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Celebration Cake, a hazlenut meringue, four layers of butter cream and lots of goodness

 

12 eggs whites, cream, of tarter, vanilla and salt.

 

Yes, whipped slowly

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Rub It Good

Hazelnuts are toasted and then rolled in a towel to get rid of the husks before pulverizing in a processor.  A touch of flour a quick fold and we're ready for a 325 oven.

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Prepare to Render Your Arteries

12 eggs yolks whipped stiff and 2 cups of Karo and 2 cups sugar brought to a full boil.  Slowly pour the hot syrup into the egg yolks

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Beat It Good

Let the egg mixture beat until it's room temperature and then beat in 2 pounds butter and vanilla

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Layered and Liquored

The top and bottom are Frangelico butter cream and the middle in milk chocolate.

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Bittersweet

Dust the top with powdered sugar, add unsweetened chocolate to the butter cream and pretty it up.

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In Moments

Butter milk, eggs, water and flour all warmed so two risings takes about 30 minutes

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Roulades Revisted

I was having computer issues so I rebooted the modem and restarted the computer, now every thread is mixed and out of order.  Smothered the roulades,

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Only What Is Needed

Celebration cake is a caloric outrage but part of its calories are mitigated by a meringue cake cake lower in fat.  About 1/3 of the frosting is excess and not used.  The sugar totals are relatively low but the the richness factor is extreme, a very good thing with desserts.  You don't eat of "piece" of this cake but a thin slice and since it isn't sweet it is much more tolerable than eating a candy bar.

The roulades are trimmed of fat. browned and then the pan is completely wiped to remove the fat before deglazing.  There is no added fat.  The Beer in the Butt chicken, roasts standing up on a rack so all fats flow away and the chicken is prepared with no extra fat. The potatoes are mashed with fat free canned milk and a small amount of fat free butter replacement.  The salad of mescalun greens, cranberries, walnuts and blue cheese has an Onion dressing thinned by half with buttermilk to increase a more pleasant mouth feel and cuts the calories in half.  The rolls have butter milk, eggs and 1/4 cup butter.  I eat them without additional butter but for the guests its on the table.  The asparagus was oven roasted and served without sauce.

 

Before you all jump to a conclusion I am a Kamakaze in the kitchen don't forget I made my living knowing more about products than salesman and end users, modifying many products to be food safe for shipping, removing individual ingredients and altering the end product to taste the same.  I am not a hack and for the record since the wash in last March I have lost 26 pounds.
 

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