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Yum Yum Pie

Yum Yum Pie

Recipe from Grandma Turner’s recipe box.

This pie is both easy to make and very addicting. 

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cube butter
• 1 cup walnuts or pecans
• 1 – 8oz cream cheese; softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 12 oz cool whip (divided)
• 1 lg. vanilla instant pudding
• 1 lg. chocolate instant pudding
• 3 cups milk

Combine nuts, flour, butter; and press into 9X13 inch pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.  Let cool.  Combine cream cheese sugar, and half of the cool whip, blend until smooth.  Spread onto crust.  Beat together both puddings and milk.  Pour onto pie.  Spread remaining cool whip on top. 

Sweet Corn Cake

Sweet Corn Cake

Similar to El Torito

Copycat recipe by looneytunesfan

• 1 (7 ½ oz) package sweet cornbread mix
• ¼ Cup butter, melted
• ¼ Cup water
• 1 (15 oz) can cream style corn
• 1 Tablespoon honey, optional

In bowl, combine corn cake mix with melted butter.  Add water and can of cream style corn.  Mix until ingredients are combined.

Pour mixture into a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

Bake, uncovered at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until liquid has been absorbed.

Use an ice cream scoop to serve sweet corn cake as a side dish or for dessert.

Strawberry Refrigerator Cake

Strawberry Refrigerator Cake

Duncan Hines Box cake box recipe

This was my go-to cake recipe for years, but lost the recipe in the mid 2000’s.  I found the recipe again very recently online on the Duncan Hines Website. 

Ingredients

Cake:

• 1 pkg Duncan Hines® Moist Deluxe® Strawberry Supreme Cake Mix (can substitute white or yellow cake mix too) Make cake according to box directions.
• Approximately 10oz of sweetened, frozen sliced strawberries, thawed

Topping:

• 1 (3.4 oz) pkg vanilla instant pudding and pie filling (can substitute cream cheese pudding too)
• 1 cup milk
• 3 cups frozen non-dairy whipped topping
• fresh strawberries

Baking Instructions

1.       Preheat oven to 350 ºF. Grease and flour 13x9-inch pan.

2.       For cake, prepare, bake and cool according to package directions.

3.       Poke holes 1 inch apart in top of cake using handle from wooden spoon.

4.       Puree thawed strawberries with juice in blender. Spoon evenly over top of cake allowing mixture to soak into holes.

5.       For topping, prepare pudding mix according to package directions using 1 cup milk. Fold whipped topping into pudding mixture. Spread over cake. Garnish with fresh strawberries. Refrigerate at least 4 hours.