Any Old Bottle of Fruit Cake Recipe

I've been meaning to share this recipe for a while, but never remembered to find it at the same time I wanted to blog. This is a great recipe when your fruit turns a little brown in the bottle and you don't really want to eat it. I still need to make it, but I wanted to post it before it got lost again.

Here goes:
Any Old Bottle of Fruit Cake
Ingredients:
1 quart fruit
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil (or you can use 1/2 cup applesauce and 1/2 cup oil)
4 cups flour
4 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions:
Pour entire bottle of fruit into blender and blend until smooth. Mix all dry ingredients together into a mixer bowl. Add blended fruit and oil to dry mix, mix until fairly smooth.   (IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are in a hurry and decide to just add everything to the blender and mix until smooth - this will work most of the time. However, if you are using rhubarb as your bottle of fruit, please note that rhubarb and baking soda do not mix well together, they cause explosions and will create a large mess in your kitchen!)

You may also add 2 cup raisins and/or 1 cup nuts.

Bake in a 9 x 13 (greased) cake pan at 375 for 55-60 minutes.

It is served best with cream cheese frosting or a caramel frosting (see below)!  =)  Enjoy!



Caramel Frosting:
1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup light cream or milk.

Barely bring mixture to a boil on the stove, then take off heat. Gradually stir in 2 cups of powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. (YUMMY!!)


p.s. I've eaten it, but not made it. When I do, I'll be sure to post pictures!!

Raspberry Delight (Dessert)

We keep having Raspberries at the farmer's market, so I thought I would share one of my favorite desserts using raspberries. Of course, just eating them and putting them on ice cream or with some cream or half and half is a fantastic way to enjoy raspberries - not to mention they are loaded with all the healthy anti-oxidants a body could use.

But this is cool and refreshing and WONDERFUL!!

I call is Raspberry Delight. My sister calls it Raspberry Dessert on her blog: Taste the Joy

I'll giver her the credit because she takes better pictures than I do and already has the recipe typed up for us to use. In fact, I just hand wrote it down in my most favorite, most used cookbook so I could have it a little more handy. I might just make this today and DOUBLE the recipe!! I only get this about once a year, you know, so I'd better make it worth it, don't you think?

Have you ever had this recipe or something similar? Please share!

p.s. Don't forget to go get the raspberry recipe on Taste the Joy blog and buy raspberries from us at our farmer's markets we are at. See you there!

Rhubarb Season - Part 3

Hi - another recipe for rhubarb. This one is amazing and delicious; creamy and satisfying!

I am giving complete credit to my sister on this one - so just click over to her blog. She is better at making it than I am. The recipe? Rhubarb Icebox Dessert. here is her blog:  Taste the Joy

Here is the teaser photo:  (this is divine!!)