Carrots Cointreau Food

GRAND MARNIER GLAZED CARROTS

Steps:

• Place baby carrots in a steam basket and cook on high heat until tender, about 6 minutes. Remove and set aside.
• In a large saucepan over medium heat, add butter. When it starts foaming, add steamed carrots, brown sugar and Grand Marnier. Cook carrot mixture for 3 minutes. Season carrot mixture with rosemary, cayenne pepper and sea salt; stir and cook for 7 minutes or until glaze thickens.
• Transfer to a serving dish, sprinkle with parsley and serve immediately. Makes 4 servings.

"BIRTHDAY" CARROT CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING AND COINTREAU CARROTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Butter a jelly roll pan and line with parchment. Set aside.
• Take the carrots and chop into large pieces, then mince in a food processor until you have a fine texture. Drain pineapple and finely chop walnuts. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl add flour, baking soda, baking powder and spices together. In a separate bowl mix buttermilk, molasses, eggs, vegetable oil and dark brown sugar together.
• Now combine wet and dry ingredients together to make a batter then fold in the carrots, pineapple and walnuts. Pour into the prepared pan and bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes until cake is set and springs back when gently pressed in the middle. Remove the pan from the oven and allow cake to cool on a rack while you prepare the frosting and cointreau carrots (recipes below). Once the cake has cooled, cut into three rectangles by cutting the cake lengthwise twice. Stack the cake up into three tiers with cream cheese frosting in between each layer. Frost the outside of the entire finished cake - smoothing off the edges and corners (an offset spatula works well). Top with Cointreau carrot rounds and drizzle a little of the syrup on top as well.
• Using a kitchen mixer, combine cream cheese and butter until blended and you have a smooth, light texture. Add the vanilla, lemon zest and powdered sugar and beat until combined. Continue to beat until smooth and glossy - about 7 minutes.
• Slice carrot up into rounds. Add carrot, butter, sugar, cointreau and salt to a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer and reduce until syrupy - about 5 minutes.

CARROTS COINTREAU

Steps:

• Parboil peeled baby carrots in boiling salted water for 5 minutes. Drain. Place carrots into buttered 1 1/2 quart baking dish.
• In a small bowl, combine cointreau, brandy, honey and lemon juice. Pour mixture over the carrots. Toss to coat carrots.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Stir, sprinkle with parsley and serve.

BERRIES WITH COINTREAU

Steps:

• Hull and halve most of the strawberries, leaving some whole for decoration.
• Using a clear glass bowl for display add frozen berries and fresh strawberries and mix together, leaving the whole strawberries for later.
• Put Cointreau, arrowroot and honey into a small saucepan and heat until it starts to thicken, then add about 1/4 of the berries from the glass dish and puree or blend with a stick blender.
• Pour pureed berries over the mixed berries in the glass bowl and mix well, keeping the whole strawberries on top for decoration.
• Taste now before chilling and adjust flavours, by adding more Cointreau and sweetener if necessary - I usually just add icing sugar instead of more honey.
• Cover with cling wrap and chill then serve with ice-cream or whipped cream.