Springtime Desserts You’ll Love
RAINBOW POUND CAKE
Vi cup butter
3 cups sugar
'/: cup Cnsco
3 cups flour
'/: teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup milk
6 eggs
I teaspoon lemon flavoring
Blend butter, sugar, and Cns
co. Add flour, baking powder, va
nilla, milk, eggs, and lemon
flavoring.
Beat on high speed until mixed
well. The secret ot this cake is the
more vou beat, the better it is.
Grease and flour pan Put '/■ of
the dough in the baking pan. Di
vide the rest into 2 bowls Put red
food coloring in one and then
pour over yellow dough Put
green food coloring in other bow I
and pour over the top of the red
dough. Bake cake 1/4 hours at
350°.
Kelse} Morris
Viriginia Dain Maid
BUFFER PECAN
BANANA CAKE
Cake;
1 package Duncan Hines Moist
Deluxe Butter Recipe Gold
en cake mix
4 eggs
1 cup mashed ripe bananas
(about 3 medium)
V* cup vegetable oil
7i cup granulated sugar
'A cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
(may also add 1 teaspoon of
banana flavoring)
1 cup chopped pecans
Frosting:
1 cup coarsely chopped pecans
'A cup butter or margarine
1 container Duncan Hines sour
cream frosting
Preheat oven to 325°. Grease
and flour 10-inch Bundt or tube
pan. Combine cake mix, eggs, ba
nanas, oil, sugar, milk, and vanil
la (banana) extract in large mix
ing bowl. Beat at low speed with
electric mixer until moistened.
Beat at medium speed for 2 min
utes. Stir in 1 cup chopped pe
cans. Pour into prepared pan.
Bake 50 to 60 minutes or until
toothpick inserted in center
comes out clean. Cool in pan 25
minutes. Invert onto cooling
rack. Cool completely.
Place 1 cup coarsely chopped
pecans and butter in skillet. Cook
on medium heat, stirring until
pecans are toasted. Combine nut
mixture and frosting in small
bowl. Cool until spreading con
sistency. Frost cake.
Rosemary Liskey
Virginia Dairy Maid
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BANANA SPLIT CAKE
1 stick butter
2 cups crushed graham crack
ers
2 cups powdered sugar
2 eggs
2 sticks butter
4 bananas
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 pint Cool whip
1 can crushed pineapple
chopped walnuts
maraschino cherries
Melt butter and mix together
with graham crackers. Press into
a 9y 13-inch pan.
Beat together powdered sugar,
eggs, and buttei for 15 minutes.
Spicad on top ot graham crack
ers.
Slice bananas and place on top
of topping.
Drain crushed pineapple and
place on top of topping. Spread
cool whip on top of pineapple
Sprinkle with chopped nuts and
maraschino cherries. Keep refrig
erated.
Melissa Wolfe
Sun Area Dairy Princess
PRETZEL SALAD
2 2 A cups pretzels, nearly pul
verized (not soft or thick
pretzels)
'A cup sugar
1 stick melted butter
8 ounce package of softened
cream cheese
I cup sugar
8 ounce whipped topping
1 large box strawberry gelatin
2 cups boiling water
15. ounces frozen strawberries,
defrosted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix pretzels, the Vi cup sugar
and melted butter. Spread out in
8x 12-inch caserole dish and bake
for 10 minutes. Allow to cool.
Thoroughly cream softened
cream cheese and sugar. Beat in
whip cream. Gently spread over
the cooled pretzel crust and chill.
Add boiling water to gelatin.
Chill until it begins to thicken.
Stir in defrosted strawberries.
Pour over cheese layer and chill
until firm. Serves. 8.
Melissa Wolfe
Sun Area Dairy Princess
RHUBARB
UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE
5 cups fresh or frozen rhubarb
('/2-inch pieces), thawed
and drained
1 package (6 ounces) strawber
ry gelatin
'/: cup sugar
2 cups miniature marshmal
lows
1 package (18'/4 ounces) white
or yellow cake mix
Place rhubarb in a greased
13x9x2-inch baking pan. Sprin
kle with the gelatin, sugar, and
marshmallows.
Prepaie cake mix according to
package directions; pour batter
over marshmallows. Bake at 350"
for 50-55 minutes or until a
toothpick inserted near the center
comes out clean. Cool for 10 min
utes; invert cake onto a serving
plate. Serve with whipped top
ping if desired. Makes 10-12 serv
ings.
