Texas Cake

We got this recipe from a very special family. If you aren't a cake lover, trust me even you will enjoy this recipe! It's a little bit like brownies but lighter, with frosting. Enjoy! KJV.

2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
A pinch of salt

Mix in a bowl and set aside.

In a pan on the stove:

1 cup water
4 TBLS unsweetened Cocoa
1 cup butter or margarine

Bring to boil. Pour over flour and sugar mixture, and beat well. (This is the best stage for sampling the batter!)

Add 2 eggs
1/2 cup butter milk or 1/2 cup milk with a little vinegar.
1 tsp. Baking Soda

Mix well. Pour in a greased sided cookie sheet (or a pan the same size). Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

-Frosting Recipe-

In a bowl:

4 cups powdered sugar

In a small pan mix 4 Tablespoons unsweetened Cocoa, 1/2 cup margarine (or butter), and 1/3 cup milk. Bring to boil and pour over powdered sugar. Mix well and add 1 tsp vanilla and 1 cup walnuts (optional). Frost over cake right out of the oven.

Fudge truffle Cheesecake

Do you want a special dessert for Valentines Day? This would be a great choice for all the chocolate lovers out there!

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups vanilla wafer crumbs
• 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/3 cup butter, softened
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 4 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
2. In a large mixing bowl, mix together crushed vanilla wafers, confectioners' sugar, cocoa, and butter or margarine by hand. Press ingredients into a 9 inch springform pan.
3. In the top of a double boiler, melt the chocolate chips, making sure that they are very smooth.
4. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy with an electric mixer. Gradually beat in condensed milk until smooth. Mix in melted chocolate, eggs, and vanilla. Beat with electric mixer on low speed until the ingredients are thoroughly blended. Pour the filling into the prepared crust.
5. Bake at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 55 minutes. The cake will seem underbaked in the center, but will continue to cook after you remove it from the oven.

Prep time: 30 min Cook Time: 1 hr Ready In: 2 hrs

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cake

1 3/4 C boiling water
1 C oatmeal
1 C brown sugar
1 C granulated sugar
1/2 C butter
2 eggs
1 3/4 C almond blend flour (or all-purpose flour if you don't want it to be GF)
1 1/2 tsp. xanthan gum (don't use if you use all-purpose flour)
1 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 T Hershey's cocoa
1 1/2 C chocolate chips
1 C walnuts (optional)

Mix boiling water and oatmeal and let stand 10 minutes.  Add brown sugar, sugar and butter and stir until melted.  Then add the rest of the indgredients except just add 1/2 the chocolate chips and 1/2 the walnuts.  Pour mixed batter into a greased and floured 9x13 pan.  Sprinkle remaining nuts and chips on top.  Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. 

This cake is so rich that it doesn't need to be frosted.  It may be served with whipped cream on top.

~VLS

Pineapple Dream Delight

1 pkg. Jiffy yellow cake mix (I made gluten free yellow cake from a cookbook)

1 large pkg. Jell-O instant pudding, vanilla flavored

1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, soft

1 (1 lb.) can crushed pineapple, drained

1 3/4 C milk

1 lg carton Cool Whip

Bake cake in a greased and floured 9x13 inch pan at 350 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes.  Cool.

In a mixing bowl, mix pudding with milk.  When thickened, beat in softened cream cheese, add well drained pineapple and spread over cake.  Spread Cool Whip over top and sprinkle with coconut or nuts, if desired.

Can be kept for 1 to 2 weeks in the refrigerator.  Serves 15 or more.

~VLS

Butter Almond Cake

2/3 C. butter-melted

1 C. Sugar

2 C. Flour

2 eggs, mixed with a fork (reserve a small amount)

2 tsp. Almond Extract

1/2 C Brown Sugar

2 tsp. Baking Powder

Combine butter, sugar, eggs (reserve a small amount), almond extract, flour, brown sugar and baking powder; stir well. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 8 inch round cake pans. Flatten with a fork and brush tops with remaining eggs. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes, Cool. Remove from pans. Cut into wedges.

Serves: 16

ENJOY!

KJV

Frosting Your "Perfect" Cake

Have you frosted your cake, and wished you knew a better way so you wouldn't get it on the seving plater?

Just place a piece of parchment or wax paper on your serving plater. Then frost your cake. Slip the paper out from underneath. And there you have it! a nice frosted cake. With NO messes!

KJV

6 Egg Pound Cake

This is a great way to use up all those stock-piled eggs...

3 C all-purpose flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 C butter, softened
2 1/2 C sugar
6 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
3/4 C milk

1. Grease and flour a tube or Bundt pan. Do not preheat oven.

2. In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.

3. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well each time. add vanilla.

4. Add flour mixture alternately with milk. Beat until smooth. Pour batter into tube or Bundt pan.

5. Place cake into cold oven, set the temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake for 60 to 90 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean.

6. Top with confectioners sugar or glaze.

~VLS

Better Than Pumpkin Pie Recipe

Ingredients:

1 Box Plain Yellow Cake

4 Eggs

1 C Brown Sugar

1 Can (30 oz. Size) Pumpkin

1 C Margarine or Butter

2/3 C Milk

1 TB Cinnamon

1/2 C Brown Sugar

Directions:

Reserve 1 C of the cake mix. Set aside.

Melt 1/2 the butter and mix the remaining cake mix and 1 beaten egg. Spread in bottom of 9x13 in greased dish.

Mix together the first measure of brown sugar, the milk, cinnamon, remaining beaten eggs, and pumpkin. Pour over cake mix layer. Combine the reserved cake mix, remaining brown sugar and the remaining soft butter. Crumble over pumpkin layer and bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees.

Serve warm or chill in the refrigerator. Cut in squares and serve with whipped cream or whipped topping.

Enjoy!

K.J.V.