Amber's Favorite Coffee Cake

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup milk, or as needed
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup butter

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease (cooking spray) springform pan. Make the streusel topping: In a medium bowl, combine 1/4 cup flour, 2/3 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl, combine 2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Crack an egg into a measuring cup and then fill add milk to make 1 cup. Stir in vanilla. Pour into crumb mixture and mix just until moistened. Spread into prepared pan.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 20, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Sprinkle top with streusel. Bake for another 10min.

Mom's Peanut Butter Cookies

1C shortening

1C sugar

1C brown sugar

2 eggs

1t vanilla

1C peanut butter

3C flour

2t baking soda

1/2t salt

cream shortening, sugar (both), eggs, and vanilla.

stir in peanut butter, add flour, soda, and salt.

drop by tsp fulls on ungreased cookie sheet

press with back of sugared fork (white) in criss-cross pattern

bake 350 for 10min

Gramma's Holiday Cookies

combine in one bowl:

4 1/2C flour

1/2t baking soda

1/2t salt

combine in different bowl:

1C shortning

1 1/2C sugar

3 eggs

1t almond extract

2t vanilla

mix all together, form into loaf and chill for 2hrs or overnight

roll dough 1/2" thick and cut with cookie cutters

bake 350 for 7-8min

Mom's Caramel Corn

Pop 7quarts of popcorn

THEN:

1C butter

2C brown sugar

1/2C caro syrup

1t salt

--boil for 5min, remove from heat, ad 1/2teaspoon (no more!!)

place popcorn in roasting pan, pour caramel ontop, stir

oven 250 for 40min, stir every 10-15min

Mom's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

1/2C shortening

1 1/4C sugar

1/2C molasses

2 eggs

1 3/4C flour

1t (of each) salt, soda and cinnamon

2C oatmeal

1 1/2 Raisins

drop teaspoon fulls on lightly greased cookie sheet

bake 375 for 8-10min

Amber's Monkey Bread

FIRST:

2 1/4C warm water

2 packs yeast

1T sugar

1T butter

2C flour

--combine and stir for 5min

NEXT:

add 1T salt

add 1C flour at a time until forms dough

kneed 5min

THEN:

let rise 25min

melt 1cube butter in bowl, 1C sugar and 2T cinnamon in bowl

LAST:

form dough in balls, dip in butter, then in sugar

place in greased 9X11 pan in upto two layers

bake at 425 for 15min

Chocolate Vinegar & Oil Cake

**TASTES SO MUCH BETTER THAN IT SOUNDS**

3C flour

2C sugar

1/2t salt

1/2t baking soda

1/2C cocoa

2T vanilla

4 1/2oz oil

2C cold water

--mix all together

--do NOT grease baking pan

--bake at 350degrees for 35min