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No Bake Cheesecake

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No Bake Cheesecake
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 2 8-ounce packages cream cheese at room temperature
  • 14 oz. sweetened condensed milk
  • fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract.
  • 1 premade graham cracker pie crust.
Instructions
  1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
  2. Mix until fully mixed and smooth.
  3. Spoon mixture into prepared pie crust.
  4. Chill for at least 2 hours to allow cheesecake to set.

 

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Tomato Soup Spice Cake

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Tomato Soup Spice Cake
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Recipe Type: Dessert
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Serves: 12
 
Ingredients
  • 2 C. flour
  • 1⅓ C. sugar
  • 4 tsp. baking powder
  • 1½ tsp. ground allspice
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. ground cloves
  • 1 can tomato soup (10¾ oz)
  • ½ C. vegetable shortening
  • 2 eggs
  • ¼ C. water
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Grease a 19x9 baking pan
  3. Mix dry ingredients together.
  4. Add remaining ingredients and mix with an electric mixer at low speed.
  5. Beat for 4 minutes.
  6. Pour mixture into prepared pan.
  7. Bake for 40 minutes or until done.
  8. Cool in pan on a wire rack.
  9. Frost with cream cheese frosting.

 

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Carrot Cake

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Carrot Cake
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 1½ C. oil
  • 2 C. Sugar
  • 4 Eggs
  • 2 C. Flour
  • 3 C. raw carrots, grated fine
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • 2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. salt
Instructions
  1. Beat the oil, sugar and eggs together.
  2. Add the remaining ingredients.
  3. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until done in the center.

 

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Old Fashioned Cake Icing

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Old Fashioned Cake Icing
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 1 C. Water
  • 5 t. flour
  • 1 stick butter
  • ½ C. crisco
  • 1 t. vanilla
  • 1 C. sugar
Instructions
  1. in a sauce pan, bring the water and flour to a boil. This will create a paste. Once it begins to boil, remove it from the heat and allow it to cool completely.
  2. Mix remaining ingredients and add flour and water paste.
  3. Beat with a mixer until light and fluffy.

 

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Sour Cream Lemon Pound Cake

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Sour Cream Lemon Pound Cake
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 3 sticks of unsalted butter, softened
  • 2⅔ cups sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 2 tsp lemon extract
  • lemon zest from 2 fresh lemons
  • 3½ cup flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • Lemon Glaze:
  • ⅓ cup fresh lemon juice
  • ½ cup sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. sift flour and salt and set aside.
  3. Cream butter and ⅓ cup sugar until light and fluffy, add lemon zest, lemon extract, and remaining sugar ⅓ cup at a time, beating after each addition.
  4. When mixture is fluffy, add eggs one at a time and beat for 6 minutes.
  5. Add flour mixture alternately with sour cream, ending with flour.
  6. Beat untill light and fluffy.
  7. Spoon into greased and floured bundt cake pan.
  8. Bake for 1 hour or until top is deep golden brown and cake springs back to the touch.
  9. While cake is baking mix together sugar and lemon juice for glaze. Stir occasionally to dissolve sugar.
  10. Cool cake in pan on wire rack for about 15 minutes, invert from bundt pan onto wax paper or cookie sheet.
  11. Drizzle glaze all over the cake.
  12. Allow to coll completely before serving.

 

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Fresh Fruit Flan

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Fresh Fruit Flan
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Ingredients
  • Cake:
  • 5 tbsp milk
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 tbsp vanilla
  • 2¼ cups cake flour, sifted
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1¼ cup granulated sugar
  • zest of 2 lemons
  • 9 tbsp unsalted butter, softened.
  • Syrup:
  • ⅓ cup granulated sugar
  • ⅓ cup fruit juice
  • (in a small pan over medium heat, stir the sugar and juice until sugar is dissolved)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350
  2. whisk together milk, eggs, and vanilla.
  3. Set aside.
  4. Combine the dry ingredients(including sugar) and the lemon zest, and mix on low speed for 30 seconds.
  5. Add the butter and ½ of the milk mixture, and blend until dry ingredients are moistened.
  6. Beat on medium speed fro 1 minute.
  7. Add the remaining milk mixture, and beat for 30 seconds.
  8. Spoon batter into prepared pan.
  9. Bake until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, about 35-40 minutes.
  10. As soon as the flan comes out of the oven, poke the cake all over with a toothpick.
  11. Brush with ½ of the prepared syrup.
  12. Cool in the pan for about 10 minutes, then invert to an oiled cooking rack.
  13. Brush the sides and top with remaining syrup.
  14. To serve, fill flan with desired filling (whipped cream and fresh fruit slices; lemon curd and fresh raspberries, glazed fresh fruit)

