Strawberry Bliss Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°. In a large saucepan, bring water and butter to a rolling boil. Add flour all at once and beat until blended. Cook over medium heat, stirring vigorously until mixture pulls away from sides of pan and forms a ball. Remove from heat; let stand 5 minutes., Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Continue beating until mixture is smooth and shiny. , Spread into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake 20-25 minutes or until puffed and golden brown (surface will be uneven). Cool completely in pan on a wire rack., In a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and jam until smooth. Beat in milk and pudding mix until smooth. In a small bowl, beat cream until stiff peaks form; fold into pudding mixture. Spread over crust. Refrigerate at least 1 hour., Just before serving, top with strawberries.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees (325 for a glass or dark pan). Prepare a 10x15 by lining it with parchment paper or use a non-stick spray.
• BARS: With an electric mixer, beat together softened butter and sugars 3-5 minutes until light; gently blend in eggs and orange extract (don't overbeat eggs). Add the flour, baking powder, and ginger and beat briefly. Add the cranberries and chips, stirring just until incorporated.
• Spread thick batter in prepared 10x15 pan. Bake 350 for 20-24 minutes until light brown AT EDGES and a skewer tests clean. Don't overbake or your bars will be dry. Let it cool completely. NOTE: If you use a 9x13 pan, the bars will be thicker and will take 26-28 minutes.
• FROSTING: Blend cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add orange extract and confectioners sugar and beat until frosting is fluffy and spreadable (adding 1 t. milk if needed). Spread evenly over COOLED bars.
• GARNISH: Use a zester to remove rind from an orange; sprinkle zest over frosted bars. Chop 1/3 cup Craisins coarsely; sprinkle over frosted bars.
• DRIZZLE: Mix white chocolate and oil in a glass measuring cup. Microwave 1 minute; stirring every 15 seconds until melted. Use a fork or whisk to drizzle the white chocolate diagonally across the bars.
• Allow one hour for the white chocolate to set before cutting. **To make signature Starbuck triangles, cut into 20 large squares (5 cuts by 4 cuts with the knife). Then cut each square in half diagonally to create triangles.

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 180 (160 if Fan Assisted) Put paper cases into a 12-hole cupcake tin.
• Cream the Butter and Sugar together until pale in colour, light and fluffy mixture. Slowly incorporate the Eggs, Milk and Vanilla Extract.
• Lightly fold in the sifted flour and Strawberry Chunks, making figure eight movements to keep as much air in the mixture as possible.
• Spoon Evenly into the paper cases. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 20-25 minutes or until the cakes are well risen and golden brown. Lift the cakes in their cases onto a wire cooling rack. Allow to cool fully before decorating with frosting.
• To make the frosting: Wash strawberries; hull and slice. Put the sliced strawberries in a bowl; sprinkle with the granulated sugar and toss well. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
• Drain excess juices from strawberries. Crush or mash the strawberries.
• Beat butter until smooth, add 225g Icing Sugar and the crushed strawberries. Cream Butter, Strawberries and Icing until until frosting is light and fluffy.
• Add up to 25g of Icing Sugar as needed, until the frosting is a nice piping consistency.