Posted in /Cooking/Desserts/Cake on Sunday, April 02, 2017
Yield: three 8 inch square pans of 16 pieces.
Ingredients
3 cups water
450 ml Molasses
2 tsp baking soda
1 cup room temperature unsalted butter
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
4 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp ginger
1 Tbsp cinnamon
2 pinches ground cloves
2 Tbsp baking powder
Directions
- Bring water to a boil, remove from the heat and stir in the molasses and baking soda. Let cool until lukewarm
- Cream together brown sugar and butter. Then add eggs one at a time
- In a separate bowl mix together flour, salt, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and baking powder
- Mix in alternately the flour mixture and water mixture into the butter mixture
- Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl and mix again to remove any lumps
- Pour your cake batter into prepared cake pans (greased and floured sides with parchment paper on the bottom)
- Bake for 30-35 minutes at 350
- Serve with peach wedge and vanilla ice cream or whipped cream
Posted in /Cooking/Desserts/Cookies on Saturday, April 01, 2017
These cookies always make me think of my Grandmother. She had a cookie jar that seemed to have an endless bottom, unless Uncle Paul and Uncle John were there.
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Posted in /Cooking/Desserts/Cookies on Saturday, April 01, 2017
Yield: 5 dozen
Ingredients
1/2 cup margarine
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 1/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
Directions
- Cream together margarine, sugar & eggs until fluffy
- Mix in peanut butter
- In a separate bowl mix together flour, baking soda & salt
- Combine flour & butter mixtures, mix until the dough is not to sticky (overmixing will toughen the dough; to much flour makes a dry, tasteless cookie)
- Roll cookies into a round ball, place on the baking tray with parchment paper and press with a fork to flatten slightly. This is also the (almost) universal sign of a peanut butter cookie, so those with allergies stay away from forked cookies!
- Bake for 10-15 minutes at 350 degrees.
Posted in /Cooking/Desserts/Cookies on Saturday, April 01, 2017
My students love making these nutty snappers. They're fun to make and fun to eat.
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Posted in /Cooking/Desserts/Cookies on Saturday, April 01, 2017
These are my favorite cookies to make. I make them so often that I actually don't need to look at the recipe any more.
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