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Pumpkin Pie Aebleskiver with Cream Cheese Filling

October 2nd, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

This pumpkin pie aebleskiver uses our Harvest Pumpkin Aebleskiver mix, and they’re stuffed with a cream cheese pastry filling and topped with a cinnamon cream pancake syrup. If you ever wanted pumpkin pie for breakfast or a snack without the guilt of the pie, this would be it. They’re so easy and absolutely delicious. Ingredients Harvest Pumpkin Aebleskiver mix cream cheese pastry filling cinnamon cream pancake syrup for serving Directions Mix the aebleskiver mix according to package instructions. Heat your aebleskiver pan to medium-low. Place 1/4 teaspoon butter in each well. Heat until the butter bubbles. Place one tablespoon batter …

Six Kitchen Breakthroughs I Love

September 24th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

I may have the most fun job on the planet! I’m a food explorer. I have an office just down the hall from the test kitchen. I don’t do all of the baking but I know what’s going on. I get to explore new foods and methods and recipes. Including flavored whipped cream to add a boost of flavor to desserts and pie shields to prevent burnt crusts, these six breakthroughs will change your life. 1. Pie Shields I never bake a pie without a pie shield. Remember when we used to fold tin foil around the edges of pumpkin pies? …

How to Make Lemon Cream Rolls

September 22nd, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

If you can make cinnamon rolls, you can make these sweet rolls. These lemon cream sweet rolls are reminiscent of a lemon meringue pie with the lemon pastry filling and the lemon cream cheese frosting. FREE Baking Guide! Making Your Sweet Rolls with a Mix You can make these sweet rolls with a bread mix, but we’ve found that using a donut mix makes them sweeter, lighter, and fluffier–as close to bakery-style sweet rolls you can get. We like to use our Original Raised, Glazed Donut mix, but you can also use our Daily Dozen Donut mix instead. If you …

How to Make Raspberry Cream Rolls

September 22nd, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

If you can make cinnamon rolls, you can make these sweet rolls. These raspberry cream sweet rolls have the essence of a raspberry cream pie with the raspberry tidbits kneaded into the dough, the combination of raspberry and Bavarian cream filling, and the raspberry cream cheese frosting. Sweet Rolls Made with a Donut Mix We’ve found that using a donut mix for the base of these sweet rolls results in a sweet, fluffy roll that tastes just like it’s from the bakery. Only our raised donut mixes will work for this, so either the Original Raised, Glazed Donut mix or …

How to Bake Like a Pro with Pastry Fillings

September 18th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

Those scrumptious filled donuts, turnovers, and other filled pastries at your favorite bakeshop—chances are, they’re filled with Dawn pastry fillings. Dawn is the largest supplier of baking ingredients to bakeshops in America. And their fillings are outstanding. These fillings come in two categories: Fruit and cream. The fruit fillings include raspberry, lemon, cherry, blueberry, and apple. The cream fillings include Bavarian, cream cheese, and chocolate Bavarian. Our best selling fillings are Bavarian, apple, and lemon. Use Pastry Fillings to Bake Like the Pros Pastry fillings are like pie fillings on steroids! Yes, you can use pie fillings in your pastries …

Easy Fried Apple Pies

September 14th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

Fried apple pies are flakey and crisp, like fair food, but so good. Little fried apple pies make for a rustic, quick, and easy treat; and you can use premade apple pastry filling to make it even easier. Just roll and cut out the crust, stick it into the dough press, load in the filling, crimp the edges, and fry. What You’ll Need for Fried Apple Pies Use a premade pie crust or the recipe below. Use a dough press to cut and crimp your crust. Use an apple pastry filling. Or make your filling with fresh apples. See How …

You’ve Never Dreamed of Cinnamon Rolls Like These!

