3.15.2022

Award Winning Chocolate Cake


3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup Nestle Quick Chocolate Milk Mix
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1 cup canola oil
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup boiling water (put in last)
1 recipe chocolate butter cream frosting (recipe follows)

1. In large bowl, combine flour, chocolate mix, sugar, baking soda, and salt. 
2. Add eggs, canola oil, and buttermilk to dry mix. Stir until combined.
3. Add boiling water last and stir to combine. 
4. Pour into two greased 9 inch cake pans.
5. Bake in 350 degree oven for 20 to 30 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
6. After 10 minutes, turn cake out onto wire rack to cool.
7. Frost with chocolate butter cream frosting. 

Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting

4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
dash of salt
1/2 cup softened butter
1/4 to 1/3 cup half and half (more for desired consistency)
1 tsp. vanilla extract

1. In medium bowl combine, sugar, cocoa, and salt. 
2. Cream in butter followed by half and half. 
3. Frost cooled cake. 

This cake recipe has a long and illustrious history. First it has been in the family for about three decades. This was one of those recipes we just did not give out like our famous family fudge. Back in the late 1980's, my mother put the recipe in a ward cookbook and took a sample of the cake to a church dinner. One of the owners of Magleby's Restaurant tasted my mom's cake and raved about it. 

Not long after, a very similar cake showed up on the Magleby's Restaurant Menu and has been garnering awards ever since. We will never know for certain if the Magleby's Restaurant uses my mom's recipe, but it is very suspicious. 

When I told my husband, Joe, that I was sharing this recipe on my blog, he begged me not to. But I thought what the heck, enjoy this amazing chocolate cake recipe with the rest of the us. Happy Thanksgiving friends!



4.19.2015

Pear Blue Cheese Walnut Salad


Friends, this salad is a copy-cat recipe of a delightful salad we enjoyed at Cafe Galleria in Midway. It is the perfect, light, flavorful, interesting salad that I love for Spring. #Whole food. 

1 head of Romaine lettuce, washed and cut into 1 inch pieces
1 pear, thinly sliced
1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles
2 ounces walnuts
3 Tbls. sugar
Creamy Vinaigrette Dressing (recipe follows)

1. In a large bowl, combine lettuce, pear, and blue cheese.
2. In a small skillet, melt 3 tablespoons sugar over medium heat.
3. Add walnuts and stir to coat. Immediately remove from heat and transfer to plate to cool.
4. Add walnuts and toss with Creamy Vinaigrette Dressing.

Dressing

1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup organic milk
3 Tbls. sugar
1 Tbls. apple cider vinegar

1. In a small bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, milk, sugar, and vinegar.




4.10.2015

GTU Kitchen--Rigatoni Bolognese





Before going on the air, I had a chance to chat with Michelle Money--former Bachelor Contestant. She asked me about my cookbooks and I asked her about The Bachelor. We both laughed about being on television, but not watching television.


 Nicea Degering and I--"Utah Valley Girls"






 Get a load of these retro tube televisions.

On today's show, I demonstrated how to make Rigatoni Bolognese.