Category Archives: Desserts
Date-Nut Pinwheels
Ingredients for Dough
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
Directions
Work butter in a bowl until creamy, add sugar gradually, add egg and beat well.
Add dry ingredients. Chill dough. Make filling while dough is chilling.
Roll chilled dough to 10×16 in. rectangle. Spread filling on dough and roll like jelly roll starting on a wide side. Wrap lightly and chill overnight.
Bake 10 to 12 min. at 350 degrees.
Ingredients for Filling
1 lb.(1 cup) pitted chopped dates
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
Pinch salt
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
Directions
Cook five minutes, chill, add nuts
Sour Cream Roll-Outs
Ingredients
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
1 cup cream
1 tbsp. vinegar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
7 cups flour
Directions
Mix vinegar into cream to create sour cream. Cream all except flour and then add flour when all is well creamed. Chill several hours or overnight.
Set out long enough to be able to roll 1/4 in. thick. Cut with favorite cookie cutters.
Bake for 8-10 min. at 325 degrees.
Ice and decorate to your liking.
Makes at least 9 dozen cookies.
Gingerbread Boy Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 2 teaspoons white vinegar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions
- In a saucepan, combine the butter, sugar, molasses and vinegar; bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat; cool to lukewarm. Stir in egg. Combine the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt; stir into molasses mixture to form a soft dough.
- Divide dough into thirds. Shape each portion into a disk; wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or until easy to handle.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 3-in. gingerbread boy cookie cutter. Place on greased baking sheets. Bake at 375 degrees F for 7-9 minutes or until edges are firm. Remove to wire racks.
CHOW MEIN NOODLES COOKIES
So simple and easy! Good way to use up extra chow mein noodles!
Ingredients
2 pkg. butterscotch morsels (or chocolate)
1 lg. can chow mein noodles
1 c. Spanish peanuts (optional)
Directions
Melt morsels over low heat or in microwave. Mix in noodles and peanuts. Drop on cookie sheet and cool. No baking necessary!
Amish Friendship Bread
Begin with Basic Starter Dough
Important Preparations
- Don’t use a metal spoon or metal bowl for mixing.
- Don’t refrigerate.
- If air gets in bag-let it out.
- It is normal for the batter to thicken, bubble and ferment.
Day 1: You receive fermented batter in gallon zip-lock bag. Do nothing; just place the bag on the kitchen counter.
Day 2: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 3: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 4: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 5: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 6: Add 1-cup flour, 1-cup sugar and 1-cup milk, squeeze bag several times.
Day 7: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 8: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 9: Squeeze the bag several times.
Day 10: Baking day: Gather the following ingredients in preparation to bake:
flour, sugar, oil, vanilla, eggs, salt, milk, baking soda, large box instant vanilla pudding,
and cinnamon.
In large non-metallic bowl, combine batter with 1-cup flour, 1-cup sugar, and 1-cup milk. Mix with wooden or plastic spoon. Pour four (4) 1-cup starters into 1-gallon zip-lock bags and give them away to family or friends with a copy of the recipe.
To remaining batter in bowl add 1-cup oil, 1-cup sugar, 1-tsp vanilla, 3 eggs, 1/2-cup milk, 1-tsp salt, 2-cups flour, ½ -tsp. Baking soda, 1-large box instant vanilla pudding and 2-tsp. Cinnamon.
In separate bowl, mix 1-tsp. Cinnamon and 3-tsp. Sugar, sprinkle into 2 or 3 well-greased loaf pans (I use cooking spray). Pour batter into pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 45 Min. or until toothpick comes out almost clean. Don’t over-bake. When varying the recipes only use this sprinkle for the date nut and banana nut breads.
You can be really be creative with this recipe. I have experimented and come up with quite a nice variety of breads.
Optional additions to batter- for Date Nut Bread are in 1/3-cup or more amounts: raisins, dates, nuts.- for Banana Nut Bread: mash one large or two small bananas add them and 1/2 cup nuts. – for Chocolate Bread: chocolate chips, chocolate pudding instead of vanilla pudding, vanilla instead of cinnamon and no cinnamon and sugar sprinkled in pan. – for Christmas Bread: diced candied Christmas cherries, raisins and nuts.- for Maraschino Cherry Bread I substitute cherry juice from the jar of maraschino cherries instead of the vanilla and cinnamon and dice the cherries.- for Pumpkin Bread I use the basic ingredients from my pumpkin pie recipe.- likewise for Carrot Bread I use the basic ingredients from my carrot cake recipe. Having Philadelphia Cream Cheese frosting to spread on the carrot bread makes it a real hit.
You can also freeze a starter or two so that you have one to bake with the next year. When it comes out of the freezer, treat that as day 1.
Enjoy!
Amish Friendship Bread Starter
German Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
| Approx. 5 dozen | Prep/Total Time: 1 Hr. 30 Min. |
Ingredients
1 box German Chocolate cake mix
2/3 c flaked coconut
1/4 c vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 can coconut pecan frosting
1/4 c flaked coconut
Directions
Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). In large bowl, mix cake mix, 2/3 cup coconut, the oil and eggs with spoon until dough forms. Chill at least one hour.
Shape dough into 1-inch balls; place about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Press the end of a wooden spoon handle in the center of each cookie to make indentation, but do not press all the way to the cookie sheet. Fill each indentation with frosting.
Bake 8 to 11 minutes or until set. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes. Store in an airtight container. Yield approx. 5 dozen.
Gooey Butter Cookies
Original recipe makes 2 dozen
Ingredients
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 (18.25 ounce) packageyellow cake mix
1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter. Stir in the egg and vanilla. Add cake mix, and stir until well blended. Roll into 1inch balls and roll the balls in the confectioners’ sugar. Place 1 inch apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 to 13 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove from baking sheets to cool on wire racks.
MONSTER COOKIES
Ingredients
3 eggs
1 1/2 c brown sugar
1 c white sugar
1 tsp, vanilla
1 tsp. light corn syrup
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 c butter
1 1/2 c peanut butter
4 1/4 c quick oats
1/4 lb M ‘n’M’s
1/4 lb. chocolate chips
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a very large bowl, beat the eggs.
Add remaining ingredients in order, mixing well.
Use an ice cream scoop to put on parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
Bake for 10-12 min.
Makes approx. 6 dozen