Chocolate Pecan Sheet Cake
A good recipe that serves a lot. A mild chocolate that is smothered in an almost toffee like frosting.

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup water
• 2 sticks margarine
• 4 teaspoons cocoa
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 2 beaten eggs
• 1 teaspoon soda

Preheat oven to 375°, Place sugar and flour in large mixing bowl. Bring water, coca and margarine to boiling. Pour over sugar and flour and mix well. Add egg, soda and buttermilk. Mix well. Pour onto greased deep cookie sheet. Bake for 1/2 hour.

Frosting

• 6 tablespoons milk
• 1 stick of margarine
• 4 teaspoons cocoa
• 3 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup pecans

Bring first 3 ingredients to a boil. Add remaining ingredients. Pour over baked cake while still hot.

Cranberry Cake with Hot Butter Sauce
We love this cake! The bright red cranberries against the cake makes a beautiful holiday presentation. One of our family favorites. Perfect served for any Christmas event.

• 2 Tablespoons of butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk
• 2-3 cups whole raw cranberries

Grease 9″ square pan. Cream butter and sugar, add vanilla. Sift in separate bowl: flour, baking powder and salt. Add approximately 1/3 of dry ingredients to butter mixture. Add some milk, alternate adding dry ingredients and then the milk. Fold in cranberries. Pour into pan and bake at 400° for about 30-35 minutes.
Hot Butter Sauce

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup Milnot

Melt butter in sauce pan. Stir in sugar. Stir in Milnot. Simmer for 3-4 minutes. Slice the cake into individual servings and place on dessert plate. Drizzle plenty o hot butter sauce over each slice.

Alfajores with Dulce de Leche
(in other words…Cornstarch Cookies and Yummy Caramelized Cream!) We served these sandwich cookies at our Argentinean Tea Party August 2013. The just lightly sweet cookies were perfectly paired with the sweet, rich Dulce de Leche middle.

• 2 1/2 cups cornstarch
• 1 2/3 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 cup plus 1 Tablespoon butter
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
• grated lemon peel from 1 lemon

Whisk cornstarch, flour, baking powder, baking soda together. Beat together butter, sugar until fluffy, add egg yolks one at a time till blended. Add dry ingredients 1/3 at a time. Add vanilla extract and lemon peel. Mix well.
Roll or stretch dough to approximately 1/2″ thick. cut out into circles of desired size. Bake at 350° for about 15 minutes. Bottoms should be slightly brown.
Cool and spread with Dulce de Leche. Top with another cookie to make a sandwich-style cookie. Enjoy!
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