FROM OUR RECIPE BOX – Dried Plum, Cream Cheese and Walnut Tassies

We conceived of these lekvar and cream cheese-filled cookies as something for Rosh Hashanah to bring a sweet start to the Jewish New Year. But they will be just as welcome at a tailgate party or on an autumn picnic. Serve them with a cup of strong tea or even a glass of Sherry for dessert. (Try this recipe with any of our Schmears™ or our Poppy Seed Filling.)

Dried Plum, Cream Cheese and Walnut Tassies

A tassie is a small tart tin, like a mini cup cake pan with sloped sides. Popular in British cooking, tassie pans are ideal for jam tartlets such as Bakewell Tarts or Swedish almond Mazarins. You can find these pans at specialty stores but mini muffin tins work just as well.

Here’s the recipe for Dried Plum, Cream Cheese and Walnut Tassies.

FROM OUR RECIPE BOX – Poppy Butter Bundt Cake

Looking for a moist butter cake that’s not too sweet, something to serve with coffee or tea after a light supper or brunch? Are you a fan of poppy seeds? If the answer is “yes”, then this is the recipe for you. The batter for our buttery Bundt cake surrounds a surprise swirl of poppy seed filling. There’s a nutty quality to the seeds that contrasts nicely with the tangy sour cream and lemon in the batter.

Poppy Butter Mini Bundt Cake

Bake the cake into a sumptuous loaf or in mini pans as we did for the photograph. (This recipe makes 8 mini Bundt cakes or one 10-inch cake.) For chocolate or spice lovers, our Chocolate, Almond or Cinnamon Schmears™ would work well in this recipe. And consider dressing it up with a light sugar or lemon glaze.

Here’s the Poppy Butter Bundt Cake recipe.

FROM OUR RECIPE BOX – Berry, Berry Almond Crisp

For summer, we wanted an all purpose almond dough, one that can be used with all the succulent fruits of the season. This dough, rich in almond flavor with the slight nuttiness of rolled oats, is one we hope fits the bill. Make this fruit crisp and serve it warm with ice cream.  It can be easily  cut into bars. Crumble this dough over your favorite baking dish full of sliced apples, peaches or pears. Sprinkle it over individual ramekins of fresh berries.

Berry, Berry Crumble

You can even fill this recipe with our Almond, Chocolate or Cinnamon “Schmear”™ Fillings.

Here is the Berry, Berry Almond Crisp recipe.

FROM OUR RECIPE BOX – Strawberry Rhubarb Almond Tart

The finished Tart.

Following the theme of perfect pairings, strawberries and rhubarb are companionable ingredients. But don’t overlook the happy flavor combination of these two spring fruits and almonds. Here we’ve used a generous layer of Love’n Bake Almond Schmear™ on a flaky tart dough. Not only does the Schmear add its lovely almond fragrance, it also acts as a moisture barrier keeping the crust crisp after baking.

Here’s the recipe for  Strawberry Rhubarb Almond Tart.

1 Rolling out the dough.

2 Spreading an even layer of Almond Schmear over the dough.

3 Covering the dough with an even layer of the strawberry and rhubarb mixture.

4 Folding over the edges of the dough to form an edge on the tart.

5 The unbaked tart with the edges formed.

6 The unbaked tart sprinkled with sugar and dotted with butter.

7 Closeup of the crust and tart after baking.