Aunt Claudia's Fresh Apple Cake

Aunt Claudia's Fresh Apple Cake

Kelly M.

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Cake:
4 cups peeled and chopped apple (granny smith)
1/2 cup oil
2 unbeaten eggs
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. soda

Combine first four ingredients, then add: 1 tsp vanilla and 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts. Add sifted dry ingredients and mix well. (Batter will be stiff). Put into rectangular cake pan. Bake 40-45 minutes at 350 degrees.

Topping:
1/4 cup butter
2 T. milk
1/2 cup brown sugar

Bring to a boil all topping ingredients. cook one minute and pour over cake. Serve warm with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Keebler Salad

Keebler Salad

Zelda E.

1 large pkg. instant vanilla pudding

2 small cans pineapple tidbits, drained

1 medium can madarin oranges

1 medium tub cool whip

2 c. buttemilk

1 pkg. striped shortbread cookies

Mix all ingredients together then crumble all but 4 cookies in and mix. Crumble remaining cookies over top. Refrigerate 2 hours. Serves 10-12

Summer Salsa with Sweet Tortilla Chips

Summer Salsa with Sweet Tortilla Chips

Melissa G.

Sweet Tortilla Chips:

4 (about 8") flour tortillas

1 Tbs. butter or margarine, melted

1 Tbs. sugar

pinch ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375. Brush tortillas with butter. In cup, combine sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkly 1 side of each tortilla with cinnamon-sugar. Stack tortillas and cut into 6 wedges, making 24 wedges in total. Arrange wedges, sugar side up, in single layer on 2 large cookie sheets. Place cookie sheets on 2 oven racks and bake chips 10-12 minutes or until golden, rotating cookie sheets between upper and lower racks halfway through baking. Cool chips on cookie sheets on wire racks. Store chips in tightly covered container up to 1 week.

Summer Salsa:

1 lime

1 Tbs. sugar

1 large ripe peach, unpeeled and chopped

1 large ripe plum, unpeeled and chopped

1 large ripe apricot, unpeeled and chopped

1/2 c. cherries, pitted and chopped

1/2 c. seedless green grapes, chopped

From lime, grate 1/4 tsp peel and squeeze 1 Tbs. juice. In medium bowl, stire lime peel, lime juice, sugar, and chopped fruit until combined.