Last night, for New Year's Eve, my good friend and I made dinner and desserts together. We chose to make a Roasted Red Pepper and Goat Cheese Alfredo with french bread, and some yummy almond triangles for dessert.
Next, we baked the almond triangles. This recipe was actually the winning holiday recipe in the Star Tribune, so it had great reviews. We started out by making the dough, which is similar to shortbread dough. Then we set it in the refrigerator to cool for 30 minutes, and started on the sauce. This sauce was made up of butter, honey, brown sugar, sugar, cream, and of course, almonds. When the dough was cooled, we poured the sauce over the dough and spread it evenly. After that, we cooked it in the oven for 15 minutes, until the sauce was bubbling. Then we set the whole thing out to cool and later cut it into triangles. They turned out perfectly, and were delicious. The triangles were the perfect mixture of chewy and crunchy. The recipe makes about 2 dozen large triangles.
Here are the triangles just after they had cooled. To bake, we put the dough on a sheet of foil, and then placed the foil onto a baking sheet.
Here is an up-close photo of the triangles. Warning: do not make if you do not like almonds. There are about 5 cups of almonds in this recipe!
Here are the links to the recipes online if y'all want to try them! Let me know what you think.
Roasted Pepper and Goat Cheese Alfredo: http://www.closetcooking.com/2012/09/roasted-red-pepper-and-goat-cheese.html
Almond Triangles: http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/taste/70459932.html
Enjoy!
xx
HGK
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