Ambrosia

1 1/2 pints sour cream
1 15 oz. can fruit cocktail (all fruit drained)
1 15 oz. can pineapple chunks
1 small can mandarin oranges
1 can cherries if desired
Not quite half bag shredded coconut
Almost 1/2 bag of miniature marshmallows
Walnuts optional
This will serve 16 people. You can cut the recipe in half if so desired
Best to be made the day before serving
Very, very tasty

Deep Dish Apple Cake

4 cups apple (if apples are tart, sprinkle with a little
brown sugar)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
handful of raisins (optional)
1 cup oatmeal or grapenuts (can mix both)
1/3 cup melted sweet butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup flour

Mix all ingredients together and bake at 375 degrees
for 30 minutes. Can be served hot with vanilla ice cream
This really tastes delicious

Blueberry Jello Mold

2 small packages or 1 large one of raspberry jello
1 can blueberries (with syrup)
8 oz. can of crushed pineapple
1/2 pint sour cream

Dissolve jello in cup of hot water, and one cup of
cold. Drain blueberries and pineapple and add juices
to jello. When slightly jelled, fold in blueberries
pineapple, and sour cream.
Pour into mold and refrigerate.
This is a delicious and colorful mold.

My Favorite Apple Cake

Everyone is on the go in the world we live in today, and sometimes there are many things we want to do but just don't have the time for. I'm referring to this special recipe, because it may take a little more time to make, but it's well worth it. This is one of my favorite recipes. It has a delicious cookie crust dough.

INGREDIENTS:
1/4 lb. softened sweet butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
5 tablespoons milk
4 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
pinch of salt
10 or 12 apples (peeled, cored and cut into small pieces)
Make this in a mixmaster or hand mixer.
Cream butter and sugar together, add eggs,milk, flour, baking powder and salt.When dough is already formed, cut the dough into two sections. Roll out the first section of dough in between two pieces of wax paper until it is 10"x14". Remove the wax paper, and place the dough in a 9"x13" pyrex dish. You'll need the extra dough to put around the sides of the dish. Mix the apples with cinnamon, sugar, and lemon juice to taste. Roll out the second piece of dough so that it is larger than the dish and place it over the apples, so that it meets with the first piece of dough. Sprinkle the top with cinnamon and sugar. Bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for about an hour. When it's done, it should have a golden finish.

Chocolate Noodle Cookies

12 ounces chocolate semi-sweet
chocolate chips
1 large can thin Chinese noodles
1 cup chopped walnuts
Handful of almonds

Melt chocolate chips in double
boiler, add the Chinese noodles,
chopped walnuts and a handful
of almonds. When all mixed together,
remove the upper section of the double
boiler. Line your cookie sheet
with waxed paper, then, using a teaspoon,
drop mixture onto cookie sheet.
Each cookie will be a slightly different
shape because of the Chinese noodles
protruding. When all the cookies have
been placed on the cookie sheet, re-
frigerate the cookie tray until
the cookies harden. This should take
about an hour or so. These cookies
are also good to freeze.
Your guests will marvel at these de-
licious tasting cookies.

Awesome Pumpkin Bread

This bread or cake has a delicious spicy
taste. It can be served as bread or dessert.

1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon each, ground cloves,
nutmeg, and cinnamon
1 2/3 cups flour
1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup water
1 cup canned pumpkin
2 eggs
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup chopped dates

Sift the dry ingredients together. Place in
large bowl and add remaining ingredients in
order given, mixing well.
Grease a 9 x 5 x 3" loaf pan and spoon batter
into pan.
Bake about 75 to 90 minutes at 325 degrees
Fahrenheit, until bread pulls away from sides
of pan and toothpick inserted in center comes
out clean. Cool in pan or wire rack. Remove.

This bread is a nice compliment to many meals.

This bread freezes well.

Creamy Cheese Cake

There so many different cheese cake recipes,
but I would rate this one a four star.

INGREDIENTS:
1 lb. cream cheese
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 1/2 pints sour cream
2 packages lady fingers (a soft cookie)

In large bowl, cream the cream cheese,
gradually add sugar, eggs, one at a time.
Add lemon juice and vanilla. Last, fold
in sour cream.

Butter a spring form pan and line sides
and bottom with lady fingers. Pour in
mixture and bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit
for 35-40 minutes. Remove from oven and
cool for 1 hour and refrigerate overnight.

Before baking, cover top of lady fingers
with a thin strip of foil, so that it won't
burn.

