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Upside Down Apple Pie
You have to try this!! It looks like a mess, but it’s the best pie I ever made all from scratch. Yum yum yum!!! For Bottom deliciousness: 6 Tablespoons Butter, melted and divided. 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar 1/2 cup chopped pecans 2 Pie Crusts: 2 cups all purpose flour 1 cup shortening 1 […]
Glazed Buttermilk Cookies
A glazed buttermilk cookie with hint of nutmeg. Author: Jen’s Favourite Cookies FOR COOKIES: ¾ cup butter, softened 1½ cups sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp. vanilla ⅔ cup buttermilk 1 tsp. nutmeg ½ tsp. salt ½ tsp. baking soda 3 cups flour FOR GLAZE: 3 T. buttermilk 1½ cups powdered sugar 1 tsp nutmeg Instructions […]
Banana Crunch Bread
Crunchy, and full of banana and coconut flavours!! This banana bread is a home run at our house! I didn’t have chocolate chips on hand (Okay, yes I ate them all and NOT buying anymore!!) Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease a No. 9 CI Skillet *Bakers Joy, and preheat the skillet (no. 9) for 5 […]
Great Grandma’s Favourites
COCONUT OATMEAL RAISIN WALNUT COOKIES 3⁄4 cup butter 3⁄4 cup white sugar 1⁄2 cup brown sugar 1 large egg 1 cup flour 1 cup rolled oats 3⁄4 cup coconut 1/4 chopped walnuts 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 1⁄2 cups raisins Cream butter and sugars together until light. Add egg and mix […]
Shortbread & Cookie Press
1 cup unsalted butter, softened 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup powdered sugar 2/3 cup cornstarch pinch of salt 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix butter with a wooden spoon until smooth. Add vanilla & powdered sugar and continue mixing. Stir in cornstarch and flour. Mix until dough is […]
Chocolate Banana Cake
YUM YUM YUM… cut a big slice, you’re gonna love it!! 2 cups flour 3/4 cup cocoa 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 cup butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp vanilla extract 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 1/4 cups mashed banana mashed banana (3) 3/4 cup milk 1 tbsp lemon juice Instructions Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two 10″ Cast Iron skillets WELL with butter. I didn’t preheat them. […]
Peanut Butter Cookies ~ The Rus Kitchen
Recipe coming soon…..
Brayden’s Triple C
YUM YUM YUM… Cocoa, Chocolate Chips and Cherries!!! This pie is delicious!! What a twist of flavour Brayden created here.. Sarah helped in this creativity with the addition of milk chocolate chips. We know you’re going to make this pie again.. hopefully it will be for us!! Though we’re sure your mom and Seb will […]
Sarah’s Blueberry Explosion
Creamy blueberry goodness all created with Sarah’s unique gift of invention! After she put the lemon glaze on her pie, she lightly swirled the blueberries into the glaze giving this amazing purple swirled topping. We want another one of these next time you come to visit!! Use one baked and cooked pie crust removed from […]
Candied Pecans on Lemon Cream Cheese Glaze
The ‘Are you kidding me cake’ is soooo good! And so easy. Maybe too easy and I make it too often? Greg gets sad when the cake stand is empty.. so it’s all good. I thought this time I would mix things up with the toppings, and made candied pecans. Equally easy on the stove […]
Are You Kidding Me APPLE Cake
I tried another flavour today of this very moist, super easy to make cake! Brown Sugar Glaze 1 cup (190g) light or dark brown sugar (I prefer dark here) 1/4 cup (60g) unsalted butter 1/2 cup (120ml) heavy cream 1/2 cup (62g) confectioners sugar, sifted
The Are You Kidding Me Cake
This was fun to make!! Easy as pie, no pun intended!! This time instead of spraying baking pam I used butter and flour to grease the bundt pan. It came out great, but think next time I’ll leave the flour out of the equation and just use butter. CAKE: 1 box golden cake mix 3 […]
Open Face Blueberry Pie
I did mine with a baked and cooled pie crust in a 10″ CI frying pan. Added a can of E.D. Smith Blueberry Pie Filling when crust cooled and piped on cream cheese mixture. This is an alternative: From Cast Iron Cooking Group (Monica Smith Lamb ) Puff Pastry Dough 2 cups of water 2 […]
Homemade Chocolate Cake
My first homemade cake and first time trying out my new cast iron bundt pan!! Wowwwy…. it’s delicious!!! Fun to make and pretty easy too. Now I’m hooked on making cakes. Poor Greg. He’s going to be enormous. I need to find a family I can bake for, or he better get back to riding […]
Betty Crocker & Me
Delicious brownies in no time at all! It’s okay to take a short cut once in a while especially when you want your house to smell like chocolate! Who needs Dairy Queen! Use either a 10″ skillet or better yet, an 8″. Butter it well. Bake for about 30 minutes.
Carrot Cake
Greg’s Half Baked Carrot Cake! Sad but true. This gorgeous, super moist and delicious cake was selvedged! To this day I don’t know what went wrong, but I’m here to tell you that you CAN cool a cake that hasn’t been cooked through AND put it back in the oven again to finish. I was about […]
Glazed Banana Bread
This is ‘No Ordinary Banana Bread’! NOBB. Hmm… “Moist and delicious banana bread recipe. Easy to make, no need for a mixer! Ripe bananas, butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, baking soda, and flour.” recipe by Elise Bauer of Simply Recipes. I’ve made this so many times over the years, but never in Cast Iron, until now! This […]
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
I’ve never made a Pineapple Upside Down Cake. I’ve seen them before, but never tried one. Why not try it in a Cast Iron frying pan?? I took a very easy route and bought a cake mix. The recipe calls for a few other things added to it, but it turned out extremely light, moist […]