Lemon Bars

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Crust:

Cream together 1 C. Butter (room temp)

1/2 C Powdered Sugar

Add to butter mixture 1/2 tsp. salt

2 C. flour

Pat into a 9x13 greased pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 min.

Filling:

Mix together well and pour over hot crust;

4 eggs, slightly beaten

2 Cups sugar

1/2 tsp. Baking Powder

1/4 Cup Flour

1/4-1/2 cup lemon Juice

rind of 1 Lemon, grated

Bake at 350 degrees for 20- 25 min.

Notes:

*I use 1/2 c. lemon juice, it's more lemony.
*You can use reconstituted lemon juice, but real lemons taste sooooo much better.

*Right after you take it out of the oven run a knife around the edges.

*They taste really good cold!

Upsidedown German Chocolate Cake

This is sooooo yummy!

1 Cup Coconut

1 Cup chopped Pecans or Walnuts

1 German Chocolate Cake mix

1 1/4 C. Water

1/3 C. oil

3 Eggs

3 1/2 C. Powdered Sugar

1 C. Margarine or butter (room temp

1 8oz. Cream Cheese (room Temp)

Grease 9x13 pan. Heat oven to 375 degrees.

Sprinkle coconut and nuts evenly over bottom of pan. Combine cake mix, water, oil & eggs. Mix at low speed until moistened. Beat 2 minutes on high. Spoon batter evenly over coconut & nuts.

Combine butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add powdered sugar and beat until smooth and creamy. Spoon as evenly as possible over batter. Don't get closer than 1 in from edge of the pan.

Bake 45-55 min.

Check to see if done by inserting a toothpick in center of cake, it should come out clean when it's done.

Top with Whipped Cream

A few notes:

*This cake will overflow if you put it in a normal glass 9x13 pan. So put a cookie sheet under the pan in the oven or if you have one use a 9x13 pampered chef casserole pan.

*This cake is very rich and doesn't really need whip cream on top.

*I love this cake because it looks awful- but tastes great!

Cake Balls

I found this recipe, tried it and it was Sooo good! Plus, it is super versatile and everything.


1 Cake mix
1 Can Frosting
Chocolate Coating


Bake cake mix according to directions on the box in any pan type. When Cake it done and still a little bit warm, Crumble it into a large bowl. Add the Can of Frosting and stir until mixed well. Form into 1 inch balls and then put in the freezer for about an hour or so to set. Freezing them make it much easier to dip in the chocolate. You can even put them in overnight it you need to.

Melt the chocolate over low heat until smooth.

With a toothpick, dip the cake balls into the chocolate then remove toothpick. Let set.

And thats it! There are so many different variation for this too. When I made it, I did Strawberry cake with Vanilla frosting and then dipped it in chocolate. Some other ideas are Spice cake and cream cheese frosting dipped in chocolate. Chocolate cake and frosting with Mint Chocolate coating. Pretty much anything you can come up with.

Hopefully that all makes sense and I hope you all enjoy!