White Chocolate Macaroons

Ingredients:
2 cups desiccated (fine) coconut
½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ cup cacao butter
¼ cup coconut oil
¼ cup maple syrup
¼ cup cranberries
1 cup brazil nuts
Pinch salt
Extra coconut to finish


Procedures:
Process brazil nuts to a fine powder. Add coconut and cranberries and process a little more. Add butter, oil, vanilla, maple syrup and salt and process to bring together. Roll into small balls. If mixture is too sticky to roll easily place in fridge for a few hours. Roll balls in the extra coconut. Store in fridge in an airtight container.

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Ingredients:
8 oz Cream cheese, softened
1 tsp Salt
3 sticks Butter, softened
2 tsp Vanilla or lemon extract
3 cup Sugar
1 cup Fresh blueberries or peaches

6 Eggs
3 cup All purpose flour

Procedures:
Do not preheat oven. Lightly butter a 10-inch tube pan, and line the bottom with parchment paper; set aside. Combine butter and cream cheese in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment,
and beat on medium speed until smooth.Add the sugar, increase the speed to high, and beat until light and airy, about 5 minutes.  Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula as needed. Add the vanilla, then the flour and salt all at once. Beat just until blended. Fold in fruit. (*see note)

Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and tap lightly to even out the top. Place in cold oven. Bake at 325 degrees  F until cake is golden brown and a cake tester inserted in the cake comes out clean, 1 ź to 1 ˝ hours. Place the pan on a cooling rack, and cool for 20 minutes. Remove cake from pan,
and let cool completely. Serve at room temperature. 

 

Note: 

*You can add just fruit and let them speak for themselves, or with the flavorings. Use lemon with blueberries and the vanilla with peaches.

Isla Tropicana Smoothie

Ingredients:
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup strawberry yogurt
1/4 cup crushed ice
1 banana, peeled and chopped
1/2 cup pineapple chunks
1/2 teaspoon honey

Procedures:
Put all ingredients into a blender except the honey.  Blend for about 20 seconds.  Then, add the honey and blend for another 10 seconds.  Pour into flute glasses and serve.