September 4th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

Years ago, we started making filled cinnamon rolls…filled with everything from maple-flavored cinnamon and butter to lemon curd. And they made great and easy rolls, especially when you made them from a bread mix, but we couldn’t get them exactly as fluffy as the ones from the bakery. It wasn’t until later that we discovered the secret was making cinnamon rolls from a donut mix, leading us to our donut cinnamon roll mix. You can find variation recipes below. A Quick Note on Making the Best Cinnamon Rolls As we developed out donut cinnamon roll mix and the following recipes, …

Apricot Cream Cake with a Mango Drizzle

August 26th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

This apricot cream cake is one of my favorites, a very fragrant, fruity whipped cream cake. It’s made with a simple Vanilla Bean Baby Cake base mixed with a touch of apricot flavoring and frosted with an apricot whipped cream frosting drizzled with mango dessert sauce with an apricot pastry filling between the layers. That’s a mango dessert sauce drizzled over the top. It’s the perfect complement. About the Apricot Flavor We made this cake because we are in love with our apricot flavor. It’s delightful, smooth, sweet, and authentic. As expected, it made a great frosting. About the Apricot …

Apple Sweet Rolls

August 21st, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

If you can make cinnamon rolls, you can make these fresh apple sweet rolls. The method is the same except that you use an apple pie filling made with fresh apples instead of a cinnamon-sugar mixture. It makes really loaded, scrumptious sweet rolls. You can use this same roll recipe and technique to make other sweet rolls with your choice of pie or pastry filling. Free Baking Guide! Apple Sweet Rolls Recipe Ingredients For the dough: 4 1/2 to 5 cups bread flour 1/3 cup dry milk 1/4 cup sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon dough conditioner 6 tablespoons …

How to Make Homemade Pop Tarts® and Recipes

August 11th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

“I’m going to make Pop Tarts,” Julie announced. I wasn’t a fan. But before we were through, we had terrific pop tarts—pop tart recipes that even adults would love. My favorites? Boston Cream Pie Pop Tarts, Chubby Cherry with Cream Cheese Frosting Pop Tarts, and Cherry Chocolate Pop Tarts. They are easy and quick to make. We’ll give you the recipes and tell you how to make them. There are three components to these pop tarts: the pastry (crust), the filling, and the frosting. You can use a pie crust mix for the shell or make a chocolate pastry …

Easy Pie Turnovers

July 17th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

DESCRIPTION If you want to make a simple treat for your family and friends, this is the recipe for you. These delicious turnovers are easy to make and are great to serve guests for any occasion. They’re worth every bite! INSTRUCTIONS Our Pantry 1 Dough Press 1 Pie Crust Mix 2 tbsp. Chubby Cherry Filling or other fruit fillings 2 tbsp. Cream Cheese or Bavarian Creamor 3-4 tbsp. fruit filling Your Pantry 3 eggs 2 t. oil 1/2 cup water Steps Step 1—Roll and cut the dough: Roll the dough out until it is no thicker than 1/4 inch — …

Make Your Own Bavarian Cream

July 15th, 2020Dennis Weaver | Alice Wach0 Comments

Blog Home Prepared Pantry Store Shopping Cart Take your desserts to the next level with real Bavarian cream. It really is a must-have filling for many desserts: cream puffs, pies, cupcakes, donuts, and more. Here, you can decide between making your own Bavarian cream with our recipe or using our pre-made Bavarian cream to make your life easier and tastier. Homemade vs. Premade Normally, I’d tell you that making anything from scratch is always better–even if you have to put a little extra work in it, but the line between “worth the effort” and “still has great taste” gets very …

Make This Fabulous Banana Cream Pie in 20 Minutes

July 2nd, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

Blog Home Prepared Pantry Store Shopping Cart Get your Bavarian Cream Filling for just $2 per pound! Each pack makes 3 pies. Add it to cart and use code “ZBPIE” at checkout. Make this Fabulous Banana Cream Pie in 20 Minutes Make it for just a few bucks! Welcome to the best, quickest, and easiest banana cream pie you will ever make! Quick and easy! Use our just-add-water pie crust mix and Bavarian cream for the filling, and you won’t have to make anything from scratch or cook anything more than the pie crust. Best tasting! You won’t find a …

