Crites Family Stuff

Ingredients for 10 servings

• 1 yellow cake mix
• .5 cup margarine, softened
• .25 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• .5 cup nuts (optional)
• 8 oz cream cheese
• .5 tsp vanilla
• .5 cup sugar
• Fruit
• Cool Whip

Steps

1. Combine cake mix, butter, brown sugar, eggs, and nuts. Spread onto two 12 inch pizza pans that have been sprayed with nonstick spray. Bake at 350F for 15 minutes. Cool. Spread with cream cheese mixture or 2-3 cups Cool Whip and then decorate with fruit.
2. Cream cheese topping: Beat together cream cheese, 1/2 cup sugar, and vanilla. Spread over baked dough.
3. Variation: You can use a sugar cookie dough instead of the cake mix dough.

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Ingredients for 10 servings

• 3 eggs
• .66 cup pumpkin
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• .75 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp ginger
• .5 tsp nutmeg
• .5 tsp salt
• 1 cup sugar
• .5 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Filling:

• 6 oz cream cheese
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 4 tbsp butter
• .5 tsp vanilla

Steps

1. Beat eggs 5 minutes on high speed and add sugar. Stir in pumpkin and lemon juice. Mix together dry ingredients and fold into egg mixture. Pour into well greased and floured 11x13 pan. (You can line your pan with foil and then grease and flour that.) Cover with nuts. Bake at 375F for 15 minutes. Gently lift edges and turn onto a kitchen towel dusted with powdered sugar. Roll while still hot, including the towel. Cool. Unroll and spread with the cream cheese filling. Roll up again. Wrap in plastic wrap and then foil. Freeze. Remove from freezer 1/2 hour before slicing. Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
2. Cream Cheese Filling: Combine cream cheese, powdered sugar, butter, and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Spread onto pumpkin roll.

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Ingredients for 8 servings

• 2 (3 oz) pkg cream cheese, softened
• 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 egg
• 3 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup fresh or frozen raspberries
• 6 oz chocolate pie crust

Glaze:

• 2 oz semisweet baking chocolate
• .25 cup whipping cream

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Beat cream cheese in medium bowl with electric mixer at medium speed until fluffy. Gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk until smooth. Add egg, lemon juice, and vanilla, mix well. Arrange raspberries on bottom of crust. Slowly pour cream cheese mixtures over raspberries.
2. Bake 30-35 minutes or until center is almost set. Cool on wire rack.
3. Prepare glaze: Melt chocolate with whipping cream in a small saucepan over low heat. Cook and stir until thickened and smooth. Remove from heat.
4. Spread glaze over cheesecake. Refrigerate 3 hours. Garnish as desired.

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Ingredients for 12 servings

• 1 pkg white or yellow cake mix
• 6 oz Jello, any flavor
• 2 cups boiling water
• 8 oz Cool Whip

Steps

1. Prepare and bake cake mix according to the directions on the box. Cool completely. Prick with a utility fork at 1/2 inch intervals. Thoroughly dissolve Jello in the boiling water. Pour over entire cake. Refrigerate 3-4 hours. Serve with Cool Whip.

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Jennifer Crites: Grandma's ice cream is the best according to my children. We all love this strawberry one and even as much when it is made with raspberries!

Ingredients for 16 servings

• 2.25 cups sugar
• 4 cups pureed strawberries
• 1 cup milk
• 4 cups heavy cream
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1.5 tsp almond flavoring
• .5 tsp salt

Steps

1. Reduce sugar to 1-3/4 cups if strawberries have been sweetened. Can use three 12 oz packages of frozen strawberries, thawed, in place of the fresh strawberries. Beat all ingredients together and pour into a gallon ice cream freezer and freeze as directed for the freezer you have. Variation: You can use other fruit in season in place of the strawberries. Peaches are exceptionally good.

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Annie's favorite ice cream!

