Recipe Thread

[Miss Meow]

These are rich, decadent, calorie-laden, warm, tasty, yummy little muffins of love There is an Easter egg in each muffin, so perfect for this time of year. Makes 12.

1 1/2 cups self raising flour
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
250g good quality dark chocolate, chopped
125g butter
1/4 cup cocoa powder
300ml carton sour cream
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla essence
12 small caramel filled chocolate Easter eggs
1/4 cup drinking choclate, sifted

Preheat oven to 180C. Line a 12 hole muffin pan with paper cases.

Sift flour into a large bowl, stir in sugar, drinking chocolate and cocoa.

Gently melt chocolate and butter in a heavy-based pan or double boiler. Set aside.

Whisk sour cream, vanilla and eggs in a jug.

Make a well in the dry ingredients. Stir in chocolate and sour cream mixtures until just combined (any small lumps with disperse during cooking).

Spoon batter into pan so each hole is half full. Press a chocolate egg into the centre of each. Spoon the remaining mixture to two-thirds fill each hole.

Bake for 15-20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack, but taste test while they're warm!

Beautiful for morning tea the next day warmed in the microwave

[Karen]

This is for Neko1 (who got a cookie press at her bridal shower) and All Creatures Great And Small who has one but has never used it:

Cookie Press Cookies (Mom's recipe)

Cream 1 cup butter

Add 3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
and optional 3/4 teaspoon of peppermint, lemon or some other extract if you want)

Cream these together until light and fluffy.

Add 2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt

At this point you can add food coloring if you want, to some (or all) or the dough.

Use your cookie press, experiment on a piece of tinfoil until you get the knack of whatever shape/size you want. Mistakes/blobs/incomplete ones can just be smooshed back into the rest of the dough.

then press away onto UNGREASED cookie sheets. Bake cookies for 7-10 minutes at 375 degrees - until the edges just barely begin to brown - it depends on what size you make your cookies.

To make chocolate Cookie Press cookies, use only 2 cups of flour, and add 1/4 cup of cocoa powder.

Enjoy!

[koxka]

These are rich, decadent, calorie-laden, warm, tasty, yummy little muffins of love

Yea, it's all I need .


Karen , your cookies sounds like pretty taste and easy to make. I shall try these with my nefew Marc "The Cookiemaker"

[Karen]

They are easy, and fun to make!
For St. Patrick's day, I make green mint Shamrocks, for Valentines, pink cinnamon buttery hearts, for spring, lemony flowers - there's no end to the varieties!

[Barbara]

Rich decadent calorie-laden warm and tasty: this reminds me that on Saturday I made Uncle Mac's banana bread again. Of course for Filou

[shais_mom]

This is a different recipe for the Oreo cookie dessert "MUD" or "DIRT"
one carton of cool whip
one can of sweetened condensed milk
Oreos - Crushed

Mix together cool whip (I used the bigger container but didn't use it all - your choice) and condensed milk. Fold in Oreos.
Can freeze for a couple hours then it tastes like cookies and cream ice cream. Or just serve it chilled from the Fridge.
yummy!
I made this yesterday for Easter and they practically licked the bowl!

[Karen]

Oh, Uncle Mac (and his succession of cats) would definitely approve of banana bread for Filou!

[shais_mom]

Peach Cobbler Dump Cake

Ingredients
1 (18.5 ounce) package yellow cake mix
2 (16 ounce) cans peaches in heavy syrup
1/2 cup butter
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, or to taste


Directions

1 Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2 Empty peaches into the bottom of one 9x13 inch pan. Cover with the dry cake mix and press down firmly. Cut butter or margarine into small pieces and place on top of cake mix. Sprinkle top with cinnamon.
3 Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 45 minutes.



Makes 24 servings

[gini]

OOOO, this just reminded me of a great recipe that I have that is similar in the "dump" category. You use pineapple......and it is so good that you just have to sit right down and eat it out of the bowl.........hot! (you can share, of course).

I will post it!

[shais_mom]

Pickle Wraps
I have been craving these so I fix them as I go

cream cheese
dill pickle spears (might have to slice them in half)
dried beef
onion/garlic powder (optional)
Mix the garlic/onion powder with the cream cheese if desired.
Spread a thin layer of cream cheese on beef, wrap around pickle spear.

[AmberLee]

Pickle wraps reminded me...

Same recipe, but you can make it with sweet pickles and thin sliced ham. Very tasty, too!

[Kfamr]

Originally posted by shais_mom
Pickle Wraps
I have been craving these so I fix them as I go

cream cheese
dill pickle spears (might have to slice them in half)
dried beef
onion/garlic powder (optional)
Mix the garlic/onion powder with the cream cheese if desired.
Spread a thin layer of cream cheese on beef, wrap around pickle spear.

omg my mom makes those and cuts them in little slices,,, it's oooooooo yummy she doesnt use the garlic/onion powder though

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

[Randi]

I've got these huge bunches of fresh green asparagus. When you snap the ends off and use the top half of them, then quite a lot are left. I thought I read somewhere that you can use these for something - perhaps boil them and use for soup?

Does anyone know?

[Miss Meow]

Randi, I think you can peel the stalky outer bit off and eat the inner bit (I don't because I hate the stringiness!)

Or slice them into little rounds, and put them into a home made asparagus quiche. Oven baking makes the tough bits nice and yummy


Ooh ooh ooh, you just reminded me! Delia Smith's vegetarian cooking book has a recipe for asparagus spears in a cheese sauce enclosed in pastry parcels - it looks so yummy and I'm busting for asparagus season to try it. Let me know if you want the recipe!

[Logan]

I came here searching for the banana bread recipes this afternoon (I have four very ripe bananas calling my name in the kitchen). It just reminded me of how much fun this thread had been. Now, I just have to decide whether I should use Karen's receipe or Soledad's. Maybe I'll have to do both!!!!!

Logan