Lemon Cream Pie Filled Cupcakes

June 3rd, 2020rrf0 Comments

These are wonderful creamy cupcakes with a bright, lemon flavor. The cake is lemon, the filling is lemon, and the frosting is a buttercream frosting to balance the flavors. How to Make Lemon Cream Pie Filled Cupcakes The Cupcake Recipe Ingredients Vanilla Bean Baby Cakes cake mix 1 teaspoon lemon flavor Directions: Add the lemon flavor to the cake mix. Mix and bake according to package directions. About the Lemon Pastry Filling Use our Lemon Pastry Filling to fill your lemon cream pie filled cupcakes. Clip a corner on the two-pound pack of lemon filling and squeeze about 1/3 ounce …

Peaches and Cream Turnover Pastries Recipe

May 25th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

I love fresh peaches and peach pie, so I’m very partial to this turnover recipe. We could have added cinnamon and a little nutmeg to these pastries, but if you have good peaches, you don’t need to. About the Pastry Filling For these turnover pastries, we used fresh peaches mixed with our Bavarian cream filling. The filling is authentic and premade, so it’s convenient and tasty. We could have also used our peach pastry filling to make the recipe even easier, but I just love peaches so much. FREE Baking Guide “How to Bake Like the Pros with Pastry Fillings” …

Mixed Berries and Cream Turnover Pastries Recipe

May 25th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

For these mixed berries and cream turnover pastries, we used frozen mixed berries, for this recipe and paired it with Bavarian cream. Ingredients 1 pie crust dough for six turnovers 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon cold water 1 cup individually frozen mixed berries, thawed in the microwave 1 cup Bavarian cream filling at room temperature Directions Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Roll out the pie crust until it is just less than 1/4-inch thick. Use a dough press to cut out six circles for the turnover pastries. Mix the berries and the Bavarian cream together. Place the circles in …

Banana Cream Little Pie Recipe

May 25th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

Most banana cream pies are made with uncooked bananas so we were a little cautious with this banana cream turnover pastries recipe. But the bananas–even though they were cooked–buried in all that Bavarian cream, were excellent. The filling is very much like an old-fashioned banana pudding. FREE Baking Guide Ingredients: 1 pie crust dough for six turnovers 1 tablespoon cold water 1 cup ripe, sliced bananas 1 cup Bavarian cream filling at room temperature Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Roll out the pie crust until it is just less than 1/4-inch thick. Use a dough press to cut …

Blueberry Lemon Turnover Pastries Recipe

May 25th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

We’ve always been partial to blueberries and lemon together. This blueberry lemon turnover pastries recipe uses lemon filling with frozen blueberries, though we could have tried our blueberry pastry filling instead for more convenience. Again, with only two ingredients in the filling, this is super easy and quick. FREE Baking Guide! Blueberry Lemon Turnover Pastries 1 pie crust dough for six turnovers 1 tablespoon cold water 1 cup individually frozen blueberries thawed in the microwave 1 cup lemon pastry filling at room temperature Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Roll out the pie crust until it is just less …

Blueberries and Cream Cheese Turnover Pastries Recipe

May 25th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

This blueberries and cream turnover pastries recipe uses cream cheese filling instead of Bavarian cream, but it is good with either. Again, with only two ingredients in the filling, this is super easy and quick. FREE Baking Guide Blueberries and Cream Turnover Pastries Ingredients: 1 pie crust dough for six turnovers 1 tablespoon cold water 1 cup individually frozen blueberries thawed in the microwave 1 cup cream cheese filling at room temperature Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Roll out the pie crust until it is just less than 1/4-inch thick. Use a dough press to cut out six …

Raspberry Cream Turnover Pastries

May 14th, 2020Dennis Weaver0 Comments

You can make raspberry and cream turnover pastries with either fresh or frozen raspberries or with raspberry pastry filling. This recipe uses Bavarian cream pastry filling and makes very scrumptious pies. With only two ingredients in the filling, this is super easy and quick. FREE Baking Guide Raspberry Cream Turnover Pastries 1 pie crust dough for six turnovers 1 tablespoon cold water 1 cup raspberry pastry filling 1 cup Bavarian cream at room temperature Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Roll out the pie crust until it is just less than 1/4-inch thick. Use a dough press to cut out …