Hello there, My name is Rolla and I am very glad you’ve stopped by to read my cooking blog. It looks like nowadays not many people have time and/or mood to cook food at home. And I think, even less of them are actually enjoying the process of making home food, they probably think: making food is hard or boring. So I really hope you will find recipes posted here useful, tasty and fun to prepare, and you will actually enjoy cooking them.

Italian Christmas Cookies




















4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 tsp. vanilla
3 1/2 cup flour
4 tsp. baking powder

Sift dry ingredients. Cream butter and sugar, beat in eggs; add vanilla and dry ingredients.

Knead and add flour as needed to keep dough from sticking to hands. Pinch off dough, roll in your hands to form a log and then twirl into shape. Place on greased cookie sheets. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes.

Icing
2 cup sifted confectioner’s sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
6 tsp. water
Stir until creamy

Dip cookies into icing and sprinkle with trim. Place on wire rack with wax paper on counter to collect the dripping icing and sprinkles 

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Pig Pickin' Cake


















ingredients: 

1 pkg yellow cake mix
11 oz can(s) mandarin oranges, undrained
1 stick butter, melted
1/4 c vegetable oil
4 large eggs
1 - 8 oz can(s) crushed pineapple (juice used for cake and pineapple used for frosting)
12 oz whipped topping, thawed
3.4 oz box of instant french vanilla or pistachio pudding (i use the french vanilla)
1 - 1 1/2 c shredded coconut

How to Make It
PREHEAT oven to 350; grease and our
pans.
Mix all cake ingredients except pineapple juice on medium for about 3 minutes. This will cause the
oranges to break up.
Pour into 2 - 9” round cake pans. Bake about 25 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean. Cool for
10 minutes.
While the cake is still warm, poke holes all over and drizzle with reserved pineapple juice.
Mix frosting ingredients well, making sure they are well combined and the pudding mix has dissolved.
Frost cake after it has completely cooled.



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The Original "Easiest Pineapple Cake"























Ingredients

2 c all purpose flour 
2 c sugar 
2 eggs 
1 tsp baking soda 
1 tsp vanilla 
pinch salt 
1 - 20 oz can of crushed pineapple ( undrained ) in it's own juice - not syrup 
1 c chopped nuts, optional 
CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
1/2 c butter or 1 stick 
1 - 8 oz cream cheese, softened 
1 tsp vanilla 
1 1/2 c confectioners' sugar 
coconut for garnish - optional 

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degree F.
Mix all of the cake ingredients together in a bowl. 
Pour into a greased 9X13 inch pan and bake at 350 for 35 - 40 minutes (until top is golden brown).
Frosting:
Beat butter, cream cheese and vanilla together until creamy. 
Gradually mix in powdered sugar.
Frost cake with cream cheese frosting while still warm. 
Sprinkle with chopped nuts if desired.
Enjoy!

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Blue Velvet Cake




















Ingredients
½ cup Crisco
1 ½ cups sugar
2 eggs
1 ounce royal blue gel paste food color
2 drops violet gel paste food color
2 tablespoons cocoa
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 scant teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon soda
1 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon vinegar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease and flour 3 8-inch round cake pans.
Cream together Crisco, sugar and eggs.
Make a paste of food coloring and cocoa and add to mixture.
Add salt and flour with buttermilk and vanilla.
Alternately add soda and vinegar; just blend, don’t beat hard.
Bake 25 minutes.
Cool cake thoroughly before frosting.




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Chocolate Pound Cake with Caramel Frosting




















Chocolate Pound Cake
Cream thoroughly: 3 sticks butter, 3 cups sugar
Add: 6 eggs, 1 tsp. vanilla
Sift together: 3 cups flour, ½ tsp. baking powder, ½ cup cocoa, ½ tsp. salt
Add sifted ingredients alternately with 1 ¼ cups milk to creamed mixture.
Bake 350 for an hour. Try not to overbake… if anything, slightly underbake, if possible!
Frost with Quick Caramel Frosting from The Cake Mix Doctor (tinted with orange food color, opt.). Garnish with pecan halves. 

How to make the caramel Icing : 
Quick Caramel Icing
1 stick butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup whole milk
2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Place butter and brown sugar in medium-size heavy saucepan over medium heat. Stori and cook until the mixture comes to a boil, about 2 minutes. Add the milk, stir, and bring mixture back to boil, then remove pan from heat. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla. Beat with wooden spoon or electric mixer to make it especially smooth. Use immediately (while still warm) to frost cake, or else it will harden. If it does harden while you are frosting cake, simply place the pan back over low heat and stir until the frosting softens up.


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3-Ingredient Cream Cheese Biscuits






















Ingredients:
8 ounces full fat cream cheese, softened
⅔ cup butter, softened
1 cup self-rising flour*, plus more for dusting
*To make your own self-rising flour whisk 1 cup of flour with 1 + ½ teaspoons baking powder plus ¼ teaspoon salt.

Instructions:
Pulse together the cream cheese, butter and flour in a food processor until combined, about 10 pulses, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl halfway through.
Turn out onto a piece of lightly floured parchment paper and pat it into a disc. Refrigerate 1 hour.
Place an oven rack on the highest rung and preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Sprinkle a work surface with flour, unwrap the dough and sprinkle the top and a rolling pin lightly with flour.
Roll out to ½-inch thick and cut with a 1 + ¼-inch thick biscuit cooker. Place them on the baking sheet about an inch apart.
Stick the scraps together and make more biscuits. If you can’t fit them all on the baking sheet refrigerate and bake them in turns.
Bake about 14 minutes on the top rack until golden and puffed, rotating the pan halfway through. You can brush the tops with melted butter if you like.
They’re best eaten fresh and warm!


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