Delectable Cheese Delight

A delicious dish that can be served with an
entree or dessert.

This is a light souffle-type dish that is perfect
for serving your friends when they visit for lunch,
or your family for a light dinner.

1/3 stick of softened sweet butter
9 tablespoons sugar
4 eggs (beaten first)
4 tablespoons yellow corn meal
4 tablespoons flour
1 1/2 lbs. low fat or fat free cottage cheese,
preferably large curd
1 cup milk

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Butter oval or 9x13
rectangular dish. Pour ingredients into dish,
the mixture will be a little loose. Bake for
thirty minutes, then raise temperature to 400
for another thirty minutes. Top should be golden
brown. It may take a little longer to get that
color. Let cool in oven for about five minutes.
Serve with sour cream. Also delicious with straw-
berries or blueberries.

Fresh Plum Cake

1/2 lb. softened sweet butter
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
pinch of salt
20 Italian plums, pitted and halved

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs,
flour, baking powder and salt.
Place batter in a greased oval or a 9x13
rectangular dish. Place all of the
halved plums all over the top of the
batter with the skin on top. The plums
will be very close together, because you
want to use all of them.
Bake at 350 degrees for 60 minutes.

You will absolutely love this wonderful
tasting cake. If Italian plums are out
of season, you can use fresh apples.

Light, Moist Banana Cake

This cake is so good. When you eat one
slice, you keep going back for more.

INGREDIENTS:
3/4 Cup sugar
1/4 lb. softened sweet butter
2 eggs -- beaten very lightly
1 teaspoon baking soda -- dissolved
in sour cream
4 tablespoons sour cream
1 cup mashed banana (about 2 large
bananas)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 1/2 cups pastry flour
1 teaspoon vanilla

Cream butter and sugar and add eggs, plus
the combination of baking soda and sour cream. Beat well.
Add the bananas, flour, nuts, and
vanilla. Mix well.
Bake in well-buttered 9" x 13" dish or
2 small loaf pans at 325 degrees Fahren-
heit for 35 minutes, or until golden color.

Marvelous Mandel Bread Cookies

This is a wonderful crunchy cookie. It's also
good for dunking. Whoever eats this cookie
always asks for the recipe.

4 cups wondra flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/8 tsp. baking soda
1/8 tsp. salt
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 to 3/4 cups dark raisins
1 1/4 cups chopped walnuts
4 eggs
1 cup canola oil
3 tsp. vanilla

Mix dry ingredients together in a large
bowl and make a well, then put 4 eggs
(already mixed), canola oil, and
vanilla into the well, and mix together.
It will form a dough. Knead and divide
the dough into 6 parts. Put on an un-
greased cookie sheet. (You will need
two cookie sheets.) You have to shape
each of the six parts with your hands
to form a rectangular shape. It should be
placed lengthwise on the cookie sheet.
I usually flatten the mixture down when
shaping it so that it will be more crunchy
when baked. If you want, you can sprinkle
some cinnamon on top before it goes
into the oven.
Bake at 325 degrees for 30 min. I set my
timer for 15 min., then reverse the trays
in the oven. Depending on your oven, it may
have to be in a little longer.
Remove from oven, and while it's hot, slice
diagonally into one inch pieces.
It may sound like work, but it's not.

Real Key Lime Pie

This key lime pie is so cool. It's the best
key lime pie I've ever tasted.

Real Key Lime Pie is a delicate yellow color
and has a slightly stiffer consistency than
custard. It should always have a graham cracker,
not pastry crust.

INGREDIENTS:
The grated rind of one lime
1/2 to 2/3 cup lime juice
3 eggs, separated
1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 oz.)
1/2 cup confectionery sugar
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
A prepared graham cracker crust (bought
in a store, ready-made)
NEXT:
Beat the egg yolks until they are light
yellow. Stir in the juice and rind. Slow-
ly stir in the milk and keep stiring until
thickened. Pour into a thick prepared
graham crust. Cover and refrigerate.
Immediately begin beating egg whites until
they begin to stiffen. Add confectionery
sugar and beat until stiff peaks form.
Spoon the sweetened beaten egg whites mix-
ture over pie filling and swirl to cover completely,
and to form attractive peaks. Sprinkle with granulated
sugar and bake in a preheated 350 degrees Fahrenheit
oven for 15 minutes or until the peaks are slightly golden.

Cool on a cake rack, and then in the refrigerator for 2 hours before serving. You can garnish the meringue with lime twists.

