Well worth the work…..
Category Archives: Desserts
Brownie Drops
Butter Balls
Butter Cookies (Thumbprint)
Cookie Press Cookies (Almond Spritz)
PUMPKIN PIE CAKE
Ingredients:
1 – 18oz can pumpkin (or fresh equivalent)
1 box yellow cake mix (2 layer size)
1 cup sugar
1/2 c. melted margarine or butter
1 – 13oz can evaporated milk (not sweetened condensed)
3/4 c. chopped pecans or walnuts
3 eggs
3 tsp cinnamon
Directions:
Beat eggs and milk together; add pumpkin, sugar and cinnamon. Mix until well blended. Pour into a 9×13 greased pan. Sprinkle dry cake mix over mixture. Drizzle with melted margarine. Sprinkle with chopped nuts. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 min or until done. Serve (warm or cold) with topping or whipped cream. Enjoy
Two Ingredient Lemon Bars
Ingredients
1 box angel food cake mix( I use Betty Crocker)
2 cans lemon pie filling (2- 21 oz cans of Comstock pie filling total of 42 oz)
Directions
Mix dry cake mix and cans of pie filling together in large bowl.
I just mixed it by hand…
Pour into greased 9 x 13? baking pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes or until top is starting to brown.
Cool on wire rack and sprinkle with powered sugar. It has a melt in your mouth spongy texture.
NOTE…from person who made these. Mine took the full 25 minutes to get done and did not brown on top at all :))
Meltaways
Peanut Squares
$250 Red Cake
There’s a story that goes with this cake that adds to its intrigue. Many years ago a restaurateur from St. Louis was eating at a famous restaurant in New York and fell in love with this cake. When she returned home she wrote to the restaurant and requested a copy of the recipe. They in turn mailed it to her with a bill for $250. Stunned by this, she in turn posted it in the local newspaper for all to enjoy. Now I’m sure you’ve eaten red velvet cake, but once you try your hand at this one, you’ll understand why it was worth every penny. Be careful what you wish for, right?
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups whit sugar
1/2 cup Crisco
2 Eggs
1 cup buttermilk
2 2/1 cups cake flour sifted
2 oz. red food coloring
2 tbsp. cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking soda dissolved in 1 tbsp. vinegar
Directions for cake:
Cream sugar and crisco. Add eggs alternately. Make a paste of the flour and buttermilk combine into mixture. Add food coloring, cocoa, vanilla, salt and vinegar mixture. Blend all together well. Bake in 3 round cake pans (the picture shows 2 but 3 gives you more frosting) in 350 degree oven for 30 min.
Ingredients for filling/frosting:
5 tbsp. flour
1 cup milk
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Directions for filling/frosting:
Cook until thick & then cool–5 tbsp. flour and 1 cup milk
Cream together and add to cool mixture—-1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar (added gradually) and 1 tsp. vanilla.
After cake has cooled for 10-15 min. remove from pans and allow to cool completely before frosting. Place first layer upside down on plate and top with frosting. Place next layer upside down on top of first and top with frosting. Place final layer right-side-up on top and frost the entire cake. If you like lots of frosting feel free to double the above amounts.