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Melted Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Melted Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Prep Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 c flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 c butter melted
  • 1 1/2 c brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 c chocolate chips

Instructions

1

Combine flour and baking soda. Set aside. Combine melted butter with brown sugar. Mix well. Add egg and vanilla and mix until well blended. Add flour mixture and stir just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.

2

Drop by tablespoons two and a half inches apart. Bake at 350 degrees for 9 to 11 minutes.

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Cinnamon Swirl Bread

Cinnamon Swirl Bread

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By Prep Time: 1 hour, plus 1 1/2 to 2 hours rise time Cooking Time: 50 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 c milk
  • 3 T unsalted butter
  • 1/2 c sugar
  • 3 T brown sugar
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 3 c flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp yeast
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 egg yolks

Instructions

1

Heat milk and 3 T butter until butter is melted. Let it cool about 20 minutes.

2

Whisk together sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Put 3 T of this mixture into a large mixing bowl; set the remaining mixture aside.

3

Whisk flour, yeast, and salt into the 3 T cinnamon sugar mixture.

4

Add egg yolks to the cooled milk, and then mix the liquid into the dry ingredients. Knead about 8 minutes and form the dough into a smooth ball. Let rise in a greased bowl, covered with plastic wrap, for 60 to 90 minutes (until doubled).

5

Grease a loaf pan. Pat the dough into an 18-by-7-inch rectangle. Brush dough with water and sprinkle with 1/2 c of the reserved cinnamon sugar, leaving a 2-inch border along one short end. Roll up into a log, ending with the border end and pinching the seam and ends closed. Place loaf seam-side-down in the greased pan.

6

Cover loaf pan loosely with greased plastic and let the loaf rise at room temperature for 30 to 45 minutes, until the dough is level with the top edge of the pan.

7

Heat the oven to 350 degrees.

8

Melt 1 T butter and brush on top of the loaf. Sprinkle with the remaining cinnamon sugar.

9

Bake for 45 to 55 minutes.

10

Allow bread to cool in the pan for 15 minutes, then remove and cool completely, about 2 hours.

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Snickerdoodles

Snickerdoodles

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Prep Time: 30 minutes Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup shortening
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 5 1/2 cups flour
  • 4 tsp cream of tartar
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 4 Tablespoons sugar
  • 4 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

1

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix butter, shortening, sugar, and eggs thoroughly.

2

Sift flour before measuring. Blend flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt together, and then stir them into the butter mixture.

3

Mix together sugar and cinnamon. Shape dough into one-inch balls and roll each ball in the cinnamon mixture. Place cookies two inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.

4

Bake for eight to ten minutes.

Notes

These cookies puff up at first and flatten out when they cool.

Sweets

Terrific Truffles

Terrific Truffles

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Prep Time: 20 minutes + 1 hour to chill

Ingredients

  • 8 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 3 c powdered sugar
  • 12 oz semisweet chocolate
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 3/4 c crushed peppermint candy, flaked coconut, or ground nuts

Instructions

1

Beat cream cheese; add powdered sugar gradually.

2

Melt chocolate and stir until smooth.

3

Add chocolate and vanilla to cream cheese. Refrigerate one hour.

4

Shape into 1-inch balls. Roll in peppermint, coconut, or nuts.

Dessert/ Sweets

Apple Crisp

Apple Crisp

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Prep Time: 25 minutes Cooking Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 c chopped apples
  • 1 tsp flour
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/8 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 c oats
  • 1/4 c butter
  • 1/2 c flour
  • 1/2 c sugar
  • 1/8 tsp baking powder

Instructions

1

Mix together apples, flour, cinnamon, and baking powder. Put into baking dish.

2

Crumble together oats, butter, flour, brown sugar, and baking powder. Sprinkle on top of apples.

3

Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes.

Dessert/ Sweets

Apple Pie with Crumb Topping

Apple Pie with Crumb Topping

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Prep Time: 25 minutes Cooking Time: 50 minutes

Ingredients

  • 4 c apples
  • 1 c sugar
  • 1/3 c butter
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 3/4 c flour
  • 1 pie crust

Instructions

1

Put apples in pie pan lined with crust.

2

Spread with 1/2 c sugar mixed with cinnamon. Sift remaining 1/2 c sugar and flour. Cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over apples.

3

Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes; reduce temperature to 350 degrees and bake for 40 minutes.

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Terrific Truffles

Terrific Truffles

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By Prep Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 8 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 3 c powdered sugar
  • 12 oz semisweet chocolate
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 3/4 c crushed peppermint candy, or flaked coconut, or ground nuts

Instructions

1

Beat cream cheese, and add powdered sugar gradually.

2

Melt chocolate and stir until smooth. Add chocolate and vanilla to the cream cheese. Refrigerate one hour.

3

Shape into 1-inch balls. Roll in peppermint, coconut, or nuts.

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Pumpkin Muffins

Pumpkin Muffins

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Serves: 2 dozen Prep Time: 20 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 2 c sugar
  • 1 1/2 c oil
  • 15-16 oz pumpkin (2 c)
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 T cinnamon
  • 3 c flour

Instructions

1

Beat together all the ingredients except the flour until smooth. Then add the flour. Fill greased muffin tins two-thirds full. Sprinkle the tops of the muffins with brown sugar.

2

Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes.

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Rhubarb Banana Bread with Cardamom Glaze

Rhubarb Banana Bread with Cardamom Glaze

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By Prep Time: 1 hour Cooking Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • BREAD
  • 2 cups rhubarb , cut into 1/2 inch pieces
  • 1 cup white granulated sugar , divided
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter , softened
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3 very ripe bananas , mashed
  • 1/4 cup sour cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • --------------------
  • GLAZE:
  • 3/4 cup icing sugar
  • 3 tbsp milk
  • 1/4 tsp cardamom

Instructions

1

Preheat oven to 350°F and grease a loaf pan, setting aside.

2

In a medium sized bowl, mix the rhubarb with 1/2 cup of the sugar, coating evenly. Set aside.

3

In another medium sized bowl,mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.

4

In a large bowl, cream the butter and remaining 1/2 cup sugar together. Beat in the eggs, then mashed bananas, sour cream and vanilla. Stir in the dry ingredients until fully mixed together, then fold in the rhubarb.

5

Pour into loaf pan and bake for 1 hour 10 minutes, or until when inserting a toothpick it comes out clean.

6

For the glaze, in a medium sized bowl, whisk together the icing sugar, milk and cardamom.

7

Allow bread to cool for at least 20 minutes prior to pouring glaze over top. Slice and serve.

Notes

Source: https://www.zestandsimmer.com/rhubarb-banana-bread-cardamom-glaze/

Frosting

Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream Cheese Frosting

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By Serves: 4 cups

Ingredients

  • 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
  • ½ cup butter, softened
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 5 ½ - 6 cup powdered sugar

Instructions

1

In a large mixing bowl beat cream cheese, butter, and vanilla with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.

2

Gradually beat in powdered sugar to reach spreading consistency.

Notes

This frosts tops and sides of two 8- or 9-inch layers. (Halve the recipe to frost a 13x9x2-inch cake.) Cover and store the frosted cake in refrigerator. Source: https://www.bhg.com/recipe/cream-cheese-frosting/