Two-Bite Chocolate Cupcakes

These cupcakes are a great go-to for any occasion. They come together in a snap and, well, they're scrumptious. And they're mini, so go ahead and have two. Happy day!



Two-Bite Chocolate Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting
makes about 40

Cupcakes
1/2 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder
2 t. instant espresso (optional)
1 cup boiling water
1 1/3 cups flour
2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 t. vanilla

• Preheat oven to 350 and line cupcake tins.
• In a small bowl, combine water cocoa and espresso, stir to dissolve. Cool to room temperature.
• In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
• In a large bowl or that of a standing mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing thoroughly after each addition. Add vanilla. Make sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl.
• Turn mixer to low and slowly add flour, and then the cocoa. Mix until smooth.
• Fill lined tins 2/3 full and bake for 8-10 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. (If you make regular cupcakes, bake for about 15 minutes.)
• Cool in tins for 5 minutes, move to cooling rack and cool completely before frosting.

Frosting
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, room temperature
1 box confectioners' sugar
1 t. vanilla
2-3 T milk

Beat thoroughly until smooth, adding more milk as necessary.

Note: Go easy on the milk if you are using food coloring because the color will loosen the buttercream.

Clementine Cake

I love clementines. They are easy to peel, have few pits, and are usually super sweet and juicy. I tend to buy them by the crate because I can rip through a few in a matter of minutes. Unfortunately, the last bunch I brought home was a dud. After a couple of hopeful tries, I gave up; the tasteless, dry fruit was just too disappointing. Unable to waste 'good' food and unwilling to eat not-so-good food, I decided to dress up my wan clementines and give them new life... Here's a recipe for clementine cake. It's gorgeous with a dollop of thick Greek yogurt and a drizzle of honey.

Clementine Cake
adapted from Nigella Lawson

5 clementines
6 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 cups almond meal (either purchased as flour or finely ground in processor)
1 t. salt
1 heaping t. baking powder

• In a medium sauce pan, submerge clementines in cold water and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer for 2 hours. Drain and allow clementines to cool to room temperature.
• Cut clementines in half and remove any pits. Coarsely puree in food processor.
• Preheat oven to 375 and butter a spring form pan and line the bottom with parchment.
• In a large bowl, beat eggs and add pureed clementine pulp; mix thoroughly. Add sugar, almonds, baking powder and salt; stir until combined. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 40 minutes. Rotate pan, cover with foil and continue to bake for another 2o minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pan on a rack.
• Enjoy!

Place a bowl over the clementines to submerge them, if necessary.

Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies

These are excellent sugar cookies. They are nice and crisp, but their buttery richness makes them melt in your mouth. And they're just sweet enough. Sweet enough to bake up a batch for those you love the most!















Sugar Cookies
makes 4-5 dozen

1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, room temperature
1 large egg
2 t. vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 t. baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

• Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until light. Beat in egg and vanilla.
• Turn mixer to slow. add flour, baking powder and salt. Mix just to combine.
• Divide dough in half. Gather each piece into ball; flatten into disks. Wrap in plastic and chill 1 hour. (Dough can be double wrapped and frozen at this point.)
• Preheat oven to 325°F. Roll out 1 dough disk on floured work surface to 1/8-inch thickness and cut out cookies (Use any shape you like:). Transfer cookies to ungreased baking sheets, spacing 1 inch apart.
• Loosely gather dough scraps (don't mush together) and return to the fridge until cool. Re-roll and cut out more cookies.
• This is the time to add sprinkles etc., if you're not going to eat plain or frost.
  
• Bake cookies until pale golden, 10-13 minutes, depending on their size. Transfer cookies to racks and let cool. Frost cookies, if you like, using the recipe below.
• Store in a airtight container for a week or freeze for a month.
• Enjoy the LOVE!

Cookie Glaze
makes 2/3 cup, enough for about 4 dozen cookies

2 cups confectioners sugar sifted, spooned and leveled (like you would flour)
2-3 hot water, milk, lemon or lime juice, etc.
1 T corn syrup
(1/2 t. vanilla, if using water or milk)
pinch salt

• Combine ingredients in a large bowl and whisk until smooth.
• Use sparingly; a little goes a long way.
• Have fun decorating yer cookies!
  

