Jam Tarts

Simple to make, and oh-so yummy! Enjoy!

Jam Tarts

1¼ cups unsalted butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 cups sifted flour
2 cups ground almonds
1/8 t. cinnamon
7 T. raspberry jam
confectioner’s sugar

Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add flour, almonds and cinnamon.

Shape the dough into a ball
and refrigerate for one hour.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Roll the dough out and cut into circles.

Place on ungreased baking sheet.

Bake for 12 minutes.
Cool.

Spread half of the rounds with jam. Place remaining rounds over jam to form “sandwiches” and sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar.

Walnut Pancakes

Here's what's cooking at our house for breakfast this morning. Easy to prepare, and these waffles sure beat cereal any day of the week! Enjoy!

Walnut Pancakes

2 cups flour
1 t. baking soda
½ t. salt
2/3 cup chopped walnuts
2 eggs
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 ½ cups orange juice

Combine flour, baking soda, salt and walnuts.

Add eggs, oil and orange juice and stir to combine.

Lightly butter a hot griddle

and cook pancakes until golden brown.

Serve dusted with confectioner’s sugar

and topped with hot maple syrup.

Pan-Fried Apples

Fried up a batch of these last night. We wanted something sweet, but not too sweet, so these were perfect. Topped with whipped cream, they were delicious!

Pan-Fried Apples

5 tart apples
2 T. butter
½ cup brown sugar
1/4 cup maple syrup
2 t. cinnamon
2 t. nutmeg

Peel and thinly slice apples.

Melt butter in a large skillet.

Add all ingredients and saute

until apples are tender.

Strawberry Cobbler

The strawberries in our patch aren't ready for picking yet but the grocery store is already stocked with this summertime favorite. I love strawberries, so we eat a lot of them all year round. One of my favorite, fast and easy recipes using strawberries is this cobbler. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Strawberry Cobbler

4 cups sliced strawberries
1 T. lemon juice
1 cup granulated sugar
1 T. cornstarch
2 cups biscuit mix
3 T. melted butter
½ cup milk
2 t. vanilla
½ t. cinnamon

In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine strawberries, lemon juice, sugar and cornstarch. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, and cook until mixture thickens. Pour hot strawberry mixture into an 8 or 9 inch square baking pan. Set aside.

In a large bowl combine biscuit mix, butter, milk, vanilla and cinnamon. Drop batter by spoonfuls over strawberry mixture.

Place baking pan in a preheated 400-degree oven and bake for 20-25 minutes.
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Daffodil Bread

Daffodil Bread

1 cup vegetable oil

1¾ cups sugar

3 eggs

3 cups flour

1 t. baking soda

½ t. baking powder

½ t. salt

1 T. lemon extract

1 cup finely chopped almonds

2 cups lemon yogurt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream together oil, eggs and sugar.
Add remaining ingredients and mix.

Grease and flour bundt pan.
Pour batter in pan.

Bake for 50-60 minutes.
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Banana Pancakes

These are good anytime, but especially on a damp, threatening-to-rain morning like the one we've got here! Enjoy!

Banana Pancakes

1 ½ cups flour
½ t. salt
2 ½ t. baking powder
2 T. granulated sugar
1 ½ cups milk
2 mashed bananas

Combine flour, salt, baking powder and sugar until well mixed. Add milk and bananas and mix until batter is only slightly lumpy.

Lightly coat a large griddle with butter. Heat griddle. Pour batter onto griddle and cook pancakes over medium-low heat.

Corn Flake Cookies

It doesn't get any easier than this!

Corn Flake Cookies

1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
2 cups flour
1 cup corn flakes
1 cup old fashioned oatmeal
2 t. vanilla

Cream butter and sugars; add eggs. Add remaining ingredients, adding the corn flakes last.

Drop by spoonfuls onto a buttered cookie sheet. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for ten minutes.