Pineapple Cream Cheese Sheet Pastry

Made in a 15-inch x 10-inch x 1 1/2 sheet pan that was often seen at weddings and social events during the mid-20th century.  This is a flaky pastry with a pineapple filling topped with cream cheese, nuts and coconut.  Some of you may remember this by other names like pineapple squares, or pineapple pizza…

Pineapple Cream Cheese Pie

  Simple to make and less expensive then cheese cake. Just takes one 8 ounce package of cream cheese, sugar, eggs, milk and  graham cracker eight inch premade crust.  To make the topping only a 8 ounce can crushed pineapple, sugar, and corn starch that is added after the pie as cooled. This is a…

Lime and Pear Layered Jell-O Mold

A two layered Jell-O salad mold.  The bottom layer is made from lime gelatin, cream cheese, canned pears and pecans.  The top layer is lime gelatin and canned pears.  You will need a five cup mold or dish to make this. I used an vintage gelatin mold that is a copper colored tin.  I have…

Creamy Cherry Cheese Coffee Cake

Delicate cherry cake with a cream cheese cake layer that has a crumb topping.  The cake takes fresh chopped Bing cherries, eight ounce package cream cheese, orange juice and almond extract.  The cake, cream cheese layer and crumb topping is layered and baked together.  It tastes like a cherry cheese Danish without all the work….

Sauerkraut Balls

Snack that goes perfect with beer and sports.  Deep fried sauerkraut balls made from sauerkraut, pork sausage, cream cheese and bread crumbs.  Drain the sauerkraut and brown the pork sausage and then add bread crumbs with cream cheese to hand mix.  When mixture holds together when squeezed you can form golf ball size balls.  What…

Pasta Ham Alfredo-Quick and Easy Meal

There was some left over ham from Sunday’s dinner that I needed to use up.  The weather has been very hot and muggy which is normal for South Florida this time of the year.  I do most of my baking now at night to keep the air conditioning from working hard.  I wanted to make…

Black Forest Cheese Cake

Black Forest Cheese Cake will impress your family and friends.  Only don’t tell them how easy it is to make.  Whenever you want a wonderful cake for a special occasion, you can go wrong with this one.  It is made using a chocolate cake mix, cherry pie filling, container of fudge frosting, can of condensed…

Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake

I love cheese cake.  All kinds of cheese cakes I find hard to resist.  Many years ago I clip this recipe off of the back of the box of baking chocolate.  It is not too sweet and rich in chocolate flavor.  I have modified the recipe a little so it would not be too bittersweet…