Valentine's Day Recipe Exchange: Red Velvet Cake

I receive so many compliments about how moist this cake is every time I fix it.  The icing has such a good flavor to it and really compliments the cake!

Ingredients

2 eggs
2 cups Crisco oil
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cocoa
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 oz red food coloring
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vinegar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix oil, sugar, and eggs.  Sift in dry ingredients.  Add rest of ingredients.
3. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.
   

Icing

Ingredients

1 box confectioners sugar
8 oz cream cheese, softened
1 stick margarine, softened
1 tsp vanilla

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients together.

Knock You Nakeds

This is a recipe that is so good it will "knock you naked."  My mom submitted this for the Valentine's Day Recipe Exchange (she may or may not have had a little prodding from me).

Cook Time:  30 Minutes
Yields:  20 Servings

Ingredients

1 pkg German chocolate cake mix
1 cup nuts, chopped (optional)
3/4 cup butter, melted
1/3 cup evaporated milk
1 pkg caramel candy
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 cup chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine cake mix, nuts, 1/3 cup evaporated milk and butter and mix well.
3. Press half of mixture into bottom of a greased 9" x 13" baking dish.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes.
5. Melt caramel candy in top of double boiler* with 1/2 cup evaporated milk.
6. When caramel mixture is well melted and mixed, gently pour over baked mixture.
7. Cover with chocolate chips and take small amounts of reserved chocolate mixture and pat out thin in hands and lay over top of chips.
8. Bake for 18 minutes at 350 degrees.
9. Cool before slicing

*If you are like me and don't have a double boiler, you can make one by placing a bowl over boiling water in pot.  Make sure bowl is not touching water.  Or you can use a heavy pot and cook on medium low heat, stirring constantly until melted and well blended.

From Lynn's Kitchen

Valentine's Day Recipe Exchange

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While I'm sure a lot of us go out to eat for Valentine's Day, there are always some who prefer to stay at home and have a home cooked meal, which is actually what my husband and I have done the past couple of years.  If you are planning to have a romantic candle lit home cooked meal, then you might be looking for some new recipes to try.  In an attempt to help you (and me) attain some new recipes to fix for that Valentine's meal, we're going to be hosting another Recipe Exchange!  The Valentine's Day Recipe Exchange will take place on February 12, 2010!

Here's what you do:

• Grab the button above and post it on your blog to help advertise the Recipe Exchange, after all the more people that know about it the more recipes we all get!
• Type your recipe(s) up into a blog post.
• If you do not have a blog you can e-mail me your recipes and I will host them on my blog and make sure they get linked up for the recipe exchange.  You can e-mail them to katiessouthernkitchen@gmail.com
  
• Come back here on February 12th.  At that time you will find my Recipe and at the bottom of that recipe will be a place for you to enter your Permalink for your recipe.
• This way everyone's recipes will be in linked in one spot so they are easy for everyone else to find!
• If you've never participated in a linky party, they are lots of fun!  You get to check out other peoples blogs and most importantly, you get LOTS of new recipes to try!

Super Bowl Recipe Exchange: Cheese Ball

I'd always wanted a cheese ball recipe, but the ones I found always had ingredients that my husband and I don't really care for (we're incredibly picky), then I came across this one.  It's easy and it's fabulous!

Ingredients

2 pkg cream cheese, softened
1 jar dried beef, finely chopped
1 bunch green onions, finely chopped
1 cup mayonnaise
dash of garlic powder and Worcestershire sauce

Directions

1. Cream mayonnaise and cream cheese together.  Add onions and 1 tablespoon of dried beef and remaining ingredients and mix well.
2. Refrigerate at least one hour.
3. Form into a ball.  Coat ball in remaining dried beef.

*Serve with crackers

I actually made two smaller balls out of this recipe when I made it, or you could make one larger recipe.  You can also put nuts on the outside, but I don't care for nuts so I chose not to do that.

From Tastes for All Seasons - Department of Human Services Mississippi Association of County & Regional Directors 2004 - pg 7

To participate, just add the permalink to your blog post below!  Also, don't forget if you're not already a follower of Katie's Southern Kitchen to become one by looking for the link in the right hand column.  This will help you stay up to date with all our future Recipe Exchanges/Linky Parties!

Olive Cheese Ball

A friend of mine's Aunt sent me this recipe to post for the Super Bowl Recipe Exchange.

Ingredients

24 oz cream cheese
1 jar dried beef
1 small jar olives
1 small jar mushrooms
green onions to taste
3 tsp accent
parsley flakes

Directions

1. Chop and shred beef, olives, mushrooms, and onions.  (You can use food processor or food chopper.)
2. Mix into softened cream cheese.
3. Add accent.
4. Form into a ball and roll in parsley flakes.
5. Chill overnight.
   

Spicy Tailgate Dip

My mom sent me this recipe to post up for the Super Bowl Recipe Exchange.  She doesn't have a blog to be able to post it herself, so I'm posting it for her on my site.  If you ever want to participate in the recipe exchanges, but are like my mom and don't have a blog to post the recipes to, just e-mail them to me at katiessouthernkitchen@gmail.com and I'll get them posted on here for everyone to use.

This is a great variation to the traditional Ro-Tel Cheese Dip.

Ingredients

1 lb pork sausage, browned and drained
2 (8 oz) pkgs cream cheese, cubed
1 (10 oz) can Ro-Tel

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients in slow cooker.
2. Cover and cook on low for 1 to 2 hours, until heated through and cream cheese is melted, stirring several times.
3. Stir good to mix and serve with corn or tortilla chips.

From Lynn's Kitchen

Super Bowl Recipe Exchange

Just a reminder that we will be hosting a Super Bowl Recipe exchange NEXT FRIDAY, January 15th!!!  If you haven't done so already, please grab the button below and post it on your blog somewhere to let others know you will be participating, and hopefully they will decide to participate as well.  The more the merrier and the more that participate, the more recipes we get to try!  You can view a link to the original post about the Super Bowl Recipe Exchange HERE.  On that post, you will find exact instructions on how to participate.

Also, for those of you who do not have blogs to post your recipes on, but would still like to participate in the recipe exchange...  Please e-mail your recipe to KatiesSouthernKitchen@gmail.com and I will host those recipes here on my blog so that everyone will still get to enjoy your recipe.

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Super Bowl Recipe Exchange

The Super Bowl will be here before we know it and I'm sure lots of us will have parties or will be attending parties that we need to take a dish too.  There's always lots of people at these parties, so what better time to try out some new recipes?!  In honor of this wonderful occasion where lots of food is always served, I thought I'd host my first linky party.  We're going to have a Recipe Exchange on January 15th!  (Can you tell I'm just a little excited, HA) So get those recipes ready to share.

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Here's what you do:

• Grab the button above and post it on your blog to help advertise the Recipe Exchange.  After all, the more people that know about it, the more recipes we all get!
• Type your recipe(s) up into a blog post.
• Come back here on January 15th.  At that time you will find my Recipe and at the bottom of that recipe will be a place for you to enter your Permalink for your recipe.
• This way everyone's recipes will be in linked in one spot so they are easy for everyone else to find!
• If you've never participated in a linky party, they are lots of fun!  You get to check out other peoples blogs and most importantly, you get LOTS of new recipes to try!  (Don't worry, I know the site is just starting out, so I'm going to have SEVERAL different recipes of my own for you to try)

Now, go dig out those recipes and get ready to type them up!  I'm looking forward to seeing and eventually trying everyone elses recipes!