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Easy Coconut Pie

November 15, 2009 10 Comments

In addition to the weekly events I participate in, I’m happy to be sharing my weekly recipe over at the Love the Pie Party hosted by Tidymom.

I’m accustomed to seeing coconut pies with a meringue, but I found this recipe over at the Bisquick website, and it sounded pretty good. It’s a very quick and easy recipe, so if you like coconut, you should give a try!


Recipe for Easy Coconut Pie:
1 cup flaked or shredded coconut
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup Bisquick
1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 cups milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs

Directions:
Heat oven to 350ºF. Grease 9-inch pie plate with shortening or cooking spray.
In medium bowl, stir all ingredients until blended. Pour into pie plate.
Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until golden brown and knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cover and refrigerate any remaining pie.

-Jerri


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I’m posting a link to this post on the following sites:
Tempt My Tummy Tuesday is hosted by Blessed With Grace.
Homemaker Mondays is hosted by 11th Heaven’s Homemade Haven.
Tasty Tuesday is hosted by Balancing Beauty & Bedlam.
Ultimate Recipe is Swap is hosted by Life as Mom.
Friday Feasts is hosted by Momtrends.
Works for Me Wednesday is hosted by We Are THAT Family
Hooked on Fridays is hosted by Hooked on Houses

Filed Under: desserts, Recipe of the Week

Sweet Thursday: Halloween/Fall Edition

October 28, 2009 2 Comments

I hope everyone has a great Halloween this weekend! If anyone out there is still looking for a sweet treat to make for the holiday, or if you’re already making your Thanksgiving plans, here are some yummy creations to choose from.

Join The Round-Up: If you have fall/Halloween dessert that you’d like to have included this round-up, just leave your link in the comments section, and I’ll add you.

November Round-Up: The next round-up will be on November 19. The theme will be Family Favorites. So anything goes!


Pumpkin Cake from Maltese Cakes & More

Great Pumpkin Cookies from Joy in my Kitchen

Jack-o-lantern Cake from Joy in my Kitchen

Apple Pie Muffins from Chaya’s Comfy Cook Blog

Apple Tart from Chaya’s Comfy Cook Blog

Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Filling from Sweet and Savory Says it All

Pumpkin Streussel Bars from Sweet and Savory Says it All

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Filling from Nina’s Recipes

Candy Corn Cookies from Nine More Months

Easy Crumb Cake from Secrets of a Southern Kitchen

Ginger Bars with Chocolate Chips from Millie’s Place

Witch Cupcakes from Simply Sweet Home

No Bake Caramel Cookies from Simply Sweet Home

-Jerri

Filed Under: desserts, fall, Halloween, Sweet Thursday

Witch Cupcakes

October 25, 2009 9 Comments
(Photo credit Parents.)

This week I wanted to share something fun for Halloween. My stepmom Donna first saw these witch cupcakes in a magazine, and she’s planning to make them for a big Halloween party and hayride that her son and his wife hold each year for the kids.

By the way, Sweet Thursday is coming up this week. If you have a sweet Halloween treat or a fall dessert to share with us, send it my way!

Recipe for Witch Cupcakes

Ingredients
1-1/2 cups chocolate frosting
1 package (4-3/4 ounces chocolate cones (Nabisco Oreo Cones)
Orange nonpareils
1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting, divided
Neon-green food coloring
12 cupcakes, removed from paper liners
Chocolate chips
Green and red tube icing
Mike and Ike Tangy Twister candies
Chocolate Jimmies
Directions
1. Place chocolate frosting in a freezer-weight zip-top bag and snip off a small corner. Pipe base of cones, dip in orange nonpareils, and set aside.
2. Place 1/2 cup vanilla frosting in a another zip-top bag and snip off a small corner. Tint remaining frosting green and frost cupcakes.
3. Turn cupcakes on sides, then place decorated cones on top. Using vanilla frosting, pipe eyes on cupcakes. Attach chocolate chips for pupils and pipe a dot onto chips. Use red icing for mouths, green icing for warts; shape candies into noses. Pipe chocolate icing onto cupcakes for hair and sprinkle with chocolate jimmies.

