Soft Easy Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

• 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour'
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup margarine, softened
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

1.  Cream together the margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Gradually add in the dry ingredients until fully absorbed. Cover dough, and chill for 2 hours. 

2.  Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease cookie sheets. On a clean floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4 inch thickness and cut out shapes with cookie cutters.

3.  Bake 6-8 minutes in the preheated oven.  Remove from cookie sheets to cool on wire racks.

Judy's Pumpkin Roll

Cake:
1/2 cup powdered sugar (to sprinkle on towel)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup pumpkin
3/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
3 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 cup powdered sugar

Filling:
1 package cream cheese, softened
6 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

FOR CAKE: Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Line a cookie sheet with wax paper. Grease (cooking spray) the wax paper. Sprinkle a thin, cotton kitchen towel with powdered sugar.  COMBINE flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and salt in a small bowl.  Beat eggs and sugar in large mixer bowl until thick.  Beat in pumpkin.  Stir in flour mixture.  Spread evenly into prepared pan.  BAKE for 13 to 15 minutes or until top of cake springs back when touched.  Immediately loosen and turn cake onto prepared towel.  Carefully peel off paper.  Roll up cake and towel together, starting with narrow end. 

FOR FILLING: BEAT cream cheese, powdered sugar, butter and vanilla extract in small mixer bowl until smooth.  Carefully unroll cake; remove towel.  Spread cream cheese mixture over cake.  Re-roll cake.  Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least one hour.  Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving if desired. 
Note: Be sure to put enough powdered sugar on the towel when rolling up the cake so it will not stick.  I always put a ton on.  This is also great to freeze and eat a piece at a time.  I just double wrap it in aluminum foil. 

Cinnamon Swirl Cake

1 yellow cake mix
3 T flour
8 oz. sour cream
1 large vanilla pudding mix
3/4 c oil
4 eggs
3/4 c water

Mix altogether (don't over mix).  Cake mixture will be thick.

Mix in cup:
1/2 c. sugar
4 tsp. cinnamon

Spray bunt pan well.  Coat entire pan with cinnamon mixture.  Put about half the cake mix in pan.  Sprinkle in the majority of the cinnamon mixture.  Add rest of cake mix and top with remaining cinnamon mixture.  Bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 minutes. 

Alex's SOFT Sugar Cookies

3 c powdered sugar
2 c butter softened
2 t vanilla
1 t almond extract
2 egg
5 c flour
2 t baking soda
2 t cream of tarter

Mix powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, almond extract and egg. Stir in remaining ingredients. Let set in fridge at least four hours (I usually just do overnight). Roll and cut.  Heat oven to 375 degrees and bake 7-8 minutes.

Frosting:
1 pkg softened cream cheese
4 T butter
1t vanilla
Blend together, then add 4 c powdered sugar and mix (I also like to add just a touch of almond extract to the frosting)

Cheesy Chicken and Rice Bake

2 cans condensed cheddar cheese soup
2 cups water
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
6 cooked chicken breast halves

Put it in crockpot and cook on high for four hours.  Serve over rice.  This is great for kids.  You can add broccoli also!

Magic Peach Cobbler

1 stick margarine
1 cup flour
1 1/2 t baking powder
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup milk
1 quart peaches sliced and drained

Melt butter in a 9x13" pan.  Mix together sugar, flour and baking powder.  Stir in milk (don't stir very much).  Pour on top of butter.  Put peaches on top.  Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.  Top with ice cream, whipped cream, or milk.

Poppy Seed Chicken

3 large Chicken Breasts
4 cans of Cream of Chicken Soup
1 cup Sour Cream
1 1/2 stacks of Ritz Crackers
1 1/2 cubes of butter
1 1/2 TBS Poppy Seeds

Boil Chicken (I just stick it in the crockpot for a few hours).  Cut into chunks.  Place in bottom of a greased casserole dish.  Mix soup and sour cream together and pour over the chicken.  Melt the butter and stir into crushed crackers.  Add poppy seeds and mix together.  Spread the cracker mixture over the chicken.  Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.