Ingredients for 24 servings

• 1.5 cups sugar
• 1 tbsp flour
• .25 tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• .25 cup cherry gelatin dry (not sugar free)
• 1 tbsp vanilla
• 2 cups whipping cream
• 10 oz bottle maraschino cherries with juice, cherries chopped fine
• 2 cups milk
• 8 oz Hershey chocolate bar with almonds, chopped fine

Steps

1. In a medium sauce pan mix sugar, salt, and flour. Whisk in 1 cup milk and eggs. Add cherry jello. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Strain liquid to remove all lumps. Add vanilla, whipping cream, 2 cups of milk, cherries and chocolate. Stir well. Pour into 4 quart ice cream cylinder. Put on lid and refrigerate overnight. Freeze according to your ice cream machine.

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Dorothy Farmer: This is another recipe of my mother's which is special because it is in her handwriting. She said their Ward had served it at a church conference.

Ingredients for 15 servings

• 2 eggs
• 6 tbsp of white sugar
• 6 tbsp of brown sugar
• 2 tsp baking powder
• .5 tsp salt
• 1 cup flour
• 2 cups thinly sliced apples
• 1 cup chopped nuts

Steps

1. Beat eggs, sugar, and salt together until light and fluffy. Sift flour and baking powder and add to creamed mixture to form a stiff dough. Fold in apples and nuts. Bake in 9x13 pan in a 350F oven until toothpick comes out clean. Serve warm topped with ice cream.

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This pie was a favorite of Jack's

Ingredients for 8 servings

• 1 cup sugar
• .5 cup corn syrup
• .25 cup butter, melted
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup pecans
• 1 unbaked pie shell

Steps

1. Mix sugar, syrup and butter together. Beat eggs well and add to the sugar, syrup and butter mixture. Add pecans. Fill unbaked pie shell with mixture and bake in moderately hot oven, 400F, for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350F and continue baking for 30-35 minutes.

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In going through my recipes for this project, I came across this recipe for Cupid's Wedding cake which I received as a bride at a wedding shower held for me in Deaver, Wyoming. The recipe has yellowed over the years, but still very readable and full of wisdom. It was given to me by Mrs. Hylas T. Finley, know as "Ida" on September 11, 1946

Ingredients for 100 servings

• 5 lbs fervent devotion
• 3 lbs extract of faithfulness
• 4 quarts of heartfelt satisfaction
• 1 lb each of prudence and good nature
• 6 scruples each of confidence and mutual forbearance
• 8 oz of gentleness and modesty
• 12 scruples of matrimony fidelity
• 2 lbs connubial felicity
• 4 qts ecstatic enjoyment
• 4 lbs patience, industry and economy
• 2 lbs each wisdom and experience
• 9 oz discretion and benevolence
• 7 oz spice of sweetness
• 1.5 lbs seeds of virtue
• 3 oz essence of purity
• 7 pints sweetness of disposition
• 1 qt balm of a thousand ills
• 1 gallon milk of human kindness
• 10 grains of common sense

Steps

1. Mix thoroughly with cheerfulness. Pour mixture into a golden bowl of domestic happiness. Lubricate with oil of gladness. Bake in oven with double blessedness, heated by the fire of true LOVE. While warm spread over the whole with a frosting of gracefulness. In the center place the star of hope set around with dimples and the sparkle of bright eyes. Encircle with the wreath of smiles, interwoven with rosy blushes and pink perfection. Fasten the wreath with a golden cord of harmony and silver thread of discourse. One cake will last a lifetime, and improve with age. All who eat of it will never have cause to seek for a divorce.

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Refreshingly delightful and amazing with raspberries!

Ingredients for 15 servings

• 1 white cake mix
• 2 cups milk
• 8 oz cream cheese, softened
• 2 (3 oz) pkgs instant vanilla pudding
• 20 oz can crushed pineapple, drained
• .25 powdered sugar
• 8 oz container cool whip
• 1 cup coconut

Steps

1. This is a 4 layered dessert. First layer: Make cake according to box directions and bake in a 15x11x1 pan for 15 minutes at 350F. Cool.
2. Mix together 1 cup of milk, cream cheese, and 1 box pudding until smooth. Carefully spread over the cooled cake for 2nd layer.
3. Spread drained pineapple over the cream cheese mixture. The pineapple can be substituted with sliced, fresh strawberries. Thawed, crushed raspberries are my favorite. I've also used freezer jams as the 3rd layer.
4. The frosting is made by mixing together the other pudding, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup powdered sugar and folding in the cool whip. Frost the cake and sprinkle with coconut. Chill for 24 hours.

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