Louisiana Crunch Cake

Hey! Everyone found Another cake recipe I know you going to love...The cake is so good and light and so moist...Good  Job Twins!!!

Louisiana Crunch Cake

3 c. cake flour

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. baking soda

2 c. granulated sugar

2 sticks butter softened room temp

1/4 c. sour cream

4 large eggs room temp

1 c. buttermilk

2 tsp. vanilla extract


Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. tube cake pan ready.
In a medium bowl sift together cake flour, salt, baking powder and soda...Set aside.
Beat softened butter and sugar together until very fluffy (about 5 minuets). Mix in sour cream. Add eggs one at a time and beat until mixture becomes light and fluffy. Mix in vanilla extract.
Add in buttermilk and the cake flour mixture in alternates and beat until fully combined (see video for example)
PLEASE DO NOT OVER BEAT OTHERWISE CAKE IS GOING TO BECOME ROCK HARD!!!
Thoroughly grease a non stick tube pan! If your pan in not a non stick pan, you will need to grease and flour it.
Add approx 1/4 cup of granulated sugar to the pan, and tap around the sides and bottom until evenly coated. Sprinkle coconut flakes to the bottom of pan...You may add more or less coconut, its totally up to you. Pour in batter. Bake for 50 minuets to an hour, or until a wooden skewer inserted into cake comes out clean. DO NOT OVER BAKE!!!!! Otherwise cake will become dry. Once cake is finished baking, remove from pan and let cool.

Vanilla Almond Glaze:
2 c. powdered sugar
4 tbs. butter...melted
4 tbs. canned evaporated milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. almond extract

Directions:
Whisk together powdered sugar butter and milk. Add vanilla extract and almond extract and mix. Add more milk for a thinner consistency.
Drizzle glaze over cake and let set for 10 min.
Serves about 8-10
Found:
http://twingodesses.blogspot.com/2010/12/louisiana-crunch-cake-with-vanilla.html

Dried Butter Beans With Smoke Turkey Tails

Letting the smoked turkey tails simmer down into the beans will make their own creamy mixture. the smoke flavoring it paid for it all.

Dried Lima beans, cornbread and a side of mixed greens Wow!

It's very Easy,to cook dried lima beans from scratch. If you’ve never had them, please try them. They are very filling and satisfying and your family and friend with love them like we did... when my mom sat them on our dinner table for the cold months we was happy and full.

What Is Dried Lima Beans? when the pod on the plant completely dry and you can hear the beans rattling around, in the outer shell can easily be removed to get the perfectly dried beans inside.The beans can last for years in a dry and sealed place.This process can apply to many plants like peas and beans and this how gardner get seeds for the next planting.

Recipe:

Boil Two Smoke Turkey tails In 5 to 6 cups of water with 1 stick Butter Or margarine about 1 hour half or until tender.

1 pound dry Lima butter clean and pick over

1 medium onion chopped

1/4 cup red bell pepper chopped

1 bay leaf

2 tablespoon olive oil

2 tablespoon chopped garlic

1 cup chopped celery

Cook on low heat about 1 hour and a half unto creamy. Add 3 tablespoon butter and black pepper to you liking.

Red Beads And Rice With A Biscuit

I love Beans of all kinds and I will cook them up in a tinkle of an eye. One thing you much know you got to cook beans in smoke meat so they can get that flavor.It don't have to be pork you can cook them in smoke turkey tails,"yes sir"

I like put a biscuit on top under the rice...Try that treat.

1 pound of dry red beans clean and picked
2 smoke turkey tails
1 pound smoke beef sausages sliced
1 large onion chopped
2 garlic clove mashed
1/2 cup celery
1/8 teaspoon cayanna pepper
salt to taste
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1 cup Uncle Ben’s long grain rice (cooked)



Procedure:

1. Boil turkey tails in 8 cups of water 1 hour

2. Add Beans and cook 1 hour

3. Add all ingredients to the cooking beans.(not rice)

4. Cook 30 minutes

5.start mashing some of the beans on the side of the pot with a big spoon
to make them creamy.... beans need to cook 30 minute more with the sliced smoke sausages.

6.Take out turkey tails before serving over rice

Pecan Pie Pound Cake

4 sticks butter

4 cups sugar

4 cups flour (cake or all purpose)

8 large eggs

8 oz. cream cheese

2 to 3 tsp of vanilla flavoring

1 cup pecans, chopped

1 cup brown sugar


INSTRUCTIONS:

Leave cream cheese, butter, and eggs out to reach room temperature.

In mixer, cream butter, cream cheese, and sugar until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time. Then, add flour, one cup at a time. Last, add vanilla flavoring.

Grease and flour tube/bundt pan and pour in batter. Pour in batter first, then sprinkle pecans and brown sugar on top (a cup or little more of each). Lightly press into the batter.

Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. (You may want to tent the top with foil to keep the nuts from scorching.) Then, increase the temperature to 325 degrees and bake for an additional 30 minutes. Test the cake with a fork or wooden skewer to check for doneness. The utensil should come out dry and clean (no batter). Bake 5 more minutes if not quite done.

Try My Frosting

Cream Cheese Frosting

2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 (16 ounce) packages powdered sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Combine cream cheese and butter; cream until smooth.Add powdered sugar, beating until smooth and Stir in vanilla add cup toasted pecan and mix together pour over warm cake and add 1 jar of caramel ice cream topping over cool cake.

Found Recipe
http://cookyourfood1.blogspot.com/2015/12/pecan-pie-pound-cake.html