Diana Fong Chans Whole Wheat Apple Torte Food

WHOLE WHEAT APPLE TURNOVERS

Steps:

• Sift together flour and salt.
• Cut in shortening, add water.
• Roll 1/8" thick & cut into twelve 4" squares. Set aside.
• Mix apples, sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice, and salt. Drizzle with honey.
• Place 1 heaping tablespoon apple mixture in center of each square.
• Dot with 1/2 teaspoon margarine.
• Moisten edges with water, fold into triangle, and press edges together with fork.
• Place on greased cookie sheet. Prick top with fork.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes at 400°F.

WHOLE WHEAT APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease and flour a 13x9-inch baking pan.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir in nuts.
• Cream butter and sugar together. Stir in eggs, one at a time, mixing well. Stir in vanilla.
• Peel, core, and chop apples. You should have about 3 cups.
• Stir dry mixture and milk alternately into creamed mixture, starting and ending with dry mixture, making 3 additions of dry and 2 of milk.
• Fold in the chopped apples.
• Bake in the greased and floured 13x9-inch baking pan in a preheated 350°F oven for about 35 minutes, or until a tester poked in the centre comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the pan before cutting. Cut into 32 pieces.

~ DIANA FONG CHAN'S CRABMEAT FRUIT SALAD

Steps:

• Peel apple, pear, and nectarines, and cut to ½ inch cubes; mix with lemon juice in a bowl. Scoop cantaloupe into balls and add to bowl. Mix crabmeat with mayonnaise and add half of the prepared fruit to the crabmeat. Don't over-mix as we want the crabmeat in small lumps. Line the serving platter with lettuce. Spread the remaining half of the fruit on the lettuce and top with crabmeat fruit mixture. Place crab shell on top and garnish with "rose" made with nectarine peel. See section on Garnish. I use the shell of a Pacific king crab from Australia as a garnish. If you don't want to splurge on buying a king crab, a fresh whole lobster will work equally well. Steam or boil the lobster. Place cooled whole lobster on one side of the serving platter lined with green leaf lettuce, then spread half of the fruit on top of the lettuce and top with crabmeat fruit mixture. Spread the lobster claws wide around the crabmeat mixture. Serve with lobster crackers so that guests can help themselves to the crabmeat salad and fresh lobster. *Shelled crabmeat in a 1 lb can, by Phillips is available at Costco. Shelled crabmeat is needed to supplement the fresh shellfish as one lobster or crab does not yield enough meat for the salad. Using shelled crabmeat is the easiest way to prepare this appetizer. You can also add cooked shelled shrimp. The whole shellfish serves as a garnish as well as meat, without having the hostess do the shelling. The guests will do the work as they eat the shellfish and crabmeat salad or lobster crabmeat salad.

APPLE TORTE (EASY-ONLY 3 APPLES)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Cream toghether butter and sugar. Add egg and beat.
• Sift together flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Beat dry ingredients into butter mixture.
• Stir apples into batter, which will be thick and hard to stir.
• Turn into a buttered 9" pie pan and spread smooth.
• Bake for 1 hour, until just brown.

WON TON DESSERT WITH APPLES!

Steps:

• Spray cooking spray on a cookie sheet then place wrappers on tray. (you may sprinkle sugar on the wrappers if you wish).
• Broil 4 inches from heat until SLIGHTLY brown (watch VERY carefully).
• Remove from oven and flip wrappers over and broil again until slightly brown.
• Microwave apples with a splash of water and sugar and cinnamon for a minute or so, or until very soft.
• Drain apples and let cool sightly (I'm guilty of throwing them in the freezer to speed up the process sometimes) then combine with cream cheese.
• Layer a wrapper then apple mixture then wonton wrapper then apple mixture until all is used up finishing with apple mixture on top.
• Sprinkle with powdered sugar is desired, and chill in fridge if not eaten right away.

~ DIANA FONG CHAN'S WHOLE WHEAT APPLE TORTE

Steps:

• Mix sugar and butter. Add eggs and mix until batter is smooth. Mix flour and baking powder in a separate bowl and add to batter. Mix on medium and pour batter into ungreased baking pans. Put sliced apples in two concentric circles on top of the batter. Sprinkle lightly with cinnamon and sugar. Bake in preheated oven @ 350 for 35-55 minutes, depending on the oven and the size of the baking pan. Bake until lightly crusted. You can use a 9 "spring form pan for a large torte, or small pie plates for smaller tortes. Serve warm or cold with ice cream. Serves 6-10 depending on size of torte. The apple torte can also be made with ½ whole wheat and ½ white flour, giving the torte a lighter color and texture when baked while the torte made with all whole wheat flour has the healthy whole grain appeal.