Quick Tips For Easier Meals:
- To frost your cake quickly, sprinkle chocolate chips on top of it as soon as you bring it out of the oven. Once the chocolate chips melt, gently spread. Dusting with powdered sugar is another quick and less expensive topping for a cake.
- It’s always hard to get to those little nooks and crannies on small kitchen appliances and dishes when you are cleaning. Here are 3 brushes I keep on hand to make these items easier to clean – a baby bottle brush, nipple brush or cake decorating tip brush and a toothbrush. You may not need all of these but pick a couple of the ones you think you will use the most.
- There are days when I am brain dead while cooking and I can’t remember if I have salted something or not. It this happens to you a lot too, salt the item first and then immediately add the pepper. Then when you see the specks of pepper you know you have salted it.
Meal Plan:
Are you looking for a quick and delicious ham meal plan? Look no further! Whether you have leftover ham or want to make ham from scratch, this meal plan will satisfy your taste buds. You’ll find the recipes for 2 of the easy side dishes below.
Ham
Sweet Potato and Apple Dish
Tossed Salad
Dinner rolls
Fruit Cream Cake
Recipes:
PrintSweet Potato And Apple Dish Recipe
Ingredients
6 medium apples, peeled and thinly sliced
2 sweet potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
1 cup quick oats
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ginger
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 cup maple syrup
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Grease a shallow 2 1/2 qt. baking dish.
- Place the apples and potatoes in the baking dish.
- Combine the rest of the ingredients and sprinkle on top.
- Cover and bake for 40 minutes.
- Then uncover and bake about 15 minutes longer or until tender.
Fruit Cream Cake Recipe
I used pineapple in this recipe, but you can use any kind of fruit like peaches, apricots or something else.
Ingredients
1 box yellow cake mix
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 cup milk
1 (3 1/2 oz.) pkg. instant vanilla pudding
1 (20 oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained
1 (9 oz.) carton whipped topping
Instructions
- Prepare the cake according to the package directions.
- Bake in a 9×13 pan. Cool.
- Mix the cream cheese, milk and pudding.
- Spread over the cake.
- Spread the pineapple over that.
- Top with whipped topping.
- Refrigerate until serving.
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I’m going to make that Sweet Potato and Apple dish real soon! Sounds good.
Find sweet potatoes very hard to slice, let alone thinly.
Wonderful sounding fall and winter comfort food,.
Will definietly try this
I have a question… Do you mix everything (but potatoes and apples) together and put on top -or- do you mix the dry ingredients and spread them over top then drizzle with the maple syrup and melted butter? It just sounds a little gooey to mix it all together. But I have apples and maple syrup from our trees and sweet potatoes from the garden – it sounds like a recipe I need to try. :)
Kristine the original recipe says to mix it all together but I am not sure that it really would make that big of a difference so you can try drizzling it if you want.
This seems delicious. Thank you.