Carmel Glazed Apple Cake

I don't like cooked apples at all. My neighbor made this and it was so good. I don't know what it was about this, but I could eat the apples in the cake. My husband really doesn't like cooked apples either and this is his new favorite desert. I didn't use my neighbors recipe this one came from a Costco cook book. We really like it. Don't mix in a mixer this is a recipe that you need to mix by hand. With the apples I used 2 bags of already cut apples so I am not sure how many I really used. The recipe calls for 5 cut up apples, but I think that is too many. I put on there 2 to 3 apples. You can try it anyway you want.

1 c. packed brown sugar

1 c. sugar

1 1/2 c oil

3 eggs

3 c. white flour

1 tsp. soda

2 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. nutmeg

1/2 tsp. salt

2 apples cut into small pieces

1 1/4 pecans

2 tsp. vanilla

Make sure that you don't over mix the ingredients. Pour into a pan. I used a bunt pan and cook it on 350 for 1 hour.

Glaze:

4 tbs butter

1/4 c. sugar

1/4 c. brown sugar

pinch of salt

1/2 c. heavy cream

Mix together in a pot on the stove and drizzle on top of the cake.

Snickers Cookies

It has been awhile since I have updated my blog. I am so sorry I have been really busy with the kids back into school. Hopefully I won't take so long next time!

These cookies were really fun to make with the kids because they can help you roll up the snickers into the cookies. Please excuse the pictures not being the best. My daughter who is almost 6 wanted to take the pictures so I let her.

1 bag of mini snickers

1 c. butter

1 c. sugar

1 c. brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

1 c. creamy peanut butter

3 1/3 c. flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. soda

1 tsp. baking powder

Cream it all together and have it look like this.

Take the dough in your hands and you wrap the snickers mini around the dough and roll it into a ball.
Roll the ball in sugar and place it on your pan or stone. Cook on 350 for 13-15 min. They should be a golden brown.

Banana Pudding

In a pot you are going to mix:

2 eggs

2 tbs flour

2 c. milk

1/2 c. sugar

dash of salt

cook until it is thick. You want to stir it constantly on med heat.

Take off the stove when it is tick and add 1 tbs butter and 1 tsp vanilla. Stir it all together and add vanilla wafers and 2 banana's. I cut up the banana's and broke apart the wafers by hand.

Bubble-up Pizza

If you are looking for something that is quick and easy for dinner this is a great meal to make for the family. My kids thought this was so much fun. They got to use their fingers and mom and dad didn't get mad at them! This is also a really cheap meal to make for your family too.

2 pkgs biscuits

1 jar spaghetti or pizza sauce

1 lb hamberger

grated cheese

Add the sauce to cooked meat and heat through. Cut your biscuits into 4ths and put it in a bowl. I added cheese to the biscuits and then added the sauce with the meat. Make sure that you stir it gently and pour it into a 9x13 pan. Cover with cheese on the top and put in the oven on 350 for 35 min. Make sure the the biscuits are cooked all the way through before serving. If it is not then put it in for a couple more mins. Pull them apart to eat or you can use a fork. We had tons of fun using our hands.

Lindt Truffle Chocolate Cupcakes

My Uncle is always sending me amazing recipe's, but this one is the most amazing one! If you only try one recipe on my blog this is the one to try! You will thank me for sure. We shared with the neighbors and they love me even more then they did. ha ha ha

Mix together:

1 box devils food cake

1 small box instant vanilla pudding

4 eggs

1/2 c. oil

1/2 c water

1 c. sour cream

Fill your cupcakes 2/3 full and then before you put them in the oven on 350 unwrap 24 Lindt truffles and put them in a bowl. Put the cupcakes in the oven for 5 min and then pull them out and put the truffles in the middle of the cupcakes.

Cook them with the truffles in them for another 13 min. They will be in the oven for a total of 18 min.
While they are cooling mix the frosting:

1/2 c. butter

8 oz. soft cream cheese

1/2 tsp. vanilla

3 c. powder sugar

2 tbs evaporated milk
They will look like this when you are done. My husband doesn't like cream cheese frosting so he ate it without it and it really liked it even without the frosting. Me I loved it with everything on it. I really hope you enjoy it as much as we have.

Doughnuts....

I have tried a bunch of different recipe's for doughnuts and none of them have tasted really good at all. My good friend of mine told me to try it a different way and it worked out so good. She told me to try Biscuits. I got some of the biscuits like the pillsbury brand from the fridge that pops open and it was really good.

Lay out the biscuits and find something to cut a hole in the middle of the biscuit.

Put them in a pan and fry them. Make sure that they are dark and not light, because they will be doughy in the middle if they are to light.

Put them in a bowl with the glaze. How you make the glaze is:

3 c. powder sugar

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1/2 c. milk

Lay them out on a rack with paper towels under them so it will be easier to clean up the dripping glaze.

If I find a really good doughnut recipe I will post that too, but for now this will work. It is really good and they were gone really fast.

Swedish Pancakes

I have never made these because it is hard turning them over. I so am not good at that part of it. I will however keep trying until I do get it. I think I need a different pan that is easier to flip them over with. I am going to look into that this next weekend. In the recipe it says to cook it on a griddle, but I tried that and it didn't work. I used a round pan and they came out round well started out round. ha ha ha Here is the recipe:

5 eggs

1 c. flour

1/2 tsp salt

4 c. milk

2 tbls butter

It makes a very thin batter. It will like like this:

Hopefully when you make these they will really be round! Mine were not so much. I never said everything turned out perfect, but they did taste really good. Spread them with butter and jam and roll up like a jelly roll. Sprinkle the top of them with powder sugar. We put cool whip on them and strawberry syrup and sprinkled the top with powder sugar. It was really good that way too.