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Readers share recipes for tasty desserts

 

Readers Monique Pinkston, of St. James, and Lucy Branson, of Vienna , have passed along some recipes you’ll enjoy trying.

Pinkston notes the Sausage Cake, an old family recipe passed to her from her mother, Alice Tuerlings, is good to take out to the “deer camp.”

“The Chocolate Apple Cake is very rich and yo can use any kind of apple,” Pinkston says, adding “I have not shared this recipe before.”

Branson describes her Rhubarb Crunch as “a good spring recipe.”

Grab your scissors, cut out these recipes for your recipe file, and, of course, try them in your kitchen.

 

Sausage Cake

 

To be baked at 350 degrees for 1 hour in a Bundt pan, lightly greased and floured

 

1 pound sausage (room temperature)

1 ½ cups brown sugar

1 ½ cups sugar

2 eggs

3 cups flour

1 tsp ground ginger

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp pumpkin pie spice

1 tsp baking soda

1 cup strong black coffee

1 cup raisins

½ cup nuts

 

Mix sausage, sugars and egg together very well.

Sift together dry ingredients.

Add dry ingredients to sausage mixture alternately with black coffee. Mix well. Add nuts and raisins. Bake 350 degrees for 1 hour.

Note: if not done in 1 hour, decrease tempertarue to 275 degrees and check often.

 

 

Chocolate Apple Cake

 

To be baked at 350 degrees for 1 hour in a 12-cup bundt pan; grease generously and flour.

 

2 ½ cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

2 Tablespoons cocoa

½ tsp ground cloves

1 ½ tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

1 cut butter or margarine

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

½ cup water

2 cups grated or finely chopped apples (peeling is optional)

½ cup chopped nuts

½ cup chocolate chips

1 tsp vanilla

 

In a large bowl, suft together: flour, baking soda, cocoa, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.

In a large bowl, with mixer, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat. Add vanilla and water continue to blend. Gradually add dry sifted ingredients and beat until fluffy. Fold in nuts, apples and chocolate chips. Bake 350 degree for 1 hour.

Cook in pan 10 minutes, turn on to rack and cool completely. Frost cake or sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.

 

Frosting:

8 oz. cream cheese

½ cup butter

1 pound box powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla

Beat until smooth

 

Rhubarb Crunch

 

Crumb topping

1 cup sifted flour

¾ cup oats

1 cup brown sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

 

Fruit mixture

4 cups diced rhubarb

1 cup sugar

2 tbls. Corn starch

1 cup water

1 tsp. vanilla

 

Mix crumb ingredients until crumbly. Press half in 9 x 13 pan. Cover with rhubarb mixture.

In a small pan, cook water, sugar, corn starch and vanilla until thick and clear. Pour over rhubarb. Top with remaining crumbs. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

Tip: Stir sugar over rhubarb and let set overnight for sweeter flavor.

 

Do you have a recipe you’d share? Send your recipes to The Ozarks Chronicle, c/o KDBS Publishing LLC, P.O. Box 1122 , Rolla , MO 65402-1122 .

 

 

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Use green tomatoes to make a delicious bread

 

The Ozarks Chronicle