Chocolate Fudge, Peanut Butter Bundt Cake

                                                                           

Rich Chocolate Fudge Cake with a Peanut Butter yummy filling, then topped with Chocolate Ganache & drizzled with more Peanut Butter! & best part yet, you cheat with this recipe!

1 Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix

1 3.4 Ounce Box Chocolate Instant Pudding, I used Godiva.

4 Eggs

1 Cup Plain Yogurt

1/4 Cup Vegetable Oil

1/2 Cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips + 2 Tablespoons

In a large mixing bowl add cake mix, the pudding mix,eggs, yogurt, & oil beat until smooth. Fold in the 1/2 cup + 2 TBS chocolate chips. Pour 1/2 the batter into a well sprayed Bundt pan. Set aside the rest of the batter & now mix up that amazing filling.

FILLING: 

1/4 Cup Soft Butter

1/3 Cup Peanut Butter

4 Ounces Softened Cream Cheese

3 TBS Sugar

1 Large Egg beaten

1/2 Cup Flour

Dash of Salt

1/4 Cup Milk

1 TSP Vanilla
2 TBS Chocolate Chips
1/4 Cup Peanut Butter Chips

Cream the butter, peanut butter, & cheese together. Add sugar & egg & beat again. Add flour & salt & beat again . Add milk & vanilla & beat again. Now fold in the peanut butter chips & the remaining chocolate chips. Back to your bundt pan make a trench in the chocolate batter & spoon in the peanut butter batter. Cover the peanut butter batter with the rest of the chocolate batter. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for about 45 minutes test cake to be sure no wet batter comes out on your cake tester. Once baked set out to cool for 10 minutes then invert onto a plate, the cake slides right out! Cool cmpletely & now make that topping!

CHOCOLATE GANACHE:

8 OZ Semi Sweet Baking Chocolate broken up into pieces.

4 TBS Butter

1/2 Cup Heavy Cream

Heat over medium low heat in a heavy sauce pan the chocolate & the butter stirring the whole time. Once melted & smooth whisk in the heavy cream until you have thick chocolate heavenly gloss! Spoon liberally over the cooled cake.

PEANUT BUTTER DRIZZLE

1/3 Cup Peanut Butter heat in microwave on medium power for 45 seconds. Peanut Butter will be runny & just right to drizzle over that chocolate! Once drizzled I sprinkled chopped peanuts over the cake. You could sprinkle with chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, chopped up Reeses Peanut Butter Cups or let the toppings cool & sprinkle with chocolate curls. YUMMERS!

Tastes Like Grandma's Chicken Casserole, Oven or Crock Pot

                                                                           

This tastes & smells like it did back in the day when you went to Grandma's for Sunday dinner, remember? Only this is no fuss & no muss cooking! Bake in the oven or throw it in the crock-pot while you are at work, come home to heavenly aroma of a ready to eat delicious dish! I served this with fresh steamed asparagus & hot buttery crusty bread!

2 or 3 lbs Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast

1/2 lb. ready to eat raw baby carrots

6 Large Baking Potatoes peeled & quartered

1 Onion Peeled & chopped

1, 10 ounce Can Campbell's Cream Of Celery Soup or use any cream soup you like

1, 12 Jar Heinz Home Made Chicken Gravy

1 TBS Parsley

Pepper to Taste

If baking in the oven use a large glass baking pan 9x13 at least. Lay the carrots around the edge then the potatoes, lay the raw, thawed chicken breast, in the center. Layer the onions over everything. In a bowl stir together the soup & the jar of gravy. Now spoon that over everything. Sprinkle with the parsley. Cover with foil & bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour & 45 minutes. Remove from oven, plate up & dig in!

Crock-Pot: Layer everything just like above only in your Crock-Pot. Cook on high 6 hours or on low for 8!

Easy Baked Crab & Ravioli Casserole!

                                                                         

Heavenly dining & so easy to make! Lump crab meat, spinach & cheese ravioli that you buy frozen, you get to cheat with this recipe but nobody will mind!

