Blaxall's Chocolate Dessert

 

Melt 1/3 cup margarine or butter and add 2 1/2 cups graham wafer crumbs and 1/2 cup brown sugar.  Mix well so that crumbs are well coated.  Pack 3/4 of the crumb mixture into the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan. 

 

In a medium saucepan melt 3/4 cup margarine or butter

mix the following together and add to the butter:

1/3 cup cocoa

1 1/2 cups sugar

Remove from heat and add 3 beaten eggs. 

Stir well and return to heat and cook over medium heat til bubbly, stirring constantly.  Cool.

Fold in 1 1/2 cups cream, whipped.

Pour over the crumb layer in the pan then sprinkle rest of crumbs over top.

Freeze then cut and serve.

 

**This is the original recipe.  Since then we have changed it to use chocolate wafer crumbs instead of the graham crumbs. 

Pumpkin Cookies

Dry ingredients - 

3 cups all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 ish teaspoon salt ( I just take a pinch)

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon all spice

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Wet ingredients -

1 & 1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup unsalted butter @ room temp

1 cup canned pumpkin puree

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

&

as many chocolate chips as you want

How To:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees

In bowl, mix together your flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice & salt.

In separate bowl, cream together your butter and sugar. Add remaining ingredients.

Add your dry ingredients mix to the wet and combine.

Fold in your chocolate goodness.

Scoop dough onto prepared sheets. I use a medium sized ice cream scoop size.

Bake the cookies for around 10-12 minutes. Or until a toothpick comes out clean from one of the middles.

Cabbage Rolls

Cabbage Rolls are made with cabbage leaves filled with ground beef and rice, with tomato sauce.

Ingredients:

• 12 cabbage leaves
• .
• Filling:
• 1 pound ground beef
• 3/4 cup cooked rice
• 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 cup milk
• .
• Sauce:
• 1 cans (8 ounces ) tomato sauce
• 1 can (14.5 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons vinegar
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 1/4 cup cold water

Preparation:

Drop cabbage leaves into boiling salted water; cover and cook for 3 minutes. Drain well. For filling, combine ground beef, rice, onion, egg, and salt, pepper, and milk. Mix well and divide into 12 portions. Place a portion into the center of each cabbage leaf. Roll leaf around filling; fasten with toothpick. Place in a baking dish. For sauce, combine tomato sauce, tomatoes, sugar, vinegar, and 1/2 cup of water and pour over cabbage rolls. Bake covered in a preheated 350° oven 40 to 45 minutes. Remove rolls and discard toothpicks. Place pan with juices over medium heat or transfer the juices to a saucepan and place over heat; stir cornstarch and water mixture into the sauce; bring to a boil and cook until thickened.
Recipe for cabbage rolls serves 6.

Banana Bread

1/2 cup softened margarine

3-4 ripe bananas

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 T milk

1 t vanilla

*Mix together with beaters

2 cups flour

1 t baking soda

1/2 t baking powder

*Add to the above by hand

Bake at 350 for 1 hr and 15 min -- makes enough for one greased bread pan

Cake in a bowl

This can be done with any type of cake or pudding

Skor Cake:

• Make one chocolate cake recipe like normal
• cut the cake up into cubes
• use chocolate pudding (the one that needs 3 cups of milk)
• whipping cream (500ml)
• 4-5 skor bars

Take half of the cake and put it in the bottle of the bowl. Then add half of the chocolate pudding. Layer half of the whip cream on top of that. Then sprinkle half of the crushed skor bars on top. Repeat process and enjoy!

Sour Cream Mushroom Chicken

**Serve with rice or noodles

2 lbs of chicken pieces

1/2 c flour

2 t salt

1/4 t pepper

1/4 c butter

1 c sour cream

1 c chicken broth

8 oz of freshly sliced mushrooms

1 1/2 t paprika

Combine flour, salt, and pepper. Toss chicken pieces in the flour mixture.

Melt butter in a skillet. Brown chicken on all the sides. Mix in sour cream, broth, mushrooms, and paprika. Transfer to a casserole dish.

Cover and bake for 45 min at 350 degrees.

Serves 4

Oatmeal Cake

Cake:
1 c. oatmeal
1 1/2 c. boiling water
2/3 c. soft margarine
1 c. sugar
1 c. packed brown sugar
1 t vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/2 c. sifted flour
1/2 t salt
1 t baking soda
1 t cinnamon
1/2 t nutmeg

*Soak oatmeal in boiling water for 20 minutes. Beat butter until creamy; gradually add sugars and beat until fluffy. Blend in vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well. Add oat mixture and mix well. Sift flour with soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix into oatmeal mixture. Bake in prepared 9x133 inch pan at 325 degrees for 30-40 minutes.

Frosting:
1/2 c. melted butter
3 T milk or cream
3/4 c. shredded coconut
2/3 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. chopped nuts (pecans)

* Combine all ingredients. Poke holes with fork over entire cake. Spread frosting over warm cake. Broil until bubbly ( 2 to 2 1/2 minutes) ** Watch or it burns quickly.

Rhubarb Apple Cream Pie

2 cups diced fresh rhubarb

1 cup diced cooking apple

3 T flour

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 T water

1 egg

2 t lemon juice

Mix it all together and pour into unbaked pie shell. Cover with pie crust top and sprinkle a bit of sugar over top

Bake at 400 for about 45 minutes just like you would an apple pie!

Primary Supper/Shipwreck

• 4-6 large carrots -- peeled and sliced over bottom of dutch oven
• 1 large onion - sliced over carrots
• 5-6 medium potatoes sliced and laid over onions
• sprinkle salt and pepper over top
• 1-2 cups of frozen/caned corn layered on top
• 1-2 lbs thawed uncooked hamburger. break up and pat hamburger over vegetable layers
• sprinkle salt and pepper over top
• 1/2 -1 cup uncooked rice sprinkle over hamburger
• combine 2 cans tomato soup and 1 1/2 cans of water together
• pour over to
• bake covered at 350 in oven for 2 hours until veggies are tender