Anyone ever use natural butter flavor?
 

I just posted this to rec.food.cooking and thought it might interest
folks on this NG:

On Apr 9, 7:52*pm, Bryan wrote:


The company seems pretty reputable, looking at their website. *I
wonder how it tastes and how concentrated the flavor is. *I'm thinking
a frosting made with cocoa butter, unsweetened chocolate, vanilla
extract, butter flavor and sucralose, with a neutral oil (pecan maybe)
added in sufficient amounts to achieve the right consistency.

Frosting for what? *How about this recipe?

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Ingredients:

* * 2 cups pecans (in response to one of the comments, don't use
salted pecans!)
* * 1/3 cup cocoa
* * 1 t baking powder
* * 1/4 teaspoon salt
* * 4 eggs
* * 1/2 cup (I stick) butter, melted
* * 1 teaspoon vanilla
* * 1/4 cup erythritol (optional)
* * Artificial sweetener equivalent to 1 cup sugar I use zero-carb
liquid sweeteners .
* * 1/2 cup water

Preparation:
Heat oven to 350 F. Grease a 8 or 9" round pan or springform pan.

1) Process pecans in food processor - pulse until they are meal - but
they won't get quite as small as corn meal.

2) Add the rest of the dry ingredients and pulse again. (Note on
erythritol: You can do this recipe with all artificial sweetener, but
I've begun experimenting with partial erythritol, with success. I
haven't tested all different combinations yet, though - it may be that
more erythritol is even better.)

3) Add the wet ingredients and process until well-blended.

4) Pour into pan and bake. The exact time will vary with the pan.
Start checking at about 25 minutes until toothpick inserted in center
comes out clean.

5) Cut when cool. If desired, serve with homemade whipped cream and/or
chocolate sauce.

Nutritional Information: Each of 8 servings has 2 grams of effective
carbohydrate plus 4 grams of fiber, 6 grams of protein, and 334
calories.
* * *source-- *http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/des...pecantorte.htm

The butter in the recipe could be replaced by cocoa butter, again,
thinned with pecan oil to the consistency of butter. *I'd also add
twice the amount of vanilla extract.

Voila! *A perfectly healthful dessert.

--Bryan

--Bryan

Anyone ever use natural butter flavor?
 

On 2012-04-09 20:05:35 -0500, Bryan said:

The recipe for the chocolate pecan tart looks great. I just may give it
a try. There's also link to a sugar-free ganache, so why not just try
that instead of your frosting idea? And I find the best butter flavor
comes from, well, *butter*.

I just posted this to rec.food.cooking and thought it might interest
folks on this NG:

On Apr 9, 7:52*pm, Bryan wrote:


The company seems pretty reputable, looking at their website. *I
wonder how it tastes and how concentrated the flavor is. *I'm thinking
a frosting made with cocoa butter, unsweetened chocolate, vanilla
extract, butter flavor and sucralose, with a neutral oil (pecan maybe)
added in sufficient amounts to achieve the right consistency.

Frosting for what? *How about this recipe?

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Ingredients:

* * 2 cups pecans (in response to one of the comments, don't use
salted pecans!)
* * 1/3 cup cocoa
* * 1 t baking powder
* * 1/4 teaspoon salt
* * 4 eggs
* * 1/2 cup (I stick) butter, melted
* * 1 teaspoon vanilla
* * 1/4 cup erythritol (optional)
* * Artificial sweetener equivalent to 1 cup sugar I use zero-carb
liquid sweeteners .
* * 1/2 cup water

Preparation:
Heat oven to 350 F. Grease a 8 or 9" round pan or springform pan.

1) Process pecans in food processor - pulse until they are meal - but
they won't get quite as small as corn meal.

2) Add the rest of the dry ingredients and pulse again. (Note on
erythritol: You can do this recipe with all artificial sweetener, but
I've begun experimenting with partial erythritol, with success. I
haven't tested all different combinations yet, though - it may be that
more erythritol is even better.)

3) Add the wet ingredients and process until well-blended.

4) Pour into pan and bake. The exact time will vary with the pan.
Start checking at about 25 minutes until toothpick inserted in center
comes out clean.

5) Cut when cool. If desired, serve with homemade whipped cream and/or
chocolate sauce.

Nutritional Information: Each of 8 servings has 2 grams of effective
carbohydrate plus 4 grams of fiber, 6 grams of protein, and 334
calories.
* * *source-- *http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/des...pecantorte.htm

The butter in the recipe could be replaced by cocoa butter, again,
thinned with pecan oil to the consistency of butter. *I'd also add
twice the amount of vanilla extract.

Voila! *A perfectly healthful dessert.

--Bryan

--Bryan


--
Bill
"Wise Fool" -- Gandalf, _The Two Towers_
(The Wise will remove 'se' to reach me. The Foolish will not)