Ingredients:
- 1/2 C butter or margarine
- 1 C all-purpose flour
- 1/2 C sugar
- 1/2 C chopped slivered almonds, toasted
- 1 large cartoon cool ship
- 1-quart chocolate ice cream
- 1/4 C rum or 1 Tbl rum flavoring
Apple Brownies
Ingredients:
- 1/4 C melted butter
- 1/4 C applesauce
- 1 C brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 large or 3 medium apples
- 1 C whole wheat flour
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- nutmeg to taste
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Apple Cheesecake
Several parts to this with a few ingredients lists – dig in and enjoy the process. It so good!
Crust Ingredients:
- 1/2 butter
- 1 1/4 C sifted flour
- 1/3 C sugar
- 1/4 tsp. vanilla
Apple Crisp
Ingredients:
- 6-10 Apples – cored and chopped small
- 1/4 tsp or so of Cinnamon
- 1 & 1/2 tsp Lemon Juice
Topping Ingredients:
- 3/4 C old fashioned oats (quick oats isn’t as crispy)
- 3/4 C Brown Sugar
- 3/4 C Flour
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
- Pinch of salt (or not if using salted butter)
- 1/2 C cold butter cut into small cubes
Continue reading “Apple Crisp”
Baklava
Read the Comments before you commit to this one!
This came from my friend and co-worker Renee Brenner. It has a great story attached to it and it is an authentic family recipe from Greece.
If you like Mediterranean stuff – you might want to check out America’s Test Kitchen Complete Mediterranean Cookbook. Continue reading “Baklava”
Birds Nest Cookies
Starting with this recipe, I’m going to cheat a little. If I can simply use my awesome phone camera to take a picture and call it good enough – why shouldn’t I? Continue reading “Birds Nest Cookies”
Carrot Cake
Ingredients:
- 1 lb bag of carrots cooked and mashed and cooled
- 3 C flour
- 2 C sugar
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 1/2 C Crisco oil
- 4 eggs
- 1 C chopped nuts
- see directions re: cream cheese frosting or homemade
One-Bowl Carrot Cake
Topping Ingredients:
- 1 8oz block of Neufchatel or cream cheese – softened/room temp
- 1/2 C confectioners’ sugar
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 egg
- 1/2 C sour cream
Cake Ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 C sugar
- 1/2 C oil
- 1 C flour
- 1 tsp. baking spice (or some combination of ground cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, nutmeg…)
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 packed C peeled and coarsely grated carrots
Chocoloate Bon Bon Cookies
2 lists of ingredients. So be sure to check out the whole recipe before committing.
Cookie Ingredients:
- 1/2 C cocoa
- 1/4 C brown sugar
- 1/2 C water
- 1 C margarine
- 2 C sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 4 C flour
- 1/2 tsp. cloves
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 4 tsp. baking powder
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
- 2 1/2 C flour (ap flour? All Purpose flour!)
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 C dark brown sugar
- 1/2 C sugar
- 1 C unsalted butter, soft
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract*
- 2 C semisweet chocolate chips
- *optional – add cut up Snickers