Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Coca-Cola Cake

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Coca-Cola Cake 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups granulated sugar 3 tablespoons cocoa 1 cup butter or margarine 1/2 cup buttermilk 1 cup Coca-Cola® 2 eggs 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Pinch of salt 1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 13 x 9-inch baking pan. Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. Heat butter, cocoa and Coca-Cola® to boil and pour over the flour mixture. Mix well. Add eggs, buttermilk, vanilla extract and marshmallows and blend. The batter will be thin with marshmallows floating on top. Bake for 45 minutes. Frosting 1/2 cup butter or margarine 3 tablespoons cocoa 6 tablespoons Coca-Cola® 1 box confectioners' sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Boil first three ingredients. Remove from the heat and blend in the sugar and vanilla extract. Spread on warm cake.

CHRISTMAS FRIENDSHIP LUNCHEON

Christmas Friendship Luncheon In order to share a little holiday cheer with friends who are so dear, a Christmas luncheon is an ideal way to spend the Christmas in July season. The most important element of the luncheon is a beautifully set table. Start with a lovely embroidered tablecloth and white placemats with silver satin around the edges with matching silver cuttlery, glasswares, Off-white plates, napkins that match the placemats to complete the setting. Include a flower arrangement in a beautiful vase or flower pot made from your favorite flowers. Write each guests name on cardstock, punch a hole in the corner, and tie it around the bottom of the urn with a pretty satin ribbon. On each friend's plate leave pretty poppers filled with tiny gifts. Now that your table is complete, for the rest of the how about the rest of the house? I try to stick with the holiday colors of red, green, yellow, gold and silver. Evergreen garlands are draped over the mantel and doorways. An abundance of candles are lit around the house (and bathroom – it's nice to enter a restroom with the glow of candles.) I add fragrance to the house by simmering cinnamon sticks and cloves in a pot of apple cider on the stove. The entryway, bathroom, coffee table, and select corners are adorned with containers of poinsettias. And I hang silver stars with iridescent marbles in the center from the kitchen fan and on doorknobs. The kitchen is where I set up an appealing buffet. I put another cranberry organza tablecloth on the kitchen table. Here, guests can help themselves to holiday punch, coffee, or champagne (with orange juice if they'd like.) On my kitchen counter I lay a silver linen tablecloth and scrunch it up to add a relaxed but dressed look, on which I put the plates of food. Lunch includes a cranberry and toasted almond green salad, chicken, (I try to change the kind every year) quiche, (again different each year) and homemade bread (it might be corn or banana or garlic or…) After we've eaten at the table and talked for a while, I clear the plates and serve dessert. If it's cool out I'll serve hot chocolate. If not, more juice or champagne is in order. I put a variety of small desserts on a tray and ask each guest to help herself as I go around the table. The tray includes fresh baked cookies, muffins, fruit tarts and brownies. The conversation continues until we are all talked out and caught up with each other's lives. Friendship needs to be nurtured and a holiday luncheon is a great way to thank your girlfriends for their companionship. They've enjoyed the lunch, love their party favors and look forward to getting together again the next year. GAMES Card Game The idea is to have 2 decks of cards, pass out one deck of cards to everyone at the party circling around giving everyone one at a time until all the cards are gone. Hopefully everyone will come out with an even number of cards.. Have a bunch of nice little gifts wrapped 5 or 10 depending on the amount of guests.. Put the gifts in the center of the room.. Then with the second Deck of Cards have someone call out each card, the person that has the card that is called gets up and picks a prize, when all the prizes are taken from the table, everyone can steal the gifts from each other, when the whole deck has been called out the people with the prizes on their laps keep them.. This game is fun because everyone likes to pick a certain prize that looks interesting and they try to steal it back and forth and other people try not to let you remember they have a prize, but of course they have to keep them in the open.... (This game works for birthdays too.)

