Glazed Poppyseed Bundt Cake

Glazed Poppyseed Bundt Cake

from The Sister's Cafe

1 yellow cake mix
1 (3.5 oz) box of instant vanilla pudding
1 tablespoon poppyseeds
1/2 cup pinapple or orange juice (I used pineapple)
1/2 cup oil
1 cup sour cream (can use reduced fat)
4 eggs

Mix yellow cake mix, vanilla pudding and poppy seeds. Add juice, oil, and sour cream and mix. Add 4 eggs one at a time, mix well. Grease and flour a bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes (don't over bake).When the cake is about 10 minutes from being done start the glaze.Glaze:1 cup sugar1/4 cup water1/2 cup butter (1 cube)Bring ingredients to a boil and keep bubbling until ready to pour over cake. You can either pour the glaze over the cake while it is in the pan or turn the cake out onto a cooling rack and pour the glaze over the cake that way. It is really like syrup that soaks in. (Some commenters have said that glazing the cake in the pan makes it hard to remove because the glaze gets sticky. I glazed it out of the pan and it worked great.) Give it a few minutes to soak in and then turn it out onto a cake plate. Optional: dust top of cake with powdered sugar.

Awesome Breadmaker Pizza Dough

I am on a roll lately!! If I do say so, anyway. I made the yummiest homemade pizza tonight for dinner. I found a recipe here. It is for a breadmaker - so you put all ingredients into the breadmaker and put it on the "dough" setting. Then voila! about an hour later, it is done! And it smells amazing coming out of the breadmaker too!

1 1/2 cups water
2 T olive oil
2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. sugar
4 cups flour
1 T. pizza seasoning. I used a spaghetti seasoning mix. Pesto would be yummy.
4 tsp. active dry yeast

I followed the instructions for the most part. I didn't have cornmeal so I just floured the dough when it came out, rolled it flat, attempted to toss into the air like my Italian ancestors, fixed a couple of holes I poked in it because I had to catch it after I tried to toss it into the air, and then placed it on a square-ish cookie sheet that was sprayed with Pam. I let it rise for about 30 minutes then added the spaghetti sauce (or pizza sauce if you've actually got some!), mozzarella cheese, fresh pineapple, and deli ham (oops! I mean Canadian bacon, don't tell!). We baked it for about 25 minutes. It made a very thick crust, soft chewy pizza. So yummy. You could easilly roll it thinner and get about 2 cookie sheet sized (maybe not quite that big) pizzas. I bet you could even freeze half the dough for another night! I haven't tried it, but I don't see why you couldn't. Someone try it and let me know!

Seriously De-Lish!

Freezer Friendly Friday - Breakfast Burritos!

I've never really caught on to the whole breakfast burrito phenom - but I married into a family that is crazy for them. Me, I prefer my eggs, meat, and bread all in it's own spot on my plate, not rolled into one. Oh well. My hubby loves them. Loves them! In fact, he would eat most of his meals wrapped in a tortilla with ketchup or hot sauce if I'd let him.

So you can imagine my excitement when I found this little gem here. I love that my hubby will eat a healthy non-Pop-Tart breakfast and I don't have to get up before the sun to make it. I made a few changes, so I will post my version of the recipe...

18 eggs
1 lb. sausage
1 lb. bacon
3 cups cheese
1 cup salsa
24 flour tortillas
2-3 cups frozen hash browns

Of course you can add in anything else you like, onions, green peppers, jalapenos, garlic, tomatoes, etc. I sauteed my sausage with some diced onion. And you don't have to add the hash browns either, but they make the filling stretch a little further.

In one large skillet cook sausage, drain and set aside. In same pan cook bacon, set aside, then crumble. Drain most of oil. In same pan (I hate dishes!!) cook hash browns until soft, set aside. In same pan scramble eggs, set aside.

Now, I made two separate batches, to see if the bacon or sausage worked better. You could do one or the other. Because I was making two, I put the meat into separate bowls, then divided up the eggs, potatoes, cheese, and salsa into each bowl. Mixed and dumped in 1/2 cup servings onto tortillas. I used the soft taco size. Rolled them up and froze on a greased cookie sheet for about an hour or two. Then brought them in, individually wrapped them in plastic wrap, placed in a large zipper bag, then froze again. They are ready for my hubby to grab and take on his way out the door!

It might seem time consuming, but it took less than the length of Finding Nemo to make and assemble all of them ;). We made 24.

The verdict: I liked them! My 2 year old loves them! My hubby was in heaven. He claims to prefer bacon to sausage, but said the bacon didn't freeze as well as the sausage, and loved the sausage ones.

Enjoy!