A dense moist cake with the slight tang of buttermilk topped by decadent fudgy frosting, Chocolate Buttermilk Sheet Cake is also quick and easy to make and feeds a crowd. Perfect qualifications for contribution to a potluck dinner. Like our recent family reunion. We are usually a creamy concoction and all kinds of pie for dessert bunch. I wanted something a little different and definitely chocolate. I remembered a big sheet cake that was a signature contribution to Ohio church potlucks and went looking for a recipe. In my mother in laws handwritten file was this chocolate sensation. Bonus – delicious, plus quick and easy to make!! Like most baking projects, this one goes faster if you gather all the ingredients in one spot before starting. Dairy products are available in so ... [Read More]
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Chocolate Andes Mint Cookie Mix — Gift in a Jar
Four ingredients -- two for the cookie mix and two more for the cookies. How easy is that?? Chocolate Andes Mint Cookie Mix goes together in a flash and is super delicious, too. You'll want to make the mix for everyone -- and yourself too! Use a wide mouth quart jar. Add one box chocolate cake mix -- any kind. I used a devil's food mix that I had stocked piled when cake mixes were on sale. Pour the mix gently into the jar. Add a heaping 3/4 cup of Andes Mint Chips. Add lid. Print Chocolate Andes Mint Cookie Mix Tags Add tag and decorate jar to your heart's content. To make cookies, follow the simple directions. Chilling the dough makes it easier to handle, especially if you are forming the cookies by hand. I used a cookie scoop to measure and place cookies on the baking ... [Read More]
Hot Chocolate Mix
This is a basic hot chocolate mix. I always make the first batch of the season as soon as the temperature drops so we are ready for the cold weather. Hot chocolate is also Christmas Eve tradition at our house. An early supper – a lighter meal than dinner – is always planned. Afterwards there is a Christmas Eve play or service to attend. Then back home, still in our finery, we light the tree and some candles in the living room. Bytes and his brother used to beg to open “just one present tonight” and then got to choose which one. They don’t do that anymore. (Although secretly, I think, they still want to!) Mostly we just relax and talk with Christmas music in the background. With hot chocolate in the Christmas mugs, of course. It's a ritual all ages can appreciate! If the ... [Read More]
Loaded Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake with Chocolate Ganache
Meet the birthday Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake with Chocolate Ganache! ‘Tis birthday season at our house. Bytes has a birthday at the end of March and Bytes Big Brother (the short one) has his birthday in the first half of April. They had the same due date, too – neither one was on time! Birthday celebrations are a little more challenging since they outgrew the pirate and Star Wars themes – although new Star Wars movies are still a big priority! Celebrations are an important part of life. But birthday cakes or themes don’t have to be the star of the day. The Loaded Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake with Chocolate Ganache is a perfect celebration in a pan. This recipe goes together just like a chocolate chip cookie. It has wonderful flavor – not too sweet – and a nice smooth ... [Read More]
No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Bytes decided he was in the mood for Grandma Call’s No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies. Deep chocolate flavor, textured with oats and coconut, those cookies were a favorite of his. And of Grandma’s thirteen other grandkids who wandered through her kitchen. She always had some goodie tucked away for their visits and this was a frequent flier! When the clink of the cookie jar lid was heard from the kitchen, it was usually a taller grandchild helping themselves and a cousin. Too close to dinnertime and Grandma would peer around the corner into the kitchen and warn the red handed cookie holder that mealtime was imminent. But if timed right, she would pretend she didn’t hear a thing and the pilferer was home free. For one of her birthdays, the family compiled a book of Grandma’s ... [Read More]
Fabulous Fudge – 5 minutes, 3 ingredients to make THE Best gift fudge ever!
Fabulous Fudge is so easy to make it's almost embarrassing. This quick and easy recipe came to me literally on a plate. A plate with three kinds of fudge dreams to delight the tastebuds. And, such a sweet friend, she included the basic recipe! Make it once and it will become your signature gift, too. The directions started "Line an 8×8 pan with waxed paper, covering the bottom and up the sides. Do NOT skip this step or you’ll be sorry!!!!" No, she didn't mean armed thugs show up at your door threatening to break your legs. It’s just that the fudge will come out of the pan in messy spoonfuls instead of beautiful, giftable squares. I've started using non-stick aluminum foil instead of the waxed paper. Releases the fudge well and is stronger for lifting out of the pan to the ... [Read More]