Nutella Pudding Pie

This pie was inspired by World Nutella Day. I don't usually cook with Nutella; I'm beginning to wonder why not. This fine pie has a crunchy hazelnut crust, a Nutella pudding filling and is topped with (more!) hazelnuts and dark chocolate. It might be a fun anti-Valentine dessert. Not because it's not over-the-top good, oh, it is. But, as you're digging into the silky smooth and rich pudding, you might feel a bit of smug satisfaction because YOU are enjoying such a decadent treat and your Ex is probably chewing on cardboard. Pie in the face. Yeah, yours:)


Hazelnut Pie Crust

1 cup hazelnuts, toasted (set 3/4 cup aside for decoration)
1 cup flour
1 T sugar
1/4 t. salt
1/3 cup cold butter, cubed
3 T ice water

• In a food processor, pulverize 1/4 cup hazelnuts, flour, sugar and salt. Add butter and pulse until mixture looks like coarse corn meal. Add enough water to form crumbly dough.
• Press dough into bottom and up the sides of a 9" pie pan. Chill 20 minutes.
• Bake in a 400 oven 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely.

Nutella Pudding

3/4 cup Nutella
1/3 cup unsalted butter
4 eggs, separated
1 T sugar

• In a bowl set over simmering water, melt the Nutella and butter; stir to combine. Beat in the egg yolks, one at a time, stirring after each addition. Remove from the heat and set aside.
• In large bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form, then add the sugar and continue beating until smooth and glossy.
• Use a spatula to gently fold in 1/4 of the egg whites to the Nutella mixture; then add the remaining whites and combine completely. Spoon into cooled pie crust and cool in the refrigerator 4 hours.

Topping

3/4 cup reserved hazelnuts, coarsely chopped
2 oz. chocolate, melted

• Sprinkle hazelnuts over pudding and spoon the chocolate over the nuts. Refrigerate for another couple of hours. Cut and serve in bowls.
  
• Enjoy!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Footballs

If you're not into football, shape this peanut buttery goodness into hearts and you've got yourself a sweet, homemade valentine.

















Chocolate Peanut Butter Footballs
makes about 30
adapted from Food Mayhem

Peanut Butter Filling

1 3/4 cups confectioners sugar
1 1/2 cups crispy rice cereal
1 cup peanut butter (I used natural chunky, but I think any would be fine.)
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
8 oz chopped chocolate or chocolate chips

• Cover a baking sheet with parchment and place a cooling rack on top of that.
• Combine the sugar and cereal in a medium bowl.
• Stirring occasionally, melt peanut butter and butter in a small bowl over (not touching) simmering water or in a double boiler. Add a pinch of salt if your peanut butter is not salted. Pour mixture over the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
• Divide filling into 1 Tablespoonfuls, then form into footballs. Place footballs on prepared baking sheet.
• In another small bowl over simmering water, melt the chocolate. Place a football in the chocolate and brush with a pastry brush (I like the rubber ones). Transfer bake to baking sheet with the brush and a fork. Continue process with remaining balls. Cool in the refrigerator.
• Once chocolate has hardened, paint on laces (or hearts, stars, etc. with royal icing

Royal Icing

1 large egg whites
1 1/3 cups confectioners sugar

• Place egg white and sugar in mixing bowl and beat until glossy and stiff peaks form. If it’s not stiff enough, add another tablespoon or two of sugar.

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Mango Browned Butter Bread

You just never know what might happen when you enter the kitchen. I didn't plan to make this bread, but I'm glad for the accident. My inspiration: One, I had a ripe mango resting it's pretty little self on the counter (not to mention the lone, rapidly darkening and, decidedly, un-pretty banana). And two, Meg of Queenie Takes Manhattan was gushing over a gorgeous browned butter pound cake she'd made. I wanted that buttery nuttiness and why the hell not throw in a touch of sweet mango. Shake what your mama gave you...




Mango Browned Butter Quick Bread
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
3 eggs
1/4 cup canola oil
1 ripe banana
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 t. baking powder
1 t. baking soda
1 1/2 t. ground ginger
1 t. ground cinnamon
1/4 t. salt
1 mango, peeled, pitted and diced
zest of 1 lime
3/4 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped

• Preheat the oven to 350 and grease a loaf pan.
• In a small saute pan over medium-high heat, cook butter until it has browned and smells nutty. Remove from heat.
• Whisk together the eggs and oil and set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and soda, spices and salt.
• Slowly add the slightly cooled butter to the egg and oil mixture; pour over the dry ingredients and mix until blended. Dough will be thick.
• Add mango, zest and nuts and stir to combine. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
• Bake, on a sheet pan in case there is spillage, for about 1 1/2 hours, until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean. If you remember, rotate pan half way through baking time.
• Cool for 5 minutes in pan and then transfer loaf to a cooling rack. Once cool, store in the refrigerator.
• Enjoy!