-Jerri


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I’m posting a link to this post on the following sites:
Tempt My Tummy Tuesday is hosted by Blessed With Grace.
Homemaker Mondays is hosted by 11th Heaven’s Homemade Haven.
Tasty Tuesday is hosted by Balancing Beauty & Bedlam.
Ultimate Recipe is Swap is hosted by Life as Mom.
Friday Feasts is hosted by Momtrends.
Works for Me Wednesday is hosted by We Are THAT Family
Hooked on Fridays is hosted by Hooked on Houses

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Miss Bonnie’s Sweet Bread

October 11, 2009 4 Comments
In honor of my blogiversary celebration, I made husband’s favorite: Sweet Bread. When I first started dating my husband, he traveled down to Mobile to have Thanksgiving with his family, and he brought a loaf of Sweet Bread back with him. It was yummy!

My husband’s mom (a.k.a. Miss Bonnie) has been making this recipe for years. The “official” title for this recipe is “Aggie’s Sour Cream Pound Cake,” but my husband calls it Sweet Bread or Nut Bread. And it actually reminds me a lot of Amish Friendship Cake (or bread), which my dad used to make a lot, (exept with this recipe you don’t have a starter, and it doesn’t take weeks to make, which is a really good thing!) Whatever you choose to call it, it is delicious!


Recipe for Miss Bonnie’s Sweet Bread:

Ingredients:
2 3/4 cups sugar
3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
6 eggs
2 1/2 sticks margarine
1 8 oz cup sour cream
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp flavoring (any kind) **I used vanilla.
1 cup nuts (optional) **I used walnuts.

Directions: Cream margarine and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time, beat after each. Add flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix. Add sour cream and flavoring and beat for 2 minutes. Add nuts and fold in till evenly distibuted throughout batter. Pour into large tube pan. Preheat oven to 325 degrees and bake for one hour and thirty minutes.



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I’m posting a link to this post on the following sites:
Tempt My Tummy Tuesday is hosted by Blessed With Grace.
Homemaker Mondays is hosted by 11th Heaven’s Homemade Haven.
Tasty Tuesday is hosted by Balancing Beauty & Bedlam.
Ultimate Recipe is Swap is hosted by Life as Mom.
Friday Feasts is hosted by Momtrends.
Works for Me Wednesday is hosted by We Are THAT Family
Hooked on Fridays is hosted by Hooked on Houses

-Jerri


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Easy Autumn Pear Cake

September 23, 2009 6 Comments

I posted this recipe last year, and I’m reposting it for Fall Festival over at Life as Mom. This recipe comes from Kraft. It’s called Easy Autumn Pear Cake, and as the recipe name implies it’s easy to make and a perfect recipe for fall. It’s always great to find recipes like this. It’s sweet, but not too sweet, which makes it perfect for all occasions and for just about any group. Try it out for some light snacking at home, or serve it up at your family’s potluck dinner this Thanksgiving.

Recipe for Easy Autumn Pear Cake

Ingredients:
1 egg
1/2 cup BREAKSTONE’S or KNUDSEN Sour Cream
4 oz. (1/2 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened 1 pkg.
yellow cake mix
7 Tbsp. butter, melted, divided
1 can (15 oz.) pear halves, drained, sliced into 1/2-inch slices
1 pkg. (4-serving size) JELL-O Lemon Flavor Gelatin
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped PLANTERS Walnuts

Directions:

PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Beat egg, sour cream, cream cheese and cake mix in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed just until cake mix is moistened, scraping side of bowl often. Blend in 1/4 cup of the butter. Beat on medium speed 2 min. (batter will be thick).

SPREAD batter into lightly greased 13×9-inch baking pan. Arrange pear slices evenly on batter, pressing lightly into batter. Sprinkle evenly with dry gelatin mix and cinnamon. Drizzle evenly with remaining 3 Tbsp. butter; sprinkle with walnuts.

BAKE 40 to 45 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Serve warm or at room temperature. Cut into 24 pieces. Cover and refrigerate leftover cake.

-Jerri

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Banana Bread

August 17, 2009 13 Comments
Since muffins and breads are the theme for the Sweet Thursday event I’m hosting this week, I decided to post my banana bread recipe so I’d have something to add to my round-up.

