Pumpkin angel food cake!

So my partner is very picky about desserts but he loves pumpkin pie so this was a delicious variation from that he loves! I got this from the Betty Crocker website.


Cake
1
box (1 lb) Betty Crocker® white angel food cake mix
1
tablespoon Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1 1/2
teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
3/4
cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
1
cup cold water
Ginger-Cream Filling
2
cups whipping cream
1/4
cup powdered sugar
2
tablespoons finely chopped crystallized ginger
Move oven rack to lowest position. Heat oven to 350°F. In extra-large glass or metal bowl, beat cake ingredients with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds. Beat on medium speed 1 minute. Pour into ungreased 10-inch angel food (tube) cake pan.
Bake 37 to 47 minutes or until crust is dark golden brown and cracks are dry. Immediately turn pan upside down onto heatproof funnel or glass bottle. Let hang about 2 hours or until cake is completely cool. Loosen cake from side of pan with knife or long metal spatula. Turn cake upside down onto serving plate.
In chilled large bowl, beat whipping cream and powdered sugar with electric mixer on high speed until stiff. Fold in ginger. Cut cake horizontally in half to make 2 even layers. Spread half of the filling on bottom layer; replace top of cake. Spread remaining filling on top of cake. Sprinkle with additional pumpkin pie spice if desired.
Makes 12 servings


I decided to leave some not frosted because he hates frosting but it was good even without frosting!

Cherry cordial cookies!

Okay so I saw a recipe on Pinterest for strawberry cookies made from cake mix. I was inspired by this and decided to make my own version using cherry chip cake mix. And they turned out awesome the recipe follows.

1 package Betty Crocker cherry chip cake mix
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 large eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Mix dry ingredients in large bowl (cake mix, baking powder) in separate bowl whisk together eggs, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract.

When well mixed slowly add to dry ingredients until well mixed and no powder remains.

Carefully add chocolate chips

Spoon cookie dough into balls about 2 tablespoons worth place 2-3 inches apart on non stick cookie sheet cook 8-10 minutes no longer they will be soft when you first take them out but should harden up as they cool

They will be delicious so be sure to make plenty!

Onion bacon chicken

So I decided to try a recipe I saw floating around on Pinterest, but I decided to alter it a bit, of course. It was a forgotten chicken where you mix minute rice with cream of chicken soup and put chicken breast on top sprinkled with onion soup mix. I decided to try this in the crockpot and added a layer or bacon to the top. This turned out awesome. I decided to add a splash of port wine towards the end of cooking also.

The ingredients:
Boneless skinless chicken breasts, bacon, minute rice, 1 pkg. onion soup mix, can of cream of chicken soup, can of cream of celery soup, water.
Mix together “cream of” soups, 1 can of water, and 2 cups of minute rice (uncooked.) Pour into bottom of crockpot.
Lay chicken breasts on top of rice mixture and sprinkle onion soup mix on top.
Cut bacon into one inch pieces and layer over top of chicken.

Cook in crockpot on low 6 hours towards the end of cooking I added a splash of port for added flavor. Enjoy!