Dump Cake

Recipe From: Paula Pike (Kirsten's friend and former business partner)

Ingredients

You will need to purchase:        

• any type of pie filling you like
• any cake mix you like (we like blueberry and banana cake but as you can see the options are limitless)
• Pineapple tidbits
• 1 stick of margarine or butter

Instructions

1)     Spray the pan with cooking spray

2)     Drain the pineapple and drink the juice. While drinking put the pineapples in the bottom of the cake pan

3)     Spread (or dump) the pie filling over the pineapples

4)     Spread (or dump) the dry cake mix over the pie filling – breaking up any clumps

5)     Cut slim butter pats and place them over the dry cake mix. Try to cover the entire cake mix with the butter.

6)     Bake according to the cake mix directions

Cinnamon Apple Cake

Recipe From: Maura Gallagher.  Made by her for the New Years Gathering in October of 2008.

Preheat Oven to:  350 degrees  

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups  sugar -- divided
1/2 cup  stick margarine -- softened
1 teaspoon  vanilla extract
6 ounces  fat-free cream cheese -- softened
2 large  eggs
1 1/2 cups  all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons  baking powder
1/4 teaspoon  salt
2 teaspoons  ground cinnamon
3  cups  Rome apple -- peeled and chopped (about 2 large)
vegetable cooking spray

Instructions

1. Beat 1 1/2 cups sugar, margarine, vanilla, and cream cheese at medium speed of a mixer until well  blended (about 4 minutes). 
2. Add eggs, one at a time , beating well after each addition. 
3. Combine flour, baking powder and salt.  Add flour mixture to creamed mixture, beating at low speed until blended.
4. Combine 1/4 cup sugar and cinnamon. 
5. Take 2 tablespoons cinnamon mixture and mix it with the apples in a bowl
6. Stir apple mixture into batter. 
7. Pour batter into an 8-inch springform pan coated with cooking spray, and sprinkle with remaining cinnamon mixture.
8. Bake at 350° for 1  hour and 15 minutes or until the cake pulls away form the sides of the pan. 
9. Cool the cake completely on a wire rack, and cut using a serrated knife.

NOTES : If made in a 9-inch springform pan, reduce cooking time by 5 minutes.

MAURA'S SPECIAL VARIATION: instead of reading recipe carefully, mix the full sugar/cinnamon mixture in with the apples.  Then, when you realize you should have only used 2 tablespoons, sigh, beat head against the countertop, and mix together another 1/4 cup sugar & 2 teaspoons cinnamon to use for the topping.  [I suspect that this weekend is the first time i've followed the recipe exactly, since i was keenly aware that i wouldn't have any backup cinnamon!]

Source:
  "Cooking Light, October 1997, p. 120"

Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Recipe From:  Karen Howard - one of Kirsten's mother's-in-law

Karen's Notes: Here is a recipe for sour cream coffee cake which we always have Thanksgiving and Christmas mornings, other special occasions too

Preheat Oven to: 350 degrees

Ingredients

1 C less 2 Tblsp oleo                

1 C sour cream                        

3 eggs                               

1 tsp vanilla                        

3 C sifted flour

1 C sugar   

1/2 tsp salt 

1/2 tsp baking soda 

Sugar filling

1/2 C sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 C chopped walnuts

Instructions

Mix together wet ingredients. Add dry ingredients. Put 1/2 mix in angel food cake pan (greased). Sprinkle 1/2 sugar filling, then carefully spread rest of mix. Sprinkle rest of sugar filling on top.

Bake 350 deg. about 1 hour- check with toothpick. Cool before removing from pan. When room temp, wrap in alum. foil until ready to start eating.