 

I just love banana bread and banana muffins for breakfast or as a snack. Usually I make banana muffins from a mix, because hubby doesn’t like banana flavored stuff, and I don’t like to spend a lot of time on something that’s just for me. But I’ve been wanting to make homemade banana bread for a while, so I searched around and finally picked out a recipe to try. And it actually didn’t take a lot of time to make. It was very good too!


Recipe for Banana Bread

Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan.
In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then remove from pan.



 

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Easy Cinnamon Sticks

July 27, 2009 11 Comments
Like those cinnamon sticks you get from the pizza place? A couple of weeks ago I was hungry for something sweet, but I didn’t want to spend an hour mixing and baking, so I decided to make my own cinnamon sticks. And they turned out great!

These would be perfect to have for dessert with any meal, especially your own homemade pizzas! And they would also make a great snack and a perfect breakfast food. Enjoy!

(I apologize for the lack of exact measurements, especially on the frosting. This recipe was an experimental-throw-together type thing. It’s amazing what “a little bit of this” and “a little bit of that” can do!)

Recipe for Easy Cinnamon Sticks

Bread Ingredients:

1 can refrigerated pizza dough
1-2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
Cinnamon
Sugar (optional)

Icing:
1 8 oz cream cheese, softened
a splash of milk
sugar

Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Unroll pizza dough and place on baking sheet. Take a knife and make nine cuts in the dough (as shown below). This will make 10 bread sticks. Don’t cut the dough completely in to separate pieces. Just make slits in the dough. When the bread is baked, the sticks will pull apart easily. Next melt your butter, and spread it over the dough. Then sprinkle the dough with as much cinnamon as you desire. If you want your cinamon sticks sticks to be topped with sugar, sprinkle it on at this time too. Bake the bread as directed on the package, about 15-18 minutes.

While the bread sticks are cooking, prepare your frosting. There’s no recipe per se for the frosting I made. Just take a block of cream cheese and can cut it into a few pieces and place it in the microwave for 10-30 seconds, or until soft. Then add a small splash of milk and and sugar. Just add a little sugar at a time and stir it until you get your desired taste and consistency. (You can also use confectioner’s sugar if you prefer.)

-Jerri

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I’m posting a link to this post on the following sites:
Tempt My Tummy Tuesday is hosted by Blessed With Grace.
Homemaker Mondays is hosted by 11th Heaven’s Homemade Haven.
Making A Happy Home Monday is hosted by As For Me and My House….
Make Something Monday is hosted by Go Graham Go! and Jolly Mom and Diana Rambles.
Tasty Tuesday is hosted by Balancing Beauty & Bedlam.
I Am Blissfully Domestic is hosted by Blissfully Domestic.
Ultimate Recipe is Swap is hosted by Life as Mom.
Friday Feasts is hosted by Momtrends.
Works for Me Wednesday is hosted by We Are THAT Family
Hooked on Fridays is hosted by Hooked on Houses

Filed Under: breads and sides, desserts, Recipe of the Week

Sweet Thursday: Cool Summer Treats

July 23, 2009 9 Comments

Welcome to another edition of Sweet Thursday. This month’s theme is Cool Summer Treats. Too hot in kitchen? Then you should try cooling down with some of these great recipes. Thanks to all of this month’s featured bloggers! You’ve definitely given me some inspiration, and I’m sure our readers will be inspired too!

Join the Round-Up: If you have posted a dessert that goes with this month’s theme and would like to be included in my round-up, just leave your link in the comments section and I’ll add your dessert to the post.

Next Month’s Sweet Thursday Theme will be: Muffins/Breads. If you’d like to be featured in the next Sweet Thursday Round-Up, send an email with a link to your post to simplysweethome@hotmail.com. Deadline: August 19.

