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  • Hershey’s Vanilla Chip Fruit Tart

    Crust
    ¾ cup butter or margarine
    ½ cup confectioners sugar
    1 ½ cup flour

    Heat oven to 300 degrees.  Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  Blend in flour.  Press into bottom of 12’ round pan.  Bake 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned.  Cool

    Vanilla Filling
    1 2/3 cup Hershey’s vanilla chips
    1/8 cup cream
    1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese

    Assorted fruit
    ¼ cup sugar
    1 tablespoon cornstarch
    ½ cup pineapple juice
    ½ teaspoon lemon juice

    Mix vanilla chip and whipping cream in a microwave safe bolw; heat until smooth and creamy; beat in cream cheese.  Spread on cooled crust and refrigerate while preparing fruit.  Arrange fruit on cooled filling.

    Fruit Topping
    ¼ cup sugar
    1 tablespoon cornstarch
    ½ cup pineapple juice
    ½ teaspoon lemon juice

    Heat sugar, cornstarch and juices in a sauce pan until thickened.  Cool and spread over fruit.

  • Snow Ice Cream (you use real snow for this ice cream!)

    3 eggs
    1 cup sugar
    1 teaspoon vanilla
    1/8-1/4 cup milk, cream, half/half, or soy milk
    Lemon extract (optional)

    Beat eggs, sugar, and vanilla together until well blended.  Add a little milk, mix well.  Mix in clean, fresh snow to mixture, approximately 1 ½ to 2 quarts snow.  Eat immediately.  It is best to add the snow to the mixture until you get the desired consistency.  Add a little lemon flavoring if desired.

  • Butterfinger Ice Cream

    4 eggs
    2 ¼ cups sugar
    5 cups milk
    4 cups heavy cream
    4 ½ teaspoon vanilla
    ½ teaspoon salt
    4 large Butterfinger candy bars, crushed

    Add sugar gradually to beaten eggs, continue to beat until mixture is very stiff.  Add remaining ingredients, except candy bars, and mix thoroughly.  Pour into gallon freezer and freeze according to ice cream freezer directions.  When half frozen, approximately 10-15 minutes, open freezer and stir in crushed Butterfinger candy bars.  Continue freezing until motor drags and ice cream is frozen.  Serve with lots of sun and fun.

  • Strawberry Ice Cream

    5 eggs
    2 cup sugar
    Vanilla
    1 can Eagle Brand milk
    ¼ teaspoon salt
    Whole milk
    1 (16 ounce) unsweetened strawberries (frozen)

    Beat eggs, sugar, vanilla, Eagle Brand milk, salt and a portion of the whole milk.  Add strawberries.  Pour into freezer can, add whole milk to fill line.

  • Chocolate-Cherry Ice Cream

    3 eggs, slightly beaten
    1 cup sugar
    1 cup chocolate flavored syrup
    4 cups milk
    2 cups whipping cream
    1 tablespoon vanilla
    1 (10 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained and chopped
    3 (1.05 ounce) bars milk chocolate, grated

    In large bowl, beat eggs, sugar, and chocolate flavored syrup.  Beat milk, cream, and vanilla.  Pour mixture into ice cream freezer can.  Freeze half of the time, approx. 10 minutes.  Add cherries and chocolate and continue freezing until stopped.

  • Shelba’s Delicious Banana Pudding

    2 (3 ounce) packages banana cream instant pudding mix
    3 cups milk
    1 can Eagle Brand condensed milk
    1 large Cool Whip
    4 bananas 1 box vanilla wafers

    Mix together with a mixer the pudding mix, milk, and condensed milk.  Add ¾ of the Cool Whip and mix until well blended.  Layer the wafers, bananas, and pudding mixture.  Top with the remainder of the Cool Whip.  Refrigerate until ready to serve.

  • Banana Pudding

    1 ¼ cup sugar
    3 tablespoons flour
    ¼ teaspoon salt
    3 cups milk
    3 eggs, separated
    ½ teaspoon vanilla
    ½ teaspoon lemon extract
    Vanilla wafers
    4-5 bananas
    ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
    6 tablespoons sugar
    ½ teaspoon vanilla

    Mix dry ingredients and set aside.  Heat milk over medium heat; add dry ingredients, stirring constantly with whisk.  Add beaten egg yolks, mixing very fast.  Stir constantly until it thickens.  Remove from heat.  Add vanilla and lemon extracts while still stirring.  Line 9” x 13” baking dish with wafers then layer of sliced bananas.  Pour half the pudding over bananas, then add another layer of wafers, bananas and pudding (make 3 layers if your want).  Beat egg whites until they stand in peaks when you remove beaters.  Add cream of tartar, 6 tablespoons sugar and ½ teaspoon vanilla.  Beat until creamy, spread on pugging.  Brown in oven.

  • Chocolate Delight

    First Layer
    1 ¼ cup flour
    ½ cup butter or margarine ½ cup chopped walnut or pecans

    Mix together and press into 9” x 13” pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.  Let cool completely before adding the next layer.

    Second Layer
    1 cup Cool Whip
    1 (8 0unce) package cream cheese, softened
    1 cup powdered sugar.

    Mix together and spread on crust.

    Third Layer
    1 large package instant chocolate pudding
    3 cups milk
    Mix pudding and milk.  Let thicken for 5 minutes.  Spread onto cream cheese layer.

    Topping
    Cool Whip
    Chocolate bar (grated) or Mini Chocolate Chips
    Top with Cool Whip and garnish with chocolate chips and nuts (if desired)

  • Pineapple Angel Slop

    1 (4 ounce) package sugar free Jello vanilla instant pudding and pie filling
    1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple, undrained
    1 cup lite cool whip, thawed
    1 angel food cake
    10 small strawberries

    Mix dry pudding mix and pineapple with juice in medium bowl.  Gently stir in Cool Whip.  Cut the cake into 1” square pieces and place in a clear bowl.  Layer cake and pudding mixture, alternating for 3 layers.  Top with Cool Whip and strawberries.  You can also add coconut if you like.  Refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving.

  • Praline-Pumpkin Dessert

    1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
    1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk
    3 eggs
    1 cup sugar
    4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
    1 package vanilla cake mix
    1 ½ cup pecans or walnuts, chopped
    ¾ cup butter or margarine, melted
    Whipped cream, if desired
    Additional pumpkin pie spice, if desired

    Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease bottom and sides of 9” x 13” pan.  Beat pumpkin, milk, eggs, sugar, and 4 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice in medium bowl with wire whisk until smooth.  Pour into pan.  Sprinkle dry cake mis over pumpkin mixture.  Sprinkle with pecan/walnuts.  Pour melted butter evenly over top of dessert.  Bake 50 t0 60 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool slightly.  To serve, cut dessert into 4 rows by 3 rows.  Serve warm or chilled with dollop of whipped cream sprinkled with pumpkin pie spice.  Store covered in refrigerator.  12 serving.  Hight altitude (3,500-6,500 ft):  Bake 55-65 minutes at 375 degrees.