Party flavor is coming upwards as well as if you lot are similar me, you lot are starting to surf the Internet for that "next novel as well as exciting" appetizer or political party snack recipe. I proceed all of those "potential recipes" inwards a folder on my desk as well as in i lawsuit inwards a piece I await through it as well as nation to myself..."what was I thinking?!?"  So much for belatedly nighttime Internet surfing I guess!!

Today's post is i of those traditional "never fail" recipes that seems to delight everyone. I become far alongside depression fatty ingredients merely you lot can't tell it. This tasty dip is hot as well as creamy (it stays hot for a piece which is nice)and really slow to make.


8 ounce cream cheese (low fatty ok)
1/4 cup sour cream (low fatty ok)
1/4 loving cup Parmesan cheese (grated, non powdered)
1/4 cup Romano cheese (grated)
2 cloves garlic minced (I used roasted from jar)
1/2 teaspoon dry out basil
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
salt as well as pepper to taste
(1) xiv oz. tin artichoke hearts (rinsed)
1/2 loving cup reddish bell pepper (chopped finely)
10 ounces fresh infant spinach
1/4 cup shredded Monterrey Jack cheese

Plunge fresh spinach into boiling H2O for nigh xxx seconds, withdraw as well as seat into large bowl of H2O ice H2O to terminate the cooking. Drain as well as squeeze dry as well as or thus chop.

Drain the artichokes as well as rinse nether mutual depression temperature running water, as well as then chop into small-scale pieces.

Mix everything together as well as house inwards a (lightly greased) small-scale oven proof dish. Bake at 350F for 25 minutes. Serve alongside pita chips or whatever sturdy cracker.

Carrot Cake recipes are a dime a dozen, everyone has one. I bring been making the same old recipe (not this one) for every bit long every bit I tin remember, but today's postal service is replacing that onetime recipe carte for sure. This recipe is SO proficient ...full of carrots, pineapple, coconut, pecans and raisins; it is beyond delicious.
3/4 loving cup buttermilk
iii eggs
3/4 loving cup vegetable oil
1½ cups granulated sugar
ii teaspoons vanilla extract
ii teaspoons solid soil cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon salt
ii cups all role flour
ii teaspoons baking soda
ii cups shredded carrots
1 loving cup flaked kokosnoot (do non pack)
1 loving cup raisins
1 loving cup chopped pecans (I utilisation walnuts)
8 ounce tin of crushed pineapple amongst juice

Preheat oven to 350 too pose newspaper cupcake liners inwards cupcake pan (recipe makes ii dozen cupcakes).

Mix the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon too nutmeg inwards a small-scale bowl too laid upward aside.

In a large bowl, mix eggs, buttermilk, oil, saccharide too vanilla, mix well, shell inwards flour mixture too mix well.

Stir inwards carrots, coconut, nuts,  pineapple too raisins. Let batter sit down for most v minutes. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 amount (an H2O ice cream scoop industrial plant good for this).

Bake inwards preheated 350 oven for 25-30 minutes (my oven took 25 minutes). Cool too frost.

The side past times side 2 weeks are real busy "baking" weeks for me, how virtually you? I've made iii dissimilar kinds of jam to seat inwards gift baskets, too straight off I'm starting the fun materials similar cookies, breads too a gingerbread house.

While I'm happy to hold out inwards the kitchen, I'm non as happy virtually cooking existent nutrient (like dinner), too thence my crockpot is getting a workout piece I accept fun baking cookies.

Today's post service came virtually the other 24-hour interval when I had or too thence BONELESS beef brusk ribs thawed out too I had no clue what to practise amongst them.  I decided to make boneless brusk rib tacos too they were SO GOOD, I volition definitely hold out making these again!!

Start amongst 2½ pounds of BONELESS beef brusk ribs. I'm certain every butcher store has their version, only the ones I purpose await similar this too they are virtually 1/2" thick:

In a pocket-size cup, mix 3 teaspoons of chili powder, 1 teaspoon of dry reason cumin (don't move out that out), 1 teaspoon of salt, 1/4 teaspoon of dark pepper, 1/4 teaspoon of oregano too 1 tablespoon of dry out onion flakes. Mix good too sprinkle both sides of the meat evenly every bit possible (no demand to chocolate-brown the meat). 

Put the seasoned meat inwards the crockpot too top amongst a iv ounce tin give the axe of undrained mild dark-green chile's (I purpose Ortega).

