I'm always looking for quick and easy recipes that taste like you spent a lot of time on them. This is one of those recipes! You'll love how simple it is. It's my husband's favorite cookie. Enjoy!
Chewy Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees. Makes 3 dozen, 3" cookies.
Mix together:
1 Chocolate cake mix of your choice
1/4 C. packed brown sugar
Add the following ingredients and stir until it forms a thick batter
2 Eggs
1/2 C. Melted butter or margarine (melt in microwave)
Fold-in the following ingredients:
1 C. Semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 C. Chopped walnuts or pecans
Drop by teaspoon onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake at 375 degrees: 10 minutes for chewy cookies or leave in a few minutes longer for crispy cookies. Cool and store in air-tight container.
Chewy Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees. Makes 3 dozen, 3" cookies.
Mix together:
1 Chocolate cake mix of your choice
1/4 C. packed brown sugar
Add the following ingredients and stir until it forms a thick batter
2 Eggs
1/2 C. Melted butter or margarine (melt in microwave)
Fold-in the following ingredients:
1 C. Semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 C. Chopped walnuts or pecans
Drop by teaspoon onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake at 375 degrees: 10 minutes for chewy cookies or leave in a few minutes longer for crispy cookies. Cool and store in air-tight container.
Date Pudding is Craig's favorite recipe from his late Grandma Alma Henkener. I've been making it for my family for more than 30 years. Grandma's family came from Germany, so we are reasonably sure of it's origin. Date Pudding is a very different type of dessert. It really has nothing to do with the making of pudding! It is more like crusty nut bread, broken into pieces, and gently folding whipped cream into it. That's pretty close! Hope you enjoy!
Date Pudding
Set oven rack at middle level and preheat to 325 degrees.
8" x 8" ungreased baking pan. (Double this recipe for 9" x 13" cake pan.)
Ingredients:
1 C. Granular Sugar 1 C. Walnuts 1 C. Cut Up Dates
1 C. Flour 2 Eggs 1 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Vanilla 4 Tbl. Water Pinch of Salt
Blend well. Bake in slow oven for one hour. Cool completely. Break into small pieces and place into large bowl. Whip 1/2 pint of whipped cream or use 1 - 8 oz. container of Cool Whip. Slowly and gently fold the cream into the broken pieces. Chill for 1/2 hour and serve. Serves 8.
15/09: Hamburger Cake
Here's a really cute idea I saw on Fox and Friends one morning a few months ago. It's a cake made to look like a giant hamburger sandwich. Angie & I put this together for Father's Day. It was the hit of the party!
Here are a list of ingredients and most of the tools you will need:
1 Box Any Yellow or Lemon Cake Mix and ingredients to bake it.
1 Box Any Brownie Mix and ingredients to bake it.
1 Large container of Vanilla Cool Whip
1 Qt. Sliced strawberries
4 Sliced Kiwi
1 Long wood kabob stick, round pizza pan, paring knife, and large spoon.
2 - 11" Round Wilton Cake Pans
How to make it:
Bake the cake according to directions and cool Wash one of the pans and bake the brownie mix in it and cool.
Wash and peel all of the Kiwi and slice 3 of them to make the pickles. Cut a hole through the middle of the last one, simulating an olive. Fill the hole with a small strawberry. Wash and slice all the strawberries to make the tomatoes. Place one layer of cake on the bottom of the pizza pan (flat side down) and cover it with a thick layer of Cool Whip. Cover the topping with sliced kiwi, letting the outer ones hang over the edge, slightly. Add the brownie layer and repeat the Cool Whip on top. This time add the sliced strawberries, leaving them hang over the edge a little. Add the top layer of cake, push the kabob stick through the "olive", and push it into the top-center of the cake. Serve with a smile....and a really big cake knife! Enjoy!
Give me some feedback! If you make this for your family, I'd love to hear about the reactions. Or let me know if you have a variation to this recipe. Would you like to have a recipe added to this section of the blog, please send instructions along with a good photo to: info@henkenerlogcabin.com.
Here are a list of ingredients and most of the tools you will need:
1 Box Any Yellow or Lemon Cake Mix and ingredients to bake it.
1 Box Any Brownie Mix and ingredients to bake it.
1 Large container of Vanilla Cool Whip
1 Qt. Sliced strawberries
4 Sliced Kiwi
1 Long wood kabob stick, round pizza pan, paring knife, and large spoon.
2 - 11" Round Wilton Cake Pans
How to make it:
Bake the cake according to directions and cool Wash one of the pans and bake the brownie mix in it and cool.
Wash and peel all of the Kiwi and slice 3 of them to make the pickles. Cut a hole through the middle of the last one, simulating an olive. Fill the hole with a small strawberry. Wash and slice all the strawberries to make the tomatoes. Place one layer of cake on the bottom of the pizza pan (flat side down) and cover it with a thick layer of Cool Whip. Cover the topping with sliced kiwi, letting the outer ones hang over the edge, slightly. Add the brownie layer and repeat the Cool Whip on top. This time add the sliced strawberries, leaving them hang over the edge a little. Add the top layer of cake, push the kabob stick through the "olive", and push it into the top-center of the cake. Serve with a smile....and a really big cake knife! Enjoy!
Give me some feedback! If you make this for your family, I'd love to hear about the reactions. Or let me know if you have a variation to this recipe. Would you like to have a recipe added to this section of the blog, please send instructions along with a good photo to: info@henkenerlogcabin.com.