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Blueberry Ricotta Squares

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Blueberry Ricotta Squares
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Recipe Type: dessert
 
Ingredients
  • Part 1:
  • 1 C. flour
  • ¾ C. sugar
  • 1¼ tsp. baking powder
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • ⅓ C. milk
  • ¼ C. shortening
  • 1 egg
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 1½ C. blueberries
  • Part 2:
  • 2 eggs
  • 1¼ C. ricotta cheese
  • 1¼ C. sugar
  • ¼ tsp. vanilla
Instructions
  1. Part 1: In a small mixer bowl, combine flour, ¾ C. sugar, baking powder and salt.
  2. Add milk, shortening, the 1 egg and vanilla.
  3. Beat with mixer on low speed until combined.
  4. Beat on mediium speed for 1 minute.
  5. Pour batter into greased 9x9x2 pan. Spread evenly.
  6. Sprinkle 1½ cups blueberries over batter.
  7. Part 2: In a medium mixing bowl, lightly beat eggs with a fork.
  8. Add ricotta cheese, sugar and vanilla. Beat until combined.
  9. Spoon ricotta mixture over blueberries and spread evenly.
  10. Bake in 350 degree oven
  11. Time: 55-60 minutes or until lightly golden and knife inserted near center comes out clean.
  12. Cool, cut into squares. Refrigerate.

 

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Lemon Squares

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Lemon Squares
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • 1 C. flour
  • ½ C. butter, softened
  • ¼ C. confectioners sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 C. granulated sugar
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • 2 tbsp. lemon juice
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 350F.
  2. Mix together the butter, flour and confectioners sugar.
  3. Press mixture in an ungreased 8X8X2 pan building up a ½ inch edge.
  4. Bake for 20 minutes.
  5. Beat remaining ingredients until light and fluffy.
  6. Pour mixture over hot crust.
  7. Bake for an additional 25 minutes.
  8. Cool and cut into squares.

 

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Chocolate Drop Cookies

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Chocolate Drop Cookies
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Recipe Type: cookie
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Serves: 4 doz
 
Ingredients
  • ½ C. butter
  • 1 C. sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ¾ C. buttermilk
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 C. flour
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ C. cocoa, unsweetened
  • 1 C. chopped walnuts (optional)
  • chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
  1. Cream butter and sugar together and beat in the egg.
  2. Stir in buttermilk and vanilla.
  3. In a separate bowl, combine all of the dry ingredients.
  4. Combine dry and wet mixture and add walnuts and chocolate chips.
  5. Chill for an hour.
  6. Drop by teaspoons onto a lightly greased baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
  7. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes or until imprint remains when lightly touched.
  8. Makes 3-4 dozen cookies.

 

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Oatmeal Drop Cookies

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Oatmeal Drop Cookies
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Recipe Type: cookie
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Serves: 6 doz
 
Ingredients
  • ½ C. shortening
  • 1¼ C. sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • ⅓ C. molasses
  • 1¾ C. flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 2 C. rolled oats
  • ½ C. chopped nuts
  • 1 C. raisins
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 400F.
  2. Mix shortening, sugar, eggs and molasses thoroughly.
  3. Mix together dry ingredients and blen into wet mixture.
  4. Stir in oats, nuts and raisins.
  5. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons about 2 inches apart on a lightly greased baking sheet.
  6. Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned.
  7. Makes 6 dozen cookies.

 

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Russian Teacakes

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Russian Teacakes
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Recipe Type: dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup butter (do not use margarine)
  • ½ C. powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2¼ C. flour
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • ¾ C. chopped nuts
Instructions
  1. Mix butter, sugar and vanilla thoroughly.
  2. Stir flour and salt together and blemd into the butter mixture.
  3. Mix in nuts.
  4. Chill the dough.
  5. Heat the oven to 400F.
  6. Roll dough into 1 inch balls.
  7. Place on ungreased baking sheet.
  8. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until set but not browned.
  9. While still warm, roll in powdered sugar.
  10. Cool and roll in powdered sugar for a second time.

 

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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • ½ C. vegetable oil
  • 4 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
  • 2 C. granulated sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 C. flour
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 1 C. confectioners sugar
Instructions
  1. Mix oil, chocolate and granulated sugar together.
  2. Blend in one egg at a time until well mixed.
  3. Add vanilla.
  4. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into mixture.
  5. Chill for several hours or overnight.
  6. Preheat oven to 350F.
  7. Drop teaspoons of dough into confectioners sugar and roll in the sugar.
  8. shape dough into balls and place about 2 inches apart on a greased baking sheet.
  9. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Do not over bake.
  10. Makes about 6 doz. cookies.

 

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Black Forest Flan

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Black Forest Flan
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Recipe Type: dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 1 bx. devil's food cake mix
  • ½ C. vegetable oil
  • 1¼ C. water
  • 1 tsp. vanilla butter and nut flavoring
  • 4 extra large eggs
  • 3 oz. box instant chocolate pudding mix
  • 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
  • 1½ C. confectioners sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 cans cherry pie filling
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F.
  2. Grease the bottom of two flan pans.
  3. In a large mixing bowl, blend the cake mix, oil, water, flavoring, eggs and pudding mix.
  4. Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
  5. Divide batter evenly between the 2 pans.
  6. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until cakes spring back when touched lightly.
  7. Let rest on cooling racks for 15 minutes and then invert and lift off the pans.
  8. Cool thoroughly and place on a serving plate.
  9. Whip cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until smooth.
  10. Spread half of the topping over each of the cakes and top one can of pie filling on each.
  11. Each flan serves 6-8 people.