Ice Cream Sandwich

One batch, two cookies with a scoop of ice cream. That's what I call a sandwich.

One Batch, Two Cookies

Last night I was hankering for a cookie. No, I was jonesing. So much so, I finally broke down and bought a SKOR bar. Vanilla ice cream with homemade butterscotch sauce wasn't gonna cut it. I wanted crunch and chew. I needed it! While I was securing my temporary fix at the grocery store, I plotted my cookie making operation. Stocked in the fruit and nut department, I grabbed some malt powder inspired by the WHOPPERS in the candy aisle. Why make one kind of cookie when I could just as easily make two, I wondered innocently? C is for COOKIES.













Malted Chocolate Chip + Oatmeal, Almond and Currant

One Batch, Two Cookies
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, cold and cut into pieces
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 t. vanill
2 large eggs

1/2 cup malt powder
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup sliced almonds
1/4 cup currants, soaked in hot water 15 minutes and drained

• Preheat oven to 350 F, place racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and lightly grease or line baking sheets with parchment.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
• Using and electric mixer, beat the butter until it's light and creamy. Add the sugars and beat until fluffy. Make sure to periodically scrape the sides of the bowl.
• Add the vanilla and then the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Again, scrape the bowl.
• Turn the mixer to low and add the flour in three additions and beating until just combined.
• At this point, divide the batter putting half into another bowl. To one batch add the malt and chocolate chips and the oatmeal, almonds and currants to the other. Or just add what ever you like;) Gently combine.
• Scoop onto a baking sheet, leaving a couple of inches between cookies and , depending on their size, bake for 8-12 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
• Enjoy!

Mini Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes

Try these cupcakes...they'll make you smile! Happy Friday!













Mini Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes
adapted from Martha Stewart
makes 48

Cupcakes
1 3/4 c. flour
3/4 T baking powder
1/2 - 3/4 t. salt
1/4 t. baking soda
1/2 c. sour cream
1/2 t. vanilla extract
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 1/3 c. sugar
2/3 c. natural, creamy peanut butter
3 large eggs

Frosting
6 oz. cream cheese
1/3 c. confectioners sugar
1/2 t. salt
1 c. peanut butter
1/2 t. vanilla extract
1/2 c. heavy cream
fruit jam, for topping

Cupcakes

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line mini muffin tins with paper liners.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder and soda.
• In a small bowl, combine the sour cream and vanilla.
• Using an electric mixer on medium-high, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add peanut butter and mix until incorporated. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Reduce speed to low. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture in 3 additions, alternating with wet ingredients and ending with dry.
• Divide batter among muffin cups using a 3/4 oz. scoop or two tablespoons. Bake cupcakes until a toothpick comes out clean, about 11-12 minutes. Let cool in tins on wire racks. Once completely cooled, frost cupcakes.

Frosting

• Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat cream cheese and confectioners sugar. Add salt, peanut butter and vanilla. Mix until incorporated and transfer to a large blow.
• Again in the mixer, whisk cream until soft peaks form. Gently fold whipped cream into peanut butter mixture.
• Pipe frosting in a ring around the outside edges of the cupcakes, leaving a space at the center about the size of a penny. Fill that space with a dab of jam.
• Enjoy!

If you want to make standard cupcakes, follow the same steps and bake them for about 20 minutes.
Store cupcakes in the fridge for 3-4 days.

Mint Brownies

New Year's resolutions be damned (or at least tempered). "They" say that if you completely deprive yourself you are less likely to stick to your diet. It's better to be moderate. Well, there's nothing moderate about these decadent mint brownies -read cream- but their beauty lies in their richness. No joke. One chocolaty bite leaves me satisfied and I don't feel the NEED to sneak another one (you know, the "Once you pop, you can't stop" syndrome). Whatever, maybe I am justifying, but I like to think that this minimal indulgence helps me ultimately tow the line. Anyway you couch it, these brownies are heavenly!














Mint Brownies
adapted from epicurious.com
makes about 6 dozen

Brownie layer
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
10 1/2 oz bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
1 1/2 cups packed light brown sugar
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/4 t. vanilla
3/4 c. flour
1/4 c. plus 2 T unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 t. salt
Mint ganache
1/2 c. heavy cream
10 oz white chocolate, chopped
2 T green crème de menthe
1 t. peppermint extract
Chocolate ganache
1 c. heavy cream

10 oz bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped

Brownie layer

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375. Lightly butter a 13 x 9 inch baking pan and line with 2 crisscrossed sheets of parchment or foil, leaving a 2 inch overhang on all sides. Butter parchment or foil.
• Melt butter and chocolate with brown sugar in a heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until smooth. Remove from heat. Whisk in eggs and vanilla until combined. Whisk in flour, cocoa, and salt until just combined.
• Spread batter evenly in baking pan and bake until set and a wooden pick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs, about 20 minutes. Cool completely in pan on a rack, about 1 1/2 hours.

