Special Tee Cookies & Catering

09/06/2024

Delivery day! Nick & J's Cafe Oreo cake, pies, all the regular flavors of cookies plus seasonal flavors, pumpkin spice and caramel apple!

07/04/2024

Homemade desserts delivered to Nick & J's Cafe they are open til noon today for breakfast only. And you can pick up some yummy dessert for later. Italian cream cake. Jumbo cookies, including a red, white and blue velvet. Peanut butter pie, coconut cream pie and chess pie.

07/04/2024

04/25/2024

Just a few quick camera snaps of some of the yummy desserts heading out to Nick & J’s Cafe and Aladdin’s Cafe. Including my favorite Hummingbird Cake!

04/19/2024

This weeks delivery to Nick &J’s Cafe

12/16/2023

Ham and cheese sliders
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
20 mins

Ingredients
Brown Sugar Sauce
1 Stick Butter melted
4 tbsp light Brown Sugar
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
Sandwiches
1 pack Hawaiian rolls (16 rolls)
16 slices black Forrest Ham
4 slices Swiss Cheese cut in fours
6 Tbs spicy brown or Dijon mustard
Instructions
Brown Sugar Sauce
In a small pan, whisk together butter, brown sugar and worcestershire sauce over medium heat cook til combined and just starts to bubble. Remove from heat. Set aside.
Sandwiches
Grease a baking pan
Split the rolls down the middle and pull them apart. Line the pan with the bottom portion of the buns.
Evenly spread the mustard on the bottom buns.
Top each with a folded slice of ham and quarter slice of cheese then Put the upper half of the buns on top and pour the brown sugar sauce on top - making sure to coat and soak each bun.

Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour and up to 24 hours.
When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350F degrees and bake covered with foil for 15 minutes, remove foil bake five more minutesor until the top is golden brown and the cheese has melted.

12/02/2023

Jezebel Sauce

1 (13-ounce) jar pineapple passion preserves. (I used Bonne Maman from kroger)
1 (13-ounce) jar apricot preserves.(I used bonne maman from Kroger)
2-3 Tablespoons fresh prepared horseradish. (Refrigerator section)
1 Tablespoon dijon mustard.

Put everything in food processor or blender and pulse to combine.

Refrigerate til ready to serve
Pour over softened cream cheese (makes enough for 2-8oz blocks)
Serve with bagel crisps or crackers

This is an easy appetizer to have the ingredients on hand and throw together.

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving, be safe!

11/16/2023

Cranberry apple stuffing

Ingredients

1 cup chopped celery
½ cup chopped onion (1 medium)
½ cup butter
½ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon black pepper
8 cups dry bread cubes
2 cups chopped peeled apples
½ cup chopped cranberries or craisins
1-1½ cup chicken broth

Directions
Step 1
In a large skillet cook celery, and onion in melted butter until tender, about 5-8 minutes. Stir in salt, nutmeg, and pepper.

Step 2
In a very large bowl combine bread cubes, apple and cranberries add celery mixture. Drizzle with enough broth to moisten, tossing lightly to combine.

Step 3
Place stuffing in a 3-quart casserole. Bake, covered, in a 325 degree F oven for 40 to 45 minutes or until heated through. Makes 12 to 14 servings (about 11 cups)
Will also stuff 20 chicken breasts (slice chicken to make a pocket or pound thin to roll- put ½ cup stuffing in chicken. Put in a greased. baking pan. Bake 20-25 min at 350°)

Tips
Place stuffing in a 3-quart casserole. Cover and chill up to 24 hours. Bake, covered, in a 325° degree F oven for 50 to 55 minutes or until heated through.

07/21/2023

Love repeat referrals. Thank you Cody Barnes
Thank you and Congratulations to Jenn& Forrest

12/18/2022

Giving Santa the secret to making great cookies

12/10/2022

Best Sugar Cookie Recipe
Yield: 36 cookies
Prep Time: 30 minsTotal Time: 38 mins
Soft cut out sugar cookie recipe that keeps its shape and dough does not need to be chilled before baking- perfect edges every time!