Remove the meat from the crockpot too encompass amongst foil to proceed warm for a few minutes. There volition hold out virtually a loving cup of broth inwards the bottom of the crockpot...thicken it and coat the meat amongst the "taco gravy". Each boneless brusk rib makes 1 awesome taco!!

"It has in conclusion stopped snowing", she said quietly as she knocked on wood. We truly saw the Sun today too they are calling for to a greater extent than Sun tomorrow; it has been quite a winter!! My pathetic one-time crock pot has hardly striking the shelf this winter; it seems similar at that spot is e'er approximately edible bean or soup recipe bubbling away inwards there.

Today's post is i of picky-picky husbands crockpot favorites. It is real rich, real beefy, real filling too it only keeps getting improve too improve the longer it cooks.


I was a immature bride when I tried to make  dwelling delineate solid made beef soup the showtime fourth dimension too it was terrible (I mean value it called for a ton of bay leaves). I cry upwards cooking it all twenty-four hours too wanting it to gustation equally proficient equally it looked, but nosotros only couldn't swallow it.

I didn't laissez passer on upwards though, I tried all kinds of journal recipes; approximately had a ton of herbs; approximately had onion soup mix; approximately had Italian salad dressing mix inwards it; I tried them all, amongst piffling success. I decided to larn dorsum to a no frill vegetable soup recipe.  I tweaked it for years until it evolved into the recipe I'm posting today. Picky-picky hubby is crazy almost this soup too loves to dip hot buttered staff of life rolls into it.

2 pounds beef chuck roast
1 loving cup onion chopped
1 loving cup celery chopped
2 cups carrot chopped
4 large potatoes cubed
2/3 loving cup pearl barley (don’t larn out out)
(2) 32 ounce boxes beef broth
(1) xv ounce tin tomato plant sauce
½ teaspoon dark pepper
(2) heaping teaspoons beef bullion granules

Cut the beef into 1” cubes, removing equally much fatty equally possible. Brown beef inwards a minimal amount of vegetable crude oil until beef is nice too crusty brown (this is where the bulk of your soup season volition come upwards from, then don't skip this step).
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Remove beef from tiddler pan too drain off equally much fatty equally yous can; add together onion, celery too carrots. Using the wet from the veggies, de-glaze whatever crusty dark-brown bits on the bottom of the pan. If the dark-brown bits are stubborn, add together a tabular array spoon of H2O too role your spatula to scrape upwards the fond . Cook until onions are transparent.
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Put the beef too sauteed vegetables inwards the crockpot too add together the balance of the ingredients, stir well. Cook on depression for 8 hours.
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NOTE: Do non larn out out barley. It non alone gives a wonderful season to the soup, but it thickens the broth.

NOTE: Put whatever vegetables yous similar inwards the soup, only brand certain they are vegetables that tin stand upwards up to long cooking times.

NOTE: Taste the soup for common salt when it is almost done cooking.

Many years ago, a older lady named Virginia Spreen gave me this wonderful recipe. It is ane of those bully onetime recipes that turns out perfect every fourth dimension in addition to fifty-fifty improves on 24-hour interval ii in addition to three. No electrical mixer is used alongside this cake, only a sturdy spoon. It's downwardly domicile flavour in addition to texture reminds me of ane of grandma's delicious cakes!!

4 cups peeled in addition to diced Rome apples
1½ cups white sugar
1 loving cup chopped walnuts or pecans
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Mix the inwards a higher house ingredients together in addition to let stand upward at room temperature for an hr to extract around of the juice from the apples (juice goes into the recipe later)This is an of import step, don't teach out it out..

In large mixing bowl, combine (and laid aside)

3 cups all role flour
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
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Add the next to the chopped apple-sugar mixture in addition to mix well
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2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 loving cup vegetable oil
2 beaten eggs
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Combine the dry out ingredients to the apple tree mixture (extracted juice from apples in addition to all) in addition to mix alongside a large spoon (do non work electrical mixer).
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Pour into a greased and floured bundt cake pan or an angel nutrient pan. Bake at 350F for 1 hr in addition to 10-15 minutes. Make certain you lot work the toothpick exam to encounter if it is done after ane hr in addition to 10 minutes. Cool for v minutes thence plough the cake out of the pan. Wrap hot cake inwards plastic roll to cool.

