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Pumpkin Spice Cake
This recipe uses canned pumpkin and a mixture of fragrant spices. It’s good served with cream cheese icing.
Ingredients
1 cup pumpkin
1/2 cup melted butter
2 beaten eggs
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp molasses
3/4 cup almond milk
2 1/4 cups flour
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ginger Continue reading Pumpkin Spice Cake
Dry Measures
Dry Measures
1/8 teaspoon .5 ml
1/4 teaspoon 1 ml
1/2 teaspoon 2 ml
3/4 teaspoon 5 ml
1 tablespoon 15 ml
1/4 cup 59 ml
1/3 cup 79 ml
1/2 cup 118 ml
2/3 cup 158 ml
3/4 cup 177 ml
1 cup 225 ml
2 cups or 1 pint 450 ml
3 cups 675 ml
4 cups (1 quart) 1 liter
1/2 gallon 2 liters
1 gallon 4 liters
Baking Biscuit Pizza
This is a quick and easy way to make pizza when you don’t have time to make pizza dough. Plate and serve the pizza with a knife and fork. It’s the perfect meal for a busy week day.
Ingredients
2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup olive oil
3/4 cup milk
1 green pepper
pizza sauce
mushrooms
onions
sun-dried tomatoes
herb cheese Continue reading Baking Biscuit Pizza
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Easy Trifle
Layer this recipe in a clear bowl so that you can see the layers. The jam and gelatin powder can be adjusted to your favorite flavors.
Ingredients
1 box of French Vanilla cake mix
2 boxes raspberry jello powder
1 jar raspberry jam
1 can custard powder
whipped cream
1 tbsp sugar
Mix cake mix according to instructions on the box. Bake in a parchment lined rectangular pan according to manufacturer’s instructions. Remove from oven and cool before proceeding with recipe. Continue reading Easy Trifle
Cranberry White Chocolate Shortbread
Christmas is the one time of year that my family always baked several kinds of cookies for guests over the holiday season. Times have changed and we no longer need the selection of sweets we used to but I find myself still baking some of my holiday favorites.
This is probably my most favorite cookie. The tangy cranberries, aromatic almonds and white chocolate create a sumptuous cookie.
I’ve tried replacing the white chocolate in this recipe with milk chocolate but the recipe is not the same. If you absolutely hate white chocolate replace it with dark chocolate. The bitter chocolate pares well with the cranberries.
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup butter
1 cup icing sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups dried cranberries Continue reading Cranberry White Chocolate Shortbread
Gumdrop Cookies
This is an old fashioned cookie that has gumdrops folded into the batter. The cookies are soft with pieces of chewy candy. Store in a cookie tin wrapped in parchment.
Ingredients
1/2 cup soft butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 beaten egg
1 tsp vanilla
Cream above ingredients. In a separate bowl mix the following ingredients.
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powser
Patterned Cookies
This recipe takes more time than many of the icebox cookies but the results are worth the effort. The designs are pretty and the cookie is delicious. You’ll need an afternoon to bake these cookies so make an extra batch while you are baking and freeze any leftovers.
Ingredients
1 cup soft butter
2/3 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
Mix first 3 ingredients until light and fluffy. Add flour and salt to the mixture. Blend until combined. Do not overwork dough. Continue reading Patterned Cookies
Helpful Hints
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Helpful Hints Store popcorn in the freezer and you will have fewer unpopped kernels.
- Use a buttered knife to slice soft pies.
- Bake two pie crusts on the bottom shelf of the oven. The top will be nicely browned and the bottom will be cooked through.
- Minute tapioca can be used to thicken fruit pies. Use 2 to 3 tbsp depending on the size of the pie plate.
- Chill all ingredients for a pie crust and do not overwork dough to ensure flaky crusts.
- Use a melon baller or ice cream scoop to drop cookie dough onto baking sheets.
- Chill cookie dough 30 minutes before rolling.
- Wrap individual slices of cake and freeze. The cake will thaw by lunch time if removed from the freezer in the morning.
- A slice of apple in a cake container will help keep cake fresh.
- Leave cloves out of cake that will be stored in cool temperatures (freezer or fridge). The spice gets stronger when cold.
