Here's a list of all the ingredients you’ll need to cook along with Rachael this week. Watch the show or check back online each day for the complete recipes.

tuesday

May 22, 2012

Buddy Valastro’s Red Velvet Cake

• 1 1/4 cups vegetable shortening
• 2 cups sugar, plus more for sprinkling the parchment paper
• 1 tablespoon unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
• 4 1/2 teaspoons (2 tubes) red food coloring gel
• 3 cups cake flour, plus more for flouring the cake pans
• 1 1/4 teaspoons fine sea salt
• 1 1/4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/4 teaspoons distilled white vinegar
• 3 extra-large eggs
• 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
• Unsalted butter (about 2 tablespoons), nonstick spray or vegetable oil, for greasing the cake pans

Buddy Valastro’s Cream Cheese Frosting

• Two 8-ounce packages cream cheese
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 cups powdered (10X) sugar, sifted

Roasted Fennel-Crusted Chops with Fennel and Beet Slaw and Fresh Ricotta

• 4 1 1/2-inch thick pork shoulder chops or bone-in rib chops
• 4 to 5 tablespoons EVOO – Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 2 teaspoons fennel seed
• 1 teaspoon chili flakes
• 1 teaspoon granulated onion
• 1 teaspoon granulated garlic
• 1 teaspoon oregano or marjoram
• Sea salt and black pepper
• 1 bulb fennel, trimmed and thinly sliced by hand or with mandolin
• 2 small fresh beets, any color, washed and very thinly sliced by hand or with mandolin
• 1/2 small red onion, very thinly sliced
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 1/2 cup citrus sections, oranges or grapefruit
• 1 cup fresh ricotta
• 2 tablespoons fresh thyme, chopped
• Crusty bread, such as ciabatta

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