Easy Cherry Cobbler a'la mode

Preheat Oven: 350 degrees
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients:
2 Cans of Cherry Pie filling
1 Yellow Cake Mix
1-2 Cups of Oatmeal
1 Cup of melted Margarine or Butter
Vanilla Ice Cream
Walnuts in Syrup(ice cream topping)

Directions:
1. Pour pie filling into casserole dish.
2. Spread Cake mix over pie filling.
3. Spread oatmeal over cake mix
4. Drizzle melted margarine over entire cobbler.
5. Bake for 35 minutes at 350 degrees.
6. Top with ice cream and walnuts.

Yum...

Peanut Butter Delight Bars

This Peanut Butter Delight Bars Recipe is simple decadence. 

Blending of rich cocoa flavor with a crunchy peanut filling and the final topping from the honey-bear makes this dessert an absolute treat. It is an adaptation from what most southern folk call the Preacher Cookie. Although the recipe contains a bit of sugar it is also fairly healthy if you take in the quantity of peanut butter and oatmeal.

Most importantly, my kids say,

"It's Good!"

Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 5 minutes

Yield: 2 quart Yields: 7 x 11 inch or 2 quart (recipe can be doubled if not being served individually)

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup Sugar

1/3 Cup Cocoa

1/2 Cup Evaporated Milk(regular whole milk can also be used)

2 Tablespoons Butter or Margarine

1 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1/2 Cup Crunchy Peanut Butter plus 1 or 2 cups to spread as filling

2 Cup Quick Cooking Oatmeal

Honey for drizzling over top

Directions:

1. Combine sugar, cocoa, and evaporated milk in a saucepan. 

2. Bring to boil, stirring constantly for 3 minutes then remove from heat.

3. Stir in peanut butter, vanilla, and butter until smooth.

4. Fold in oatmeal until well blended.

5. Spread into pan or casserole dish.

6. Cool until well set.

Bars can be served as the are but doubling with peanut butter in the middle is what really adds the extra to this dessert. Don't forget to drizzle the honey on top.

Mandarin Crush Cake

This light and citrus flavored cake is sure to be a crowd pleaser.

This easy recipe is sure to please the cook as well.
Prep Time: approximately 10 minutes.
Total Time: approximately 40 minutes.

Preheat oven at 350 degrees

Ingredients:

Box of Yellow Cake Mix

12 ounces Crush soda

11 ounce can  Mandarin Oranges

1 tub vanilla icing

1/2 teaspoon vanilla flavoring

Direction:

1. Stir Crush soda into cake mix.

2. Bake about 35 minutes or until done. 

3. Let cake set 5-10 minutes. 

4. Poke holes in cake and pour juice from oranges onto cake.

5. Let cake cool completely.

6. Whip icing and vanilla until very fluffy and cover cake.

7. Place orange segments on top of cake.

Enjoy!

Southern Fried Apple Pies

If you take a drive along our beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway

and start getting a craving for something yummy it won't take you

long to find yourself a

Fried Apple Pie.

The best things in life are simple and so is this little treat. 

You will get a good taste of southern home cookin' with a Fried Apple Pie. 

Let's make ourselves some Fried Pies.

To get started you will want to make a batch of pie crust.

Flaky Pie Crust

Set your crust aside and will fry up our apples.

Now we need to fry up some apples.

When I fry apples:

1. I  peel & slice my apples into thin discs.

2.  I prefer a iron skillet when frying apples. I just cover the bottom of my skillet with water place my apples in skillet, add a sprinkle of salt, dob butter or margarine all a top my apples, 

cover with brown sugar and cinnamon. I really don't measure; I just eyeball it. 

3. Cook apples medium-high heat. Stirring often until apples are cooked down.

By that I mean cooked down tender and syrupy but not turned to 

applesauce or mush.

It's time to put this together and fry 'em up.

1. Roll out you pie crust. I'm going to use a large biscuit cutter

 but you can cut out you discs with a large cup or saucer

2. Heat 1/2 inch to 1 inch of oil in a pan on medium-high heat.

3. Take one pie crust, roll a little thinner, add about 2 heaping spoons of apples.

Fold over and mash ends together. 

If your crust is a little dry wet it with your finger.

You can also use a fork to really close it good.

4. Place in hot oil.

Turn in about 1-2 minutes. Cook another minute or two.

Remove and repeat until you're out of apples and crust.

YeeHaw! 

That's all she wrote.

Fried Ice Cream Cake

Nothing goes along with you southwestern meal more than fried ice cream.

So in my quest to have all the flavor with out actually frying ice cream;

I'm making Fried Ice Cream Cake.

Oh yeah....

Fried Ice Cream Cake!

Let's gather our ingredients and get started.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon of salt

3 cups of Corn Flakes (crushed)

1 quart vanilla ice cream~I prefer French Vanilla Ice cream.(Soften to room temperature)

1~8 ounce tub of frozen whipped topping(Cool Whip)

3/4 teaspoon of cinnamon

Honey for the drizzling.

Direction:

1. Heat butter, sugar, and salt over medium heat.Stirring continually being careful not to burn your sugar. Heat until mixture reaches a bubbling state.

2. Add corn flakes to mixture. Stirring until corn flakes are slightly caramelized.

3. Layer half your corn flake mixture in bottom of baking dish. Pat down to "set" your flakes.

4. Mix together ice cream,  whip topping, and cinnamon.

5. Pour into your baking dish.

6. Top with remaining corn flake mixture.

7. Freeze for 4-5 hours.

Drizzle with honey and serve.