Cinnamon Rolls

From: Joy Willbur

2 TBS. yeast

1 TBS. sugar

1/2 C. warm water

2 eggs

1 1/12 C. of scalded milk

1/2 C. sugar

2 tsp. salt

1/2 C. melted butter

1/2 tsp vanilla

5-6 C. Flour

Dissolve yeast and 1 TBS. sugar in water. Wisk eggs and slowly add scalded milk, mixing together. Add the rest of the ingredients. Mix ingredients well enough to make a slightly sticky dough. Cover bowl and let rise until doubled. Divide dough in half and set aside. Flour your counter very well and roll out dough into a 1/2" thick rectangle. Spread butter/cinnamon mixture over entire surface. Roll up jelly roll style sealing the edges. Using dental floss, cut dough into 1-1 1/2" thick slices. Place on greased cookie sheet. Repeat these steps with other half of dough. Cover and let rise for 15 minutes. Bake at 400 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Frost with cream cheese frosting when cooled.


Butter Cinnamon filling: mix into a paste

1 cup brown sugar, packed

2 1/2 tablespoons ground cinnamon

1/3 cup butter, softened

Cream cheese frosting:

8 oz. cream cheese at room temp

1 stick butter, soften

1 lb powdered sugar (about 4 cups)

1 tsp vanilla

Buttery Soft Pretzels

Ingredients


4 teaspoons active dry yeast

1 teaspoon white sugar

1 1/4 cups warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)

5 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup white sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 tablespoon vegetable oil



1/2 cup baking soda

4 cups hot water

1/4 cup kosher salt, for topping

Directions

1.In a small bowl, dissolve yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.

2.In a large bowl, mix together flour, 1/2 cup sugar, and salt. Make a well in the center; add the oil and yeast mixture. Mix and form into a dough. If the mixture is dry, add one or two tablespoons of water. Knead the dough until smooth, about 7 to 8 minutes. Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour.

3.Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). In a large bowl, dissolve baking soda in hot water.

4.When risen, turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide into 12 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a rope and twist into a pretzel shape. Once all of the dough is all shaped, dip each pretzel into the baking soda solution and place on a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with kosher salt.

5.Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes, until browned.

Buttermilk Cornbread

Ingredients


1/2 cup butter

2/3 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 cup buttermilk

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup cornmeal

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions

1.Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8 inch square pan.

2.Melt butter in large skillet. Remove from heat and stir in sugar. Quickly add eggs and beat until well blended. Combine buttermilk with baking soda and stir into mixture in pan. Stir in cornmeal, flour, and salt until well blended and few lumps remain. Pour batter into the prepared pan.

3.Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Zucchini Bread

Ingredients


3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

3 teaspoons ground cinnamon

3 eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

2 1/4 cups white sugar

3 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 cups grated zucchini

1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

1.Grease and flour two 8 x 4 inch pans. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).

2.Sift flour, salt, baking powder, soda, and cinnamon together in a bowl.

3.Beat eggs, oil, vanilla, and sugar together in a large bowl. Add sifted ingredients to the creamed mixture, and beat well. Stir in zucchini and nuts until well combined. Pour batter into prepared pans.

4.Bake for 40 to 60 minutes, or until tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on rack for 20 minutes. Remove bread from pan, and completely cool

Banana Sour Cream Bread

Ingredients


1/4 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

3/4 cup butter

3 cups white sugar

3 eggs

6 very ripe bananas, mashed

1 (16 ounce) container sour cream

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 teaspoons baking soda

4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions

1.Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease four 7x3 inch loaf pans. In a small bowl, stir together 1/4 cup white sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Dust pans lightly with cinnamon and sugar mixture.

2.In a large bowl, cream butter and 3 cups sugar. Mix in eggs, mashed bananas, sour cream, vanilla and cinnamon. Mix in salt, baking soda and flour. Stir in nuts. Divide into prepared pans.

3.Bake for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Maine Pumpkin Bread

From: Allrecipes.com

Ingredients


1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree

4 eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

2/3 cup water

3 cups white sugar

3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

Directions

1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.

2.In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.

3.Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Cincinnati Cornbread

From: Jillene Ladle

1½ c yellow cornmeal

1½ c flour
1 c sugar
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
½ c oil
1½ c milk or buttermilk
(½ cup sour cream, if not using buttermilk)

Combine dry ingreadients. Add remaining ingredients; mix well. Bake in 9 X 13” pan at 350 for 30 minutes or until golden.

