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CINNAMON BREAD

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Just finished baking the last of 4 loaves of Amazing Amish Cinnamon Bread! The house smells delicious and I shared it with the ladies at the library.  They said the bread was delightful! I highly recommend this very simple recipe from RedFly Creations!

CINNAMON BREAD
(makes 2 loaves)

Batter:

Amazing Amish Cinnamon Bread! | lookingjoligood.wordpress.com1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 cups buttermilk or 2 cups milk plus 2 tablespoons vinegar or lemon juice
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda

Cinnamon/sugar mixture:

2/3 cups sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon

Cream together butter, 2 cups of sugar, and eggs. Add milk, flour, and baking soda. Put 1/2 of batter (or a little less) into greased loaf pans (1/4 in each pan). Mix in separate bowl the 2/3 c sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle 3/4 of cinnamon mixture on top of the 1/2 batter in each pan. Add remaining batter to pans; sprinkle with last of cinnamon topping. Swirl with a knife. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 min. or until toothpick tester come clean.
Cool in pan for 20 minutes before removing from pan.

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Eggless Cookie Dough

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If you remember from my Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe post, I love raw cookie dough.  It is so bad for me to eat it, but it is so delicious!   Here is a recipe for Eggless Cookie Dough that is just as tasty with out the risk of salmonella poisoning.

I love raw cookie dough. It is so bad for me to eat it, but it is so delicious! Here is a recipe for Eggless Cookie Dough that is just as tasty with out the risk of salmonella poisoning. | lookingjoligood.woordpress.comEggless Cookie Dough

7 Tbsp Brown Sugar

6 Tbsp White Sugar

5 Tbsp Butter, softened

2 tsp Vanilla (1tsp)

3 Tbsp Milk

1/4 tsp Salt

1 Cup Flour (use almond or coconut flour for a bit of a change to the flavor or the cookie dough)

1/3 Cup Mini Chocolate Chips

1 tbs ground cinnamon

Combine the brown sugar, white sugar, cinnamon, and softened butter in a bowl and mix. Stir in vanilla and milk. Add flour and salt to the sugar mixture, and stir until combined. Stir in mini chocolate chips. Spread the mixture onto parchment paper and shape into a rectangle as evenly as possible. Put the square of cookie dough into the freezer and freeze for 1-2 hours. Remove from freezer and cut into small squares. Enjoy!

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Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars

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Happy Thanksgiving! We just finished enjoying these delicious “Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars” as part of our Thanksgiving breakfast. I highly recommend this recipe which can be found on the pillsbury website…

Ingredients

2 cans (8 oz each) Pillsbury™ refrigerated crescent dinner rolls

2 packages (8 oz each) cream cheese, softened

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2cup butter, melted

1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 350°F.
  2. Unroll 1 can dough. Place in bottom of ungreased 13×9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish. Stretch to cover bottom of dish, firmly pressing perforations to seal.
  3. In medium bowl, beat cream cheese and 1 cup of the sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Beat in vanilla. Spread over dough in baking dish.
  4. Unroll second can of dough. Carefully place on top of cream cheese layer. Pinch seams together.
  5. Pour melted butter evenly over top. Mix remaining 1/2 cup sugar with the cinnamon, and sprinkle evenly over butter.
  6. Bake about 30 minutes or until center is set. Cool slightly, about 20 minutes. Refrigerate for easy cutting. Cover and refrigerate any remaining bars.

Enjoy the holiday!

Click HERE to go to the Pilsbury website

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Happy Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday!
I have been greatly blessed and I am so grateful for so many things!
Happy Thanksgiving!

Psalm 136:1 O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

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Thanksgiving
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

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Love With Food November Box

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Snack smart. Do good!  Love Food!

As you know, I love God, I love my family, and I LOVE food. So, that being said, it is only natural for me to order a box called “Love with Food“.

What is “Love With Food” you ask?  It “helps you discover new organic or all-natural snacks delivered to your door every month. Our subscription membership starts as low as $7.99/month. Every month, Love With Food members will receive a curated box of unique, hard-to-find tasty snacks which varies based on seasonal themes.”

If you’d like to try it out for yourself,  I have a referral code you can use to get your first box for 40% off.  That’s a great deal!  Here is the link with the code  http://lovewithfood.com/invite?m=e&ref=2ReL

For every box sold, they donate a meal to several food banks such as the Feeding America Network and Share Our Strength – No Kid Hungry. Help end child hunger one meal at a time!  Click Here to LEARN MORE

Here is what I got in my box this month…

Salted Caramel Brownie Brittle It is like eating the best crispy part of the brownie.

Sesame Tocchetti

Turbinado Natural Cane Sugar Assortment

Tea Sachet Assortment (2 Sachet per box)

Milk Chocolate Squares

Honey Graham Sticks

Raspberry TruffleCremes in Milk Chocolate No. 30

Biscoff by Lotus Bakeries These cookies are soooo good!

Dark Chocolate Squares

Dirty Sweet Potato Chips-oh my goodness, these were so good!  I love sweet potatoes!

