Carrot Salad

Ingredients

• 8 Carrots
• 3-4 green onions
• 10 sweet pecans, chopped thick and some left hole to garnish

Sauce Ingredients

• 1/4 C oil
• 1/4 C white vinegar
• 1 Tbs brown sugar
• 1 tsp Mustard
• 2 clove garlic, crushed
• salt and pepper

Directions

1. Wash and trim carrots
2. Grate them in a food processor with the coarse grater attachment or with julienne attachment
3. Place in a serving bowl. Add green onions
4. Shake well in a closed jar all sauce ingredients
5. Pour the sauce over carrots. Toss well
6. Sprinkle over the pecans

Walnut Cake

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 3/4 C sugar
• 1 C flour
• 100 gr butter (room temperature)
• 4 Tbs milk
• 1 package vanilla sugar
• 1/2 package Baking powder
• 1/2 C walnuts, chopped
• 1 Small apple, chopped into small chunks or 50 gr chocolate chips

Directions

1. Grease a tube pan
2. In a mixing bowl, beat egg whites
3. Whisk together butter and sugar
4. Add egg yolks
5. Add flour and baking powder, milk, vanilla sugar
6. Fold in walnuts and chocolate or apple
7. Fold in egg whites
8. Pour the mixture into the greased pan
9. Bake in 180 C preheated oven for about 45 minutes

Burmuelos de Patata ( Potato Muffins)

Ingredients 

• 4 large potatoes, boiled, mashed
• 1/2 C matzo meal
• 1 1/2 Tbs potato starch
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 C parmesan cheese, grated
• 1/2 C gruyere cheese , grated
• 4 eggs
• 1/3 C milk
• 1 yogurt
• 1/3 C oil
• (optional) You can add olive rings ,or chopped dill, or chopped parsley, or a chopped and fried onion.
• gruyere cheese for topping

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients together. Do not beat
2. Bake in small, oiled muffin molds
3. Top the muffins with grated gruyere cheese before you put to the oven
4. Bake at 180 C preheated oven until golden brown.

Walnut Drop Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 C matzo meal
• 1 C nuts, chop with knife
• 1 C sugar
• 1/2 C oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 matzo, crumbled by hand
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon, or some chocolate chips, or orange zest

Directions

1. Combine all dry ingredients together
2. Beat eggs with sugar. Add oil, beat well.
3. Mix egg mixture with dry ingredients.
4. Line a baking pan with baking paper.
5. Drop tablespoons of the batter onto the baking sheet with 2 cm distance from each other
6. Bake at 180 C preheated oven for about 15 - 16 minutes.
7. Cookies will harden as they cool.

Almond Cookies

Ingredients

• 250 gr almonds, sliced thinly
• 1/4 C sugar
• 2 egg whites
• (optional) 50 gr chocolate chips

Directions

1. Beat with a fork egg whites with sugar
2. Add almonds and (optional) chocolate chips
3. Pour a tablespoon of the mixture into oiled muffin cups. With the back of the spoon form a very thin layer of almonds
4. Instead of muffin cups you can line a baking pan with baking paper. Pour a tablespoon of mixture over the baking pan with 2 cm distance from each other
5. Bake in 180 C preheated oven for 10 - 15 minutes
6. Once the cookies are cool, store in airtight container

Almond Cake

Ingredients

• 200 gr almonds, ground
• 1 Tbs matzo meal mixed with 1 tsp baking powder
• 5 eggs
• 3/4 C sugar
• 1 Tbs cognac (optional)
• Syrup = 1 C sugar + 1 C water

Directions

1. Line a 26 cm spring form pan with baking paper
2. In the mixing bowl, beat well eggs with sugar until light and fluffy.
3. At very low speed add gradually, almonds and matzo meal with BP.
4. Scrape batter into prepared pan. Smooth surface.
5. Bake the cake in 180 C preheated oven for about 45 minutes.
6. Cool completely the cake.
7. Remove the base of the cake.
8. Remove the baking paper.
9. Place the cake onto a serving plate.
10. Prepare a syrup with 1 C sugar, 1 C water
11. Pour hot syrup over cool cake.

CHOCOLATE FROSTING

Ingredients

• 100 gr dark chocolate
• 2 eggs (whites and yolks separated)
• 1 Tbs sugar
• 50 gr margarine

Directions

1. Melt chocolate and margarine in micro wave
2. Beat egg whites with sugar
3. Mix egg yolks with melted chocolate mixture
4. Fold egg whites into chocolate mixture.
5. Spread frosting over the cake.

Fried Matzo

Ingredients

• 4 matzos, cut each of them into 4 pieces, soak in milk and dry between 2 towels
• 2 eggs
• oil to fry

Directions

1. Put 2 pieces of dried matzos together
2. Dip in beaten eggs
3. Fry each side in oil until golden brown
4. Serve with syrup
5. Sprinkle cinnamon on top
6. Can be accompanied by different sorts of cheeses

Syrup

• 1/2 C sugar
• 1/4 C honey
• 3/4 C water

Boil sugar, honey and water until you get a syrup.