Taco Soup

Ingredients:

1 lb Ground Beef

1 Can Corn (with liquid)

1 Can Kidney Beans (with liquid)

1 Can Black Beans (with liquid)

1 Can Tomato Sauce

1 package of taco seasoning

Cheese

Sour Cream

Tortilla Chips

Olives

Directions:

1. brown your ground beef
2. put beef, tomato sauce, un-drained kidney beans, un-drained corn, and taco seasoning into a slow cooker. Cover, set on low, and cook for 4-6 hours (stirring occasionally).
3. When ready to eat, top with sour cream, cheese and olives. We eat it with tortilla chips on top as well.

Preparation Time: 4.5-6.5 hours

Cherry Swirl Coffee Cake

Top: Cherry Coffee Cake, Bottom: Blueberry Coffee Cake

Ingredients:
Coffee Cake:
1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup butter (2 sticks), room temperature
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon almond extract
4 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 can (21 oz) cherry pie filling (or alternative fruit)


Glaze:
1 cup powder sugar
1 or 2 teaspoons milk


Directions:

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare either a 15x10 in pan or 2-9x9 in pans by spraying them with cooking spray

2. In a large bowl, beat all the cake ingredients except the flour and the pie filling with an electric mixer for about 3 minutes. Add the flour and mix. The dough will be stiff.

3. Spread 2/3 of the mixture evenly into the pan(s). set the other 1/3 of the mixture aside. Spread the pie filling over the dough. The pie filling would cover the entire cake. Spread it as much as you can. With the remaining dough, drop mounds on to the cake, about 2 inches apart, over then entire cake. (It will give the cake a fun 3-dimensional look).

4. Bake for about 45 min or until you can put a toothpick through the cake and come out clean.

5. While the cake is baking, in a small bowl, mix the glaze ingredients with a spoon until it is smooth and thin enough to drizzle. Over the warm coffee cake, drizzle glaze from the tip of a tableware teaspoon, moving back and forth to make thin lines of glaze. Cut and serve.

Number Of Servings: 18 bars

Preparation Time:prep - 20 mins, start to finish: 1 hour, 5 minutes

Thanks to Camille S. For donating this recipe

Streusel Topped Blueberry Muffins

Ingredients:

Streusel Top:

1/4 Cup Flour

1/4 Cup Brown Sugar

1/4 Teaspoon Cinnamon

2 Tablespoons cold butter

Muffins:

3/4 cup milk

1/4 vegetable oil

1 egg (large)

2 Cups Flour

1/2 Cup Sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 can fresh, canned (drained) or frozen blue berries (I used 1/2 can blueberry pie filling)

Directions:

1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Place a paper baking cups in each of 12 regular-size muffin cups.

2. In a medium bowl, mix the streusel topping ingredients (minus the butter) until they all blend together. Cut the butter into the mixture and (using a fork or your hands) mix until crumbly. Set aside.

3. In a large bowl, beat milk, oil, and egg with a wisk or fork. Add the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Stir until flour is moisten (batter will be lumpy). Gently stir in blue berries. Spoon batter into the cups. Sprinkle each with about 1 Tablespoon of Streusel

4. Bake for 20-25 min.

Number Of Servings: 12 muffins (though I got 12 large and 12 mini muffins from the recipe)

Preparation Time: Prep: 20 min. Total: 50 min

Thank you Camille S! For sharing

Layered Coconut-Chocolate Chip Bars

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

20 to 24 graham cracker squares

1 cup chopped nuts

1 cup chocolate chips

1-1/2 cup shredded coconut

1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Place butter in medium, microwaveable bowl and microwave for 1 min (with papertowel covering it)

2. Place graham crackers in a ziploc bag and roll over them with a rolling pin until they are fine crumbs. Measure your crumbs. It should be 1-1/2 cups.

3. Pour the crumbs into the bowl of melted butter and mix. Then, using your clean fingers, press the mixture into the bottom of a ungreased 13x9" pan

4. Sprinkle nuts, chocolate chips, and coconut over the graham cracker mixture. Pour the condensed milk over the top.

5. Bake 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned. Place pan on a cooling rack. Let stand for about 2 hours until completely cooled. For 36 bars, cut 6 rows by 6 rows.

Number Of Servings:36 bars

Preparation Time:10 minutes prep, 2 hours 40 min total

Thank you Camille S. for sharing this recipe

Easter Story Cookies

EASTER STORY COOKIES
To be made the evening before Easter.

You will need:
1 cup whole pecans
1 tsp. vinegar
3 egg whites
pinch salt
1 cup sugar
plastic ziploc bag
wooden spoon
tape
Bible

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees (this is important-don't wait 'til you're half done with the recipe!)



2. Place pecans in ziploc bag and let children beat them with the wooden spoon to break into small pieces. Explain that after Jesus was arrested, He was beaten by the Roman soldiers. Read John 19:1-3.



3. Let each child smell the vinegar. Put 1 tsp. vinegar into mixing bowl. Explain that when Jesus was thirsty on the cross, He was given vinegar to drink. Read John 19:28-30.



4. Add egg whites to vinegar. Eggs represent life. Explain that Jesus gave His life to give us life. Read John 10:10-11.



5. Sprinkle a little salt into each child's hand. Let them taste it and brush the rest into the bowl. Explain that this represents the salty tears shed by Jesus' followers, and the bitterness of our own sin. Read Luke 23:27.



6. So far, the ingredients are not very appetizing. Add 1 cup of sugar. Explain that the sweetest part of the story is that Jesus died because He loves us. He wants us to know and belong to Him. Read Ps. 34:8 and John 3:16.



7. Beat with a mixer on high speed for 12 to 15 minutes until stiff peaks are formed. Explain that the color white represents the purity in God's eyes of those whose sins have been cleansed through repentance and the Atonement. Read Isaiah 1:18 and John 3:1-3.



8. Fold in broken pecans. Drop by teaspoons onto wax paper covered cookie sheet. Explain that each mound represents the rocky tomb where Jesus' body was laid. Read Matt. 27:57-60.



9. Put the cookie sheet in the oven, close the door and turn the oven OFF. Give each child a piece of tape and seal the oven door. Explain that Jesus' tomb was sealed. Read Matt. 27:65-66.



10. GO TO BED! Explain that they may feel sad to leave the cookies in the oven overnight. Jesus' followers were in despair when the tomb was sealed. Read John 16:20 and 22.



11. On Easter morning, open the oven and give everyone a cookie. Notice the cracked surface and take a bite. The cookies are hollow! On the first Easter, Jesus' followers were amazed to find the tomb open and empty. Read Matt. 28:1-9.