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Cranberry Punch

Cranberry Punch 2 pints raspberry sherbet 1/2 cup lemon juice 2 cups orange juice 3/4 cup sugar 1 1/2 quarts cranberry juice 2 (28 oz) ginger ale In a large pitcher combine lemon juice, orange juice and sugar. Stir to dissolve the sugar. Add cranberry juice and refrigerate for 5 hours or overnight. Then pour into your punch bowl, add ginger ale and using an ice cream scoop place balls of sherbet to float on top. Delicious. Caramel Cashew Chewies   3/4 cup butter, softened 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 egg 1 1/2 cups flour 1 cup old-fashioned oats 1 pkg. (14 oz.) caramels 1/3 cup half-and-half  cream 1 cup semisweet chocolate chunks 1 cup salted cashew halves, chopped   In a large bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.  Beat in the egg.  Combine the flour and oats.  Gradually add to the creamed mixture.  Press into a 13 x 9 inch baking pan coated with cooking spray.  Bake at 350 F for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown.  Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine the caramels and the cream.  Cook over low heat for 4-5 minutes or until the caramels are melted.  Stir occasionally.  Pour over the crust.  Sprinkle with the chocolate chunks and the cashews.  Bake for 8-10 minutes or until the chocolate is melted.  Cool on a wire rack before cutting.  Makes about 3 dozen LHam Pasties (Iltapalapasteija)   1 cup flour 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup butter 4 tbsp cold water   For The Filling: 2 eggs, beaten 1 cup half-and-half 1 cup shredded cheese 1 cup finely diced ham 1 small green bell pepper, seeded and diced 1 small red bell pepper, seeded and diced salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon prepared mustard   Combine the flour and salt in a mixing bowl.  Cut in the butter until the butter is the size of peas.  Sprinkle the cold water over to make a dough.  Form into a ball.  Wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.  To prepare the filling, mix in the eggs and the half-and-half.  Blend in the cheese, ham, green and red peppers, salt, and black pepper to taste.  Preheat the oven to 425 F.  Roll the pastry out to 1/8 inch thickness.  Fit into 3-inch tart pans or into one 11-inch tart pan with a removable bottom.  Brush the bottom of the pastry with mustard.  Pour in the filling.  Bake the small tarts about 12 to 15 minutes or until set.  Bake the large tart for 30 to 35 minutes or until set. Makes twelve 3-inch tarts or one 11-inch tart   * Exported from MasterCook * Yule Log Recipe By : Real Food for Real People Serving Size : 24 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Candy Chocolate Christmas Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ ------------ --------- --------- -- 4 cups Rice Krispies cereal 1/2 cup Peanut Butter 3/4 cup Light Corn Syrup 1/2 cup Butter or Margarine 1 dash Salt 1 teaspoon Vanilla 12 ounces Chocolate Chips -- melted In a large saucepan, combine butter, corn syrup and peanut butter, and cook over medium heat until butter is melted and ingredients are mixed well. Remove from heat, and add salt and vanilla. Mix well, then add rice krispies cereal to mixture and stir until all cereal is coated with mixture. Pour warm mixture into a wax paper lined 9 x 13 inch pan, and spread, thenlightly pack with buttered hands, to form a flattened crust. Spread melted chocolate chips onto top of crust. You will need to work quickly to roll your yule logs. First, using a sharp knife, cut the crust down the center forming two separate squares of crust. Next, working from the center-out, roll the logs jelly roll style, toward the outer ends of the pan, making two separate yule logs. Tightly wrap logs for slicing later, or slice immediately, and place slices into a sealed container to retain softness.

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I got up on schedule, just to find that there wasn't any hot water!   Everything check out OK for the water heater..... that we could find!   So, I called Stan's Refer and Repair Service and ask if they could check the elements.... .. they then ask me if I had pressed the reset button on the water heater?! What reset button, I ask??? Well, come to find out that under the upper front cover on my water heater there's a little red reset button...... .. nope, I never saw it, nor pressed it, nor did I know about it...Posted by: "NancyC"

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Peanut Butter Marshmallow Squares Recipe

Peanut Butter Marshmallow Squares Recipe 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup peanut butter 12 oz butterscotch chips 3 cups miniature marshmallows Mix butter, peanut butter, and butterscotch chips in a double boiler just till melted, then remove from heat. Place 3 cups miniature marshmallows in a buttered pan and spread on warm mixture. Save a few chips and marshmallows to decorate the top, or be generous and add extra. Cut in squares when cool. It's that easy. Delicious! Note: If you cannot obtain miniature marshmallows, you could try using sliced large Marshmallows instead. Use 10 large marshmallows to replace each cup of the miniature kind. Substitute chocolate chips to make Peanut Butter Chocolate Squares. Yummy!