Mint ganache

• Bring cream to a simmer in a saucepan and remove from heat. Pour cream over white chocolate. Let stand 1 minute, then whisk until smooth. Stir in crème de menthe and extract and chill, covered, stirring occasionally, until thick, about 1 hour.

Chocolate ganache

• Bring cream to a simmer in a saucepan and remove from heat. Pour over bittersweet chocolate in a bowl. Let stand 1 minute, then whisk until smooth. Chill, covered, stirring occasionally, until thick, about 30 minutes.

Assemble

• Spread mint ganache over top of cooled brownie in a thin layer using an offset spatula, then chill until firm but still slightly sticky, about 30 minutes. Spread chocolate ganache over mint and chill until firm, about 2 hours.
• Lift brownies out of pan using 2 inch overhang. Run a heavy knife under hot water and wipe dry. Cut into small squares.
• Enjoy!

Brownies will keep in the fridge for three weeks.

Apple Muffins

These muffins are a great fall treat. Eat 'em for breakfast on-the-go, as an after school snack, or serve them drizzled with warm caramel sauce for dessert.














Apple Muffins
makes 12

1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 t. baking powder
1 t. baking soda
1/4 t. salt
1 T cinnamon
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, room temperature
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 cup vanilla yogurt, stirred well (buttermilk is great too)
2 large apples, coarsely chopped

• Preheat oven to 450 and either grease or line a 12 cup muffin tin.
• In a medium bowl, combine the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
• In a mixing bowl, cream the butter until it has lightened in color and become slightly fluffy. Add the sugar, mix until combined, then add the egg. Slowly add the yogurt; mix well.
• Stir the dry ingredients into the wet and, while there are thick streaks of flour, add the apple. Mixture will be very thick.
• Using an ice cream scoop, divide the batter into the muffin cups.
• Bake for 10 minutes, turn the temperature down to 400 and bake for 18-20 minutes.
• Cool in tin for five minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Enjoy!

Peanut butter and Concord grape tart

Luscious Concord grapes beckon to me at the farmers market. Let their musky magnetism draw you in too! Pick up enough to make this crumbly, cookie-like tart (great for adults and kids alike) AND to munch on some straight-up. Go now, before it's too late!

Just-sweet-enough Concords are amazingly juicy and refreshing, and the super healthy seed adds a nice bitter bite. They make a great palette cleanser. Serve a couple of the gorgeous globes alongside the tart. Top it all off with a nice dollop of whipped cream or serve with a tall glass of ice cold milk. Either way, this is a happy treat!




























Peanut butter and Concord grape tart
serves 8

For the crust:
adapted from Martha Stewart

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for fingers and measuring cup
1/2 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt

• In the bowl of the food processor, pulse flour, butter, sugar, and salt until moist crumbs form. Alternatively, use your fingers or a pastry cutter to combine.
  
• Transfer dough to a 9-inch round tart pan with a removable bottom. With floured fingers, press evenly into bottom and up side of pan. With a floured dry-measuring cup, press edge of dough firmly against side of pan, pushing down with opposite thumb to level top of crust flush with rim.
• Freeze until firm, 10 to 15 minutes; prick all over with a fork. Bake at 350 degrees, until golden, 25 to 30 minutes. Half way through cooking time, use the floured measuring cup to press down the puffed up crust. Check the crust again about five minutes before it's finished and press down again, if necessary. Cool crust completely.

Filling:

2 1/2 cups Concord grapes
1/8 cup sugar
1/2 t. apple cider vinegar
pinch salt
1 T tapioca starch

1/4 cup butter, softened
1 cup smooth peanut butter
1/8 cup sugar
1/4 t. salt

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Using your fingers, pinch the pulp out of grape skins into a small saucepan. Reserve skins.
• Bring pulp to a boil over medium heat and cook 5-6 minutes, or until grapes have softened. Pour hot pulp through a medium mesh sieve over the reserved skins. Discard seeds. Stir pulp and skins until combined. Add sugar, vinegar, salt and starch; mix well. Set aside
• Beat together butter, peanut butter, sugar and salt until smooth.
• Spoon peanut butter mixture into tart shell and spread evenly.
• Pour grape jelly over peanut butter and spread gently until it barely reaches the edges (I like to be able to see that there's a layer of peanut butter underneath).
• Bake for about 15 minutes, or until the grape jelly has just set. Allow to cool completely.
• Enjoy!

