Cooking My Way

Spice Cake

This recipe is a tried and true recipe from my mom but I haven't made it in years as I forgot about it.

Try it, it's good.

1 1/2 cup flour

3/4 cup sugar

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

1/8 teaspoon ground cloves

1/3 cup shortening

1 egg

2/3 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix all dry ingredients together - flour through cloves.  Add shortening, egg, milk, and vanilla.  Pour in cupcake pans or greased and floured pan.  Bake at 350 for 20 mins. 

Easy as pie recipe.  I added more of each spice just cause I felt like it.

(source: my mom)

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Can I just say "Yummy"!

1 3/4 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1 egg, beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 tablespoons milk

40 miniature chocolate covered peanut butter cups, unwrapped

Preheat over to 375.

Sift together (who sifts?  Not me) the flour, salt, and baking soda; set aside.

Cream toeghter the butter, sugar, peanut butter, and brown sugar until fluffy.  Beat in the egg, vanilla and milk.  Add the flour mixture; mix well. (I put dough into refrigerator to firm it up first before rolling into balls.)

Shape into 40 balls and place each ball into an ungreased MINI-MUFFIN PAN.

Bake in the preheated oven for about 8 minutes.  Remove from oven and immediately press a mini peanut butter cup into each ball.  Cool and carefully remove from the pan.  (It took at least a day for the chocolate to firm up in the cookies.  They look like little muffins versus cookies) Yield: 40 cookies.

(source: All Recipes Cookie Lover's Cookbook)

Pork Tenderloin with Provencal Herbs

We did not care for this recipe.  I've decided that thyme tastes like grass.

Cowboy Cookies III

We did not care for this recipe either.  Too sweet.  Too much sugar (2 whole cups). 

Straight to the garbage.