People inquire me why I roll my cakes inwards plastic roll spell they are even thence real hot. The elementary response is that it non solely keeps the cake extremely moist, but it enhances the flavor. I'm non certain "why" it plant thence well, but I work this method on EVERY cake I bake.


 NOTE: Grease in addition to flour cake pan liberally. I work the vegetable spray that has flour already inwards it, in addition to that plant fine.
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NOTE: Store this cake covered, because the apples inwards the cake volition spill out to brand this cake to a greater extent than moist (it is genuinely meliorate on 24-hour interval ii in addition to three).

NOTE: Any apple tree volition operate alongside this recipe, but I notice that Rome apples gustation the best (Granny Smiths operate too, but are a lilliputian tart). Dice the apples inwards a lilliputian less than ½" squares (the size of die is non critical). Do non work nutrient processor...it cuts them also small.

I am not a large fan of cake mixes, but I DO savor a expert cake mix based recipe. I late tried this versatile, ultra moist too flavorful recipe; it was a huge striking amongst my family.

The beauty of this recipe is that yous tin terminate alter the season combination to simply most anything yous tin terminate imagine, since the primary ingredients are simply a commercial cake mix, similar flavor  pudding mix too similar season baking chips.

Today, I made a butterscotch version of this recipe, using a xanthous cake mix, butterscotch pudding mix too butterscotch baking chips....yum!!!  (see season combo suggestions below).

The master recipe was for a chocolate version; hither is the basic recipe:

(1) 18¼ ounce devils nutrient cake mix (ignore the directions on the box)
(1) 5.9 ounce instant chocolate pudding mix (ignore the directions on the box)
two cups semi-sweet MINI chocolate chips (see note)
1 loving cup sour cream
1/2 loving cup vegetable oil
four eggs
1/2 loving cup warm water

IMPORTANT FIRST STEP: Put the DRY cake mix, DRY pudding mix too mini chocolate chips inwards a large mixing bowl too stir to coat the chocolate chips (this volition hap the chips from sinking inwards the batter when yous bake the cake).

Add the residual of the ingredients too mix until really smooth. The directions state to bake at 350 in a good greased 12 loving cup bundt pan, for 50 to 55 minutes, but I opted for cupcakes too I baked them amongst newspaper cupcake liners at 350 for 25 minutes. Test amongst toothpick for doneness.

If yous are using the bundt pan, the recipe says to cool the cake inwards the pan for at to the lowest degree 1½ hours earlier removing. Since I made cupcakes, I allow them cool inwards the pan for most five minutes.

NOTE: This recipe calls for MINI chocolate chips because they produce non sink similar the amount size chocolate chips tend to. However, today I used butterscotch chips (which produce non come upwards inwards the mini size) too then I position them inwards the nutrient processor too chopped them upwards too it worked well.

NOTE: Flavor combinations are endless. Next time, I'm trying a Cherry Chip cake mix + vanilla pudding + cherry mini baking chips (chips sold yesteryear King Arthur)...what a swell catch for kids!!!  Other combos that audio expert are chocolate cake + chocolate pudding + chocolate mint chips or fifty-fifty peanut butter chips....Just recall to run the chips through the nutrient processor if they are amount size chips.

There are a ton of lemon curd recipes out at that spot together with they are all basically made from fresh lemons, sugar, butter together with eggs cooked together. The primary divergence betwixt the recipes is the bird of sweetness.  We similar our lemon curd a lilliputian on the sweeter side, therefore I purpose 1½ cups of carbohydrate inward my recipe.  I've seen other recipes that purpose alone ½ loving cup of carbohydrate for every 3 lemons...talk nearly tart!!
There are a 1000000 uses for this sweetness lemon curd. You tin purpose it betwixt cake layers, or equally a cupcake filling. You tin purpose it on hot scones or fifty-fifty toast. You tin crimp it into sweetened whipped cream for a delicious mousse, anything your imagination tin come upward up with. Slightly sweet, silky smoothen together with cheap to make, you lot volition dear this recipe.
1/2 loving cup fresh squeezed lemon juice (3 or iv lemons)
1½ cups granulated sugar
¼ pound of unsalted butter (room temperature)
4 extra large eggs
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt

Don't waste matter your time, examine together with coin making lemon curd alongside anything but practiced fresh lemons. I purpose lemon juice inward a bottle for some things, but non for this recipe. 

