Anyone Have Great Holiday Recipes?

K.... this cake is good any time... it is very delicious and everyone will want the recipe for it... my sister has been making this for about 25 years... so yummy.

BLUE RIBBON CARROT CAKE
Ingredients
2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
3 eggs well beaten
3/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 (8 oz) can crushed & drained pineapple
2 cups grated carrots
1 (3 1/2 ounce) package of coconut
1 cup chopped pecans

Directions

Combine flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon
and set this flour mixture aside

Combine eggs, oil, buttermilk, sugar, and vanilla
beat until smooth

Stir in flour mixture, pineapple, carrots, coconut and pecans

Pour batter into two 9 inch round cake pans

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes
( test with toothpick to see if it is done)

Immediately spread the buttermilk glaze on cake
(allow the cake to cool in pan for 15 minutes)

Remove cake from the pan and allow cake to cool completely
********************************************************************
Buttermilk Glaze for carrot cake

1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda (Arm & Hammer)
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup butter
1 Tablespoon light corn syrup
1 tsp vanilla

Directions
Combine sugar, baking soda, buttermilk, butter, and corn syrup. Bring to a boil and cook for 6 to 10 minutes.

Remove from heat & then add vanilla

Immediately prick bread with toothpick &
pour half of buttermilk glaze over each cake and work it into the cake

Cream Cheese Frosting
Combine the following ingredients and mix thoroughly...spread on carrot cake

1/2 cup butter
1 eight ounce pkg of cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp orange rind
1 tablespoon of orange juice

If you have any great recipes to share ... please share them with me... I am E. at ____@____.com have a wonderful pumpkin roll.... oh it is so delicious too... same thing ...everyone wants her recipe.

One of my favorites to make (and it is easy) is Ritz peanut butter sandwiches dipped in Almond Bark. It is the best thing ever and now that Ritz make them already pre made it is even easier....... try it yourself first then let me know what you think

Try the food network, Paula Dean just did some cookies today and a very very easy candy that seemed to be really good, I am going to try them xmas. If you cant find it online, let me know and I will send you recipes I copied.
They are monster cookie, a choc wafer filled sugar cookie with pecans, a brownie cookie, and a choc marsh pecan candy. They all looked yum By the way, easy too, I am no martha either.

The monster was oats, m&ms, choc chips, pecans, peanut butter and drop on sheet and bake with butter sug etc , the candy was like a 10min thing and all simple

At a recent MOPS meeting someone brought a Cranberry Salsa that was wonderful. I'm going to make it for our Christmas Eve supper. Here's the recipe:

CRANBERRY SALSA

12 oz. cranberries (1 bag)
1 Granny Smith apple, peeled and cored
half large red bell pepper, seeds removed
half large red onion
3 Tablespoons fresh cilantro
2 Tablespoons pickled japapeno peppers
half cup sugar
half cup apple juice
half teaspoon lime zest

Place cranberries, apple, bell pepper, onion, cilantro and jalapenos in a food processor. Pulse until chopped. Add in remaining ingredients and stir well. Cover and refrigerate at least one hour. Best if refrigerated over night before serving. Serve with chips or toasted pita bread. Muy bueno!

My mother and I always used to make Christmas trays when I was a kid, she gave to our teachers, family, any and everybody. She always did a variety of things such as, raw apple cake, banana nut bread, fudge, peanut brittle(I can't make this it is too difficult for me), she would dip raisins, nuts, and pretzels in white and dark melted chocolates, divinity(also hard to make), pumpkin roll(my favorite!!), and sometimes Christmas cookies. If there is anything above you would like recipes to let me know and I'll e-mail them. I am going to try this for myself for the first time this year, I will begin baking this weekend. Most of this stuff is very easy to make and if you make all of it in 1-2 days you can make a ton of gift trays. I found a recipe for Cream Cheese Sugar cookies this year and can't wait to try it out. I don't know of any perfect websites for recipes, there are so many. All of the above recipes come from the women in my family passing down through the generations, so they have been perfected. Anyway, good luck finding stuff and again if you want specific recipes to the above mentioned candies and cakes let me know and I'll e-mail them.
C.

Hi K.,

I began looking for some great easy and just plain good cookie recipes off the internet and couldn't find a thing! Then, I found the www.landolakes.com website and it had some awesome cookie recipes! Some were detailed and other very simple. I have a cookie exchange party this Friday and wanted something different and I found it on this site!

It is great for ideas!

G. B.