Saturday Sweet Treat!!!

 How about a couple of "sweet treat" recipes for today?  It's been a long, hot week around these here parts....so I think something cool and refreshing might just make us all feel better!!!  

And, you won't even have to turn on your oven!!!

;-)

Jello Cool Whip Fruit Salad

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2 cans fruit cocktail
1 can mandarin oranges
1 (20 oz.) can chunk pineapple
3 oz. cream cheese
8 oz. Cool Whip
3 oz. Jello (strawberry, cherry or banana)

Drain fruit. 

Soften cream cheese in a large bowl. 

Add Cool Whip and dry Jello 

(don't add water, just powder). 

Blend cheese, Cool Whip and Jello together. 

Mix with fruit and serve.

 

 

 "Diet" Lemon Cheese Cake

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1 c. light cottage cheese
8 oz. cream cheese
1 box lemon Jello (SF/FF)
2/3 c. water (boiling)
2 c. FF Cool Whip
1 can fruit filling (any flavor), pineapple, cherry, blueberry

Mix water and Jello together, add cottage cheese, then add whip cream fold in well, then put fruit filling on top.

 

Happy, happy Saturday, Sweet Reader!!!

 

HOPE you have a great weekend!!!

In His Most Precious Love....and with mine!!!

Saturday Sweet Treat!!

I haven't shared a recipe in a while....so since I happened to remember to take some pics of a strawberry pie I made for Pappy this week....

....I thought you might enjoy it, too!  

He loves strawberry pies....of any kind....but he asked for one that was "thick...not like Shoney's".  I thought I knew what he meant....so I found a recipe....and he said it was just right!!!  Since I only had a graham cracker crust on hand....that's what I used, although the recipe calls for a regular pie crust....and I certainly didn't want to make one from scratch!!!

The next one I make....I'll use more strawberries....more like 3 cups....and less sugar. It was a bit too sweet for my taste....I prefer a little on the tangy side!
I put a few in the little angel food cups that I had on hand, too.  

Wouldn't those be neat for a shower....or a brunch....or to serve to a great bunch of ladies who happen to come over to your house for a Bible study!?!?

;-)

HOPE you have a great Saturday, sweet readers!!!

In His Most Precious Love....and with mine!!!
 

Saturday Sweet Treat

I can't believe another week has come and gone....let alone we've survived the first quarter of TWENTY-ELEVEN!!!  Time flies by so fast, especially the older I get.  I haven't shared with y'all everything that's  been happening in our neck of the woods....but I won't do that today....I'll save it for a more serious post.  Because.....today.....is SATURDAY....and it's all about sweet treats!!!

I love sweets....waaaaay too much!!!

I know that I'm a carb-aholic....

....but aren't most girls?!?!

A little of a sweet treat ain't gonna hurt any of us....remember the key word is....moderation!!!

Of course sometimes I don't remember the definition of moderation!!!

;-)

Anyway....here's this weeks tasty treat!!!

Chocolate Eclair Cake

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2 packages of graham crackers

(not 2 boxes....2 "sleeves")
2 (3 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
3 cups milk
1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
1 (16 ounce) package prepared chocolate frosting

 

Line the bottom of a 9 x 13 pan with graham crackers. In a large bowl, combine pudding mix and milk. 

Stir well. Stir in whipped topping to pudding mixture. Spread half of mixture over graham cracker layer. Top with another layer of graham crackers and the remaining pudding. Top all with a final layer of graham crackers and frost with chocolate frosting.

Refrigerate until serving.

 

Beware....this is sooooo easy....you'll be tempted to make it way too often....and eat way too much!!!

;-)

 

HOPE all of you have a great Saturday!!

 

In His Most Precious Love....and with mine!!!

Saturday Sweet Treat

Since I seem to be best at making desserts.....when I post a recipe on Saturday, it's probably gonna be for a "sweet treat".....which is the term that Pappy uses when he gives our GRAND-sons an ice cream sandwich.

So....today's "sweet treat" recipe is for.....

Lemonade Cake

1 (3 ounce) package lemon flavored gelatin
3/4 cup boiling water
1  package lemon cake mix
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1 (6 ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
3/4 cup white sugar

 

Preheat oven to 350

Grease and flour one 10 inch tube pan,

or a 9 x 13 sheet cake pan  

(I make mine in the sheet cake pan)

Dissolve lemon gelatin the boiling water and set aside

 Combine cake mix, vegetable oil, and eggs

Mix well and add gelatin mixture then beat for 5 minutes

Pour batter into the prepared pan

Bake at 350 for 1 hour

(or less, depending on your oven)

Mix together  the lemonade concentrate and the sugar thoroughly to make a glaze. While the cake is still warm and in the pan, puncture cake with the tines of a fork and pour the lemonade glaze over it.

This is best if you let it set and allow the cake to soak up the glaze!!!

 

This cake is very....very....tangy!!!

In His Most Precious Love....and with mine!!!