Wash, rinse and dry out your lemons earlier you lot zest them. Be rattling careful that you lot alone purpose the brilliant xanthous business office of the peeling. Stay away from the white layer underneath because it is BITTER.  Zest 3 lemons.
Put the granulated carbohydrate together with the zest of 3 lemons into a nutrient processor fitted alongside a steel blade. Pulse until the zest is rattling finely minced into the sugar.

In a dissimilar bowl, cream the room temperature butter until smooth, therefore shell inward the lemon sugar. Beat inward the eggs, i at a time, together with therefore the lemon juice together with salt. Beat until smooth.

Pour the mixture into a saucepan that has a heavy bottom (this volition conk on the mixture from scorching easily). Cook over depression oestrus until thickened (about 10 minutes) stirring constantly.

The lemon curd volition thicken at nearly 170 degrees or just below a simmer.  Keep a careful optic on it together with conk on stirring.

Press the cooked curd through a strainer to filter out whatever cooked zest pieces and/or tiny lumps.


Lay some plastic wind straight onto the surface of the hot curd, together with chill inward the fridge.

NOTE: Zest the lemons earlier you lot cutting together with crush them.

Whether you lot desire manifestly peanut butter pudding, or peanut butter pudding with bananas, or fifty-fifty peanut butter pudding with chocolate, it's all good.  

These big 4" cookies are crispy, lite equally a plume in addition to amount of butter-y goodness. They are also frail to send through the mail, simply at nowadays out of the cookie jar, they are melt inwards your oral fissure perfection.

1 1/4 cups butter (room temperature)
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3 egg YOLKS
2 cups all role flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 TABLESPOON of vanilla extract

Cream the room temperature butter in addition to granulated carbohydrate amongst your stand upward mixer. Once smooth, add together the egg yolks, ane at a time, in addition to shell good inwards betwixt each addition; shell inwards the vanilla.

Mix the flour, baking soda in addition to cream of tartar, in addition to add together this mixture to the butter mixture, ane loving cup at a time. Mix well.

Cover in addition to chill the dough for close 30  minutes.

Roll the dough into 1" balls in addition to ringlet them inwards granulated sugar.  Place on an UNgreased cookie canvas (3" apart)and flatten slightly.

Bake inwards 350° preheated oven for 10-12 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are golden.  Recipe makes 3½ dozen cookies.

Rolling dough into 1" balls, volition laissez passer yous 4" cookies, in addition to thus instruct out lots of room betwixt each cookie ball on the cookie sheet.



 

Everyone needs a bully classic xanthous cake recipe, thus I would similar to portion mine. It is real moist, has a wonderful "scratch cake" flavor together with texture and fifty-fifty though in that place are several steps inwards the recipe, they are all quick together with easy.

Divide batter into ii prepared pans evenly; I similar to exercise this recipe for cupcakes. If you lot brand cupcakes, only create total the papers most 1/3 full.

Bake 9" layers inwards preheated 350° oven for 25-30 minutes. If you lot are making cupcakes, bake them for most xx minutes or until golden on top. With either pan, the cake will saltation dorsum a lilliputian when lightly touched when it's fully cooked.

Cool the layer cakes most x minutes earlier you lot take them from the pans. If you lot brand cupcakes, only cool them for 2 or 3 minutes earlier you lot take them from the pans.

NOTE: This recipe calls for ii cups of cake flour. If you lot don't bring any, you lot tin substitute the following: put 1 tablespoon of cornstarch inwards a 1 loving cup measurement loving cup together with and thus fill the cup with all exercise flour. This is a bully exchange for cake flour. You volition involve to create this twice...once for each cup.

On VERY exceptional occasions, my British woman nurture used to brand roast beef alongside Yorkshire pudding. She baked the pudding in a 9" 10 9" pan together with I tin soundless pic the huge golden "puff" coming out of the oven. Of course, it e'er collapsed past times the fourth dimension she brought it to the table, but nosotros all idea it was SUPPOSED to await similar that together with nosotros eagerly dunked chunks of the tasty process into mom's deliciously perfect beef gravy; Mmmmmm, I tin soundless gustatory modality it.

Recently, I decided to brand a duad of changes to my Yorkshire pudding recipe. First, I made them into private puddings together with secondly, I decided to serve them alongside roast chicken together with gravy, thence I added a niggling poultry seasoning together with onion pulverization  into the batter; what a nostalgic treat!!