 

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Orange Drop Cookies

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Orange Drop Cookies
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • ⅔ C. shortening
  • ¾ C. sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ C. undiluted frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
  • 2 tbsp. grated orange rind
  • 2 C. flour
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt.
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 400F.
  2. Mix shortening, sugar and egg thoroughly.
  3. Stir in orange juice and rind.
  4. Stir dry ingredients together and blend in.
  5. Drop rounded teaspoons of dough about 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet.
  6. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until edges begin to brown.
  7. Frost with icing.
  8. to make the orange butter icing, combine 2½ tbsp. softened butter, 1½ C. powdered sugar and 2 tbsp. orange juice.

 

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Ginger Creams

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Ginger Creams
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • ⅓ C. shortening
  • ½ C. sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ C. molasses
  • ½ C. water
  • 2 C. all purpose flour
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. ginger
  • ½ tsp. nutmeg
  • ½ tsp. cloves
  • ½ tsp. cinnamon
  • Lemon Icing
Instructions
  1. Mix shortening, sugar, egg, molasses and water and mix thoroughly.
  2. Stir dry ingredients together and blend in.
  3. Chill dough.
  4. Heat oven to 400F
  5. Drop dough by teaspoon about 2 inches apart onto a lightly greased baking sheet.
  6. Bake for approximately 8 minutes or until almost no imprint is left when lightly touched.
  7. While slightly warm, frost with lemon icing.
  8. To prepare the lemon icing, mix together 2½ tbsp. softened butter, 1½ C. powdered sugar and 2 tbsp. lemon juice.

 

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Lady Fingers

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Lady Fingers
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Recipe Type: Dessert
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Ingredients
  • 4 oz. sugar
  • 5 egg yolks
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 5 egg whites
  • ½ tsp. cream of tartar
  • 3 oz. superfine or powdered sugar
  • ½ C. flour
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375F.
  2. Cream the sugar and egg yolks together.
  3. Add the vanilla and beat until light and creamy.
  4. Beat the egg whites, gradually adding the sugar until stiff.
  5. Fold into egg yolk mixture alternating egg whites and flour.
  6. Put mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a medium plain tube.
  7. Pipe mixture onto a greased and floured baking sheet forming 3 inch fingers.
  8. Bake 8-10 minutes and cool on rack.

 

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Banana Chocolate Chip Cake

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Banana Chocolate Chip Cake
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Serves: 8
 
Ingredients
  • 2½ C. all purpose flour.
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • 1 C. canola oil
  • 2 C. sugar
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2 C. mashed bananas, ripe works best
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1⅓ C. semisweet chocolate chips
  • ¾ C. toasted walnuts (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350F
  2. Line two 9X5 metal loaf pans with greased parchment paper.
  3. In a bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
  4. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat oil and sugar. Add eggs to mixture one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  5. Add bananas and vanilla and beat well.
  6. Combine both the wet and dry mixtures and combine until smooth.
  7. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts if using them.
  8. Spread batter evenly in prepared pans.
  9. Bake in a preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes.
  10. Let cakes cool for 15 minutes before removing from the pans.

 

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Cutout Sugar Cookies

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Cutout Sugar Cookies
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Recipe Type: Cookies
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Ingredients
  • 1 cup real butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ teaspoon almond extract
  • (can omit almond and add 1 t vanilla)
  • 3¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • Icing*
  • 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
  • 1 or more tablespoon milk
  • 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
  • ¼ teaspoon almond extract (can use ½ teaspoon vanilla in place of the almond)
  • food coloring
Instructions
  1. In large bowl with mixer, combine butter and sugar, add eggs and extracts; Beat on high til light and fluffy. In another bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually stir into the butter mixture until well blended. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours. Set oven to 400°F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. On very lightly floured surface roll out the dough into about ¼-inch thickness. Cut into desired shapes using cookie cutters. Place cookies 2-inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake 4-6 minutes. Remove cookies to wire racks to cool completely before icing.
  2. Icing
  3. In a small bowl mix the confectioners sugar with milk (start with 1-2 tablespoons, you will likely need more milk for the perfect spreading consistency). Beat in corn syrup and almond extract until the icing is smooth and glossy (if the icing is too thick add in a small amount more of corn syrup). Divide into as many separate bowls as you wish for different colors. Add in food coloring until desired intensity is achieved. Decorate as desired….you can use small paint brushes, piping bags or dip the cookies in the icing to add detail. Allow to set on waxed paper until icing is set. Icing will harden.
  4. Amount of cookies depends on size of cutters you use.

 

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Parmesan Pull-Apart Bread

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Parmesan Pull-Apart Bread
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Recipe Type: Breads
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Ingredients
  • 1 can refrigerated biscuits
  • ½ stick of butter, melted
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • ½ C. Parmesan cheese, grated
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Cut the biscuits into quarters.
  3. In a large bowl, combine the garlic and Parmesan.
  4. Add the biscuit pieces to the cheese and coat well.
  5. Pour the melted butter in the bottom of a Bundt pan.
  6. Place the coated biscuit pieces in the pan and pour any remain garlic and cheese over the top.
  7. Bake at 350 for 20-22 minutes or until golden brown.
  8. Turn out onto a plate and serve.

 

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Sausage and cheese stuffed Jalepenos

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Sausage and cheese stuffed Jalapenos
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Recipe Type: Appetiser
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Ingredients
  • 1 lb. ground Italian sausage
  • 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
  • 1 C. cheddar Cheese, shredded
  • 1 lb. Jalapenos, halved lengthwise and seeded.
  • 1 green onion, finely chopped
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 425
  2. Brown the sausage in a skillet and drain off the excess grease.
  3. In a large bowl, combine the sausage, cream cheese, cheddar cheese and green onion.
  4. Spoon about 1 tbsp. into each jalapeno half.
  5. Bake for 20 minutes or until browned.

 

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