

1 small red cabbage (about 1 lb or 450g whole)

2 tablespoons mandarin orange double syrup

3 mandarin oranges (each about 2.3 oz or 65g whole)

Method

First, to make the mandarin double syrup, heat all the ingredients in a small pot over a low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved. Set aside to cool. Store in a clean jar. 

Slice the onion as thinly as you can and put it in a large bowl with the vinegar. 

Cut the half apple in half again and remove the core. Slice it as thinly as you can and toss the apple slices in the vinegar with the onion. This will keep them from turning brown. 

Discard any tough outer leaves of the cabbage. Cut it in half and then remove the core. Slice the rest of the cabbage as thinly as you can. Add the orange syrup to the apples and onion and toss to combine. Add in the cabbage and toss again. 

Peel the mandarins, carefully removing all of the white pith. Separate into pegs. 

Add the mandarin pegs to the salad and toss again. Serve the salad at room temperature or chilled.

Enjoy!

Happy Sunday FunDay! Today we are serving up healthy salads we hope you will enjoy! Check them out below. Many thanks to our host, Sneha of Sneha's Recipe.

• Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad from Palatable Pastime
• Golden Apple & Potato Salad from Sneha's Recipe
• Irish Cheddar Honey Mustard Broccoli Salad from  Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
• Japanese Potato Salad from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Kale Salad with Strawberry Vinaigrette from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Red Cabbage, Apple, Mandarin Salad from Food Lust People Love
• Sesame Chicken Salad from Making Miracles
• Super Nacho Taco Salad from Amy's Cooking Adventures

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Strawberry Almond Crumble

Strawberry almond crumble pairs our favorite sweet red berries with a buttery almond oatmeal topping that also happens to be gluten-free. And since it's so quick and easy, this is the perfect dessert to make for your sweeties today for Valentine's Day.

I was probably five or six years old when I first tasted a crumble. We lived in Pointe-a-Pierre, the Texaco “camp” in Trinidad where all the employees lived with their families. I suppose there were plenty of Americans but the houses on either side of us were English and Scottish. And being a former British colony, that influence was everywhere else on the island too.

Crumble, I discovered, is the simplest of desserts: Fruit topped with sugar, flour and butter and baked till golden. Over the years, I’ve challenged that recipe by mixing more than one fruit together – apple and rhubarb is a traditional and family favorite – and adding extras to the crumble, like today’s slivered almonds and oatmeal. Added bonus: when you need a gluten-free dessert, this is an excellent option.

The best part of crumbles is that they can be baked and served hot. Or baked ahead and served cold, at room temperature or even rewarmed. Like all crumbles, this strawberry almond crumble is the most forgiving of desserts.

Strawberry Almond Crumble

Do feel free to mix up the fruits with whatever is seasonal for you. If your fruit is more tart, you can add a little extra sugar to the filling. Sweeter fruit might need less sugar.

Ingredients
For the filling:
1 1/2 lbs or 560g fresh or frozen strawberries (hulled)
1/4 cup or 50g caster sugar
1/4 cup or 25g almond meal
2 tablespoons Pimm’s No. 3 Cup or alcohol of your choice - optional
1 tablespoon minute tapioca
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt

For the crumble topping:
2/3 cup or 50g 5-minute oatmeal
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup or 60g slivered almonds
1/2 cup or 100g demerara sugar
5 tablespoons or 70g cold butter (diced) plus a little extra for buttering deep pie dish

To serve: whipping or thick pouring cream

Method
Preheat your oven to 350°F or 180°C and butter a deep pie dish with butter.

In a large mixing bowl, toss together the hulled strawberries with the rest of the filling ingredients.

Pour the filling into the buttered dish and spread it around evenly.

Mix all of the crumble ingredients together stir.

Use a pastry blender or even a food processor on pulse to cut the cold butter into the dry ingredients until just combined. Do not over process into a paste.

Sprinkle the crumble on top of the filling.

Bake in the preheated oven for 40-45 minutes for fresh fruit or 50-55 minutes if you are using frozen.

Start checking for bubbling filling about 30-40 minutes in. Once it is bubbling, bake for about 10 minutes more. You need the filling to boil and bubble to help it activate the tapioca and cornstarch so it will thicken up.

Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes before serving.

If you are baking this a day or two before you are serving, cool the crumble completely, cover it with cling film and refrigerate. You can serve the crumble warmed in the microwave or oven but I must say that some folks love it cold.

Whether warm or cold, at our house, crumble is served with thick whipping cream. I suggest you do the same.

