Saturday, July 20, 2013

Three Ingredient Berry Cobbler

2 12 oz bags frozen mixed berries
1 box white cake mix
1 can of lemon lime soda

Directions:
Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees. Pour both bags of frozen berries into a 9x13 baking dish. Cover evenly with dry cake mix. Pour soda slowly over the top of the cake mix; DO NOT STIR. This way it will form a nice cobbler-like crust. If you stir it will end up with more of a cake-like finish. Bake for 40-45 minutes. Serve warm. Refrigerate any leftovers.

         

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Apple Praline Bread

1 cup sour cream
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups Granny Smith apples, peeled and finely chopped
1 cup nuts (walnut or pecan or a combo), divided

 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan. Set aside. (I used stoneware loaf pan for perfect cooking)
Using an electric mixer, beat together the sour cream, sugar, eggs and vanilla on low speed for a couple of minutes until well blended. Stop the mixer and then add in the flour, leavening agents and salt. Continue to beat on low until well combined.
Fold in the apples and half the nuts into the batter. Transfer the batter into the greased loaf pan.
Sprinkle the rest of the nuts on top and then press them lightly into the batter. Bake for about 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Cool in the loaf pan for about 20-30 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. So it doesn't get too dark, I suggest using a light colored loaf pan.

For the praline sauce:
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ cup butter

In a small sauce pan, place the butter and brown sugar. Using medium heat, bring to a boil. Lower the heat and then simmer lightly for about one minute, stirring constantly until the sauce thickens. Remove from heat and then drizzle over the bread. Cool completely.



Sunday, May 26, 2013

7-Up Biscuits

2 cups baking mix ( Jiffy or Bisquick)
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup 7-Up soda ( any clear carbonated drink will work)
1/4 cup melted butter

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Cut the sour cream into your biscuit mix.
Stir in 1/2 cup 7 Up.
The dough will be very soft, don't worry.
Sprinkle additional baking mix onto your counter, about a 1/2 cup seems to work just fine.
Knead and fold dough until coated with your baking mix.
Pat dough out, (no rolling pin needed) and cut biscuits using a round biscuit/cookie cutter.
Don't have one, no problem, you can certainly use a glass.
Melt butter in a 9 inch square pan. (stick it in the oven for a few minutes)
Place cut biscuits on top of melted butter and bake for 12-15 minutes or until brown.


Monday, May 6, 2013

Apple Dump Cake


1 box vanilla cake mix
2 (21 oz) cans apple pie filling
1/2 cup butter (one stick), cut into 1/2 Tbsp slices
Optional Topping
1 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup brown sugar 

Preheat oven to 350°
Spray a 9x13 baking dish with cooking spray
Pour both cans of apple pie filling into the bottom of the dish
Spread the dry cake mix on top of the apple pie filling
Evenly place the butter on top of the cake mix
(Optional Topping) In a bowl combine the oats and the brown sugar and sprinkle that on top of the whole cake
Bake for approx 50 minutes, golden and bubbly.
Cool on wire rack.

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream
(Butter Pecan)

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Cake Mix Peanut Butter Cookies


Ingredients
1 (18 ounce) box yellow (or white) cake mix
1 cup peanut butter (creamy or chunky)
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3 tablespoons water
2 eggs
Directions
Turn oven on to 350°F.
Dump all ingredients into a bowl.
Get mixer out and mix it until it is mixed up good. It will look kinda grainy, but feel oily.

After it is mixed up good,grab enough out to make about a 1 inch ball in your hand and roll it around in your hand like you did with Play-Doh when you were a kid.
Place the balls about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Get a fork and use the tines to make a criss cross pattern on each ball by gently pressing down on the ball 2 times. Once for each direction.

Place in oven and bake for 8~12 minutes.
Remember that the shorter the baking time, the softer the cookie. 8 minutes would be the minimum though (unless you have a one of those fancy convection ovens).

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Easy Bisquick Sugar Cookies


3 cups bisquick
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup water
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate, melted
Blend and drop on cookie sheet. Bake at 375°F for 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven and flatten cookies with spatula. Return to oven and bake 2 additional minutes. Remove and cool. Drizzle with melted semi-sweet chocolate.
Makes 4 dozen.