Apple Cake, Pumpkin Dip and Gingersnap Cookies Recipes

Happy Friday, everyone!!  Here’s a couple more recipes that are favorites in my house!  This first recipe was actually given to my hubby.  He came home from work one day last year and told me we had to make this cake.  Several of the guys he associates with in the construction field had been passing around this recipe and said it was fantastic!  (I never envisioned construction workers as the recipe swapping type!! LOL )  This is the best apple cake I’ve ever tasted!! 

This recipe originated from a B&O Railroad Conductor named Lawrence Harper and is formatted the way he wrote it.

Apple Cake

1 1/2 c. vegetable oil

2 eggs

2 c. sugar

2 tsp. vanilla   -   Beat well

Then add & beat:

1 tsp. cinnamon

3 c. flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

Then add:

4 c. diced apples

1 c. chopped nuts  -  Mix well

Pour all ingredients into a bunt or tube pan and bake in a preheated oven 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours.

Cake Glaze

1 c. brown sugar

1/4 c. milk

1/4 c. butter – Boil for 3 minutes

As soon as cake is removed from oven, pour glaze over cake while hot.  Let set in pan until cool.

 

These next two recipes go together.  My daughter, Brittney, LOVES this stuff!!  In fact, when she saw me getting these recipes out, she got excited, thinking I was going to make them!  Probably sometime next week, Britt!  

 

Pumpkin Dip

1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened

2 c. powdered sugar

1 (15 oz.) can pumpkin pie filling

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/2 – 1 tsp. ground ginger

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

Beat cream cheese and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth.

Add pie filling, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg, beating well.

Cover and chill 8 hours.

Serve with gingersnaps or fresh fruit.

Gingersnaps

3/4 c. vegetable shortening

1 c. sugar, plus extra to roll the cookies in

1 egg

1/4 c. molasses

2 c. flour

2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 T. ground ginger

1 tsp. cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease some cookie sheets.  Beat together the shortening and 1 cup of the sugar.  Add the egg, and beat until light and fluffy, then add the molasses.  Stir and toss together the flour, baking soda, salt, ginger and cinnamon, and add to the first mixture, beating until smooth and blended.  gather up bits of dough and roll into 1” balls. then roll each ball into sugar.  Place about 2 inches apart on cookie sheets and bake for 10-12 minutes, until cookies have spread and the tops have cracked.  Remove from cookie sheets and cool on a rack.

 

Again, if you’d like to see who else is sharing recipes today, check out Colleen’s blog by clicking on the picture below.

 

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!  Check back here sometime on Monday to see who the winner of my Birthday Giveaway is!!  If you haven’t already entered, click here, and leave me a comment, BUT you must be a Follower of my blog!!

Until Next Time. . . .Kris