Saturday, March 28, 2009
Pecan Tassies
PASTRY:
3 ounces cream cheese
1 stick of butter
1 cup flour
Cream the cream cheese, butter, and flour till well blended. I usually chill the dough for at least a half-hour to make it easier to work with. Roll pastry into small balls, slightly smaller than a walnut and press into mini muffin tins.
FILLING:
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon melted butter
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1 egg
Mix the brown sugar, vanilla, melted butter and pecans until well blended. Add the egg and mix all together. Place 1 tablespoon of filling into each pastry shell. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Makes 24 tassies. NOTE: If you REALLY love pecans or want the tassies to look extra pretty, you can put a pecan halves on top for decoration.
Orange Olive Oil Cup Cakes
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk
- Zest of one orange
- 3 cups Self rising Flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup Olive Oil
- 3 large eggs
- 18 cupcake liners
Directions
Preheat oven to 350˚F
- Place 18 cupcake liners in muffins tins.
- Sift flour & baking powder and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer, combine sugar, orange zest and the Olive Oil. Beat until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time.
- Gently add one-third of flour mixture alternatively with 1/2 cup of milk. Repeat with remaining milk and flour, finishing with 1/3 of flour mixture. Mix until just combined, be careful not to over mix.
- Spoon into muffin tins. Bake for about 20 minutes, or until a cake tester or a blade of knife comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10-15 minutes. Remove and allow to cool completely on a rack.
- Top with orange glaze if desired.
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Witch's Brew
Easy
3 pints purple grape juice
1 1/2 pints club soda
grapes
apples
Mix the grape juice and soda in a pitcher. Cut the apple into small chunks. Float the fruit in the brew just before serving. Tell the kids that the grapes and apples are eyes and teeth.
Spider Cake
BATTER
18 1/4 oz box white cake mix
4-serving package green gelatin
Chocolate frosting
DECORATIONS
4 black licorice whips
2 big green gumballs
6 little gumballs
Prepare cake using two 9-inch round cake pans. Cool.
Prepare the gelatin according to package directions. It works best if it is just a little on the soft side. On a foil-covered cookie-sheet, place one cake layer for the body. Cut a smaller circle out of the center of the layer. Place this smaller round of cake as the spider's head. Fill the hole left in the body layer with gelatin. Place the other cake layer on top of the body and trim cake slightly to shape , if desired.
Frost the entire cake. Cut the black licorice whips in half and insert for the eight legs. Position the gumballs as eyes.
Brain Dip Ingredients
- 1 cup mayonnaise plus 1 tablespoon
- 1 ( ¾-oz.) can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 (.25) envelope Knox unflavored gelatin, dissolved in 1/4 cup hot water
- 1/2 cup minced scallions
- 1 1/2 lbs cooked bay shrimp
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- pinch salt
Cooking Instructions
Use 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise to grease a 6-cup brain mold or a bunch of mini brain molds; set aside.
Pour contents of soup can in a medium saucepan and heat over medium until warm. Stir in cream cheese until melted. Stir in dissolved gelatin with water until blended. Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
Remove from heat and pour into brain mold. Chill until firm. Unmold on to a platter and serve with crackers.