White Texas Sheet Cake submitted by Melanie~thesisterscafe.com

1 c. butter
1 c. water
2 c. flour
2 c. sugar
2 eggs
1/2 c. buttermilk or sour cream
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda

Frosting:
1/2 c butter
1/2 c buttermilk or milk
4 1/2 c. powdered sugar
1/2 tsp almond extract (or vanilla if you prefer)
pinch of salt
1 c. chopped walnuts, optional

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. In a small saucepan, bring 1 c. butter and water to a boil. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt, mix to combine. Add hot butter mixture to wet, stir. Add buttermilk or sour cream to the cake mixture, blend. Then, add eggs and vanilla, blend. Grease large jelly roll pan, and pour batter into pan. Bake for 30 minutes, or until done. Do not overcook, the cake should not be brown! Let cake cool 20 minutes before making frosting, you want it to be slightly warm when you frost it. For the frosting, in a small saucepan, combing the 1/2 c. butter and 1/2 c. buttermilk or milk, bring to a boil. In a large bowl, measure out 3 cups of powdered sugar and a pinch of salt, pour hot mixture and almond extract over powdered sugar, and mix to combine, adding more sugar to reach desired consistency. You don’t want the frosting to be thick. Since the mixture is hot, as it cools, it will harden. Look for the consistency of slightly runny pudding. Spread frosting on the cake quickly as the frosting cools fast! Sprinkle with chopped nuts. OR you can add the nuts to the frosting before you frost the cake.

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Ingredients: 1-1/2 lbs ground beef 4 large carrots, chopped 4 large potatoes, diced 1 large onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, minced 1/2 cup sliced mushrooms (optional) seasoning salt and pepper, to taste tin foil Directions: So easy - Divide the meat into fourths, and put each portion into flat sheets (about 12 inch square) of foil. Pile a desired amount of the remaining ingredients into your own individual meal. Be very generous with the salt when seasoning your uncooked pocket of awesome. Put more than you think you will need. Somehow, the salt kinda disappears during the cooking process, so be generous. When the foil dinner is built according to your desires, wrap it up in the foil much like you would wrap a present. When it's nice and sealed all around, I typically wrap it again, upside-down. This ensures it's sealed, but also keeps it from burning. Place your dinner very close to (or even directly on) a pile of hot coals/briquettes. Cook for approximately 10 minutes, flipping halfway through.

Garlic Cheese Pull Apart Bread

Garlic Cheese Pull Apart Bread with Frozen Bread Dough Author: Leigh Anne from yourhomebasedmom.com Recipe type: Side/Bread Cook time: 20 mins Total time: 20 mins Ingredients 16 frozen white dinner rolls (Rhodes brand) ½ C butter, melted 1 C grated Parmesan cheese, divided 1 tsp dry parsley flakes 1½ tsp garlic powder ½ tsp salt ½ tsp Italian seasoning ½ tsp onion powder Instructions Remove frozen rolls from freezer and loosely wrap them in plastic wrap and allow to sit at room temperature for 45 minutes. Cut rolls in half with a clean pair of scissors. Combine melted butter and seasonings together. Pour over dough and gently mix. Add ½ C of grated cheese and combine. You want each piece of dough to be coated. Line the bottom of a 9 inch springform pan with the piece of dough and then top with remaining grated cheese. Allow to rise in a warm place for 1½ – 2½ hours. Cover bottom of pan with foil to prevent butter from leaking out. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes or until center is completely done.