Sunday, August 30, 2009

Gorilla Bread




Wow! This is delicious!


Ingredients
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 cup(1 stick) butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 8-ounce package cream cheese
2 12-ounce cans refrigerated biscuits (10 co
unt)
1 1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix the granulated sugar and cinnamon.
In a saucepan, melt the brown sugar and butter over low heat.
Cut the cream cheese into 20 equal cubes.
Press the biscuits out with your fingers and sprinkle each with 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon sugar mixture.
Place a cube of cream cheese in the center of each biscuit, wrapping and sealing the edges around the cream cheese.
Sprinkle 1/2 cup nuts into the bottom of the bundt pan.
Place half of prepared biscuits in the pan.
Sprinkle with half of remaining cinnamon sugar mixture.
Pour half of the melted butter mixture on top of the biscuits.
Sprinkle on 1/2 cup of nuts.
Place remaining biscuits on top.
Sprinkle with remaining cinnamon sugar.
Pour the remaining melted butter mixture on top.
Sprinkle with 1/2 of nuts.
Bake for 30 minutes.





Monday, August 24, 2009

Spiced Pumpkin Bread





Ooooh this is so good! I think if I made it again though, I would use less spices. I thought 3 cups of sugar sounded like way to much, so I used 2 cups and it tasted terrific. I also substituted the walnuts for pecans. Oh yeah, in the picture below, the sugar is in the Otis Spunkmeyer cookie container.






Spiced Pumpkin Bread
Yield: Makes 2 loaves

Ingredients

3 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs
1 16-oz can solid pack pumpkin
3 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts, optional


Directions


Preheat oven to 350F. Butter and flour two 9x5x3-inch loaf pans. Beat sugar and oil in a large bowl to blend. Mix in eggs and pumpkin.








Sift flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cloves. Stir into pumpkin mixture in two additions. Mix in walnuts, if desired.


Divide batter evenly between prepared pans. Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes, or until tester inserted in the center comes out clean.




Original recipe: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Spiced-Pumpkin-Bread-840