Sour Cream Pound Cake

3 c. sugar
1/2 lb. butter (two sticks)
1/2 pint (8 oz.) sour cream
3 c. flour
1/2 t. baking soda
6 eggs
1 t. vanilla

Have all ingredients at room temperature (no substitutions). Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Spray a bundt pan with Baker's Joy or equivalent. Cream butter, sugar, and sour cream together. Add flour sifted with soda alternately with eggs. Add vanilla. Turn into bundt pan and bake for 1 1/2 hours. Cool and invert on cake plate. Enjoy

Chicken Enchiladas

Cooked chicken, shredded - I buy boneless chicken breasts, cut them into chunks and boil them in my home made stock.
Save the stock, freeze it and use it again and again.
Onion, chopped into small pieces
Mexican 4 cheese mix, grated
Chopped green Chile - not tomatillas
Corn tortillas
Pan of hot oil; quickly, using tongs, put a tortilla into the oil and flip it over quickly, drain on kitchen towel. Repeat with all tortillas.
Now, you can either layer the ingredients in baking dish like lasagna, or put a little of each ingredient on an individual tortilla and roll the tortilla up and then place it in the baking dish "loose" edge down. If you use this last method, you'll need to pack them together closely to help stop them unrolling.
Sprinkle any left over ingredients on top.
Finish of by pouring enchilada sauce over the top - we like to use 1 can of green and 1 of red. Smother with grated cheese and bake at 350 for about 50 minutes.
Serve with with a dollop of crema Mexicana or sour cream on each portion.

by: Erica en Nuevo Mexico

Apple Sauce Cake

1/2 cup Crisco shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 cups sweetened applesauce(thick)
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup seedless raisins(opt.)
1 cup chopped nuts(opt.)
2 tablespoons hot water
Cream shortening and sugar. Add egg. Beat well. Add raisins,(after you wash them in hot water,applesauce,vanilla,and nuts.Mix well. Add dry ingredients which has been sifted together.Last add soda dissolved in hot water.Pour in 9x12 cake pan,bake at 350* for 25-30 minutes.You can also make these into cup cakes. Frost with cream cheese frosting.This cake is very moist. I have been making this for 30 years. Its great!

by: sandymn

Rum and Cranberry Bundt Cake

For those who don't have rum, I would think a tablespoon or two of rum
extract would work.



2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup dark rum or 2 tablespoons of rum extract and enough water to
make 1/3 cup
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 unsweetened applesauce
1 cup dried cranberries
3 tbls butter, melted
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tbls dark rum or extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray bundt pan with Pam. In a medium bowl,
combine flour, baking soda, salt cinnamon and allspice. In a large
mixing bowl, cream 1/2 cup butter, white sugar and 3/4 brown sugar.

Mix in eggs, 1/3 cup rum and vanilla. Mix in flour mixture in three
additions alternately with applesauce, ending with flour. Stir in dried
cranberries.

Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven for 45 - 55
minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool cake in pan
for 15 mins and remove from pan. Cool on wire rack.

Glaze:
In small pan, melt butter. Stir in brown sugar and powdered sugar and 2
tbs rum. Heat until smooth. If mixture is too thick thin with water or
rum. Drizzle over cake.

by Sandrajean

Spanish Bar Cake

2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon cocoa
1 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/4teaspoon salt
1 1/4teaspoon nutmeg
1 1/4teaspoon allspice

Add
1/2 cup oil
2 cups applesauce
2 eggs
1 cup raisins

For Frosting
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
4 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
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For cake
1. Mix first 8 ingredients together in an electric mixer; mix well.
2. Add next 3 ingredients.
3. Raisins should be added last.
4. Bake at 350 degrees F in 9x13 inch pan for 30-35 minutes or a tube
pan 40-45 minutes.
5. Cool Thoroughly and frost if desired.

For Frosting:
Combine frosting ingredients in bowl and beat well, adding more milk or
confectioners' sugar to make it smooth and easy to spread


by: Sandrajean

Amazin Raisin Cake

Ingredients
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup milk
2 eggs
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon clove
3 cups apples, peeled and chopped
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup walnuts

Directions
1 Grease & flour 2 (9") round pans.
2 In a large bowl with mixer at low speed, beat first 10 ingredients for 2 minutes.
3 Stir in apples, raisins& nuts by hand.
4 It will be very stiff.
5 Pour into pans.
6 Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
7 Let cool
8 Frost with cream cheese frosting.

by: sandrajean

Pumpkin Bars

* Cake
* 4 eggs
* 1 c. vegetable oil
* 2 c. sugar
* 1 tsp. vanilla
* 2 c. pumpkin
* 2 c. flour
* 1 tsp. baking soda
* 1 tsp. salt
* 1 tsp. cinnamon

Mix dry ingredients together, then add the other ingredients and mix well. Pour into an 11" x 17" pan. Bake at 350° for 20 - 25 minutes.

* Frosting
* One-half cup margarine
* 3 oz. cream cheese
* 2 c. powdered sugar
* 1 tsp. vanilla or almond flavoring

Mix together until creamy. Frost bars and sprinkle with nuts if desired.