Clone of a Cinnabon

From:  Allrecipes.com

Ingredients


1 cup warm milk (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)

2 eggs, room temperature

1/3 cup margarine, melted

4 1/2 cups bread flour

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup white sugar

2 1/2 teaspoons bread machine yeast



1 cup brown sugar, packed

2 1/2 tablespoons ground cinnamon

1/3 cup butter, softened



1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened

1/4 cup butter, softened

1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/8 teaspoon salt

Directions

1.Place ingredients in the pan of the bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Select dough cycle; press Start.

2.After the dough has doubled in size turn it out onto a lightly floured surface, cover and let rest for 10 minutes. In a small bowl, combine brown sugar and cinnamon.

3.Roll dough into a 16x21 inch rectangle. Spread dough with 1/3 cup butter and sprinkle evenly with sugar/cinnamon mixture. Roll up dough and cut into 12 rolls. Place rolls in a lightly greased 9x13 inch baking pan. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

4.Bake rolls in preheated oven until golden brown, about 15 minutes. While rolls are baking, beat together cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla extract and salt. Spread frosting on warm rolls before serving.

Nancy's Cornbread

3 c. flour

1-1/2 c. sugar

1c. cornmeal

2T. baking powder

1 t. salt

2-1/2c. milk

4 eggs

2/3c. oil

6T. melted butter

Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl. Combine wet ingredients in another bowl (except for melted butter). Pour wet ingredients into dry. As you're stirring pour in the melted butter and stir just until they are blended. (The less you stir the better!)

Pour into a greased 9x13 pan. bake at 350 for about 40 min.

Take from oven a pour on honey butter glaze.

(2T. butter, 2T. honey...melted together.)

You can half this recipe and bake in a 8x8 pan, but it's so yummy I don't know why you would want to do that!

Flour Tortillas

From Ashlee Millar

4 cups Flour
2 tsp. sugar
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp baking powder
8 TBS Crisco
1 1/2 C. lukewarm water

Mix dry ingredients and then mix in Crisco. Add water. Cover with plastic and let stand for 15 minutes. Roll into egg shaped size balls. Ready to cook.

Pizza Dough

1 1/2 cups warm water
1 pkg. yeast or 1 Tb. yeast- dissolve in water
1 tsp. salt
1 Tb. sugar
2 Tb. oil
3 1/2 - 4 cups flour

Let rise for 1 1/2 - 2 hours.

Bake 450 for 5 min.

Banana Bread

1 3/4 cup flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/6 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup mashed bananas (about 3 large bananas)

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs. Sift flour, baking powder, soda and salt. Slowly add flour mix and bananas.

Pour into a sprayed loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Coconut Pecan Bread

4 eggs
2 cup sugar
1 cup oil
2 tsp. coconut extract

Mix.

Add:

3 cups flour
1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt

Mix.

Add:

1 cup buttermilk
1 cup coconut
1 cup chopped pecans

Bake at 325 for 45 minutes or until bread is firm in the middle. Cover with glaze.

Glaze:

1 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1 Tb. butter
1 tsp. coconut extract.

In a sauce pan, bring all ingredient to a boil and cool slightly. Brush on hot bread.

Makes TWO loaves.

Pumpkin Bread

4 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 cups pumpkin
1 cup oil

Mix.

Add:

2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. soda
2 tsp. cinnamon

Pour into TWO bread pans or 9x13 glass baking dish. Bake at 350 for 40 min. Frosting for 9x13 inch pan.

Frosting:

1 lb. powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cube margarine
8 oz. cream cheese

Mix with hand mixer. Spread over cooled bread.

Banana Crumb Muffins

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 bananas, mashed
3/4 cup white sugar or 1 cup Splenda
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/3 cup butter, melted

2/3 cup packed brown sugar
4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoon butter

Directions

1.Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease 10 muffin cups, or line with muffin papers.
2.In a large bowl, mix together 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter. Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
3.In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour and cinnamon. Cut in 1 tablespoon butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. Sprinkle topping over muffins.
4.Bake in preheated oven for 18 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.

OR

Bake in a 8x8 glass baking dish at 350 for 25 min.

Buttermilk Pancakes

1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
4 Tb. oil

Mix

Add:

2 cups flour
4 Tb. sugar
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt

Makes light and fluffy pancakes or waffles.

Oatmeal Muffins

1 egg
1 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup oil

Mix

1 cup quick oats
1 cup Flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda

Don't over stir batter, should be lumpy. Bake @ 400 for 10 min.