Candy Bar Cake Icing

Well this icing is good, but does not look it. It looks like……hmmm…..something. First time using this recipe, but good.

Here is what you need
2 cups powdered sugar
1 stick butter or 8 tablespoons
2 candy bars
water – enough to thin out icing

Steps
1. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan.

2. Cook the butter until it is light brown.

3. Gradually add the powdered sugar while stirring the butter.

4. Next add two chopped up candy bars. One with nuts are nice.

5. Add enough water (one tablespoon at a time) to make the icing spreadable.

6. The icing can be as thick if you use less water or if you add more powdered sugar.
If it is thick it can be spread with the back of a spoon.

7. You are done – Eat up so good. You will live the life!

Happy Cooking!

Butterscotch Coconut Chocolate Bars

What you need

1/4 cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 egg

I teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

3/4 cups grated coconuts

3/4 cups chocolate chips

Steps

Preheat oven to 350

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan.

2. Stir into it the sugar until it is dissolved.

3. Cool the sugar/butter for 5 minutes.

4. Add the flour, baking soda, salt to the butter/sugar.

5. Add the coconut.

6. Spread into a 9 inch round or 9 x 9 inch square pan.

7. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

8. While the bars are cooking melt the chocolate in a double boiler.

9. When the bars are cooked remove from the oven, spread the chocolate over the bars, sprinkle some extra coconut over the chocolate, and then cool.

10. Your done, eats up!

Colonial Dessert

So what is it all about?
In a time when sugar and chocolate and ice cream were for the rich, most colonial people used what they had for dessert.

Colonial people used what they had, corn, fruit, molasses and maple syrup. To learn more  – go here.

One very good dessert that has survived is Apple Brown Betty.

Apple Brown Betty is an apple dessert with bread crumbs. Modern versions have sugar and cinnamon in them. In colonial times this might not of happened as much or every time.  This dessert is very easy to make and uses very little ingredients which makes it a classic colonial dish.

Another interesting dessert would be Molasses Donuts. Yum is a good word, but molasses, not sure all would like you. In colonial times molasses would be used because sugar was not always available, but in the present time most probably would not be so down with molasses. Want to see a picture of one go here and they did put powdered sugar on the top.

In the summer one can really understand and have an effection for a pie, espically Shoofly Pie. The name comes from shooing the flys aways from the pie.

Shoofly Pie explained (well kind of)

Shoofly Recipe

When you are a sucker for anything sugary this might be the first to try (diets down and eating up) Be prepared.

If you are annoyed at all the links and lack of recipes, remember we are on a searching journey before we make a shopping list and get to the cooking.

Happy Cooking

Went to my trusty friend and found this.

Know you know you wanted to see this!

Cranberry Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Nope not historical American, but good when you want something sweet, but not too sweet and a little healthy.

done

Rhubarb Crisp

Rhubarb Crisp

What you will need:

6 – 8 cups rhubarb (with about one fourth to one half cup sugar on top)

1 cup flour

1 cup brown sugar

half cup butter

half teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

Steps

1. Preheat the oven to 375

2. Dice the rhubarb and top it with sugar if desired, place in a large bowl.

3. Work with a pastry blender or with fingers the flour, sugar, butter, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Work this until it is a crumbled topping. Do not overwork it.

4. Spread the crumble mixture over the rhubarb.

5. Bake for 30 minutes.

Easy Baked Apple Dessert

Minus the topping or pie crust

Get three apple
Dice the apples
Put the apples into a baking dish
Cover the apples with honey
Cover the apples with brown sugar
Cover the apples with butter
Bake for 30 minutes or so.
Enjoy

Candy Bar Like Topping for Brownies

You got to make your brownies your own way. No help here.

2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup almonds diced
Double Boiler

Do not cool the brownies after taking them out of the oven.

Melt the chocolate chips in the double boiler.

Sprinkle all the nuts on top of the warm brownies.

Spread the chocolate on top of the nuts and brownies.

The chocolate moon landscape.

Is this the right picture? See the topping it is very hard and candy bar like.

More like a rock. The brownie is soft underneath. That is the trick.

Better view. Look quick it will not last long.

Not the clearest, oh well. Just get ready for a tough cut on the top part.

I think you get the picture. OK, I showed you the picture. Over and over again.

Your waist and teeth will thank you to not eat this everyday. You only live once. Wait, you could come back as a skinny able to eat anything, no worries person. Don’t you just hate those people. OK hate is a strong word. Maybe envy is better.

Happy Cooking.

Maine Mud Cookies

Go Down Cellar and Get what you need!

I decided to try this recipe today and all I can say is do not use anything other than buttermilk. I tried to a substitution but no it was not the same.

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Maine-Mud-Cookies

Very Tasty!

Cranberry Cheesecake Dip

What you need is…

8oz cream cheese

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup chopped cranberries

1 mandarin orange

8 oz whipped topping.

1 tsp vanilla

Steps

Get your cranberries out of the fridge or freezer. If there in the freezer run them under cold water.

Chop those cranberries until they are small and minced. You could be smart and put them into a food processor . Wait some people do not have a food processor.

Keep chopping.

Chop up the orange.

Now add the orange to the cranberries in a big bowl.

Add the sugar to the orange/cranberry mixture.

Next add the vanilla to the bowl.

Now add in the cream cheese and beat it until it is smooth.

Fold in the whipped topping.

Put the dip in the fridge for about an hour.

That simple. Server with graham crackers, fruit, crackers, pretzels.

Gelatin Mix Ins

Ok Holidays are upon us and those holiday potlucks always come with Gelatin.

So add in

nuts
or
orange slices
or
candied ginger
or
raspberries
or
strawberries
or
cranberries (sugared a little)

Here is some with whole cranberries in it. So tasty.