 

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Chocolate Filled Bundt Cake

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Chocolate Filled Bundt Cake
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Recipe Type: dessert
 
Ingredients
  • Filling:
  • ⅓ C. sugar
  • 1 tbsp. cornstarch
  • 2 tbsp. butter
  • ¼ C. milk
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 8 oz. cream cheese
  • 1 C. chocolate chips
  • 1 egg
  • Cake:
  • 1 yellow cake mix (pudding kind)
  • ¾ C. water
  • ⅓ C. oil
  • 3 eggs
Instructions
  1. To prepare cake mix, combine all ingredients and beat on high for 2 minutes.
  2. Pour half the batter into a well greased and floured bundt pan.
  3. Prepare filling.
  4. Melt chocolate chips over hot water.
  5. In a small bowl, combine all filling ingredients and beat until smooth.
  6. Drop by spoonfuls onto cake batter in Bundt pan.
  7. Do not let the filling touch the sides of the pan.
  8. Pour remaining batter on top of filling.
  9. Bake at 350 for 45-55 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
  10. Allow to cool for 15 minutes before removing from pan.
  11. Glaze with chocolate icing.

 

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7-Up Cake

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7-Up Cake
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Recipe Type: dessert
Prep Time: 
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Serves: 6-8
 
Ingredients
  • 1 lemon cake mix
  • 1 pk. instant pineapple pudding mix
  • 4 eggs
  • ¾ C. oil
  • 1 12oz. can seven up
Instructions
  1. Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl.
  2. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

 

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Raddish Cake

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Raddish Cake
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Recipe Type: Cake
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Ingredients
  • 3 C. flour
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • ¼ tsp. baking soda
  • 3 tbsp. milk
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ¾ C. butter
  • ½ C. instant cocoa
  • 1 C. radishes, shredded and drained
  • 1½ C. sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 4 eggs
  • ½ C. sour cream
  • 1 tsp. orange peel, finely grated
Instructions
  1. Grease and flour a 9-10 inch cake pan.
  2. An a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar together.
  3. Add vanilla to the butter and mix until fluffy.
  4. Add one egg at a time beating after each addition.
  5. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and baking soda and salt. Mix well.
  6. In another bowl, combine the remaining ingredients except for the cocoa.
  7. Combine all three mixtures together and mix until well blended.
  8. Retain one cup of the cake mix and pour the remaining into the cake pan.
  9. Mix the cocoa mix into the reserved batter and mix well. Pour over the top of the cake.
  10. Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes.
  11. Serve with a frosting made of 1 C. powdered sugar, 4 tsp. milk and vanilla to taste drizzled over the top.

 

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Zucchini Cake

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Zucchini Cake
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Recipe Type: dessert
 
Ingredients
  • Cake:
  • 1½ C. flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ tsp. baking powder
  • 2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1¼ C. vegetable oil
  • 1 C. granulated sugar
  • 1 C. packed brown sugar
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 C. shredded zucchini, lightly packed
  • 1 C. chopped walnuts
  • Glaze:
  • 1 C. confectioner's sugar
  • 2 tbsp. hot water
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter Frankfort Ring mold.
  2. Sift together the dry ingredients.
  3. Add eggs, oil, sugars, and vanilla. Stir until combined.
  4. Add zucchini and walnuts, and mix well.
  5. Pour batter into prepared pan.
  6. Bake 50-60 minutes, or until tester inserted in the middle of cake comes out clean.
  7. Allow cake to cool in pan 5-10 minutes, then remove from pan to finish cooling on wire rack.
  8. Sprinkle with powdered sugar or glaze.
  9. Glaze: While beating, add water to sugar a few drops at a time until the glaze is just thin enough
  10. to pour. Pour it over the cake and let it dribble down the sides.

