good enough to eat

I am so making this for book club in July along with mojitos. Your welcome.

the best chocolate bikini (zucchini) cake

This is one of my all time favorite cakes my Grandma used to make.

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup oil
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup sour milk
2 cups grated zucchini

combine wet ingredients

combine dry ingredients

2 1/2 cups flour
4 tbsp cocoa
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1/4 cup chocolate chips
add dry ingredients to wet combine until moistened. Pour into 9x13 or 2 8x8 greased cake pans. Bake 325 degrees 30-45 minutes until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

rhubarb muffins

rhubarb muffins
1 cup fat free sour cream or plain yogurt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs
2 2/3 cups flour
2 cups diced rhubarb
1 1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

brown sugar cinnamon topping
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1 tsp cinnamon
4 tsp melted butter

muffins: blend together sour cream, oil, and eggs. set aside. in another bowl, stir remaining ingredients together and combine with sour cream mixture. mix just until moistened. fill muffin tins 2/3 full

topping: combine all ingredients and spoon onto each muffin. bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.
*or make in 8x8 cake pan for rhubarb cake

apple dumplings

This is the perfect fall dessert comfort food. Strange ingredients but delicious!???mountain dew??? Click on the link!Our Best Bites

Blueberry Tart Recipe

Blueberry Tart Recipe
My new favorite fresh blueberry dessert. Very easy, very yummy. That's my style.(photo from Real Simple)

Strawberries and Cream Cupcakes

Dale: This is the best cupcake I've ever tasted.
They really are good and different from any cupcake I've had. I now understand how they can have cupcake bakeries. After reading 'Pinkalicious' yesterday the kids wanted to make pink cupcakes. We had some strawberries from our garden and then I checked one of my favorite food blogs and found this yummy recipe. I didn't have cake flour so the cake part was a little heavier than it should be but it's still "the best cupcake I've ever tasted." Make sure to make the frosting that goes with the recipe. It sounds strange to cook milk and flour and make icing with it but it's really good and not too sweet! Our Best Bites: Strawberries and Cream Cupcakes.

carrot cake

This is the recipe I ripped off from Martha Stewart. My twist was putting it into a bundt pan instead of 2- 8 inch cake pans. Aren't I original?

Ingredients

Butter, for pans
4 medium carrots
1 cup golden raisins
1 cup walnut pieces
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
Juice and zest of 1 lemon
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground allspice
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs
Directions
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter cake pan and dust with flour. Grate carrots; measure 2 cups, and transfer to medium bowl. Add raisins, walnuts, applesauce, and lemon juice and zest to carrots.
In a separate mixer bowl add flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and allspice; pulse to mix. With motor running, pour in oil and eggs; process until smooth, scraping sides. Add carrot mixture; pulse. Pour into pans; bake about 50 minutes, until tester inserted in middle comes out clean.
Cool in pan on rack for 20 minutes. Remove; cool completely, right side up.
Frost with your favorite cream cheese frosting recipe and sprinkle with chopped nuts and brown sugar.

fruit pizza cookies

1 package of pre made sugar cookie dough
8 oz package of cream cheese at room temperature
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond extract or 1 tbsp of orange juice (optional)
assorted cut fruit (kiwi, blueberries, nectarine, strawberries, raspberries, mandarin oranges etc)

slice cookie dough into 1/4 inch slices, bake at 350 degree oven for 10 minutes or until lightly browned, remove from oven and cool.
beat cream cheese, sugar and extracts until well mixed
when cookies are cooled, spread with cream cheese mixture and top with fruit!

easy rhubarb upside down cake

My mother in law made this cake one time when we were visiting and I love how easy it is to make and how yummy it tastes!

1 box of yellow cake mix
1 small box of red jello (raspberry, cherry, or strawberry)
2 cups rhubarb, sliced
sprinkle cinnamon

sprinkle bottom of 9x13 pan with rhubarb, next sprinkle dry jello powder over rhubarb, sprinkle cinnamon over next.
make yellow cake mix according to package directions, pour batter over rhubarb jello combo, bake approx 40 minutes in 350 degree oven until cake is cooked through. when cooled, cut into squares and flip over cake piece upside down to serve!