Fast and Easy Christmas Yule Log Cake - Country Recipes Style

A Yule log is a traditional cake that was made for many years for the Christmas holiday. Christmas cakes can look incredible and do not have to be the kind of cake that takes hours and hours to create. It can still be beautiful for your guests and reflect credit on you. Get quick and easy access to dozens of name brand.

There is a quick way to make a Yule cake using this delectable sponge cake recipe that has been adapted from an old Pennsylvania Dutch cake recipe, then spreading the inside with whipped topping which has been whipped with one quarter cup of unsweetened cocoa.

SPONGE CAKE
* 3 eggs
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 cup flour
* ½ tsp. salt
* 1 tsp. Baking powder
* 3 tblsp. Warm water
* 1 tsp. lemon juice

Beat the eggs until thick and creamy: Add sifted sugar and beat well. Add water and lemon juice Christmas Yule LogCake Country Recipes Style and beat once more. Sift the flour, Country Recipes Style add salt and leaven and sift once more. Mix dry ingredients with the egg mixture, to a small degree at a time, folding in gently. When well mixed, pour into an unlubricated pan and Country Recipes Style with center tube. Bake in moderate oven (350-f) for 50 minutes. Remove from oven and hang till cool. There are two ways you may bake and handle this cake. You may bake it traditionally, then cut it in half and fill it, then frost the top. Alternatively, you may turn it into a Yule log, which we have also given directions for below.

For the Traditional cake: Take away it from the pan and cut the cake in half, lay the top half aside. Spread the cake with fruit pie filling in the flavor of your choice or with chocolate whipped cream. Garnish with chocolate curls or other garnish of your choice.

For a Yule Log cake: To make the yule log from this cake, lay parchment paper on a baking sheet and bake it in this fashion. Cranberry Thanksgiving Tea, Remove from oven and roll the cake up, Unroll when cool, very gently and remove the parchment, and spread with flavored whipped topping. Roll it back together again and dust with sifted cocoa or powdered sugar, or frost with additional whipped topping. Top with chocolate curls, crushed mint candy or the garnish of your choice to make it look festive and seasonal.

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Easy Blueberry Muffins - Country Recipes Style

Perfect for a holiday or a weekend breakfast, blueberry muffins are one of those things that no one can resist. These make great coffee break foods as well, and if you’re looking for a fast coffee cake, you can use it in a square 8×8 or 9×9 pan and add a bit of stressful to dress it up just a bit.

Coffee cake recipes or blueberry muffin recipes make great gifts. Dress it up in a tin and offer it for Christmas, adding all of the dry ingredients to a jar with a pretty topper, then add a recipe card to the mixture to get a great canning jar gift. For this one you can substitute dried apricots, fresh apples, or other ingredients instead of blueberries get the taste that you want for breakfast.

To Make Blueberry muffins you will need:
* 1/2cup butter
* ¾ cup sugar
* 1 egg, beaten lightly
* 1 cup milk
* 2 level cups flour
* 4 level teaspoons baking powder
* ½ teaspoon salt
* 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

How To make Blueberry Muffins, Cream butter Country Recipes Style and sugar along Country Recipes Style. Add the egg and beat slightly by hand on Country Recipes Style. Add lueberries. Sift the flour and leavening along Country Recipes Style and add the milk to the mixture. Easy Blueberry Muffins make Country Recipes Style Gently fold the milk and flour mixture into the blueberry Country Recipes Style easy Muffins and egg mixture fastidiously, taking it slowly to forestall breaking the blueberries in Country Recipes Style. Bake at 375 degrees for about 15-18 minutes in quick bread tins, or if you produce a coffee cake Country Recipes Style, bake at a similar temperature for regarding half-hour.

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Chocolate Cake - Country Recipes Style

Looked high and low to find a good chocolate cake recipe and one that is also a country old-fashioned type one. The recipe coming up has been called rich, real and devil’s food cake. I chose this one since it is an easy recipe to follow and does not require all types of utensils. Why not try your hand at this sometime soon?

devil cake Ingredients you will need:
1.      Two and ¼ cups of flour.
2.      Two and ½ teaspoonfuls of baking soda.
3.      ½ teaspoonful of salt.
4.      ½ cup of butter or light butter.
5.      Two and ½ cups of firmly packed brown sugar.
6.      Three eggs.
7.      Three or four 1-ounce squares of unsweetened chocolate.
8.      ½ cup of buttermilk.
9.      Three teaspoonfuls of vanilla extract.
10.   One cup of boiling water. *Important for its moistness.*

Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 350F or 375F.
2. Grease the bottoms and sides of three 8″ cake pans the sprinkle with flour.
3. Beginning working the butter in a bowl with your clean hands until it is soft and fluffy.
4. Add the sugar and then the unbeaten eggs one at a time.
5. Beat the cake batter hard after the addition of each egg.
6. Place the chocolate into a measuring cup and melt over boiling water.  When it’s melted, mix it in with the rest of the batter.
7. Add 1/3 of the flour into the batter and ½ of the buttermilk and stir gently and repeat.
8. Add in the vanilla extract and boiling water.
9. It’s time to pour the batter into the cake pans and don’t be alarmed at the batter’s thinness.
10. Bake for twenty five to thirty minutes.
11. Remove from oven and turn cakes gently upside down onto a cooling rack.
12. When it has cooled down you can then add the frosting.

You can choose to make your own frosting or go with one of your favorites at your grocery store. If you would like to try your hand at making your own frosting there are just a few more ingredients you will need.

Ingredients for making your own chocolate frosting:
1. One and ½ cups of heavy cream.
2. ¼ cup of sugar (regular or powdered.)
3. Two to three tablespoons of cocoa.
4. One teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Mix all of the above ingredients in a bowl then sit the bowl of frosting in your refrigerator for a minimum of two hours.  Beat until it holds its shape. You can whip this with an old-fashioned hand mixer for about ten to fifteen minutes and you will get a nice little workout in for your arms. Remember not to frost your cake until it has thoroughly cooled unless you want a crumbled messy cake.

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Cheesy Green Bean Casserole - Country Recipes Style

A new twist on an old favorite, green bean casserole is one of the favorite Thanksgiving day side dishes. We’ve taken the old favorite and changed it just slightly. Cheese goes great with anything at all but with green beans, cheese is a total hit.

Try using a different kind of green bean casserole this Thanksgiving day and see if it doesn’t become a new family favorite. We love our cheesy green beancasserole and those new french fried onions with cheese are a perfect combination of the cheesy flavor. Our Green Bean casserole with a twist is remarkable and as easy to make as the original.

To Make Cheesy Green Bean Casserole You Will Need
3 can french cut green beans
6 slices of Kraft Deluxe American Cheese
1 can Campbells  Cream of Chicken Soup
1 small can french fried onion rings with cheese.

To Make the casserole: Drain the green beans and empty into an oven save casserole dish,  crush one half of the can of french friend onions and mix them into the green beans. Stir one half can water and one full can of cream of chicken soup together and pour over the green bean mixture, stirring lightly to avoid breaking your green beans. Tear the cheese into strips and mix into the casserole. Top with the remaining french fried onions. Bake at 350 for approximately 25 minutes Country Recipes Style or until heated through Country Recipes Style and bubbling and the cheese has melted CountryRecipes Style.

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Country Recipes - Stack Cake

The stack cake is one of those country recipes with a long history. It dates back to the early pioneer days in fact. It is said that one of these pioneers, James Harrods, who founded the city of Harrodsburg, Kentucky had the recipe for stack cake with him as he traversed to Kentucky. That is at least how the story is told.

Dried Apple Stack Cake Ingredients:
1/2 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of shortening
1 well-beaten egg
1/2 cup of buttermilk
1/3 cup of sweet sorghum molasses
3 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon of ground ginger
1 teaspoon of vanilla

Stack Cake Dried apples cooked:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. cream the sugar and shortening together, beat one egg and add it along with the buttermilk and molasses, then mix thoroughly. In a separate bowl sift soda, flour, ginger and salt together. Dig a hole in the middle of the dry ingredients and slowly add the creamed mixture and stir until blended thoroughly. Stir in vanilla and then roll this dough out, similar to what you do piecrust, in a 9-inch pan. This recipe will make 7 layers all total. Bake at 350 for about 10 - 12 minutes until slightly brown. After they are cool stack the layers with the cooked dried apples in between and on top layer too. Sprinkle the finished cake with powdered sugar. It is best when made 24 hours ahead and refrigerated. Slice thin to serve.

Stack Cake Cooked Dried Apples:

Cover 1 pound of dried apples with cold water. Cook until they are tender enough for you to mash. You might have to add water throughout the cooking process so not sticking will occur. Mix in 1 cup each of brown and white sugar, 1 teaspoon of allspice, 1/4 teaspoon of cloves, and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon with the mashed dried apples still hot.

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