 

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Lemon Citrus Savarin Ring Cake

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Lemon Citrus Savarin Ring Cake
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Recipe Type: dessert
 
Ingredients
  • Cake:
  • 1 (18.25 oz) yellow cake mix
  • ½ C. butter, softened
  • 3 eggs
  • ⅔ C. orange juice concentrate (undiluted)
  • 1 tsp. lemon zest
  • scant ¼ C. powdered sugar, for garnish
  • Lemon Glaze:
  • ⅓ C. fresh lemon juice
  • ½ C. honey
Instructions
  1. Combine lemon juice and honey in small saucepan. Warm over low while stirring until blended.
  2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  3. In large bowl, combine cake mix, butter, eggs, orange juice and lemon zest.
  4. Beat on low speed to blend, then beat on medium for 2 minutes.
  5. Pour batter into greased and floured Vienna Ring pan.
  6. Bake for 45-50 minutes, or when cake tester comes out clean.
  7. Remove cake from oven and let cool for 10 minutes in pan, then turn out on platter.
  8. While still lukewarm, poke holes over surface with toothpick and spoon Lemon Glaze over.
  9. When glaze has soaked into cake, sift powdered sugar lightly over for decoration.
  10. Before serving, fill ring with fresh strawberries, orange segments, green grapes and red grapes.

 

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Banana Chocolate Chip Cake

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Banana Chocolate Chip Cake
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Recipe Type: dessert
Cook Time: 
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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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Pumpkin Roll

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Pumpkin Roll
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 c white sugar
  • ⅔ c pumpkin
  • 1 tsp lemon juice(optional)
  • ¾ c flour
  • 1 t baking powder
  • ½ t salt
  • 2 t ground cinnamon
  • 2 t pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 c chopped walnuts
  • 8 oz pkg cream cheese
  • 2 T butter
  • 1½ cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1 t vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Lightly grease a 10×15 inch jelly roll pan.
  3. In a large bowl, beat eggs until fluffy. Beat in sugar until fluffiness resumes. Stir in pumpkin and lemon juice. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice. Fold dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture. Spread in prepared pan; sprinkle with nuts.
  4. Bake in preheated oven 15 minutes. Sprinkle a kitchen towel with confectioner’s sugar. Turn cake out onto towel while still hot. Carefully roll cake in towel, long ends together, and let cool completely.
  5. Filling: In medium bowl, cream together cream cheese, butter and confectioners’ sugar. Stir in vanilla.
  6. Carefully unroll cooled cake and remove kitchen towel. Spread cake with filling and re-roll. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

 

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Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

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Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars
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Recipe Type: Dessert
Prep Time: 
Cook Time: 
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Serves: 6-8
 
Ingredients
  • 1 c flour
  • ⅓ c brown sugar
  • 5 T butter softened
  • ½ c chopped pecans or walnuts
  • 1 pkg cream cheese softened
  • ¾ c sugar
  • ½ c of pumpkin
  • 2 eggs lightly beaten
  • 1½ t cinnamon
  • 1 t allspice
  • 1 t vanilla
Instructions
  1. In a mixing bowl, combine flour and brown sugar.
  2. Cut in butter to make a crumb mixture.
  3. Stir in nuts and set aside ¾ c of the mixture for the topping.
  4. Press remaining mixture into the bottom of 8×8 pan.
  5. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Cool.
  6. Combine the pumpkin, cream cheese, sugar, eggs cinnamon, allspice, and vanilla in a mixing bowl and mix well.
  7. Pour mixture over the top.
  8. Sprinkle the reserved topping over that.
  9. Bake an additional 30-35 minutes

 

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Poppy Seed Cake

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Poppy Seed Cake
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 1 yellow cake mix without pudding
  • 1 lg pkg van instant pudding
  • (reg or sugar free)
  • 1 c hot water
  • ¾ t almond extract
  • ½ c oil
  • 4 eggs
  • ½ t baking powder
  • 4 T poppy seeds
Instructions
  1. Mix well and place in a greased 13 × 9 pan.
  2. Follow the baking instructions on the cake mix.
  3. I like to make a bundt cake using this recipe.

 

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