North Pole Spice Cake
Spice Cake
Perfect for Christmas and Thanksgiving
Goes well with vanilla ice cream and hard sauce
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 and 1/2 cups of sugar
1 cup of buttermilk
3 eggs
1/2lb of butter or margarine (melted)
1 T cinnamon
1 T baking soda
1/2 T ground cloves
Directions:
1. Blend sugar and butter thoroughly. Add eggs, buttermilk, flour. Mix.
2. Add cinnamon, baking soda, and cloves. Mix well.
3. Grease and flour baking dish.
4. Bake in pre-heated oven at 350′ for 50 minutes or longer if necessary.
5. Cool and ice.
Spice Cake Icing
Ingredients:
1 stick of butter
1 box of confectioners sugar
1 T of vanilla
1-3 T of milk
Directions:
1. Cream butter and gradually add confectioners sugar.
2. Add milk as needed to keep frosting at spreading consistency
3. Add vanilla
4. Frost cake when completely cool.
GingerBread Men from the North Pole
GingerBread Men
Ingredients:
3 and 1/4 cups flour
1.2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp ground cloves
1 cup salted butter, softened
3/4 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
1 large egg
1/2 cup unsulfered molasses
2/3 cup confectioners sugar
1 – 2 tsp milk
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 325′
2. Whisk together flour, salt, cinnamon, baking soda, ginger, and cloves
3. Cream butter and sugar. Scrape down sides of bowl. Add egg and molasses and beat on medium speed until smooth.
4. Scrape down bowl and add flour mixture, blend on low speed until just combined — do not over mix!
5. Separate dough into 2 balls and flatten into disks. Wrap each disk tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
6. On floured surface with floured rolling pin, roll dough out to 1/4″ thickness. With floured cookie cutters cut into shapes. Gather scraps and re-roll dough until all is used. Place on ungreased baking sheets about 1/2″ apart.
7. Bake 9-11 minutes — do not brown. Transfer to cool, flat surface and cool.
Preparing Icing:
1. Whisk sugar and milk until smooth but still liquid.
2. Add extra milk if seems dry.
3. Spoon icing into a pastry bag with small piping tip, or other icing dispenser.
4. Decorate as desired.
Iced Butter Cookies
Iced Butter Cookies
Perfect for Christmas and Thanksgiving
Ingredients:
Cookies:
4 sticks (1 pound butter)
1 cup sugar
1 egg
4 cups flour
Icing:
1 stick butter
1 box powdered (confectionary) sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
milk (as needed)
Directions:
1. Mix butter and sugar
2. Add egg
3. Mix in flour
4. Use cookie cutter to make into smallish cookies (about 1.5 inches in diameter).
Cook each batch at 375 degrees for about 10 minutes (lightly brown)
5. Let cookies cool slightly before icing
Icing:>p> Cream butter
add sugar and mix
Add milk as needed for spreadable consistency
Add vanilla
Ice the cookies