Sunday, January 27, 2013

Sweet K

  • 6 cups Special K 
  • 1 cup pecans - chopped
  • 1 cube margarine and 1 cube butter (or omit the margarine and use 2 sticks of butter)
  • 2 cups mini marshmallows
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Melt margarine/butter and sugars, add marshmallows. Boil whole mix for 3 minutes (mixing so it won't burn). Remove from heat

Add vanilla

Pour over Special K and chopped pecans. Mix in big bowl. Spread over wax paper.

(this is definitely amazing - doesn't look like much but once you take a bite, you are addicted.)

Friday, January 18, 2013

Easy Tres Leches

Some people make this cake from scratch but I like EASY so I use a cake from a box - yes, from a box and use just the basic cake instructions - no pudding or anything else added. Oh, we like a White Cake mix better but yellow works too.
  • cake mix (and what the cake calls for, eggs, oil & water)
  • 1 can evaporated milk
  • 1 can condensed milk
  • 1 pint of cream - or a can of "crema" 
  • 1 tsp of vanilla
Bake the cake according to the package directions.

While the cake is baking mix the 3 milks and vanilla. As soon as the cake is done remove from oven and pock holes all over, slowly pour the milks on the cake so that it's absorbed.

Cool.  Once it's cold, we can frost it with cool whip mixed with a bit of vanilla.

It is DELICIOUS!!!!