The cooking times for these private Yorkshire puddings work well if yous bake them inward i of those over-sized cupcake pans, I believe they are called Texas size muffin pans; a popover pan volition run good also. If yous exercise a touchstone cupcake pan, you'll stimulate got to cut down the cooking time.

Put your UNGREASED pan inward a COLD oven together with thence preheat the oven and pan to 425.

While your oven/pan is preheating, whisk together:

iii eggs
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon onion pulverization (not onion salt)
½ teaspoon poultry seasoning  (if yous exercise chicken gravy)
1 loving cup of milk (see note)
1 tablespoon melted butter

NOTE: If I stimulate got whipping cream, I position close ¼ loving cup of whipping cream inward a mensuration loving cup together with thence create amount the balance of the agency alongside 2% milk...if I stimulate got no cream on hand, I only exercise 1 loving cup of 2% milk.

After the to a higher house ingredients are whisked together well, add together one loving cup of all role flour (spoon flour into mensuration measuring loving cup together with marker off alongside straightaway edge). Whisk everything together until it looks rattling smooth and creamy. Let batter sit down at room temperature land your oven preheats.

Working chop-chop (so your pan doesn't cool off) take your pan out of the hot oven together with spray each loving cup alongside vegetable spray. Put a modest chunk of COLD butter (roughly ½ teaspoon but the exact size is non crucial) (see regime annotation below) into the bottom of each hot loving cup (don't hold off for it to melt). Fill each loving cup one-half agency full.

Bake at 425 for twenty minutes. After twenty minutes, plough the oven downward to 325 (don't opened upward the oven door) and bake for approximately other fifteen minutes. Remove puddings from pan together with poke a tiny hole (I exercise a toothpick) inward the bottom of each popover to salvage a niggling steam (not totally necessary if yous are going to swallow them correct away).

The within of the Yorkshire pudding is amount of lite batter alongside holes, which is perfect for asset butter together with gravy.

NOTE: Traditionally, yous are supposed to pour the batter over hot beef fat  in the bottom of each muffin cup, however, I couldn't convey myself to practise that (and too I was serving them with chicken), thence I used butter together with it industrial plant great.

NOTE: If yous are serving these alongside roast beef, omit the poultry seasoning together with add together whatsoever seasoning you like.

NOTE: This recipe makes six generous Yorkshire puddings.

Whether yous are empty nesters, similar us, or yous solely convey a dyad of people to create for; "recipes for two" are great!! Not solely practise they eliminate the temptation for 2nd third helpings, but they are excellent for those times when yous don't experience similar eating the same total size dessert all week!! This recipe makes ii perfect (single serving size) lemon meringue pies, 1 of picky-picky husbands favorites.
CRUST
1/3 loving cup all usage flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon  mutual depression temperature shortening (I usage butter flavored)
1 tablespoon mutual depression temperature butter
1/2 teaspoon white sugar
1 tablespoon mutual depression temperature water

Mix all of the dry out ingredients inward a pocket-size bowl; cutting the mutual depression temperature shortening as well as butter into the dry out ingredients until it is most "half of a pea" size. Stir inward the mutual depression temperature H2O as well as mix into a ball (don't over work). Divide dough inward half.

Any pocket-size oven proof dish volition move for these piddling pies; I used my 10 ounce Pyrex custard cups.  Press the dough into the bottom and most one-half means upward the sides of the custard cup. You tin curlicue out the dough if yous like, but I honor it easier to but press the dough into place. Bake inward preheated 425 oven for most 10 minutes or until lite golden. Remove from oven as well as ready aside.

LEMON FILLING
1/3 loving cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon corn starch
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 loving cup mutual depression temperature water
1 egg yolk, lightly beaten amongst fork   (save the egg white)
2 tablespoons FRESH lemon juice
1 tablespoon butter

In a small, heavy bottom, saucepan, mix the sugar, cornstarch as well as salt; whisk inward the mutual depression temperature water,  until it is smooth.  Cook (stirring) on medium oestrus until thick as well as bubbly, as well as thence trim back oestrus as well as create (and stir) for 2 minutes.

Slowly drizzle most half of the hot mixture into the beaten egg yolk (whisking similar crazy every bit yous drizzle, so yous don't larn scrambled eggs). Once good whisked, pose it all dorsum into the saucepan as well as create 2 to a greater extent than minutes at a gentle boil.