Enjoy!

This Sunday which is also Valentine's Day, of course, we are sharing dishes that would be great for your celebration. Check out all the goodness below. Many thanks to our host, Rebekah of Making Miracles. 

• Beet-Kissed Savory Goat Cheese Truffles by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Chocolate Chip Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies by Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
• Chocolate Dipped Strawberries by Amy's Cooking Adventures
• Grilled Grapes & Paneer Sticks by Sneha's Recipe
• Salmon with Peach Salsa by Making Miracles
• Strawberry Almond Crumble by Food Lust People Love
• Watermelon Mousse by Mayuri's Jikoni
• Wild Rice Stuffed Pork Tenderloin by A Day in the Life on the Farm

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Cookies and Cream Mini Bundts #BundtBakers

Cookies and Cream Mini Bundts are baked with Oreos and sour cream, then topped with cream glaze and more Oreos, a sweet treat your family will love!

 

I don’t remember when cookies and cream became a thing. It seems like I have loved the flavor forever. 

According to several sources, it was first created by a couple of dairy science students at South Dakota State University in 1979 at the instigation of Shirley Seas, a manager at their campus dairy plant. While they didn’t patent their invention, originally called Oreo ice cream, there were witnesses.

A little research (thanks, Wikipedia!) reveals that it probably came to my notice in 1980 when Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham, a small town about 75 miles from Houston began mass production of cookies and cream ice cream in Texas. It’s still one of top three flavors nationwide from any manufacturer. And right after seriously strong coffee ice cream, it’s mine.

And for the curious, it wasn’t until 1985 and 1997 respectively when Dairy Queen and McDonald’s started serving their soft serve ice cream treats (Blizzards and McFlurries) with Oreos mixed in.

Cookies and Cream Mini Bundts

The pan I used is from Nordic Ware called 65th Anniversary Bundt-lettes <affiliate link - that has a volume of five cups. For the Oreos, I used part of a bag of mini Oreos because they fit perfectly in the baked hole of the mini Bundts, allowing me to add the cream glaze and pop another one on top for decoration. You could also bake this batter as cupcakes, of course. They just wouldn't be as cute. 

Ingredients

For the cake batter:

1/2 cup or 113g unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus extra for the pan

3/4 cup or 150g sugar

1 large egg, at room temperature

3/4 cup or 180ml sour cream

1/4 cup or 60ml milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/4 cups or 156g all purpose flour, plus extra for the pan

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup or 85g chopped Oreos (I used the minis and cut them each in quarters.)

For the cream glaze:

3/4 cup or 94g powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream

Optional for decoration:

12 whole mini Oreos

Method

Preheat the oven to 350ºF or 180°C. Butter and flour your Bundt-lettes pan. 

In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside. 

 

In a mixing bowl beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy, for 1-2 minutes. Add in the egg and beat again till combined. 

Measure the sour cream and milk together in a measuring cup. Add in the vanilla extract and stir.

Add half of the sour cream mixture and half of the flour mixture to the main mixing bowl, beating until combined, 

Add the balance of both and beat again. 

Fold in the chopped Oreos. 

Divide the batter between the holes in your mini Bundt pan. 

Bake for about 25-30 minutes in your preheated oven or until a toothpick comes out clean and the top and edges are golden. My oven heats unevenly so I turned my pan around at about 22 minutes so it could brown more evenly. Mine took 30 minutes to bake. 

Remove the mini Bundts from the oven and leave them to cool on a wire rack for a few minutes. Run a toothpick around the edges of the pan to make sure the mini Bundts will release then invert the pan to turn the them out onto the wire rack. Cool completely before decorating with the cream glaze. 

To make the cream glaze, combine all of the ingredients and mix well. 

When the mini Bundt are completely cool, put a mini Oreo in each hole. Already so cute, right? I was sorely tempted to leave them just like that but I had already made the cream glaze and glaze is always a good thing. 

Decorate them with the cream glaze - I used a baggie with the corner cut off - and add one more mini Oreo on top. 

Enjoy! 

 

This month my Bundt Baker friends are sharing Bundts baked with nostalgic flavors from their childhoods. Many thanks to our host, Camilla of Culinary Adventures with Camilla for the fun theme and her behind the scenes work. Check out the Bundts below: 

• All Too Sweet Mini Bundts by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Apple Bundt Cake by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Cookies and Cream Mini Bundts by Food Lust People Love
• Eggless Tutti Fruity Rawa/Semolina Bundt Cake by Sneha's Recipe
• Honey Cake Inspired Bundt Cake by Magical Ingredients
• Monster B'zert Bundt Cake by Making Miracles
• Strawberry Bundt Cake with Marshmallow Cream Filling by Patyco Candybar
• Sweet Potato Bundt with Cream Cheese Glaze by Sweet Sensations

#BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all of our lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page.

