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Dark Chocolate Cherry Cake

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You know it’s weird how sometimes you feel skinny, well after eating a piece of this cake you might feel like a busted can of biscuits. But it is ok, it’s the holidays.

What you will need-
Unsweetened cocoa
1 package chocolate fudge cake mix
½ cup sugar
1 (3.8 ounce) package French vanilla instant pudding mix
4 large eggs
¾ cup vegetable oil
½ cup water
1 (8 ounce) container sour cream
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 (3-ounce) dark chocolate bars
½ cup coarsely chopped dried cherries
1 tablespoon butter
1/3 cup heavy whipping cream

Make it-
Grease a 12-cup Bundt pan, and dust with cocoa, set aside. Combine cake mix, sugar and pudding mix in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs and next four ingredients to bowl and mix at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended. Gradually add oil to mixture and beat for 2 minutes. Coarsely chop one chocolate bar and into batter. Next, add your cherries. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely on wire rack. Coarsely chop 1 chocolate bar. Place chopped chocolate and butter in a small bowl, set aside.Bring whipping cream to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Remove from heat, and immediately pour over chocolate and butter. Whisk gently until smooth. Cool glaze 3 minutes or until slightly thickened. Drizzle glaze over cake. Coarsely chop remaining chocolate bar, sprinkle chopped chocolate over cake.

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Million Dollar Trifle

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This is the sho nuff shima longa shing shong sh**!
Million Dollar Trifle
Gather-
8 oz cream cheese
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 5.9 oz box instant chocolate pudding mix
3 cups cold milk plus 3 tbs
1 pt heavy whipping cream
3/4 cup powdered sugar
13 oz package pecan sandies, crumbled
3/4 cup pecans
1 tablespoon butter
Salt
How to make-
Get you 3 mixing bowls out. In the 1st bowl combine the cream cheese, powdered sugar and 3 tablespoons milk using your hand mixer. In the 2nd bowl make your pudding using the remaining 3 cups of milk. In the 3rd bowl add whipping cream and use hand mixer to whip the cream until thick. Stir in powdered sugar. Next, combine pecans, butter and a dash of salt in microwave safe bowl. Pop in microwave and nuke for 2 minutes in 30 second intervals. Stir in between intervals. In a trifle bowl, layer cream cheese mixture, pudding, whipped cream and cookie crumbles until all mixture has been used. Use about 1/3 of each mixture per layer. End with whipped cream and then top with cookie crumbs and toasted pecans. Chill until ready to serve.

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Peanut Butter and Oreo Delight

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This is such a sinful pie. The Sister’s do love them some layered anything. The peanut butter works really well with the chocolate pudding and the cream cheese mixture. Each layer is so creamy and delicious. This is so easy to prepare and a wonderful desert to take to any gathering. We like to top each plate or bowl of dessert with an Oreo cookie.

Peanut Butter Oreo Delight

What you will need-
35 Oreo Cookies
6 tablespoons butter (melted)
8 ounce package Cream Cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
3 cups plus 2 tablespoons cold milk, divided
16 ounces whipped Topping, thawed, divided
2 packages (3.4 ounce each) Vanilla Flavor instant Pudding
1/3 cup peanut butter

Time to make it-
Get your food processor out and process cookies in food processor until fine crumbs form. If you don’t have one or you don’t feel like getting it out you can put the cookies in a Ziploc bag and beat the hell out of it until you have fine crumbs. Next add your butter to the cookies and mix it up real good. Get your old trusty 13×9 inch casserole dish out and press the cookie crumbs in the bottom. Pop it in the fridge for about 10 minutes or so. While that is chilling out, beat your cream cheese, sugar and 2 tablespoons of milk until well blended. Add you about ½ of the whipped topping; mix well and give it a little taste. That’s some good stuff. Dump mixture on top of cookie crumbs and spread evenly. Next, beat the pudding mix and remaining milk in large bowl for about 2 minutes. Add your peanut butter to the pudding and mix well. Go on and get you a little taste of that too. Dump the pudding on the cream cheese layer and spread it evenly. Let stand for about 5 minutes or until thickened. Top with remaining whipped topping. Refrigerate for about 4 hours before serving.

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Griffy’s Tempura Apples

These are so good and very easy to make. Our dear friend Griff came up with this recipe. We hope you like it as much as we do.

Tempura Apples
Gather-
2 apples (your choice)
1 cup Tempura Batter
¾ cup ice water
1 teaspoon cinnamon, reserve ¾ teaspoon
¼ cup confectioner sugar
¼ granulated sugar
¼ dark brown sugar

Let’s make it-
Get your oil going to 350 degrees. You need a thermometer to check your oil. It is important to have your oil at the right temp. Too hot and you will burn them up. Not hot enough and the tempura will not stick. Core and slice each apple into 12 slices. Mix water, tempura batter and ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon together. Generously coat apple slices with tempura batter. Fry apples until golden brown on all sides. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on a paper towel. Mix the 3 sugars and reserved cinnamon. Toss apples in sugar mixture and serve immediately. Let’s take it to another level of goodness-Serve on a scoop of vanilla ice cream. It is out of this world!

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Pumpkin Bread

I hope you will enjoy this recipe!

Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients

3 cups sugar

1 cup vegetable oil

4 eggs, lightly beaten

16 ounces canned pumpkin

3 1/2 cups flour

2 teaspoons salt

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon

2/3 cup water

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Spray and flour (2) 9 by 5 loaf pans

Stir together sugar and oil

Stir in eggs and pumpkin

Combine dry ingredients in separate bowl

Blend dry ingredients into wet mixture, add water

Divide batter between two loaf pans

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until done

Let stand for 10 minutes

Remove from pans and cool

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Pumpkin Bread

I love the smells of fall. My kitchen is smelling so yummy. I have a pot of coffee on, fall candles burning and pumpkin bread in the oven. I fell in love with pumpkin bread last year. I had never been a huge fan of pumpkin but ordered a slice at Starbucks and fell deeply in love. I got tired of paying all that money for one slice of bread so I decided to make it myself. I know Andy got so tired of eating pumpkin bread. I made pumpkin loaves, loaves with nuts, loaves with chocolate chips, pumpkin muffin, ooey gooey pumpkin cake and pumpkin rolls. This year I am hooked on making desserts with pumpkin again. Sister and I made a pumpkin trifle that was out of this world (it is on our holiday menu for fall, you should order it). We also made a triple delight (millionaire pie) with pumpkin pudding. It was great too.

What are some of your favorite desserts with pumpkin?

I hope you will enjoy this recipe!

Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients

3 cups sugar

1 cup vegetable oil

4 eggs, lightly beaten

16 ounces canned pumpkin

3 1/2 cups flour

2 teaspoons salt

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon

2/3 cup water

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Spray and flour (2) 9 by 5 loaf pans

Stir together sugar and oil

Stir in eggs and pumpkin

Combine dry ingredients in separate bowl

Blend dry ingredients into wet mixture, add water

Divide batter between two loaf pans

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until done

Let stand for 10 minutes

Remove from pans and cool

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Litlle Sissy’s Chocolate Beignet’s

Ingredients:
2 ½ tablespoons corn syrup
½ cup heavy whipping cream
8 ounces chopped milk chocolate chips
2 sheets puff pastry dough, thawed but still cool
1 egg
¾ cup powdered sugar

Directions:
Mix corn syrup and cream in a double boiler, bring to a boil. Put the chocolate chips in a bowl and pour hot cream on top. Stir chocolate until smooth. Chill in the refrigerator, stirring often, until firm, about 25 minutes. Meanwhile, line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. On a lightly floured surface roll each pastry dough sheet into a 12-in. square. Cut each square into 16 smaller squares and transfer to a lined baking sheet. In a bowl, lightly whisk egg and 1 tablespoon of water. Brush over the pastry squares. Spoon about 1 teaspoon of chocolate mixture into the center of each square. Fold 1 corner of each square over, making a triangle. Press edges to seal. Freeze for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 400 degrees and bake beignets until golden brown, about 15 minutes. Turn pan once during baking. Let cool for 5 – 7 minutes. Sift powdered sugar on top of beignets. Serve immediately.

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Caramel Apple Muffins

This recipe is just in time for fall y’all! I would have to say that fall is one of our favorite times of the year. Fall marks the transition from summer to winter. We say goodbye to swimsuits (thank GOD) and hello to layers, which we love!

It is something about the cool breeze that starts to flow in, leaves changing their colors, the falling of leaves, fall festivals, pumpkins, college football, apple cider and of course caramel apples that make you feel all cozy inside.  

This is a pleasant treat to make to stimulate your taste buds! With each bite you will find a delicious surprise of baked apples and cinnamon. Get in my belly GOOD!

Ingredients

Cinnamon topping

1 cup heavy whipping cream (plus 3 tablespoons for caramel topping)

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

2 cups all purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

2 cups peeled and diced Granny Smith apples

1 14 ounce package caramels

1 cup chopped walnuts

Wax paper

Craft sticks

Cinnamon Topping

Stir together 1/3-cup firmly packed light brown sugar, 1½ tablespoon all purpose flour, and ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon in a small bowl. Cut in 1½ tablespoons butter with a pastry blender or fork until mixture resembles course meal.

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare cinnamon topping as directed. Beat whipping cream and next three ingredients at low speed with an electric mixture 30 seconds or until blended. In a separate bowl stir together flour and next three ingredients. Add to whipping cream mixture, beating at low speed just until blended. (Do not over mix.) Stir in diced apples. Spoon into a lightly greased 12-cup muffin pan, filling three-fourths full; sprinkle with cinnamon topping. Bake at 375 degrees for 18 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from pans to wire racks; cool completely. (About 30 minutes).

Microwave caramels and cream in a microwave safe bowl at high 1 to 2 minutes or until smooth, stirring at 30-second intervals. Let mixture stand, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes or until thick enough to coat muffins.

Quickly dip bottom three-fourths of muffin into caramel mixture; roll bottom half of caramel coated portion of muffin in chopped walnuts and place muffins caramel side up on lightly greased wax paper. (If caramel starts to harden you may microwave for a few seconds to soften). Insert craft stick into caramel covered portions of muffins. Enjoy!!!

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Beignet

Jambalaya, crawfish pie, filet gumbo.
Cos tonight I gon’ t’ see ma cher amio.
Pick gitar, fill fruit jar, and b’ gayo.
Sunamagun, gon’ ha’ big fun on de bayo.

Don’t be afraid to get your day started with some fried dough. If you want something a little different, yummy and easy you have got all that in this recipe. Our family loves when they wake up to these and a big cup of Community Coffee.
Enjoy!
Beignets

What you need:

1 cup of water

1 cup of milk

1 egg, beaten

3 cups of flour

2 tablespoons baking powder

1 teaspoon of salt

2 teaspoon of sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla or almond flavoring

Oil for frying

Confectioners Sugar

What to do:

Mix water, milk, egg. vanilla; add flour, baking powder, salt, and 2 teaspoons of sugar and mix until smooth.

Drop by spoonfuls into 2 inches of hot oil at 375 degrees; drain on paper towels and sprinkle with confectioners sugar.

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