Oldies But Goodies

About two months ago my grandma (grammi) gave me a black book full of recipes from her mother, grandmother, and aunts. This was very special to me and although I havent been able to make all the recipes yet I figured I could post two that I am excited about making and maybe some of you can make them too! Let me know what you think ! 

I swear everyones great great great aunt has the same famous recipe for cheese cake- well heres mine 

Cream Cheese Cake 

2 eight oz packages of cream cheese 

1 cup of sugar 

4 eggs (well beaten) 

1 pint of sour cream 

1 tsp of lemon juice 

a pinch of salt 

for the crust- 

2 cups crushed graham crackers 

2 tablespoons of butter (melted)

a slash of vanilla 

For the crust-

Combine ingredients and form at the bottom and edges of a spring form pan. Bake at 350 for 5 minutes 

For cheese cake 

combine all ingredients place on top of baked crust place in oven at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes then turn oven off and let sit for 5 to 10 mins allow to cool in refrigerator over night. 

Award winning Apple Tort 

3 eggs well beaten 

1 cup sugar

1tsp vanilla 

2/3 cup flour 

1/4 tsp salt

2 1/2 tsp baking powder 

some lemon zest

mix all ingredients thoroughly then fold in three large apples sliced and 1 cup of chopped walnuts (optional) bake in 8x12in pan for 40 minutes at 350 

serve with whipped cream 

Enjoy!

Sammi Farber

Teenage Chef 

Driving In The Safe Lane

SADD 2011

What an amazing night! I was so happy to do this cake for my friends at my old school. They had a few speakers come in and talk about the dangers of being stupid while driving. Some things they spoke about were drinking, texting, and having too many people in a car along with not wearing any seat belts. I wasn't planning on staying but after hearing what the presentation was about I decided to educate myself a little, lol. Anyway, enough about the presentation, even though I could say so much, lets talk about the cake. So the cake was vanilla with chocolate filling and lets just say huge is an understatement. I mean this cake was seriously gigantic, it was 4 sheet cakes about 17in long lined up with another 4 on top, so 8 sheets. I then carved it just enough to give it that "bumpy land" look. Then  I covered the entire cake in green fondant, with fondant balls as the border, and strips of black fondant to look like roads. I also cut out little yellow rectangles to look like the dotted lines in the roads. After the roads were in place it was time to make the cars. They were made out of white chocolate that I colored with different types of luster dust. To finish the cake off I cut out and painted the words "driving in the safe lane," the slogan of the night, and "SADD 2011" onto the cake. The perfect finishing touch!