David Lebovitz's Cheesecake Brownies

These disappeared before I had a chance to take a photo of the cut brownies. Visualize rich chocolatey goodness and you'll have a pretty good picture.

Cheesecake Brownies

6 T unsalted butter, cut into pieces
4 oz bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
2/3 cup sugar
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1/2 cup flour
1 T unsweetened cocoa powder
1/8 t. salt
1 t. vanilla extract
1/2 cup chocolate chips
8 oz cream cheese, at room temperature
1 large egg yolk
5 T sugar
1/8 t. vanilla extract

• Preheat oven to 350. Line a 9-inch square pan with foil or parchment paper, leaving an overhang; grease lightly.
• In a medium saucepan, melt the butter and chocolate over low heat, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat and beat in the 2/3 cup sugar, then the eggs.
• Mix in the flour, cocoa powder and salt, then the vanilla and chocolate chips. Spread evenly in prepared pan.
• In a separate bowl, beat together the cream cheese, the yolk, 5 T sugar, and vanilla until smooth. Using a dull knife of spatula, swirl the cream cheese mixture with the chocolate batter.
• Bake for 35-37 minutes, or until the batter in the center of the pan is just set.
• Cool brownies completely in pan.
• Cut into square and Enjoy!

Plum Torte

According to Florence Fabricant, the editor of The New York Times Dessert Cookbook, "This is the most frequently requested recipe that has been published in the Times." And how! This cake is super super (super) easy to make, and it really showcases the stone fruit of the season. Get thee you a farmers market and MAKE IT using whatever's ripe and raring to go; plums, peaches, nectarines, apricots or pluots... And visions of tortes will dance in your head.














Plum Torte
a Marian Burros recipe

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar, plus more for topping
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 t. baking powder
pinch salt
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
12 Italian prune plums, halved and pitted
1 t. ground cinnamon

• Preheat oven to 350
• Sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
• In a separate bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add dry ingredients to creamed butter. Add eggs, and beat well.
• Spoon the batter into an 8, 9 or 10-inch springform pan and smooth evenly. Place plum halves skin side up on top of batter. Sprinkle lightly with sugar, depending on the sweetness of the fruit. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Bake for 40-50 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool cake in the pan until room temperature. Remove sides of pan and serve. Cake may be refrigerated or frozen at this point. If frozen, defrost and reheat briefly for at 300.
• Enjoy!

peach + blueberry crostatas

We got just over a cup of blueberries in our CSA share this week and this didn't seem like quite enough for me to play with in a way I deemed fit. So, rather than gobbling them down on the spot, I decided to pair them with some of the uber-fragrant peaches from the green market. And what a combination they made! All wrapped up in a ridiculously tender (and simple, I might add) crust; I encourage you to make these babies soon. If, though, the thought of turning your oven on in the dog days of summer makes your skin crawl, wait until the fall and use apples, pears and cranberries. But really, you should make them NOW!














Individual peach + blueberry crostatas
makes 6

dough
2 sticks cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup cold water
filling
4 large peaches, halved, pitted and sliced 1/4 inch thick
1/2 cup plus more for dusting
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon cinnamon
salt
1 cup blueberries
flour, for rolling dough
1 large egg, lightly beaten

• Make the crust. In a food processor, pulse the butter with the flour and salt until it resembles coarse meal. Add the water and pulse just until a dough forms. Alternatively, combine the butter and flour in a large work bowl and use your fingers to work the flour into the butter until it resembles meal. Add the water and mix until just combined. Divide the dough into 6 pieces and flatten each into a disk. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make the filling. In a medium bowl, toss the peaches with 1/2 cup of the granulated sugar, the cornstarch, cinnamon and a pinch of salt. Fold in the berries.
• Preheat oven to 375, place racks in upper and lower thirds of the oven and lightly grease 2 baking sheets.
• Roll the dough. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out each disk of dough until it's about 1/8-inch thick. Transfer 3 to each baking sheet. Spread the fruit on the rounds and fold about 1-inch of dough over the fruit to form a rim. Refrigerate filled crostatas for 30 minutes.
• Brush the crusts with the beaten egg and sprinkle with sugar. Bake for about 50 minutes, rotating the baking sheets (top to bottom and front to back) halfway through baking, until the crusts are golden. Transfer to racks to cool for about 20 minutes.
• Enjoy!