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Sticky Jammy Hot Wings

Sticky jammy hot wings are sweet and savory and spicy, not to mention finger-licking good! And, even better for you, they are baked, not fried!

I absolutely love chicken wings. They are hands down my favorite part and possibly in my top five favorite things to cook and eat. For all the many years we lived in Dubai, I made my spicy sticky wings every single Friday when the weather was conducive to sailing. Sitting in the shallows of the bright blue Arabian Gulf, we ate wings to our hearts content, threw the bones farther out for the sea creatures and rinsed our sticky fingers in the salty sea. Idyllic. 

Now that we are back in the States, especially since we’ve been stuck home in a small family unit, we haven’t felt much like party wings. But I gotta tell ya, these wings helped lift my mood considerably. Something about the tangy, spicy, sweet glaze made me smile a little. Perhaps they’ll lift your spirits too. 

Sticky Jammy Hot Wings

I used homemade three-berry jam for these delicious wings but you can use your favorite fruit jam or even marmalade. If you warm the jam slightly, it is easier to mix into the glaze. This recipe is adapted from one on Love and Olive Oil.

Ingredients

2 1/2 lbs or 1142g chicken wings (weight without tips – about 12 wings)

1 tablespoon olive oil

1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt

1/2 teaspoon cayenne

freshly ground black pepper

For the glaze:

1 garlic clove

1 hot red chili pepper

1 tablespoon rice vinegar

2 teaspoons soy sauce (I used low sodium.)

1 tablespoon olive oil

1/3 cup or 110g jam of your choice

Optional for garnish: chopped cilantro 

Method

If your wings are still in one piece, use a sharp knife to divide them into three pieces. Put the wing tips in a bag and freeze them to use later when making chicken stock. I happened to buy mine in Costco where they were already separated and someone else somewhere kept the tips. I hope they did something useful with them.  

Preheat oven to 425°F or 218°C. For easier clean up, you might want to line your pan with aluminum foil or a silicone liner.

In a large bowl, put the wing pieces in a single layer. Drizzle on the olive oil, then sprinkle on the sea salt and cayenne. Give them all few generous grinds of black pepper. 

Use a wooden spoon or spatula to toss the wings to distribute the seasonings and oil to all sides of the chicken. 

Bake the pieces for 40 minutes on the middle rack of your preheated oven, turning them over once halfway through cooking, until the wings are golden brown.

Meanwhile to prepare glaze, mince the garlic and chili pepper. 

Put them both in a small bowl with the rice vinegar and set aside for about 10 minutes. This helps mellow the sharpness of the garlic somewhat. Next add in the soy sauce, olive oil and the jam. If the jam is fairly stiff, warm the whole bowl in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds then stir well to combine. 

Pour any chicken grease out of the baking pan and discard. Put the wings in a clean bowl, again single file. Spoon the glaze on to distribute it evenly.

Use a spatula or wooden spoon to toss the wings to coat them with the glaze. 

Put the chicken back in the baking pan and spoon any glaze left in the bowl on top of the pieces. 

Turn your oven to broil. Return the pan to the oven, still on the middle rack. 

Broil the wings for about 5 minutes or until the glaze has started to bubble and caramelize. Do not walk away from the oven as they can burn really quickly if you aren’t watchful. 

Garnish with some chopped cilantro, if desired. 

Enjoy! 

This month my Baking Blogger friends are sharing recipes using jam and preserves. Check them all out below. Many thanks to our leader and host, Sue of Palatable Pastime. 

• Blackberry Crumble Bars from Cookaholic Wife
• Chicken Legs With Strawberry Balsamic Glaze & Spicy Potato Wedges from Sneha's Recipe
• Chicken Thighs in Raspberry Sauce from Making Miracles
• Jalapeño Lime Glazed Chicken from Palatable Pastime
• Jam Pinwheel Cookies from Magical Ingredients
• Jelly Glazed Wings from Sid's Sea Palm Cooking
• Orange Marmalade Cinnamon Streusel Muffins from Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
• Pepper Jelly Glazed Chicken Breasts from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Roasted Lamb with Bourbon-Plum Glaze from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Shortbread Jam Cookies with a Streusel Topping from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Sticky Jammy Hot Wings from Food Lust People Love

Baking Bloggers is a friendly group of food bloggers who vote on a shared theme and then post recipes to fit that theme one the second Monday of each month. If you are a food blogger interested in joining in, inquire at our Baking Bloggers Facebook group. We'd be honored if you would join us in our baking adventures.

