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.

Earthquake Cake



















1 box German Chocolate Cake Mix (do not prepare as directed on box, prepare as directed below)
1/3 cup oil
3 eggs
1 and 1/3 cup water
2/3 cup shredded coconut
2/3 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup butter
8 oz cream cheese
1 pound powdered sugar (3 and 3/4 cups)





Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease a 9 x 13 inch pan.
Sprinkle the coconut, chocolate chips, and pecans on the bottom of the pan.
Mix the german chocolate cake mix with the oil, eggs, and water.
Pour the cake mix on top of the coconut/chocolate chip/pecan layer.
In a saucepan, melt the butter and cream cheese.
Beat in 1 pound of powdered sugar until it's smooth to the butter/cream cheese.
Spread this mixture on top of the uncooked german chocolate cake in the pan, and swirl into the cake mix using a knife.
Bake for 35-45 minutes. It is done when it doesn't wobble in the pan if you shake it. The toothpick test shouldn't work because the cake should be more gooey in nature. 


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White Castle sliders













Ingredients Related Tips

    1 1/2 lb Hamburger meat
    1 Onion chopped
    1 packages Lipton Onion Soup dry mix
    1/2 cup Milk
    1 tbsp Creamy Peanut Butter
    2 packages Slider Buns (Of course the Hawaiian rolls work the best)
    Cheese if desired
    Pickle slices as needed

Directions




    Mix hamburger, milk, peanut butter and onion soup mix by hand in a bowl
    Place hamburger mix on cookie sheet and flatten by hand or with rolling pin filling the whole cookie sheet to the edges
    Bake at 350 for ten minutes, and pull out of oven
    The meat cake, if you will, has now shrunk. Add chopped onions to the edges and put back in oven for ten minutes
    Pull meat cake out again, this time add cheese slices, pickle and scoop onions onto meat.
    Now place the tops of the slider buns on the meat cake making individual burgers, but don't cut the meat yet.
    Put back in oven for 10 minutes
    Pull out and use a pizza cutter to cut the meat and scoop onto the bottom buns that did not go in the oven







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KNOCK YOU NAKED BARS















Ingredients:
    2 ¼  cups all-purpose flour
    1 teaspoon baking soda
    1 teaspoon salt
    1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
    ¾ cup granulated sugar
    ¾ cup packed brown sugar
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    2 large eggs
    2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels

Caramel-Peanut Butter:

    ½ cup Evaporated Milk
    60 whole caramels, Unwrapped
    ½ cup peanut butter, melted
    1/3 cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips

Directions:




    To make the cookie base, preheat oven to 375° F and grease 9 x 13-inch jelly-roll pan.Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate morsels.
    Spread half of cookie dough into prepared pan and bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Remove pan from oven and set aside and begin caramel.
    To make the caramel, in a double boiler (or a heatproof bowl set over a saucepan of boiling water) melt caramels with ½ cup evaporated milk. When melted and combined, add ½ cup melted peanut butter and pour over cookie base. Sprinkle chocolate chips as evenly as you can over the caramel.
    Turn out remaining cookie dough on work surface. Use your hands to press it into a large square a little smaller than the pan. Use a spatula to remove it from the surface, then set it on top of the caramel and chocolate chips.
    Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown and edges are set. Cool in pan on wire rack. Makes 2 dozen bars.


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Once you Bake Bacon, you'll never go back to pan-frying it!


















INGREDIENTS
Sliced Bacon

DIRECTIONS
Line a rimmed baking sheet (jelly roll pan) with foil (or parchm paper)
Arrange the bacon in a single layer.
Place the tray of bacon in a cold oven. Turn on the oven to 400 degrees.
Bake for anywhere from 17-25 minutes, or until the bacon is cooked to your preference
Baking time will vary depending on how fast your oven gets up to temp, and how thick your bacon is. Thinner bacon will cook faster than thicker bacon.
When the bacon is crispy, carefully remove the pan from the oven making sure not to spill the bacon grease.
Transfer the bacon to a paper towel lined plate to drain. Then ejoy!
 If you want to save the bacon grease, pour it into a heat-safe container.
 *Note: If you have never baked bacon in your oven before, start checking the bacon as early as 8 minutes. The rate at which the bacon cooks varies depending on how fast your oven comes to temp. I’ve heard of bacon cooking as fast as 10 minutes and taking as long as 30 minutes. From my experience, it is usually done between 17-25 minutes.



