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Orange Pumpkin Cake | Holiday Cookies | Cinnamon Rolls

Orange Pumpkin Cake

Cake:
1 yellow cake mix
3 egg whites
1¼ cup canned pumpkin
1 cup orange juice
1/3 cup sour cream
1½ teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice

Glaze:
1½ cups powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
water

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together all the cake ingredients for 2-3
minutes. Pour into a greased bunt pan. Bake 35-40 minutes. Mix powdered
sugar and vanilla, and gradually add water tablespoon at a time until it reaches
desired consistency and drizzle over cake.

Cool.
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Holiday Cookies

Printable Version

Here is the basic recipe:
1 box yellow or chocolate cake mix
1/3 cup oil
2 eggs

Mix all ingredients well. Drop by spoonfuls using small cookie scoop. Bake for
10-12 minutes at 375 or until done.

That is the basic recipe...the variations are what make it special. Use small part
of dough (1/6 of it) to make 6 to 8 cookies of the variation. This gives you a
large tray of cookies when you use 2 or 3 cake mixes.

Variations:
1. Add chopped or finely ground nuts. Knead into dough.

2. Mix one part cinnamon and four parts sugar in small bowl. Drop balls of
dough into mixture and shake around (use yellow cake mix). These taste like
snickerdoodles.

3. Wrap scoop of dough around candy bar pieces, such as andes mints,
Hersheys Treasures, snickers, milky way, caramels, etc. and you will get a
surprise when you bite into cookies.

4. Knead chopped up candy bars, reeses pieces, m & m's, raisins, etc into a
ball of cookie dough.

5. Roll dough with hands into snake ropes. Drop into red sugar crystals and
intertwine with yellow cake rope and make candy canes. Or use green and
make wreaths and decorate with red hots.

6. Zest a lemon or orange into dough.

7. Roll them out and you can make sugar cookies with cookie cutters.
Sprinkle with colored sugar crystals

8. Make sandwich cookies...take two of the cut outs and place frosting in
between. Chocolate stars with sugar on top and lemon zested frosting (white
canned frosting with lemon zest) in between are really good.

9. Make a filled cookie with cut and seal...fill with strawberry or apricot
preserves.

10. Wrap chocolate dough around a cherry.

11. Make cookie tarts with your mini muffin pans and tart shaper. Fill with
miniture reeses cup or chocolate chips and bake...can even use Decorator to
fill the empty tarts with a mousse or pudding.

12. Make a bar cookie in the 9 x 13.

13. Make cookies with plain dough using a cookie press!

Cinnamon Rolls

Printable Version

2 1/4 cups very warm tap water
2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
1 white or yellow cake mix
5 cups flour

Cream Cheese Frosting

Filling
1/2 cup softened butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped walnuts, optional
1/4 cup raisins, optional

In a large bowl, mix warm water and yeast together with a whisk. Whisk the cake mix into the yeast water. With a spatula stir in the flour one cup at a time. Let the dough stand in the bowl in a draft free place for 45 minutes. Knead enough to punch down and roll to 18 x 10 inches. Add small amount of flour if needed for kneading.

Mix butter, brown sugar and cinnamon together. Heat in the microwave for 15 seconds. Spread over rolled out dough. Sprinkle nuts or raisins over the dough if desired.

Starting with the widest end, roll the dough into a tight log. Cut into 1/2 to 1 inch slices. Place in a greased 9x13 pan. Allow the rolls to raise another 25 minutes. Bake at 350 degrees for 19-23 minutes. Warm cream cheese frosting in microwave for 30-40 seconds. Drizzle glaze over the baked cinnamon rolls. Makes 15 cinnamon rolls.
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