Chocolate Poke Cake

I think that I got this recipe from Melody Taylor when we lived in Little Rock.  It is one of my favorites!

1 box chololate devil's food cake mix
2 cans Eagle Brand MIlk
1 tub Cool Whip
Hershey's chocolate syrup
bag of chopped Heath bar bits

Bake cake according to box instructions. 

Poke holes in it with the end of a wooden spoon.

Pour 2 cans of Eagle Brand milk over the cake. 

Drizzle generously with chocolate syrup.

Cover with Cool Whip.

Top with Heath bits.  Drizzle more chocolate to make it look pretty.

Keep refrigerated.

Mimi's Pound Cake

I grew up eating this pound cake.  Mimi would butter and toast it for us, and that is always my very favorite way to eat it!!

2 sticks butter
1/2 cup Crisco
3 C sugar
3 C flour
1 C milk
5 eggs
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla

Cream shortening, butter and sugar.

Add eggs, one at a time.

Add baking powder, flour and milk alternately.  (Begin with 1/3 of flour, then 1/2 milk, 1/3 flour, 1/2 milk, 1/3 flour.)

Add vanilla.

Bake in 2 greased and floured bread loaf pans.

350 for 1 1/4 hours.

Don't open oven door until baking time is almost up.

Check to see if cake test done.

Mimi's Sugar Cookies

Mimi makes the softest, lightest, most wonderful sugar cookies at Christmas.  She often gives them as gifts in cookie tins.  They are addictive, and I could eat a million of them!

1 C sugar
1 C powdered sugar
1 C oil
1 C butter

2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
4 C flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cream of tartar
dash salt

Mix first 4 until creamy.

I separate bowl- flour, soda, tartar, salt.  Mix, then add to above.

Roll into balls, then press with glass.

Bake 350 for 15 minutes...until brown along edges. 

Makes a lot!

Barbara's Cherry Cream Cheese Cake

This is Corey's favorite dessert!  Nana has made it many, many times for him!

8 oz. cream cheese
1 can Eagle Brand milk
1/4 C lemon juice
1 can cherry pie filling
1 graham cracker crust

Soften cream cheese and beat with milk.  Stir in lemon juice and pour into crust.  Top with cherries.  Chill well.

Kahlua Cake

I have made this dessert for our family more often than any other dessert.  It never lasts long!  If there is one dessert that I would call a "family tradition" for us, this would be it.

1 (2-layer) package yellow cake mix

1 (3.4 oz) package chocolate instant pudding mix

4 eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

1/3 cup Kahlua

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup water

Preheat oven to 350.  Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs and oil in a bowl and beat until smooth

Add Kahlua, sugar and water.  Mix well.  Batter will be thin.

Spoon into a greased and floured bundt pan.

Bake 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool in pan for several minutes.

Remove to serving plate.

ENJOY!!!

Apple Dumplings

My mother in law gave me this recipe. It is so quick, easy and delicious! I have made it just for my family, as well as for many social gatherings, and everyone always likes it! YUM!

2 cans refrigerated crescent rolls (8 in a can)
2 large Granny Smith apples (peeled and cut into small pieces)
2 sticks butter, meted
1 1/2 C sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 (12 oz.) can Mountain Dew

Preheat oven to 350. Spray the bottom of a casserole dish with Pam. Open one can of rolls...do not separate any of the triangles. Unroll onto the bottom of the casserole dish. Push together the perforated edges a little to seal up the holes. Sprinkle with the apple pieces. Open the second can of rolls, and roll out on top of the apples. (I don't bother pinching the perforated holes together for this layer.)Combine the cinnamon and sugar into the melted butter, then spread/pour over top. Pour the Mountain Dew over this top layer. Bake 350 for 45 minutes, or until golden brown.

Heather's Pumpkin Crisp

Oh my! A friend of mine served this at bunco one night around Thanksgiving. Everyone LOVED it! It has become a fall tradition at my house, and I have given out the recipe more than once! It is the best pumpkin recipe that I have ever had!

15 oz. can pumpkin
1C evaporated milk
1C sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
18.25 oz. box of yellow cake mix (gluten free if needed)
1C chopped pecans
1C melted butter
whipped cream

Stir together 1st 5 ingredients. Pour into lightly greased 9x13 pan. Sprinkle dry cake mix evenly over top. Sprinkle with pecans. Drizzle with butter. Bake 1 hour or until golden brown at 350.

Cool 10 minutes. Serve warm or room temp with whipped cream.

Can make into a trifle with caramel sauce and walnuts. Can combine vanilla pudding with the cool whip for one layer of the trifle.

Apple Crisp

My mom gave me this recipe. I think that she got it from one of my cousins. It is a very quick and easy recipe that I have made many, many times!

2 sticks of butter...melted
2 cans apple pie filling
1 box yellow cake mix
cinnamon
chopped pecans...optional

Pour small amount of butter into the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Add the apple pie filling. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon. Add the dry cake mix on top. Sprinkle with pecans if desired. Pour the rest of the butter on top.

Bake about 1 hour, or until golden brown, at 350.