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Perfect Party Cake

















Ingredients:

FOR THE CAKE:
2 1/2 cups cake flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups buttermilk
4 large egg whites
1 1/2 cups granulated white sugar
2 teaspoons freshly grated lemon zest
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon pure lemon extract

FOR THE BUTTERCREAM:
1 cup granulated white sugar
4 large egg whites
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (from 2 large lemons)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

FOR FINISHING:
2/3 cup seedless raspberry preserves, stirred vigorously until spreadable
fresh raspberries



Directions: 

1. Center a rack in the oven and preheat oven to 350°F. Butter two 8 or 9-inch round cake pans and line the bottom of each pan with a round of buttered parchment or wax paper. Put the pans on a baking sheet.

2. To Make Cake: Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk together milk and egg whites in a medium bowl. Put sugar and lemon zest in a mixer bowl or another large bowl and rub them together with your fingers until the sugar is moist and fragrant. Add the butter and, working with your fingers until the sugar is moist and fragrant. Add butter and, working with the paddle or whisk attachment, or with a hand mixer, beat at medium speed for a full 3 minutes, until the butter and sugar are very light. Beat in the extract, then add one third of the flour mixture, still beating on medium speed. Beat in half of the milk-egg mixture, then beat in half of the remaining dry ingredients until incorporated. Add the rest of the milk and eggs, beating until the batter is homogenous, then add the last of the dry ingredients. Finally, give the batter a good 2 minute beating to ensure that it is thoroughly mixed and well aerated. Divide the batter between the two pans and smooth the tops with a rubber spatula.

3. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the cakes are well risen and springy to the touch- a toothpick inserted into the centers should come out clean. Transfer cakes to cooling racks and cool for about 5 minutes, then run a knife around the sides of the cakes, unmold them and peel off the paper liners. Invert and cool to room temperature right side up. (The cooled cake layers can be wrapped airtight and stored at room temperature overnight or frozen for up to 2 months.)

4. To Make Buttercream: Put sugar and egg whites in a mixer bowl or other large heatproof bowl; fit the bowl over a pan of simmering water and whisk constantly, keeping the mixture over the heat, until it feels hot to the touch, about 3 minutes. The sugar should be dissolved, and the mixture will look like shiny marshmallow cream. Remove the bowl from heat.

5. Working with the whisk attachment or with a hand mixer, beat the meringue on medium speed until it is cool, about 5 minutes. Switch to the paddle attachment if you have one, and add the butter one stick at a time, beating until smooth. Once all the butter is in, beat the buttercream on medium -high speed until it is thick and very smooth, 6 to 10 minutes. During this time, the buttercream may curdle or separate- just keep beating and it will come together again. On medium speed, gradually beat in lemon juice, waiting until each addition is absorbed before adding more, and then the vanilla. You should have a shiny smooth, velvety, pristine white buttercream. Press a piece of plastic against the surface of the buttercream and set aside briefly.

6. To Assemble Cake: Using a sharp serrated knife and a gentle sawing motion, slice each layer horizontally in half. Put one layer cut-side-up on a cake plate surrounded by strips of waxed paper. Spread it with a light layer of buttercream. Spread the buttercream with 1/3 of the preserves. Top with another layer, spread with buttercream and preserves and then do the same with the third layer (you'll have used all of the jam and have buttercream left over.) Place the last layer cut-side-down on top of the cake and use the remaining buttercream to frost the sides and the top. Decorate top with raspberries.


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Easiest fudge recipe in the world

















Ingredients:
1 can Eagle brand condensed milk ( 14 oz )
1 1/2 bags of chocolate chips ( 11.5 oz bags is what I use) any flavor you wish
1 cup chopped walnuts ( optional )

Direction:
Toss all ingredients in to a mircowave bowl, melt till creamy pour into a 8x8 baking dish, cool for 2 hours cut and serve.


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