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Chocolate Supreme

January 24, 2014 by Margaret 8 Comments

This decadent tasting dessert is the perfect Valentine’s Day Treat that won’t totally ruin your diet.

It is perfect. It is sweet, light, fluffy and

“CHOCOLATE”.

1 cup flour

1/2 cup butter

1 cup pecans, chopped

1 8 oz package Neufchatel cheese

1 cup powdered sugar

1 medium container of frozen whipped topping, thawed

1 large package sugar free instant chocolate pudding

1 large package sugar free instant vanilla pudding

4 1/2 cups skim milk

Blend butter, flour and pecans together. Press into the bottom of a 9″ X 13″ baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 – 20 minutes or until just starting to brown. Don’t over bake. Let cool.

Blend Neufchatel cheese, powdered sugar and 1 cup whipped topping. Spread evenly over cooled crust. Refrigerate 1 hour.

Mix instant puddings together with milk until thick and pour over the cheese layer. Cover with remaining whipped topping and garnish with grated chocolate, chocolate curls or just chocolate shot.

Refrigerate until served.

HINT: I use an old fashion hand beater to mix my puddings the electric ones seem to splatter the pudding all over the place.

Enjoy!

Mary Ellen

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Marble Pound Cake

January 10, 2014 by Margaret 5 Comments

If you need a great dessert for a party or dinner that looks like a pro or that you slaved over for a long time this is the one. I always get comments like I can’t get,

marble cakes to work or look good. It really is quite simple.

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup powdered sugar

4 eggs separated

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

pinch of salt

1 cup milk

1/4 cup cocoa powder

Sift two sugars together and cream with butter. Add unbeaten egg yolks one at a time, mixing well after each. Mix in vanilla. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with milk starting and ending with flour mix. Beat egg whites and fold into batter. Pour 3/4 batter into well greased and floured bundt pan. Stir enough water into cocoa powder to make a smooth paste, just a little thicker than the batter consistency, fold into remaining batter. Spoon chocolate mixture on top the batter in pan forming a circle around the center. With a spatula, starting on the outer edge of the chocolate circle, slowly make a down and up circular motion through the batter (this will swirl the chocolate down through the vanilla batter and bring vanilla batter up to the top) as you gently turn the pan clockwise until you get back to your starting point. Bake at 350 degrees 55-60 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove to platter and frost or glaze with your favorite recipe.

You’re going to love it.

Mary Ellen

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Graveyard Cake

October 25, 2013 by Margaret 5 Comments

For many year my husband and I have been gathering recipes that we liked from magazines, newspapers, friends and anywhere else we could find them. We would make some quickly and others got put in a file for later. After the file got out of control we put them in a binder after sorting out the ones that we knew would never get made. One of the keeper recipes is a “Graveyard Cake”. I didn’t make it for many years and then made it for a couple of Halloween parties. When I looked at the page today I found just how old it is and that the Taste of Home website still has it online. It is from their February/March 1998 issue.
It is fun to make and is a hit at a party. It tastes good too!
Make one for your party.

Mary Ellen

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Cake Brownies

August 19, 2013 by Margaret 4 Comments

I has always been the norm to have some kind of dessert after Sunday dinner.

Even thought the children are all grown and out of the house, we still have the bachelor sons over every week to make sure they get at least one good meal a week.

Chocolate never looses it’s appeal.

So here is another family favorite and these are truly addictive.

1/2 cup butter
2 cups granulated sugar
4 egg yolks
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 1/3 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
4 stiffly beaten egg whites
powdered sugar

Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla and milk. Stir enough water in the 1/2 cup cocoa to make a thick paste. Add to the butter and sugar mixture. Sift together the dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture. Mix well. Fold in egg whites. Bake in greased and floured jelly roll pan 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.While warm dust with powdered sugar.

I hope you enjoy them as much as my family.

Mary Ellen

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Other things you might enjoy:

Soft Snickerdoodles

Chocolate Snack Cake

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Chocolate Crinkles

July 3, 2013 by Margaret 4 Comments

Chocolate Crinkles are my husbands favorite cookie. I made them for the first time not long after I got married. I wanted to make my new husband something special. Well they didn’t turn out very well. I followed the recipe and mixed it all up. Even though I’d never made them before I was pretty sure that something was wrong. The dough was thin like cake batter. I asked my husband if that was the way it was supposed to look. He wasn’t much help – he’d never made them only eaten them. I reviewed my recipe one last time to make sure I hadn’t forgotten anything then I put my thin batter in the fridge. I was pretty confident my cookie surprise was going to be a flop and it was. My cookies ended up very, very flat – tasted good though. I decided to try a different recipe the next time. My recipe is adapted from Better Homes and Gardens, Chocolate Crinkles.

Chocolate Crinkles

1 1/2 cups sugar

3 eggs

4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted

1/4 cup oil

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 cups flour

1 cup powdered sugar

Mix together in large bowl: sugar, eggs, melted chocolate, oil, and vanilla. Stir in flour and baking powder until combined. Cover and chill for at least 1 hour, better if you can wait 2 hours. Roll into balls and coat with powdered sugar. Place on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for 7 – 10 minutes. Transfer cookies to cooling rack and sprinkle with 2nd layer of powdered sugar. Try to keep husband and kids from eating entire batch in 20 minutes. Good luck!

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