Carla’s Poundcake

ingredients:

2 Duncan Hines butter cake mixes made as directed

2 tablespoons butter flavoring

8 ounce package cream cheese, softened to room temperature 

Mix the cake mixes as directed on box with the butter, eggs, and water.   Add cream cheese and flavoring.  

Bake at 350 degrees until tests done.   

This makes a very big cake, so if you don’t have a large pound cake tube pan, cut the recipe in half.  

( I use a regular Bundt pan and Half the ingredients using only one cake mix) 

Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies

This recipe is usually on the package of Crisco Butter flavored sticks.   It’s not a secret! 

Ingredients:
3/4 cup butter flavored Crisco
1 1/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon vanilla flavoring (I don’t use imitation)
1 egg
1 3/4 cup plain flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon soda

1 cup chocolate chips (I use more, and sometimes add white chocolate chips too)
1 cup chopped pecans (optional)


Cream the Crisco with the sugar, add milk, egg, and vanilla.

Add the flour, salt, and soda and beat very well with mixer.

Fold in chips and nuts.

I bake at 325 degrees 8-10 minutes. DO NOT OVERBAKE if you want soft chewy cookies.

I always make at least a double recipe.  My KitchenAid mixing bowl will handle a triple recipe.

 I put the dough in containers and freeze it.  It can be scooped out easily right out of the freezer. (Crisco won’t freeze hard!)

Too Easy Cheese Danish Braid

Ingredients:

One sheet of puff pastry
4 ounce package of cream cheese
2 Tablespoons sugar
One egg yolk
One egg white, beaten til frothy

Powdered sugar icing


Lay sheet of pastry on cookie sheet.  Slice both sides into strips about 1/3 into the width of the sheet leaving one-third at center solid and uncut.

In a bowl, beat cream cheese til smooth, add sugar and egg yolk and blend until smooth.  Spoon onto the middle of the sheet of pastry, then fold the cut strips over to the center.  One side, then the other side, overlapping.

Brush the top of braid with the egg white.
Bake 350 degrees til browned.

Drizzle with ordinary powdered sugar icing. (Canned icing will work)