Fruity Yogurt from Chaya’s Comfy Cook Blog

Chilled Blackberry Pie from Secrets of a Southern Kitchen

Strawberry Frozen Delight from Marin’s Creations

White Chocolate & Strawberry Mousse Cake from Kopiaste…to Greek Hospitality

S’mores Ice Cream Pie from Tanya’s Table

Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes from Nina’s Recipes

Vanilla Ice Cream Eclairs with Strawberry and Chocolate Sauce from Nina’s Recipes

Strawberry Sorbet from Her Cup Overfloweth

Pavlova with Strawberries and Cherries from My Kitchen Treasures

Milk Way Ice Cream Pie from The Cozy Country Home

S’more Sundaes from Simply Sweet Home

-Jerri


Filed Under: desserts, Sweet Thursday

Millie’s Place

July 13, 2009 2 Comments
I’ve found another wonderful etsy shop to visit. It’s called Millie’s Place, and it’s your place for all things baked and sewed!

Donna of Millie’s Place sells a yummy assortment of baked goods that are made fresh when you order them. And you’ll definitely be hungry after you see what she has to offer! You’ll find brownies, oatmeal raisin cookies, lemon glazed shortbread cookies, jumbo chocolate chip cookies with walnuts, and even low-fat chocolate chip cookies. And how would like to try some ginger bars or ginger whoopie pies like the ones pictured here? Yum!

And if you’ve got a massive sweet tooth, you can try some homemade fudge. Millie’s Place offers chocolate fudge and peanut butter fudge with or without walnuts. And if you like coconut as much as my husband does, you’ll definitely want to try some chocolate covered macaroons.

But Millie’s Place isn’t just a shop for baked goods. It also features some lovely items that Donna sews. You’ll find handmade dresses and adorable preemie sized clothes, such as the 3-piece set pictured below. There’s also a Kitty Appliqued Bib and Kitty Doll that would make a great gift.

You’ll also find some cute items for your kitchen like vintage tablecloth napkins and vintage tablecloth grocery bag holders, and much more!

The baked items at Millie’s Place are baked fresh when you order them and are carefully packaged and shipped Priority Mail to ensure that you receive them in 1-3 days.

Go visit Millie’s Place today!

http://milliesplace.etsy.com/


-Jerri


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S’more Sundaes

July 5, 2009 19 Comments

I love s’mores. Occasionally I make them in the microwave, but let’s face it, if you want to make authentic smores, you gotta have a campfire. Unfortunately I live in an area that’s not only extremely hot, but also extremely humid. The last thing anyone wants to do around here in the middle of July is sit by a campfire. In fact, to steal a joke from a cartoon we watched the other day, “it’s so hot, you have to build a fire to cool off!” (sorry…I couldn’t resist!)Anyway, so I came up with a great alternative to the orginal s’more: S’more Sundaes! I’ll also be posting this for the July edition of Sweet Thursday in a couple of weeks.

Recipe for S’more Sundaes:

 

Ingredients

Vanilla ice cream (or your favorite flavor)

Graham Crackers

Hershey Bars or milk chocolate chips

Marshmallows

Chocolate syrup or hot fudge (optional)

Whipped Cream (optional)

Directions:

To make one sundae, I used 3-4 scoops of ice cream, 10-15 marshmallows, 1/2 hershey bar (chopped), 1 or 2 graham crackers (crushed), and then I topped it with Hershey’s chocolate.

You, of course, can use the ingredient ratio of your choice.

 

Suggestions:

-Place all your ingredients in a blender for s’more blizzard, or add a little milk to make s’more milkshakes.

-For more “s’more-like” quality, try heating your marshmallows and chocolate for a few seconds in the microwave, till their hot and a little melty.

 

-Jerri

 

 

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I’m posting a link to this post on the following sites:

Tempt My Tummy Tuesday is hosted by Blessed With Grace.

Homemaker Mondays is hosted by 11th Heaven’s Homemade Haven.

Making A Happy Home Monday is hosted by As For Me and My House….

Make Something Monday is hosted by Go Graham Go! and Jolly Mom and Diana Rambles.

Tasty Tuesday is hosted by Balancing Beauty & Bedlam.

I Am Blissfully Domestic is hosted by Blissfully Domestic.

Ultimate Recipe is Swap is hosted by Life as Mom.

Friday Feasts is hosted by Momtrends.

Works for Me Wednesday is hosted by We Are THAT Family

Hooked on Fridays is hosted by Hooked on Houses

 

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