Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing everyone a very happy Thanksgiving full of wonderful meals and lots of family time. In the spirit of celebrating from abroad, I wanted to share one of my favorite recipes. If you have yummy recipes to share, please email them to me and I'll post them on the blog. Amanda - your squash casserole sounded quite good!



Sweet potato casserole (from my Aunt Barb):


3 lbs sweet potatoes

1/2 cup melted butter

1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp cinnamon

2 eggs, well beaten


Topping, mix:

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/3 cup butter, melted

1 cup brown sugar, packed

1/2 nuts (pecans)

1/3 cup flour


Cook sweet potatoes until soft. Mash and add all of the above. Add topping. Put in a baking dish (butter or spray with Pam). Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

2 comments:

Amanda Shailendra said...

Hey Rach -

Here's my mom's Chocolate Chocolate Chip Pound Cake recipe. It's so easy and equally delicious!

1 package Duncan Hines yellow cake
1 package instant chocolate pudding mix
1 tbsp vanilla
4 eggs
1/4 cup water
3/4 cup canola oil
1 cup sour cream
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips


Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees. In large mixer, begin mixing dry ingredients. One at a time, add the ingredients (in the order listed above) until fully mixed together. Fold in semi-sweet chocolate chips at the end. Batter should be a creamy chocolate mix. Two baking options: 1) Pour batter into a bundt cake tin and cook for 1 hour 2) Pour batter into 3 loaf tins and cook for 50 minutes

I prefer the 3 loaf pans because you can keep one and share the other two! My mom wraps these cakes in Christmas saran wrap and gives them away to everyone for Christmas.

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