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Cranberry Mimosa

For a mimosa with seasonal cheer, add cranberry juice cocktail. This drink recipe will start your gathering in style.

Cranberry Mimosa

Ingredients

  • 4 cups cranberry juice cocktail
  • 4 cups orange juice
  • 2 (750-milliliter) bottles chilled Champagne or sparkling wine
  • 12 orange slices (optional)

Preparation

Fill 12 (12-ounce) glasses with ice; pour 1/3 cup cranberry juice into each glass. Top each serving with 1/3 cup orange juice and about 1/2 cup Champagne. Garnish with orange slices, if desired.

Cooking Light NOVEMBER 2005

Blackberry-Mustard Glazed Ham

This classic recipe will be well received at all of your holiday gatherings; try it with any flavor of fruit preserves you enjoy. Adorn the platter with fresh blackberries, apple slices, oregano, and flat-leaf parsley.

Ingredients

  • 1 (5-pound) 33%-less-sodium smoked, fully-cooked, bone-in ham half
  • Cooking spray
  • 1/2 cup apple juice
  • 1 (13-ounce) jar blackberry preserves
  • 1 (7.3-ounce) jar whole-grain Dijon mustard

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350°.

Trim fat and rind from ham. Score outside of ham in a diamond pattern. Place ham on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray.

Combine juice, preserves, and mustard in a medium bowl, stirring until well combined. Set aside half of preserves mixture.

Bake ham at 350° for 1 1/2 hours or until a thermometer registers 140°, basting with half of preserves mixture every 20 minutes. Remove ham from oven. Place ham on a platter; cover and let stand 15 minutes before slicing.

Place reserved preserves mixture in a large nonstick skillet over medium-low heat. Cook until reduced to 1 cup (about 15 minutes). Serve sauce with ham.

Wine note: Smoked ham is a wine challenge--the dominance of the smoke usually ends up making wine taste like water. But one part of the world has a lot of experience pairing ham and pork with wine, and that's the Alsace region of France. With a ham dish as complex as this one, opt for one of the most dramatic wines from Alsace: a dry muscat. Domaine Weinbach's Muscat Réserve 2003 ($38) is one of the best and dramatic enough to match this ham. Its exuberant fruity flavors must be experienced to be believed. -KM

Cooking Light NOVEMBER 2005

Sour Cream Muffins with Poppy Seed Streusel

Keep these orange-scented muffins around during the holidays for a quick breakfast or sweet snack.

Photo: Becky Luigart-Stayner Photo by: Photo: Becky Luigart-Stayner

Ingredients

  • Streusel:
  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon butter, melted
  • 1 teaspoon poppy seeds
  • Muffins:
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour (about 9 ounces)
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup fat-free buttermilk
  • 1/4 cup butter, melted
  • 1 tablespoon grated orange rind
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg, lightly beaten
  • 1 (8-ounce) container reduced-fat sour cream
  • Cooking spray

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375°.

To prepare streusel, combine first 4 ingredients in a small bowl; set aside.

To prepare muffins, lightly spoon 2 cups flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine 2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl, stirring with a whisk. Make a well in center of mixture. Combine buttermilk and remaining ingredients except cooking spray in a small bowl; add to flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Spoon batter into 15 muffin cups coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle streusel evenly over batter. Bake at 375° for 18 minutes or until golden brown. Remove muffins from pans immediately; place on a wire rack.

Cooking Light NOVEMBER 2005

Pecan Pie Coffee Cake

This dessert is at its best with coffee. Make sure you lower the oven temperature to 325° before adding the topping to prevent it from burning.

Pecan Pie Coffee Cake

Ingredients

  • Cake:
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 2 ounces fat-free cream cheese
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large egg white
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (about 5 1/2 ounces)
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup nonfat buttermilk
  • Cooking spray
  • Topping:
  • 1/3 cup light corn syrup
  • 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1/3 cup finely chopped pecans
  • 1 large egg, beaten

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350°.

To prepare cake, place granulated sugar, 3 tablespoons butter, and cream cheese in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 5 minutes). Add egg and egg white, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, stirring well with a whisk. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.

Pour batter into a 9-inch round cake pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove cake from oven. Reduce oven temperature to 325°.

To prepare topping, combine syrup, brown sugar, and 2 tablespoons butter in a 4-cup glass measure. Microwave at high 1 minute. Stir with a whisk until butter melts. Whisk in pecans and beaten egg.

Using a wooden skewer, poke holes in top of warm cake. Pour pecan mixture over top of cake. Return cake to oven; bake at 325° for 10 minutes. Cool completely on wire rack.

Cooking Light NOVEMBER 2005

Formal Menu Top Festive Brunch

Cranberry Mimosa

Blackberry-Mustard Glazed Ham

Sour Cream Muffins with Poppy Seed Streusel

Pecan Pie Coffee Cake

Cooking Light

Formal Menu Bottom

Shopping List for Festive Brunch

Toast your special occassion with cranberry mimosas, glazed ham, and coffee cake. (Serves 10)

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Baking

  • 3 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour (about 9 ounces)
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (about 5 1/2 ounces)
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

Dairy

  • 4 cups orange juice
  • 1 tablespoon butter, melted
  • 3 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 2 ounces fat-free cream cheese
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large egg white

Meat

  • 1 (5-pound) 33%-less-sodium smoked, fully-cooked, bone-in ham half

Other

  • 4 cups cranberry juice cocktail
  • 1/2 cup apple juice
  • Streusel:
  • Muffins:
  • Cake:

Spices

  • Cooking spray
  • 1 teaspoon poppy seeds

Recipe List

Cranberry Mimosa

Blackberry-Mustard Glazed Ham

Sour Cream Muffins with Poppy Seed Streusel

Pecan Pie Coffee Cake

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