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Recipes - Cookies, Pies, Cakes, and Other Sweets
Marge_Innavera:
I've posted this gingerbread recipe on my blog -- will copy here:
Missouri Town Gingerbread
1/2 cup (1 stick or 4 ounces) butter or margarine
1 beaten egg
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup molasses
1 cup hot water
2 - 1/2 cups flour
1 - 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/2 teaspoon salt
Melt butter or margarine; mix in sugar and egg. In one bowl mix all dry ingredients; in another, mix molasses, honey and water. Add this mixture and the flour mixture alternately to the butter-egg-sugar mixture, beating well after each addition.
Bake in a greased square cake pan at 350 degrees, about one hour.
Front-Ranger:
I'm just about ready to march into the kitchen and make some pumpkin pecan pie. I love it because it kills two birds with one stone, so to speak. That frees me up to make something more creative for my second dessert, and all of you have given me plenty of inspiration!!
I finally found the right recipe for ppp on the Libby's pumpkin web site. It is here: http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/28658/Pumpkin-Pecan-Pie/detail.aspx
This recipe is simpler than all the other ppp recipes on the web, which call for things like sour cream and lemon zest. Try it, you'll like it!!
Front-Ranger:
I just got inspiration for my second dessert, in addition to the de rigeur pumpkin pie. How about ... ambrosia? But I'll serve it AFTER the meal, not before it, especially to bratty little kids.
Front-Ranger:
Just made my favorite icing recipe for my son's birthday cake. It's as easy as...cake!! 12 oz. of chocolate chips, melted with 2 cups whipping cream. Stir together in the pan, cool, and add 1 tsp. karo syrup. It's called "Mrs. Milman's chocolate frosting" as popularized by Martha Stewart.
Amazing that I am a major contributor to this thread! I don't eat sweets, generally, but I like making them for others.
Front-Ranger:
I'm trying something different for Christmas dinner...a mincemeat cranberry pie. Will let you know how it is received.
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