Tips

• When working with a sticky dough (like in the cookie recipe below), try brushing some flour on your fingers to help keep the dough from sticking.
• Sometimes a recipe calls for a ham or pork roast to be baked on a rack. If you don’t have a rack, prop the meat up using some apples placed in the bottom of the pan. This also adds extra flavor to the meat.
• When baking cakes for a bake sale, bake them in loaf pans. Smaller cakes tend to sell more quickly and seniors and singles love the smaller size.

Menu

Monkey Bread Pizza
Tossed Salad
Celery and Carrot Sticks
Lofthouse Sugar Cookie Bars

Monkey Bread Pizza

Garlic butter
Dough – about 2 lbs or enough for a loaf. You can use pizza dough, bread dough or canned biscuits
Sliced pepperoni
Cubes of Mozzarella cheese
Pizza or Marinara sauce

Either saute some garlic cloves in butter or add a little garlic powder to some melted butter and brush the inside of a bundt pan with it. Take a ball of dough the size of a golf ball and flatten into a circle big enough to lay a pepperoni slice and a half inch cube of cheese (2-3 inches). Bring up edges and seal. Layer in the bundt pan. Bake at 400 degrees for about 30-35 minutes. Serve with sauce.

Lofthouse Sugar Cookie Bars

1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup butter, softened
8 oz cream cheese, softened
1 egg
2 tsp.vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a jelly roll pan (15x10x1). Cream butter, cream cheese and sugar together. Add egg and vanilla. Add remaining ingredients. Press dough evenly into pan. Dough will be sticky. Bake 20 minutes.

Frosting

1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup milk
16 oz. powdered sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla

Adjust milk and powdered sugar to get the desired consistency. Add food coloring if you like.

You can decorate with sprinkles to when finish frosting.

For more quick and easy recipes like this, check out our Dining On A Dime Cookbook!