2 Packages of Spinach & Cheese Ravioli, I used Seviroli 13 Ounce Bags, cook according to package

2 Bags of 4 Cheese Italian Blend Shredded Cheese 2 Cup bag size

2 Heaping TBS Flour

4 TBS Butter

3 & 1/2 Cup Whole Milk

1/2 Cup snipped Chives, or Scallions, I used Chives

Dash or 2 of Nutmeg

Dash or 2 of Red Pepper

1 TSP Paprika

1 TBS Chopped Parsely

Dash or 2 of White Pepper

1 Can Lump Crab Meat 1 LB. Can

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Cook Ravioli according to directions & drain. Now in the pot you used to cook the pasta, drain out all the water then melt the butter. Whisk in the flour &  over medium heat add the milk a little at a time whisking smooth as you go. Cook & whisk until mixture is thick & bubbling. Now whisk in 2 cups of the shredded Italian cheese. Cook & whisk until thick & smooth. Now add all the spices & the chives or scallions. . In a 9x13 casserole baking dish spoon about 1/2 cup of the cheese sauce over the bottom. Now put down one layer of the cooked ravioli. Now sprinkle 1/2 of the crab over the ravioli. Do another layer of ravioli & the rest of the crab. Any ravioli left? Just place them across the top. Now ladle that lovely sauce over everything. Now sprinkle the remaining 2 cups of cheese over the top. Sprinkle with parsley & pop into the oven for 40 minutes! 

                                                         

This beauty serves 6 generous portions & is much easier to make than it looks! Tastes amazing & great for serving to guests! Have salad & garlic bread & you are the hostess or host with the most! Any thing you choose to add to this would be good, Old Bay, use big juicy shrimp instead of crab, Scallops would be good too! ENJOY!

Jen Holliday's REINDEER CRACK

                                                                           

MUNCHABLE, CRUNCHABLE, SALTY & SWEET! This Christmas treat is hard to beat!

10 Ounces Marshmallows

3 TBS Butter Melt in Microwave until nicely melted, add 1 TSP Vanilla &  easily stir. 

In a Large Bowl add  2 cups each of popcorn, bugles and mini pretzels. I spread mine on a cookie sheet. Then sprinkle M&ms, sprinkles and anything else you’d like. Drizzle with melted chocolate and let cool (I put mine outside) break it apart and eat! 

Roly Poly's

                                                                         

Yummy cinnamon & sugar swirls inside crispy all butter crust. Just use leftover pie crust or mix up dough just for these yummy treats!

2 Cups Flour

1/2 TSP Salt

1 Heaping TSP Sugar

12 Tablespoons Butter cut in small pieces

1 TSP Vanilla

Cold Water Enough to pull dough together 5 to 8 TBS

Stir dry ingredients together. Cut in the butter until you have fine crumbs. Now add vanilla & water & stir together until you have dough. Roll out on a well floured surface as you would for pie crust. Now cover the surface with melted butter, sprinkle with generous amount of cinnamon & sugar. Roll like a jelly roll or cinnamon rolls. Cut into slices & bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for about 25 minutes or until they are a nice golden brown. Remove from pan while warm & let cool as long as you can wait before munching!

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Chili Con Cerdo as in Chili With Pork Ala Crock-Pot!

                                                                         

Yummy Chili with beans & rice with tender chunks of pork!

1lb. Boneless Pork Spareribs cut into 1 inch chunks

3, 14.5oz Cans of Light Red Skinned Kidney Beans

1, 24 oz. Jar of Chili's Salsa choose the one you love I use Mild

1 Onion Chopped

1 Green Pepper Chopped

1 TBS Chili Powder, use your favorite!

If you like hot the pepper can be your favorite hot pepper!

Put everything into the crock-pot & cook on high for 6 hours! 

Serve over hot cooked rice, top with cheddar cheese & serve with Tortilla Chips! GOODNESS IN A BOWL!