Vera Jane Ncwswanger
Morgantown
UiNCREDIBLE
KEYLIME PIE
5 egg yolks, beaten
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened
condensed milk
!/ ; cup key lime juice
1 9-mch prepared graham
cracker crust, unbaked
Preheat over to 350°,
Combine the egg yolks, sweet
ened condensed milk and lime
juice. Mix well with wire whisk.
Pour into prepared graham
cracker crust.
Bake in preheated over for 15
minutes. Allow to cool. Top with
homemade whipped cream and
garnish with lime slices if desired.
Julie Hoover
Douglasville
PINEAPPLE SQUARES
VA cups flour
X A teaspoon baking powder
'A teaspoon baking powder
Vi teaspoon salt
Vi pound butter
1 egg
1 cup sugar
Blend ingredients together
with a pastry blender as for pie
crust. Place half of crumbs in a
greased dripping pan, approxi
mately llxls-inch. Add filling
remaining. Crumbs on top. Bake
in 350° oven for 1 hour.
Filling:
Cook 1 large can crushed pine
apple with a cup of sugar and 3
tablespoons of com starch until
thick. Cool and spread in pan (if
using unsweeted pineapple, you
may want to add more sugar.
It is better when doubled. You
can also make this with any
flavor pie filling in a can (i.e.,
cherry, blueberry, etc.). Just
empty the filling into the pan on
top of the crumbs.
Josephine Matenus
Dallas
EARTHQUAKE CAKE
'A cup coconut
’/4 cup pecans
8 ounces cream cheese
1 stick margarine
1 pound box powdered sugar
1 box german chocolate cake
mix
Grease and flour 13x9-inch
cake pan. Spread in pan 'A cup
coconut and 'A cup pecans (or
any nuts).
Soften cream cheese and mar
garine. Mix together and add
powdered sugar and mix thor
oughly.
Mix cake-mix according to
package directions then pour
over nut mixture in cakepan. Put
cream cheese mixture on top by
teaspoons all over cake.
Bake at 350° for 45-50 min
utes. Cake will crack and be
shaky, but it will set up.
Rose Frazec
Friendsville, Md.
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Lemon Icebox Pie is easy and light, it adds just the
right touch to celebrate spring.
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Here’s a refreshing springtime recipe from Eagle Brand
Sweetened Condensed Milk. It requires 30 minutes to prepare
and three hours chill time before serving.
Make one 9-inch pie:
V/i cups vanilla wafer crumbs (about 40 wafers)
% cup butter, melted
Filling:
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
VA cups water, divided
14-ounce can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT
evaporated milk)
3-ounce package or 6 tablespoons presweetened lemonade
flavored drink crystals
Combine crumbs and butter; press firmly on bottom and up
side of 9-inch pie plate. Chill.
Meanwhile, in small saucepan, sprinkle gelatin over 'A cup
water; let stand 1 minute. Over low heat, stir until gelatin dis
solves; set aside.
In medium mixing bowl, combine sweetened condensed milk,
remaining IVi cups water and lemonade crystals; mix well. Stir
in gelatin mixture. Pour into prepared crust.
Chill at least 3 hours or until set. Garnish as desired. Refriger
ate leftovers.
DUMP CAKE
20 ounce can crushed pine
apple
1 can cherry pie filling
white or yellow cake mix
2 sticks oleo or butter
nuts
Dump 20 ounce can crushed
pineapple in pan. Dump 1 can
cherry pie filling in pan. Mix
them until blended together.
Sprinkle white or yellow cake
mix and cut 2 sticks oleo or but
ter over the filling. Sprinkle nuts
on top (or omit the nuts).
FLAKY PINEAPPLE
SQUARES
4 cups flour
1 pound butter or margarine
1 cup sour cream
I teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups drained crushed pine
apple
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
confectioners’ sugar
LEMON ICEBOX PIE
Cut butter or margarine into
flour with pastry blender or two
knives. Add sour cream and va
nilla. Mix well. Refrigerate for 2
hours.
Meanwhile, cook pineapple,
sugar, and cornstarch over medi
um heat. Be sure to stir the mix
ture constantly, until thick and
clear.
Preheat oven to 325°. Roll out
one-half of the dough and place
in the bottom of an ungreased
jelly roll pan. Add cooled filling
and spread over dough. Cover
with remaining rolled-out dough.
Bake at 325° for 55 minutes or
until squares are golden brown.
Sprinkle with confectioners’
sugar. Cut into 70 squares and
refrigerate if not used within a
short time.
Clair Long
York
Nancy Heuiitt
Red Oak, Va.