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Sweet Potato Casserole

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I look forward to Thanksgiving every year for one reason.  It is not the turkey or the mashed potatoes.  It isn’t even the pies and desserts, although those are great too.  The reason I look forward to Thanksgiving is this awesome Sweet Potato Casserole!  It is so delicious!!!  We had a Thanksgiving feast this past Sunday with a group of our friends.  I made this dish to share with everyone and it was a crowd pleaser!

sweet-potato-casserole | lookingjoligood.wordpress.comIngredients

  • 4 cups sweet potato, cubed
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 4 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • 3 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Put sweet potatoes in a medium saucepan with water to cover. Cook over medium high heat until tender; drain and mash. (or use canned yams and skip this step all together.)
  2. In a large bowl, mix together the sweet potatoes, white sugar, eggs, cinnamon, salt, butter, milk and vanilla extract. Mix until smooth. Transfer to a 9×13 inch baking dish.
  3. In medium bowl, mix the brown sugar and flour. Cut in the butter until the mixture is coarse. Stir in the pecans. Sprinkle the mixture over the sweet potato mixture.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven 30 minutes, or until the topping is lightly brown.
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Love With Food October 2015 Box

LauraJoli LookingJoliGood2 Comments

Snack smart. Do good!  Love Food!

I love God, I love my family, and I LOVE food. So, that being said, it is only natural for me to order a box called “Love with Food“. If you’d like to try it out for yourself,  I have a referral code you can use to get your first box for 40% off.  That’s a great deal!  Here is the code  http://lovewithfood.com/invite?m=e&ref=2ReL

What is “Love With Food” you ask?  It “helps you discover new organic or all-natural snacks delivered to your door every month. Our subscription membership starts as low as $7.99/month. Every month, Love With Food members will receive a curated box of unique, hard-to-find tasty snacks which varies based on seasonal themes.”

For every box sold, they donate a meal to several food banks such as the Feeding America Network and Share Our Strength – No Kid Hungry. Help end child hunger one meal at a time!  Click Here to LEARN MORE

My kids get very excited about the box every month and we enjoy each trying a bit of everything in the box.  The Luna Protein Chocolate Salted Caramel bar and the Original Crackers by Beecher’s Handmade Cheese were the favorites in this months box.

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Dump Cake

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Have you ever heard of “dump cake” before? I had never heard of it until I had some for the first time a few years ago for Christmas dinner dessert.  And let me tell you, it was delicious and love at first bite! It’s as simple as dumping everything into a baking dish and topping it with a yellow cake mix and butter…lots of butter 🙂

It may not look super pretty once it is on the plate, but it sure is super yummy!  It is also absolutely delicious with some vanilla ice cream, or whipped cream or cool whip on top too. I can’t wait to have it again!

It's as simple as dumping everything into a baking dish and topping it with butter...lots of butter :-)| lookingjoligood.wordpress.comIngredients

1 can (21 Oz.) Cherry Pie Filling
1 can (15 Oz.) Crushed Pineapple
1 box (about 18 Oz.) Yellow Cake Mix
1 stick melted Butter

Dump cherry pie filling and crushed pineapple into 9×13 baking dish. Stir together.
Sprinkle cake mix over the top of the fruit. Pour melted butter over the surface of the cake mix.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35ish minutes.

Some other varieties you can make…

Substitute the Yellow Cake Mix for a spice cake mix and the pineapples and cherries for some apple pie filling and it will make a delicious apple crisp like dessert.

Substitute the pineapples and cherries for 3 cans of peaches and you have a peach cobbler.

Substitute the Yellow Cake Mix for a spice cake mix and the pineapples and cherries for some pumpkin pie filling, add some walnuts or pecans and you have a yummy pumpkin cobbler.

The fruit combos are pretty much endless!

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No Bake Peanut Butter Coco Oatmeal Cookies

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If there’s one cookie that reminds me of my childhood this has got to be it! I LOVE these no bake pb coco oat meal cookies! Just how I like a recipe to be… so easy and so delicious!

If there's one cookie that reminds me of my childhood this has got to be it! I LOVE these no bake pb coco oat meal cookies! Just how I like a recipe to be... so easy and so delicious! | lookingjoligood.woordpress.com

Ingredients

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup Butter (1 stick butter)
3 Tbsp. cocoa powder
1/2 cup milk
3/4 cup crunchy peanut butter
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
4 cups oatmeal (I prefer old fashioned rolled oats, not instant)

Directions

Over medium heat, mix the sugar, butter, cocoa, and milk in a medium/large saucepan. Boil for 1 minute.

Turn off the heat and add the peanut butter and vanilla. Mix quickly until peanut butter melts completely. Then add the oatmeal and mix until well blended.

Using a 2 tbsp scooper (a spoon will also be fine) drop spoonfuls onto tin foil, wax paper or parchment.
It’s going to be tough to resist eating them, but allow the cookies to set and cool completely.

Makes 3 1/2 dozen 2 tbsp cookies.

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Apple Crisp Recipe

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Ever since I was little, every year in the fall my family goes apple picking! I love it.  My favorite apples to eat are Macintosh.  So crisp and sweet!
One of my favorite things to do with all the other types of apples that we pick is to make apple crisp.  If you’re looking for a great apple crisp recipe, here is a delicious one from Hoosier Homemade.
If you're looking for a great apple crisp recipe, here is a delicious one | lookingjoligood.wordpress.comIngredients
  • 4 cups (4 large or 5 medium apples) sliced apples
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup flour, all-purpose
  • ½ cup oatmeal, quick cooking is best
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon nutmeg
  • ½ cup butter or margarine, softened plus additional butter for pan
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and butter a 8×8 baking dish
  2. Slice apples and place in buttered pan
  3. Combine dry ingredients for topping, and mix in butter until crumbled
  4. Add to top of apples
  5. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until apples are tender and bubbly
  6. Serve with ice cream and caramel if desired
Serves: 4 servings
Recipe can easily be doubled
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