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Stars and Stripes

This is a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing and fruit decorations. What a great cake to celebrate with at all the summer time BBQ's and picnics!

Orange Rolls

Rising...

Done Baking....
Ready to EAT!

Ice Cream Cake

This is a white cake filled with strawberry ice cream.

Orange Rolls

What a yummy way to enjoy some of the Christmas oranges we received!

Fruit Cake and Fudge

It's that time of year again! I made 3 fruitcakes this year. I also have been making lots of fudge. I've made 25 pounds of fudge so far, and will probably make another 15 pounds before Christmas gets here! I love Christmas time.

Halloween Eclairs

Here is another Halloween treat I made.

Chocolate Eclairs

Chocolate eclairs are one of Jon's favorite desserts. So, I decided to make some for him to take to a pot luck lunch at work. I'm sure they'll go fast. After I made the eclair shells I made some homemade cream filling (basically a cooked pudding), frosted them with chocolate frosting and added a special touch by putting a rosebud on each one.

Chocolate Caramel Cake

My favorite chocolate cake to make. This is a homemade chocolate cake with penuche frosting. My family loves it and it's simple to make.

Chocolate Cake

stir together:

2 c. sugar

2 c. flour

Boil:

1 stick butter or margarine

1/4 c. cocoa

1 c. water

Add cocoa mixture to dry ingredients then add:

2 eggs

1/2 c. milk

1 t. vanilla

1 t. baking soda

Mix until well blended. Bake at 375 in a greased bundt pan for 30 minutes.

Penuche Frosting (from the Cake Mix Doctor Cookbook)

1 c. brown sugar

1 stick butter or margarine

cook over medium heat until well blended (2 mins), then add

1/4 c. whole milk

Bring to a boil and set it aside to cool slightly.

Pour over

2 c. powdered sugar

mix with an electric hand mixer until smooth and pour over cake while still warm. (If it hardens too much while working with it, you can heat it up again on the stove.)

Fruit Cake

This recipe can make even the fruit-cake-haters come back for more! It's made with a buttermilk cake base with candy oranges, coconut, dates and walnuts. To top it all off it has an orange juice glaze that soaks into the warm fruit cake so it's nice and moist.

Oh, fudge!

Christmas time reminds me of fudge. My grandma would make us fudge every year for Christmas. I made 25 lbs of fudge this year from her recipe. The fudge that is pictured is milk chocolate fudge and peanut butter fudge. I also made semi-sweet fudge with almonds. It's SO yummy!

Sheet Cake for a wedding

I made 4 of these half-sheet cakes for a wedding reception. I started by combing the frosting into waves, then I scored each cake into 48 pieces so they would all be even. I topped each piece with a leaf and a rosebud.

Strawberries and Chocolate Bouquet

Ok, so this ISN'T a cake, but it's still a culinary creation so I thought I'd add it. I made this for my dad to give to my mom for Valentine's Day.