Open Face Sour Cream Apple Pie

• 2-3 large tart apples, peeled
• 1 cup sour cream
• three-fourths cup white sugar
• 2 Tablespoons flour (or 3 if the apples are really juicy)
• one-fourth teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg slightly beaten

Cut apples in slices about one-fourth inch thick, then cut each piece into thirds. Combine sour cream, sugar, flour, salt, vanilla and egg. Beat with electric mixer until sugar is dissolved. Mix the apples into this mixture. Spoon mixture into pastry lined pie pan. Bake in 400 degree oven for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and apply the brown sugar topping evenly over pie.

Brown Sugar Topping

• One-half cup brown sugar
• One-third cup flour
• One-fourth cup butter

Combine all ingredients. Cut in butter with fork until crumbly.

Continue to bake in oven for 20 minutes longer until top and crust are nicely browned.

Delicious with ice cream!

Fresh Apple Cake

Peel and dice 3 apples. Put one cup brown sugar and one cup white sugar and 2 tablespoons bourbon (optional – I didn’t have any) over them. Let stand for at least two hours. The longer it stands, the moister the cake ends up.

Add:

• 2 eggs 1 cup Crisco oil
• 3 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla pinch of salt
• one-half tsp. each: cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and allspice

stir well.

Add:

• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1 cup raisins

stir well and pour into a greased and floured bundt pan and bake at 325 degrees for approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

This cake is better and more moist if made a couple of days in advance. It also freezes very well.

Chocolate Cinnamon Sheet Cake

• Three-fourths cup shortening or oil
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• one-half cup buttermilk
• one-fourth cup cocoa mixed with one cup hot water
• 2 and one-half cups flour
• 1 tsp. soda
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Cream the oil and sugar. Add eggs. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with buttermilk and cocoa mixture. Add vanilla. Mix well. Bake in 11" x 15" cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Frosting:

• one-half cup softened butter
• one-fourth cup milk
• one-fourth cup cocoa
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• one-half tsp. of vanilla.

Mix well with electric mixer and spread on cooled cake.

Pumpkin Dump Cake

• 1 can pumpkin
• 1 can evaporated milk
• 2 eggs
• one-fourth cup white sugar
• one-fourth cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• one-half teaspoon cloves
• 1 box yellow cake mix
• one and a half sticks butter, melted
• Pecans, toasted
• Whipped cream

Mix together first seven ingredients and pour into a greased casserole dish.

Sprinkle yellow cake mix over the top. Drizzle the butter over the cake mix. Add the nuts.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes.

Serve with whipped cream. This "cake" has a bread pudding texture. Linda says, "This is so good and so easy that pumpkin pie is running a distant second around here. Everyone I share this with passes it on in the tradition of women everywhere who know a good (and easy!) thing when they see it.  -Linda"

Mint Brownies

1st layer

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 stick margarine
• 4 eggs
• 1 can Hershey’s Syrup (16 oz)
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• one-half tsp salt
• 1 cup flour

Mix together in the order above and beat for 2 minutes. Pour into a 9 x 13 pan and bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Cool.

2nd layer

• 1 stick melted butter or margarine
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tsp. peppermint extract
• 2 Tablespoons milk
• dash of green food coloring

Mix and spread over cooled brownies. Refrigerate until hard.

3rd layer

• melt together 6 tablespoons butter or margarine with 6 oz. chocolate chips
• Pour over top of mint layer and refrigerate until set.

Cut and serve and see the smiles!

FRUIT PIZZA

Use a large cookie sheet with edges.

CRUST:

• one-half cup powdered sugar
• three-fourths cup butter
• one and one-half cup flour

Mix and press into pan and bake at 350 degrees for 13 minutes.  Cool.

FILLING:

• 8 oz. cream cheese softened
• one tsp. vanilla
• one-half cup white sugar
• mix and spread on cooled crust

Arrange fresh fruit of your choice next.  Use slices of strawberries, bananas, apples, grapes, kiwi, pineapple, blueberries, etc.

GLAZE:

• one cup sugar
• three-fourths cup water
• one cup orange juice
• one-fourth cup lemon juice
• 3 Tablespoons cornstarch

Boil for one minute and cool to room temperature before pouring over fruit.  Refrigerate.