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Sour Cream Vanilla Bundt #BundtBakers

Sour cream, instant pudding and white chocolate chips make this sour cream vanilla Bundt so rich and decadent that everyone will want more than one slice. Top it all off with vanilla glaze and festive sprinkles!

Just like the Grinch, a few days ago I got an idea. Mine, however, wasn’t a awful idea or even a wonderful awful idea. It was just wonderful. Unless you are my husband who is the resident roux maker in our house for whom my idea meant a lot of work! Fortunately, he is a good sport. 

So here is my idea. 1. Make a huge pot of chicken and sausage gumbo. 2. Advertise to my neighborhood on NextDoor that they could “buy” a quart of gumbo (with 2 cups of cooked rice in a separate container) by sending me a donation for the Houston Food Bank. I’d pay for the ingredients and containers so all proceeds would be donated.

I am very pleased to say that I had several takers and just sent the food bank $90! Actually, the donation was $95 because – and perhaps you didn’t know this so I’m pleased to tell you – if you select a favorite charity on Paypal, they send you $5 to make a charitable donation.

I am currently taking orders for a new pot of gumbo! Meanwhile, I baked this cake for a lovely lady, also on NextDoor, who sounded like she needed some this holiday season. She is collecting toys for the children in her apartment complex so I was happy to contribute as well. ‘Tis the season after all. 

Sour Cream Vanilla Bundt

This recipe is adapted from several I found on the internet. Many called for cake mixes with instant pudding already in but where’s the fun in that? I prefer to start from scratch when I have the time. Still the easiest cake ever - one bowl!

Ingredients

For the Bundt:

Butter for buttering the pan

3 and 2/3 cups or 440g cake flour, plus extra for the pan

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2 cups or 300g granulated sugar

1/2 cup or 100g light brown sugar

1 box (3.4 oz or 96g) instant French vanilla pudding

16 oz or 473ml sour cream

3 eggs

1/3 cup or 80ml canola or other light oil

1/2 cup or 120ml water

1 cup or 170g white chocolate chips

For the glaze:

1 1/2 cups or 190g powdered sugar

2-3 tablespoons milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

To decorate: festive seasonal sprinkles

Method

Preheat oven to 350°F or 180°C. Liberally butter a 10-inch Bundt pan and then dust it with flour. Don’t skimp on this job. The white chocolate chips that end up on the outside of the cake tend to want to stick to the pan and nobody wants that. 

In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the cake attachment combine all the cake ingredients.

I include the white chocolate chips because they come out of the bag with some of them stuck together. The beaters help separate them. 

Mix on low for 30 seconds until combined.

Scrape down the bowl and beat again on medium speed until smooth and thickened, about 2 minutes.

Spoon or pour the batter into your prepared Bundt pan. 

Bake the Bundt for 55-60 minutes, or until a wooden skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. If it starts to brown too quickly before it’s done, cover the top with foil.

Leave the Bundt to cool in the pan on a wire rack for about 10 minutes.

Invert it onto the wire rack so it can cool completely before glazing. 

Make the glaze by stirring together the sugar and vanilla with two tablespoons of milk. If necessary add the last tablespoon of milk a little at time until you get good pouring consistency. 

Pour the glaze over the Bundt. Immediately sprinkle on your decorations so that they will stick before the glaze dries. 

Let the glaze set before cutting the Bundt to serve. 

Enjoy!

This month my Bundt Bakers group’s theme is Red and Green. Many thanks to our host, Rebekah of Making Miracles. Check out all the links below. 

• Avocado Bundt Cake With Strawberry Glaze by Sneha's Recipe
• Christmas Bundt Cake with Almond and Orange by Patyco Candybar
• Christmas Marble Bundt Cake by Making Miracles
• Christmas Wreath Bundt by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Kentucky Butter Cake by Sweet Sensations
• Matcha Mochi Bundt Cake by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Pistachio Rose and Tutti Fruity Bundt Cake by Magical Ingredients
• Red Velvet Cream Cheese Bundt by Palatable Pastime
• Sour Cream Vanilla Bundt by Food Lust People Love

#BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.

Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page.

Pin this Sour Cream Vanilla Bundt!

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