Gooey Butter Cake

family recipe favorite

Gooey Butter Cake

1 pkg yellow cake mix
3 eggs
1 box powder sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 stick butter
1 8 oz softened cream cheese

Mix together cake mix, butter and one egg. Put into 9”x 12” pan. Mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and 2 eggs. (Leave a little sugar out for the top). Pour over cake. Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes. Cool and serve.

Submitted by Melanie I.

English muffin pizza

Melissa’s recipes from Blue Valley Middle Home Economics class

English Muffin Pizzas
3 English muffins, cut in half
1 cup (8 oz) pizza sauce
1 cup mozzarella cheese
variety of toppings ( pepperoni, sausage, vegetable, etc)

Preheat oven to 350°
Spread each half English muffin with pizza sauce
Add toppings and cheese
Place on foil in 350° oven till hot and cheese melts

Sunflower Waldorf Salad
2 small apples, cored an chopped (about 1 ½ cups
1/3 cup sunflower nuts
¼ cup seedless green grapes, halved
1 stalk of celery, sliced
1 large banana, sliced
¼ cup plain yogurt
lettuce leaves

In a mixing bowl, toss together apples, sunflower nuts, grapes and celery.
Fold in the sliced, large banana and yogurt. Serve on individual lettuce lined salad plates.
Garnish with additional banana slices, if desired. Makes 3 or 4 servings.

Chocolate Icebox Pie

Yield Makes 8 servings
Ingredients
2/3 cup milk
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate morsels
1/4 cup cold water
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
3 large eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 (6-ounce) ready-made chocolate crumb piecrust
1 cup whipping cream (I used Coolwhip)
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted
1 (1.55-ounce) milk chocolate candy bar, chopped
Preparation
Heat milk until it just begins to bubble around the edges in a 3-quart saucepan over medium heat (do not boil). Remove from heat, and whisk in chocolate morsels until melted. Cool slightly.
Stir together cold water and cornstarch until dissolved.
Whisk cornstarch mixture, sweetened condensed milk, eggs, and vanilla into chocolate mixture. Bring to a boil over medium heat, whisking constantly. Boil 1 minute or until mixture thickens and is smooth. (Do not overcook.)
Remove from heat, and whisk in butter. Spoon mixture into piecrust. Cover and chill at least 8 hours.
Beat whipping cream at high speed with an electric mixer until foamy; gradually add sugar, beating until soft peaks form. Spread whipped cream evenly over pie filling, and sprinkle with pecans and candy bar pieces.
Southern Living, JUNE 2005

Submitted by Karman W.

Brownies

BROWNIES

WARNING!Once you taste these you will never buy a box of Brownie mix again.
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) real butter cut into 4 or more pieces
2 eggs
1/2 teas vanilla
1/8 teas salt
1/2 cup cocoa
1 cup pecans, if desired
1/2 cup flour

In a food processor, with metal blade in place, add butter & sugar. Pulse (on-off-on-off) until thoroughly mixed, about 20 seconds. Add eggs, salt & vanilla. Process until smooth, about 10-15 seconds. Add cocoa & nuts. Pulse until cocoa disappears. Add flour and pulse until it disappears. DO NOT over mix. Spread into buttered 9" square pan. Bake in preheated 350 oven 35 min. Cool, cut into squares. Makes 9-16 Awesome Brownies.

Note: Probably could be made with a mixer, Ive never tried it. Cream butter & sugar on med speed until fluffy.. Add eggs etc mix until smooth, add cocoa, mix again. Add flour and mix with spoon, only until it's incorporated, add nuts, mix gently. Over mixing will make them tough & cakey. Bake as directed.

PORK with WILD RICE

6 oz pkge Uncle Ben's Long Grain & Wild Rice
1 can mushroom soup
1-1/4 cups water
4 oz can of mushrooms drained
6 pork chops salt & pepper

Mix rice, soup, mushrooms & water in a casserole. Put chops on top. Sprinkle chops with salt & pepper. Cover, bake for 1 hr 20 min in 350 oven. Super easy, really good!

submitted by Sue S.

Butter Toffee

Best EVER candy and makes a great gift. From the Artist in the Kitchen-St Louis Art Museum Cookbook.

BUTTER TOFFEE
1/2 cup real butter
1 cup sugar
1/2 teas salt
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup sliced almonds
3 oz choc chips

Rub inside edge of a large glass cassarole with butter and put remaining butter in cassarole. Pour sugar directly on butter in bottom of bowl, try to avoid getting sugar on the sides. Add salt and water. Microwave about 7 min probably longer until toffee colored. Pour syrup over almonds on buttered cookie sheet. DO NOT scrape bowl as candy will chrystalize. Microwave chocolate 1-1/2 -3 min just until melted. Spread onto toffee. Cool, break into pieces and enjoy!

Submitted by Sue S.

Pink Cookies

1 strawberry cake mix
1 white cake mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1/3 cup water
1 bag of white chocolate chips (you may not want to use the entire bag)

mix altogether. Bake at 350 for 8-10 min. You may want to cook them a little longer depending on how you like your cookies. They will harden once they are removed from the oven.

Submitted by Amy K.

Aunt June's Mostacolli

AUNT JUNE'S MOSTACOLLI

I love this story, my memory, probably not quite correct, is she got it from the Art?? teacher at Old Bonhomme School. Who left under scandlous circumstances...he ran off with the French teacher??? Hysterical, especially if you know Aunt June.

2 lbs hamburger
2) 8 oz cans tomato sauce
2) cans tomato soup
2) cans stewed tomatoes
1 pkge Rices chili w/o beans (it's pkgd like bulk pork sausage in the meat aisle)
2 teas Seasoned salt
2 teas Oregano
1 onion chopped
16 oz Mostacolli noodles boiled & drainedBrown hamburger and onion. Drain well. Crumble chili into pan and melt it. Add rest of ingredients, simmer over low heat, stirring frequently, for 1 hour. Pour over noodles

submitted by Sue S.