Devil's Food Cake

This is a rich, moist, chocolaty cake!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
1 cup sour milk ( 1 cup milk + 2 tsp white vinegar or lemon juice OR 1 cup buttermilk)
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup boiling water
1 tsp baking soda

Prepare sour milk and let sit for 5 minutes. I used buttermilk.
In a large bowl, mix together all ingredients except the water and baking soda. Mix until better is smooth. Add the soda to the boiling water. (kids love this part because it bubbles)
Add soda/water mix to the batter. Mix well--batter will be thin.
Pour the batter into a greased and floured 9x13 pan and bake for 35-45 minutes or until done. Cool and then frost with your favorite frosting. Serves 12

Christmas Cupcakes

A friend brought these over! Thought I would share! Aren't they cute?

Monkey Bread

Monkey Bread

Ingredients

• 1 (3.5 ounce) package cook and serve butterscotch pudding mix
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
• 3 (10 ounce) cans refrigerated biscuits

Directions

1. In a plastic bowl with tight-fitting lid, combine pudding mix, sugar, cinnamon and pecans if desired. Pour the butter into a shallow bowl. Cut the biscuits into quarters. Dip several pieces into the butter, then place in bowl; cover and shake. Remove to a greased 10-in. fluted tube pan. Continue until all the biscuit pieces are coated. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30-35 minutes. Cool in pan for 30 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate.

My mom used to make this for Christmas morning. We called it pull aparts. No we do cinnamon rolls because kyle's family did cinnamon twists. Compromise. I think I need to make this.

Oops didn't realize I had already added a pull apart recipe... this one is slightly different so I will leave it..

Cristmas Recipes

What are your favorite Christmas foods??
Anyone want to share a recipe?

Pie Crust Recipe

Basic Flaky Pie Crust

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup shortening, chilled
• 3 tablespoons ice water

Directions

1. Whisk the flour and salt together in a medium size bowl. With a pastry blender, cut in the cold shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Drizzle 2 to 3 tablespoons ice water over flour. Toss mixture with a fork to moisten, adding more water a few drops at a time until the dough comes together.
2. Gently gather dough particles together into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap, and chill for at least 30 minutes before rolling.
3. Roll out dough, and put in a pie plate. Fill with desired filling and bake.

If you use ice water and chilled shortening you can skip #2.


LOVE this pie crust recipe!!

Popcorn Treat

1/2 - 2/3 cup unpopped popcorn kernels
10 oz bag of miniature marshmallows
1/4 cup butter or margarine
chocolate chips
nuts or toffee covered nuts(or any chip/nut variation you want)

Pop the kernels.
In saucepan melt butter, add marshmallows and stir until melted. Cook marshmallows until the mixture is slightly caramelized and bubbly.
Combine popcorn and melted marshmallow while stirring.
Stir in Chocolate Chips and nuts.

This recipe is from Kyle's Dad.
I have to make sure there are people to help me eat this, because if there isn't I end up eating the whole thing!

Hootenanny

or as they are more commonly known as:

German Pancakes

6 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1 cube margarine (1/2 cup)
1 cup flour
1 cup milk

Combine eggs, milk, and salt in blender. Beat until fluffy. Tap flour a little at a time, beating until well blended. Melt margarine and pour in 9x13 baking dish. Pour in batter. Bake at 425 degrees for 25 minutes. Or until hills are golden brown.