Tuesday 28 May 2013

White Trash Bars

Ingredients
  • 2 sleeves Ritz crackers, 60 crackers total
  • 1 1/2 cups toffee bits
  • 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 1/2 cups frosting
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°
  2. Spray a 8x8 pan with cooking spray
  3. Crush the Ritz crackers in a large zip-top bag.
  4. Pour toffee bits into zip-top bag and combine with cracker crumbs.
  5. Pour cracker/toffee mix into prepared pan.
  6. Pour entire can of sweetened condensed bars into cracker mixture.
  7. Stir until evenly incorporated, press gently into pan.
  8. Bake for 15-20 minutes until edges start to become golden.
  9. Remove and allow to completely cool.
  10. When cooled, frost with buttercream frosting.
  11. Cut into squares.                                                                                                                                


Wednesday 15 May 2013

Orange Cream Cheese Loaf


Ingredients

1-8 ozpackage cream cheese, softened
1/2 cupshortening
1 2/3 cupsgranulated sugar
2 eggs
2 1/4 cupsall-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 cup milk
1/2 cupchopped walnuts
2 Tbsp grated orange peel
1/4 cuporange juice
Directions

Combine cream cheese and shortening, creaming well.

Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.

Add eggs, beating well after each addition.

Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix well after each addition.

Stir in walnuts and orange peel.

Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 8-1/2 x 4-1/2 x 3 inch loaf pans.

Bake at 375 degrees F for 55 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.

Let cool in pan for 10 mintues. Then sprinkle orange juice over loaves. Remove to wire rack to finish cooling

I omitted the walnuts and added the orange juice to the batter instead of pouring over the loaves.