Friday, February 13, 2009

Feathery Fudge Cake

2/3 cup butter
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
Beat for 5 min.
2 1/2 (1 oz. squares unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled) Blend chocolate into above mixture
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/4 tsp. soda
1 1/4 cups ice water
Mix all together and pour into 2 --9 inch greased and floured round cake pans
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes in 350 degree oven

Frosting:
3 1/2 squares chocolate
3 cups powdered sugar
4 1/2 Tbsp. hot water
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
Melt chocolate in mixing bowl over hot water. Remove from heat. With electric mixer, blend in sugar and water. Beat in egg, then butter and vanilla. Frosting will be thin at this point so place bowl in ice water and beat until spreading consistency.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Strawberry Angel Food Cake

I just got this recipe Friday evening from my great friend, Dottie Davidson. We had dinner at their home in Nixa and she served this for dessert. It is wonderful. You can make it like the recipe or you can make it the way she did, which makes it very low-fat and low-caloried. She used strawberries with no sugar added, and low-fat cool whip.

1. Angel Food cake ( make your own or buy one already baked). Cut top 1/2 of cake off.
2. Hollow out bottom of cake(break into small pieces and set aside.)
3. Mix cake pieces, frozen strawberries(thawed) and Cool Whip(med. size container)
4. Fill hollow cake and put top back on and pour the rest of strawberry mixture over top of cake.
5. Refrigerate

Friday, February 6, 2009

Pineapple Rolls

One of my Grandma Matthews' recipes.

1 cup lard
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 cups water (lukewarm)
1 tsp. salt
1 pkg. yeast, dissolved in 1/2 cup of the warm water
Beat eggs in crock; add sugar, and lard. Cream all together; add salt and water and yeast and enough flour to make a soft dough, just so you can handle . Let rise for several hours til light. Pat out in round roll about 1/2 inch thick. Cut with biscuit cutter. Put tsp. of pineapple filling in center of each and bake at once.
Filling
1 --10 cent can of crushed pineapple ( You will just have to guess what size that is now) Ha!
1/2 cup water
1 cup sugar
1 heaping Tbsp. flour
1/4 tsp. salt.
Cook to thick paste.
Frost with powdered sugar icing while hot.