Baking

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Flo

Guest
Carrot Cake
2 cups flour
1-1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 cups sugar
1-1/2 cups vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 cups finely grated carrots
1 (8-3/4) can crushed pineapple, well drained
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Cream Cheese Frosting:
1/2 cup butter
8 oz. pkg. cream cheese softened
1 tsp. vanilla
1 (16 ounce) box powdered sugar


Cake: Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon and set aside. Combine sugar, oil, and eggs and mix well. Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Add carrots, pineapple, and nuts. Blend well. Turn into greased and floured 9x13 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes. When cake has cooled, frost with cream cheese frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting:
Cream the butter, cream cheese, and vanilla. Add powdered sugar gradually, beating well after each addition. If it is too thick, add a few drops of milk.
 
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Flo

Guest
As you can tell, I love to bake....

Minature Cheesecakes

24 Vanilla Wafers
2 - 8 oz. pkgs. cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. vanilla
1 - 22 oz. can cherry pie or other fruit pie filling.

Place 24 (small) paper liners in muffin cups; put 1 vanilla wafer in each.

Combine cream cheese, sugar, eggs, lemon juice and vanilla; beat until smooth and creamy. Pour enough filling into muffin cups to fill about 2/3 full. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes. Cool. Just before serving, spoon pie filling on top of each cheesecake.
 

red

New Member
smalltown, i think it's great that you enjoy cooking. i'm all thumbs in the kitchen. i've heard that there's a local cooking club and have considered joining it, but i'm afraid. i'm told that they bring enough food to the meetings to feed an army. i'd have to sample everything!
 
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Kain99

Guest
Gee Red, Join the club! You can invite me over for left overs and a look at your grandma's diary! Smalltown promised to post his pic if I gave him my recipes..... I can't wait to put a face to the name.
 

red

New Member
i'm sitting here thinking about the things that i've tried to make. my efforts at baking bread were very successful. if i made enough loaves of bread, i could have built a house. i needed a spoon to slurp my lasagna, and it tasted more like tomatoe soup than anything italian. those are the most memorable. many kitchen adventures have gone the way of the disposal or trash can. i've even set my kitchen on fire. i really don't think that's my best room in the house.
 
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Kain99

Guest
Originally posted by red
what left overs? didn't you read about my bon-bons?

OMG No! You make Bon Bon's! Girl, you and I must hook up..... Soon!
 

MGKrebs

endangered species
(Invading the local thread)

I like to cook. (Not much experience at baking, though.) But I do not like to shop, and I do not like to clean up.

It's kind of like painting. The painting part is fun, but it's also the easiest part. it's all the prep and clean up that sucks.

Me and the spouse made a chocolate pie for Thanksgiving. Awesome. The recipe came from Cooks illustrated magazine, which i highly reccommend.
 

red

New Member
Originally posted by Kain99
OMG No! You make Bon Bon's! Girl, you and I must hook up..... Soon!

no, i don't make bon-bons. i must have posted about that the day you were in the corner.
 
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Kain99

Guest
Oh...O.k. so I'm lost and atthis point really have no idea what to say to ya.
 

Oz

You're all F'in Mad...
Originally posted by SmallTown
The good thing is, while i'm following her all over the mall, I get to look around I stuff I want to get :biggrin:

Looking at stuff you want, and can't have because you're candy-@$$ is tracking around the mall looking for women's shoes and baking ingredients.

Oh man... I am SOOOO sorry.... I just couldn't resist with the fashion and baking posts of yours, SmallT... Thought this thread needed some testosterone. Even your politics didn't make me this crazy!

:biggrin:
 

RoseRed

American Beauty
PREMO Member
I love to cook and my favorite web site for recipes is Epicurious.com. It has tons of recipes from Gourmet and Bon Appetite.
 

SmallTown

Football season!
Originally posted by Oz
Looking at stuff you want, and can't have because you're candy-@$$ is tracking around the mall looking for women's shoes and baking ingredients.


:biggrin:

It is the price I have to pay for not letting her loose in the mall by herself with a credit card in her purse!
 

SxyPrincess

New Member
Originally posted by watercolor23
Omm Smalltown...or Sxy...can I have the recipe for those peanut butter balls? Please.

I used to help my Grandmother make them. I think we just used regular creamy peanut butter and made them into a ball. You need some kind of non-stick substance so as the pb won't stick to your hands. Then, just melt some semi/sweet chocolate cubes and dip the balls into them. Using a toothpick will help a lot. :biggrin:

They're best if kept in the fridge cuz they do like to melt. :wink:
 
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Kain99

Guest
Never made them but I've heard that you mix the peanut butter with powdered sugar and then dust your hands with it to make the balls.... d/k
 
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Flo

Guest
I love to cook and bake.

Smalltown, I think it is great that you love to cook!!

i would also like to take some culinary classes, as when I retire, I am seriously thinking about a catering service or bakery.

I love the Southern Living magazine, and Cooks Illustrated.

Favorite website for cooking:

http://www.allrecipes.com
http://www.angelfire.com/on/VideoPhotoAlbum/Recipes.html
http://www.cbt.net/dedwards/index.htm
http://www.southernliving.com

On the AngelFire.com website, they have a recipe for Snow Balls. May try those this weekend. :yum:
 
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