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The cutest coziest and probably the most famous kosher bakery in New York City, Zomick’s kosher bakery in this occasion brings together all lovers of sweets, with a rich base of recipes and tips for preparing cookies. For all their old and new followers Zomick’s has featured in a new light, with many new features, tips and recipes from experts and famous pastry chefs. And the most important feature of course is that you can also enjoy preparing these mouth-watering desserts.

With a handful of new features Zomick’s challah recipes will cheer you up. An extra feature for all sweet and cookie lovers is that now they’ll be able to more easily participate in the menu creation of their favorite Zomick’s kosher bakery. With more than 1,000 recipes that contain different sections, starting from the sweet and adorable cakes, pies and cookies, to the full course meals, and all this with detailed instructions for making your favorite or try a new recipes, even those less experienced can quickly become skilled bakers.

You can search the recipes by type, the time needed for preparation, the complexity or the occasion for which it is intended. Along with the ingredients that you need for the preparation, the recipes include step-by-step instructions of the making process.  Everybody is welcomed to share their comments and opinions. In case you get stuck in the preparation, or you find yourself in a dilemma like how to make the perfect pudding, you can easily type your question to Zomick’s community pastry experts.

You can expect a number of other recipes and practical tips as well. Sweet workshops, cooking shows and other irresistible surprises that Zomick’s kosher bakery has prepared for you. These desserts as well as the other delicious products like the world famous Zomick’s challah bread are original and have been passed for at least six generations. Some of the tips include which cakes or desserts best suit an occasion, a special holiday or what is the best treat for a kid’s birthday. Always thinking about their loyal customers, they are already planning a new set of surprises that will make cooking easier and more fun.

Raspberry chocolate cake

This warm, soft and gooey mini raspberry chocolate cake is perfect for that ubiquitous chocolate fix. A good-quality plain chocolate is necessary for the success of this cakes.

This is the best, the easiest and the most versatile raspberry chocolate cake I have ever found.

This is a lovley traditional raspberry cake that I make all the time and which tastes fabulous.

This cake is so simple to make, it is a classic fudgy cake. Gorgeous texture. It is ideal for the kids, or a bit of chocolate love.

This is such an easy raspberry cake to make and always gets it is now my signature dish. Everybody that likes chocolate cake, will love this one. I have to make one for every social occasion that we go to, and it is eaten very Fast!!!!

Ingredients:

Serves: 4

• 155 g  butter
• 1 (100 g) bar good-quality plain chocolate
• 5 eggs
• 2 egg yolks
• 7 tablespoons sugar
• 10 teaspoons plain flour
• 300 g raspberries

Method of preparation:

Time for preparing: 20 minutes

Time for cooking: 8 minutes

Total time: 28 minutes

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Butter and flour 3 ramekins.
2. In the top half of a double boiler set over simmering water, heat the butter and the chocolate until chocolate is almost completely melted.
3. Use a electric mixer to beat the egg yolks and sugar together until light coloured and thick.
4. While beating, slowly pour the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture, then quickly beat in the flour and mix until just combined. Blend 80% of the raspberries with electric mixer and leave the rest for decorating the cake.
5. Divide the mixture for raspberry chocolate cake between the 3 ramekins and bake for 10 to 15 minutes. You don’t have to wait for the cake to cool. Serve immediately with fresh whipped cream, if desired.

To make things even more interesting, we have a sweet surprise for you if you go to Zomick’s Bakery on our LinkedIn profile.

Speedy cake recipe

Ingredients:

For the crust:

• 250 gr. honey
• 200 gr. sugar
• 400 gr. flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 250 oz. Beer

Filling:

• 300 gr. cooked ground wheat
• 350 gr. crushed nuts
• 350 gr. sugar
• 300 oz. water
• 2 sachets vanilla
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg

Instructions:

• Mix the flour, sugar, honey, baking soda along with the beer using wooden spoon – you’ll get unusual dough which will be easy for pouring into the pan previously covered with baking paper. Flatten with spatula and put it in preheated oven at 200°C for 20 minutes, be careful not to overcook it.  Leave the crust to cool and cut it into 3 or 4 rectangular pieces.

Preparing the Filling 

• Cook the wheat, drain it well and grind it to a machine for grinding meat. Put the sugar in pot with boiling water, leave it to boil until it dissolves completely, add the grinded wheat and continue cooking for a short time, in the end add the vanilla sugar, chopped walnuts, nutmeg, you can also add spices of your choice.
• Smear the crusts with the filling while it is still warm, arrange the crusts one over another. Sprinkle with grinded walnuts.
• This cake should stay overnight before serving.

Note: You can make this cake in any shape you want.

• If you have more filling the crusts shouldn’t be too thick. In the original recipe the amount of wheat is 150 gr I added more than that and the next time I will add even more. You can add any spice you want in the wheat, it all depends of your taste and creativity.

 

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Chocolate cake with hazelnuts and olive oil

Here is an alternative recipe for you today. We know that you know a ton of recipes that give you instructions on how to make a chocolate cake with hazelnuts. But, today we’ve added an extra ingredient to the compartment … chemical X… no, seriously it’s olive oil. This way the cakes spices up in an unusual way, and we dare you to try it on.

Ingredients:

• 250 g butter
• 200 g brown sugar
• 250 g whole wheat flour
• 200 g hazelnuts
• 5 tablespoons mashed apples
• 5 tablespoons olive oil
• 50 g cocoa
• 5 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 package vanilla sugar
• 1 packet baking powder
• 50 g coarsely chopped hazelnuts (for sprinkling the cake)

Preparation:

1.  Preheat the oven to 175 ° C.
2. With mixer mix the butter with addition of sugar and vanilla sugar until the mixture becomes foamy. Gradually add the eggs one by one in the mixer.
3. Add in a row flour, hazelnuts, apple puree, olive oil, cocoa, cinnamon and baking powder.
4. Coat with butter and sprinkle with flour the baking sheet.
5. Bake the dough for about 30-45 minutes and check with a toothpick if the cake is done. Remove the cake from the oven and leave it to cool completely. Slice the cake into squares and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

For more alternative recipes, for recipes that you haven’t heard before, or simply for ingredient’s that you never thought that would work in a recipe… Visit http://zomicksbread.net/ or go to alternative recipe page on zomickschalahrecipe.com, which can be found right here.

Cake with nuts

Ingredients:

First bark

• 300 grams biscuits
• 1 oz orange juice
• 125 g powdered sugar
• 125 g star mixed with butter spreads

Second layer

• 300 g ground walnuts
• 1.5 oz milk
• 125 g star mixed with butter spreads
• 125 g powdered sugar

Filling

• 2 Vanilla pudding
• 0.5 l milk
• 200 g sugar
• 125 g star mixed with butter spreads

Instructions:

First bark

1. First mix the ingredients for the crust.

Second layer

1. Stir in the ground walnuts in 1.5 oz hot milk.
2. Spread with butter the flour mixture and add the milk and nuts.

Filling

1. Cook vanilla pudding in milk with sugar.
2. Cool the mixture and mix with 125 g butter spreads.
3. Upon first use distribute the mixture for another sheet.
4. On another sheet pour the mixture for the stuffing.
5. If you like, decorate the cake with ground walnuts.
6. Before serving leave the cake to cool.

 

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