Delectable Passover Sponge Cake

9 eggs - extra large (eggs should be at
room temperature)
1 1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cups cake meal
1/4 cup potato starch
1/2 cup orange juice or 2 tablespoons
concentrated orange juice
juice of l lemon plus the grated rind
pinch of salt

Separate eggs, and beat whites until stiff.
Gradually add half the amount of sugar to
the whites and set aside. Beat yolks and
add the rest of the sugar, lemon rind and
orange juice.
Add potato starch and cake meal to mixture
and mix well.
Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and
bake for 1 hour in a greased cake form with
center tube, that measures 10" x 4 1/4".

Remove cake from oven and turn upside down
to cool for 1 hour.
My cake form has 3 small extended legs,
so I rest it on that. If yours doesn't have legs, you can
rest it on the top of a large soda bottle.

After the cake is cool, cut it into two
equal layers and cover the bottom half
with whipped cream or cool whip, and then
place sliced strawberries over that. Place
the other layer on top, and then cover the
top and sides of the cake with whipped
cream or cool whip. Decorate the top of
the cake with whole strawberries.

It is a delicious strawberry short cake.

Super Sugarless Strudel

1/2 lb. softened sweet butter
8 oz. low fat cottage cheese
3 cups plus 2 tablespoons flour
3/4 chopped walnuts
1 10 oz. jar of preserves sweeten-
ed with fruit juices (either Polaner
or Sorrell Ridge)

Mix the butter and cottage cheese
together, then add the flour and mix
them all together to form a dough. Knead
this dough and separate into 4 balls. With
a rolling pin, roll the dough out into an
oblong shape about 1/8" thick. Across
the width of dough closest to you, spread
the preserves and chopped walnuts. Lift the
dough up slightly with your hands and roll
it over a few times so that it resembles a
long hot dog, then trim the remaining strip
of dough, cutting from left to right. Cut
the hot dog shape that you created into
1 1/2" pieces and place them on an ungreased
cookie sheet.

You'll have some dough left over, so repeat
the same process doing the same
with the remaining balls of dough.

Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 45
to 50 minutes till golden brown.
You will absolutely love them!

Tasty Raisin Apple Cinnamon Cake

This cake has an interesting flavor.
The combination of ingredients gives
this cake a super taste.

2 eggs
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup canola oil
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 cups peeled, chopped tart apples
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup raisins

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 13 x 9
inch pan. Combine eggs, sugar, oil and
vanilla; beat until light and fluffy.
Combine flour, cinnamon, baking soda and
salt. Add to oil mixture; blend well. Stir
in apples, walnuts and raisins. Spread in
greased pan.
Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 40 to 45
minutes or until a toothpick inserted in
center comes out clean. Cool in pan.
Serve with vanilla ice cream, if desired.
Makes 16 servings.

Pecan Roll Cookies

1 cup shortening (1/2 lb. sweet butter)
1 cup confectionery sugar
2 1/2 cups flour (sifted)
1 - 1 1/4 cups chopped walnuts or pecans
1 tablespoon water
1 teaspoon vanilla

This recipe can be made manually but is much easier in a mix-master.
Dough should be soft and a firm consistency. Shape each one like a date
and place on cookie sheet. Do not grease cookie sheet.
Bake in oven at 325 for 25 - 30 minutes

They should be a pale color, both top and bottom, when removed from oven.

Ice Cream Cake

1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/3 bar melted sweet butter
Mix together and bake in pie dish at 350 degrees F for 8 minutes

In double boiler, place large bar of chocolate with almonds, a handful of almonds, 1/3 cup water, 2 heaping tablespoons instant coffee and let melt in pot. Stir occasionally. Spoon on to crust that has been cooled a little, so that almonds are spread evenly.

Refrigerate for about one hour or until set. Then, put 1/2 gallon softened ice cream over the chocolate mixture. Flavors that would be complimentary to this cake include butter crunch, butter almond, chocolate chip, and coffee.

Foil and freeze. Before ready to use, top with cool whip and chocolate shavings.

This cake is so delicious and easy to make. Your guests will think you spent hours making it.

Decadent Apple Cake

MAKES ONE 8-INCH SQUARE CAKE

Anne writes: "This delicious cake is very easy to make."

INGREDIENTS

3 cups diced apples (equivalent to 3 or 4 apples with skin removed)
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Cream sugar and butter, add egg, cinnamon, vanilla, nuts. Fold in apples and the rest of ingredients. Batter will be stiff. Grease and flour 8 x 8 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 40-45 minutes.