INGREDIENTS

1 Cup unsalted butter
1 Cup granulated white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups all purpose flour
INSTRUCTIONS

PREHEAT oven to 350° F.
In the bowl of your mixer, CREAM butter and sugar until smooth, at least 3 minutes
BEAT in extracts and egg. (PLEASE NOTE there is 1 egg in this recipe.)
In a separate bowl, COMBINE baking powder and salt with flour and add a little at a time to the wet ingredients.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If the dough looks crumbly keep mixing for 30 seconds to 1 minute longer. The dough should be pulling away from the sides of the mixer.
If the dough still looks too dry or stiff for your mixer, turn out the dough onto a countertop surface, flour surface as needed. Wet your hands and finish off kneading the dough by hand.
DO NOT CHILL THE DOUGH. Divide into workable batches (2-3 chunks), roll out onto a floured surface, and cut. You want these cookies to be on the thicker side (closer to 1/4 inch rather than 1/8).
Bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes. Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.

11/07/2022

This is a favorite. Slow roasted, not smoked. Tender and full of flavor.

Special Tee cookies and catering

Slow roasted beef brisket

Brisket spice rub recipe
2 Tbsp. Chili powder
2 Tbsp salt
1 Tbsp. Garlic powder
1 Tbsp. onion powder
1 Tbsp. Black pepper
1 Tbsp. Granulated sugar
2 tsp. Dry mustard powder
1 bay leaf

Mix all ingredients together in a bowl and set aside

Recipe
4 lb. Beef brisket trim fat to ¼ inch or less. Leave a little.
4 Tbl. Rub
Preheat oven to 350°
Rub both sides of meat and place fat side up in a shallow roasting pan.
Bake 1 hour. Uncovered
Remove from oven
Turn temperature down to 300°
Add 1 ½ cups beef stock to pan and cover with foil.
Bake at 300° for 3 hours
Remove from oven and let rest 15 minutes (I cook mine the day before and refrigerate overnight, then slice cold and reheat)
Remove bay leaf, Slice and serve
Suggestions For slider bar:
Slider buns
Caramelized onions
Sliced havarti cheese
Horseradish
Bacon jam

11/06/2022

This is an easy appetizer to have the ingredients on hand and throw together.

Jezebel Sauce
1 (13-ounce) jar pineapple passion preserves. (I used Bonne Maman from kroger)
1 (13-ounce) jar apricot preserves.(I used bonne maman from Kroger)
2-3 Tablespoons fresh prepared horseradish. (Refrigerator section)
1 Tablespoon dijon mustard.

Put everything in food processor or blender and pulse to combine.

Refrigerate til ready to serve
Pour over softened cream cheese (makes enough for 2-8oz blocks)
Serve with bagel crisps or crackers

11/05/2022

I love to make stuffed chicken breast with this.

Cranberry apple stuffing

Ingredients

1 cup chopped celery
½ cup chopped onion (1 medium)
½ cup butter
½ teaspoon kosher salt
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon black pepper
8 cups dry bread cubes
2 cups chopped peeled apples
½ cup chopped cranberries or craisins
1-1½ cup chicken broth

Directions
Step 1
In a large skillet cook celery, and onion in melted butter until tender, about 5-8 minutes. Stir in salt, nutmeg, and pepper.

Step 2
In a very large bowl combine bread cubes, apple and cranberries add celery mixture. Drizzle with enough broth to moisten, tossing lightly to combine.

Step 3
Place stuffing in a 3-quart casserole. Bake, covered, in a 325 degree F oven for 40 to 45 minutes or until heated through. Or use to stuff one 10- to 12-pound turkey. (For doneness and roasting temperatures for turkey and stuffing, see roasting chart.) Makes 12 to 14 servings (about 11 cups)
Will also stuff 20 chicken breasts (slice chicken to make a pocket or pound thin to roll- put ½ cup stuffing in chicken. Put in a greased. baking pan. Bake 20-25 min at 350°)

Tips
Place stuffing in a 3-quart casserole. Cover and chill up to 24 hours. Bake, covered, in a 325° degree F oven for 50 to 55 minutes or until heated through. (For safety reasons, do not stufff Turkey til ready to cook.)

09/25/2022

Thanks to our wonderful clients we are fully booked for October and only have a few dates left in November and December.

05/19/2022

ISO another baker who can provide homemade desserts for small area restaurants. Pictures of some of the things they need. Msg. Me for details.

04/12/2022

Not professional pics but wanted to say thank you Michael Zielske and Kelsey Zielske for letting me be a small part of your special day.
The 3 tier naked cake is lemon with cream cheese icing. Thae grooms cake showcases his love for bourbon on this carrot cake with cream cheese icing.

04/07/2022

Need a sugar fix? Head on over to Nick &J's cafe for one of our cookies or a slice of cake or pie.