Remove from oestrus as well as add together butter as well as lemon juice; mix thoroughly as well as pour into baked pie shells.

MERINGUE
1 egg white
1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Using a GLASS bowl (never usage plastic when whipping egg whites) as well as beaters that are totally gratis from whatever grease or oil; rhythm out egg white as well as cream of tartar until yous larn soft peaks. Sprinkle inward the vanilla as well as saccharide (while the mixer is all the same running) as well as move along beating until yous larn rigid peaks.

Spread meringue onto hot filling. Put dorsum into a preheated 350 oven for most 10-15 minutes or until the peaks of the meringue are golden.
After the meringue is cooked, allow these piddling pies sit down at room temperature for most an hr as well as thence chill them for at to the lowest degree 2 hours earlier serving. Once they are chilled, yous tin elevator the pies out of their baking dish for a prettier presentation.

We dearest cranberry sauce amongst poultry, thence I wanted to discovery a like (but sweeter)recipe to serve amongst our Easter ham. Traditionally, I brand mashed potatoes as well as gravy, but this twelvemonth I am opting for potatoes au gratin, thence I wanted a picayune something extra to serve amongst the ham (this is NOT a ham glaze, it is a condiment).

This recipe definitely was the BEST sauce I tried as well as it is thence quick as well as slowly (made amongst pantry staples) that I am sure enough I volition locomote making it throughout the year. It is sweetness but non overly sweetness as well as has the consistency of a soft jam.

1/4 loving cup of water
1 1/2 cups chocolate-brown sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons ketchup
1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons DRY mustard powder
8 ounce tin crushed pineapple amongst juice

Mix good as well as convey to a boil; plow oestrus downward to a simmer as well as gear upwards gently for 20 minutes (start timer AFTER it comes to a simmer). This sauce volition thicken a picayune to a greater extent than every bit it cools.

If you lot don't have 20 minutes for this to cook, only simmer gently for 10 minutes as well as thence thicken amongst a picayune cornstarch as well as H2O slurry. You volition become the same consistency but I intend it tastes meliorate if you lot produce the xx infinitesimal simmer.

Serve at room temperature (or chilled), amongst baked ham.

Picky-Picky hubby has declared this pie his all fourth dimension favorite. I similar it because of the sugariness as well as flaky crust, the truthful butterscotch season as well as the stabilized whipped cream topping (I approximate it is my favorite too).


BLUE RIBBON SWEET AND FLAKY PIE CRUST  (three 10" crusts)

4 cups all role flour
1 3/4 cups butter flavored Crisco
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg  lightly beaten
1/2 loving cup mutual frigidness water

Cut the butter flavored Crisco into the flour (I direct maintain never made this alongside butter, as well as hence I can't comment on that). When the Crisco is almost the size of a pocket-sized pea, add together the residual of the ingredients as well as mix alongside your hands until it comes together inward a ball. Cover as well as allow sit down on the counter for almost xv minutes earlier you lot curlicue it out.

Roll ane 3rd of the pie dough out as well as tally it into a 9" pie plate. Cut off excess and crimp the overstep edge. Prick the bottom of the pie dough alongside a fork (see note). Bake inward pre-heated 425°F oven for 15-18 minutes or until golden.  Remove from oven as well as allow cool.

BUTTERSCOTCH FILLING  (fills one 10" pie)

1 1/2 cups brownish saccharide (I job black brown)
1/4 loving cup + 1½ teaspoons cornstarch
5 egg YOLKS only
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups milk (I job 2%)
3 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract


In a saucepan that has a heavy bottom, mix the brownish saccharide as well as cornstarch FIRST. Next add together the egg yolks, salt, as well as milk.  Whisk until shine as well as run a spatula some the edges of the pan to brand certain you lot larn everything out of the corners.

Cook, stirring constantly with a whisk, until the mixture is thick as well as bubbly (once it starts to thicken, it volition thicken quickly). When it's overnice as well as thick, withdraw from estrus as well as add together butter and vanilla as well as mix well.

This adjacent measurement isn't absolutely necessary, but it volition guarantee you lot a silky shine filling: Just earlier you lot pour it into the crust, set it through a strainer.

Pour filling into baked pie shell as well as house plastic wind direct on the surface of the hot pudding.  Chill for several hours or overnight earlier cutting.


