The Plum women share their favorite recipes.
Helen Plum
Pineapple Upside-down Cake3 eggs
1 cup of flour
1 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
4 tablespoons unsweetened pineapple juice
5 tablespoons butter
1 cup brown sugar
Unsweetened pineapple slices
Melt the butter in a nine inch pie plate. Dump brown sugar into the plate and mash with a fork until it's all mixed with the melted butter and covers the bottom of the plate. Arrange pineapple slices on bottom of plate in single layer. Mix eggs, flour, sugar, baking powder and pineapple juice by hand in a small bowl until smooth. Pour mixture over pineapple slices. Bake in a 350 degree oven until a pick comes out clean (maybe 30-45 min.) Remove cake from oven and set on rack for a couple minutes. Put cake plate over the hot cake in the pie plate and CAREFULLY but quickly turn the pie plate upside down. Remove pie plate and let cake cool to room temperature. Pineapple slices should be on top! (If you let the cake cool in the pie plate you'll NEVER get it out). When cool spread lots of globs of whipped cream on it ...the real stuff, none of that fake stuff in a can! Eat too much.
Stephanie Plum
Spice Cake with Mocha Icing
Heat oven to 350 degrees
1 Duncan Hines Spice Cake box mix
eggs
oil
water
butter and flour for cake pans
Follow instructions on box.
When cake is cool (if you can wait that long), ice.
Mocha Icing
Make a pot of VERY strong coffee and let cool. Melt 6 Tablespoons of butter with 2 squares of Baker's bittersweet chocolate. Mix together melted butter/chocolate mixture, one box of powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix in the cooled coffee, a little at a time, alternating with milk until icing reaches desired consistency.
Grandma Mazur
Molasses Crumb Cake
Heat oven to 350 degrees
4 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
1 cup molasses
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups boiling water
In a large bowl combine flour and sugar. Add butter, cut up into little tiny bits, and stir until crumbly. Set aside 3/4 cup of crumbly mixture.
In medium saucepan boil 2 cups of water. Add molasses and baking soda. Then mix into flour mixture. Pour into greased 9X13 inch pan and sprinkle with 3/4 cup crumbly mixture.
Bake for 45 minutes.
Invite hunk of burning love over that you met last night at the funeral parlor. Serve cake warm or cold with coffee.
Valerie Plum
Oatmeal Cookies1 cup flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups oats
1 cup of raisins or butterscotch morsels (optional)
In a small bowl mix flour, baking soda and cinnamon.
In a large bowl combine butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla. Stir until smooth.
Slowly add flour mixture, then oats and then raisins or morsels.
Refrigerate 1 hour.
Heat oven to 375 degrees.
Drop level teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 7-8 minutes for chewy cookies or 9-10 for crispy.
Cool on wire rack.
Especially good for children who think they are horses... full of oats.