STABILIZED WHIPPED CREAM TOPPING

1 cups heavy whipping cream
1/4 loving cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin powder
4 teaspoons mutual frigidness water

In a pocket-sized cup, mix the unflavored gelatin pulverization as well as mutual frigidness H2O until dissolved. Let this sit down on the counter until it turns fairly solid.  After it turns fairly corporation (takes a couple minutes) reheat the mixture until it turns dorsum to a liquid. I create this inward my microwave as well as it takes ii or 3 seconds ONLY...don't allow it larn hot!!  Set it aside to cool off a little, you lot don't desire it hot, but don't allow it cool as well as hence much that it gets thick again.

Next Whip the heavy whipping cream, powdered saccharide as well as vanilla until you lot larn rattling soft peaks. With the mixer nonetheless running, dribble inward the softened gelatin as well as proceed whipping until you lot larn stiff peaks (this happens pretty quickly). 

Spread on overstep of the pie. I overstep mine alongside toasted sliced almonds.

NOTE: Make certain you lot job a fork to poke holes inward the bottom of the crust earlier you lot bake it, this is called "docking" as well as it volition help your crust bake flat. I unremarkably but press the tines of the fork through the raw crust almost an inch apart all over the pie bottom.

NOTE: I've e'er made this pie crust alongside butter flavored Crisco. I direct maintain no persuasion how it would plow out using butter.

Looking for a fun together with cheap agency to jazz upward your adjacent menage unit of measurement gathering or birthday party? Try these cookie bowls. Not alone are they tardily to do, but y'all tin fill upward them amongst anything from pudding to H2O ice cream. The bowls can be baked ahead of fourth dimension and frozen (unfilled); in that place are tons of possibilities.

The instructions for these cookie bowls telephone phone for forming them over an inverted cupcake pan, however, I wanted bigger (and thicker) ones because they were for a specific role together with had to live potent plenty to go well, hence I formed them over an inverted Texas size  muffin pan.

THIS RECIPE CALLS FOR HALF SHORTENING AND HALF BUTTER. DO NOT BE TEMPTED TO SUBSTITUTE ALL BUTTER, information technology WILL NOT WORK !! IF YOU USE ALL BUTTER, THE DOUGH WILL SAG AND SPREAD ALL OVER THE PLACE AS information technology BAKES. I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATED COOKIE DOUGH DOES NOT WORK EITHER (IT ALSO SPREADS).


1/4 loving cup butter flavored shortening (no substitutions)
1/4 loving cup butter (room temperature)(no substitutions)
1/3 loving cup white sugar
1/3 loving cup chocolate-brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1½ cups all role flour
1/4 loving cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips

Beat together shortening, butter together with sugars inwards a large bowl; add the egg together with vanilla and beat until good mixed. Add the flour together with baking pulverization together with mix good together with hence stir inwards the miniature chocolate chips.

Put batter into a large plastic pocketbook together with flatten into a disk; chill for about an hour. Preheat your oven to 375°. Turn your cupcake (or muffin) pan upside downwards together with encompass every other cup amongst foil.

NOTE: standard size cupcake pan requires a 4" circle of foil and the Texas size muffin pan requires a 6" circle of foil. Spray the foil lightly amongst vegetable spray.

NOTE: I used the novel no stick foil together with didn't convey to spray it at all.

NOTE: If y'all are using a criterion size cupcake pan, y'all tin utilisation amount size newspaper cupcake liners instead of the foil.


Roll the chilled cookie dough  (between 2 pieces of waxed paper) out to nigh 1/8th inch or nigh the same thickness as pie dough. Cut circles together with drapery over foil, smoothing wrinkles and/or cracks inwards the dough together together with trimming to fit.


Bake 10-12 minutes or until low-cal brown. Remove from oven together with permit them COOL ON THE PAN FOR 10 MINUTES BEFORE TRYING TO REMOVE THEM. 

After 10 minutes, gently elevator them off of the pan (use the tip of a butter knife to elevator i corner of the cookie bowl first) but DON'T REMOVE THE FOIL FROM THE INSIDE OF THE COOKIE BOWL UNTIL IT IS COMPLETELY COOLED. 

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Did yous know that the plastic lid from a Parmesan container volition likewise jibe a regular mouth bricklayer jar?  How handy is that !?!??