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Ingredients:
4 oz whipped cream cheese
2 ripe avocados
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp minced garlic
3 strips of bacon, cooked and crumbled
Optional Items:
Red onion
Cilantro
Directions:
Peel and Pit avocado, mash in a bowl with a fork. Add remaining ingredients and mix.
Serve as a chip dip or spread on sandwiches — Delicious either way
Ingredients
Ingredients:
4 eggs
1 ¼ c vegetable oil
2 c white sugar
3 tsp vanilla extract
2 c flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
3 tsp cinnamon
3 c grated carrots
1 c chopped pecans (optional)
Frosting
½ c butter, softened
8 oz cream cheese, softened
4 c confectioner’s sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 c chopped pecans
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 x 13 pan
In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar and 3 tsp vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan.
Bake in the oven for 40-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack & cool completely.
To make frosting: In a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar and 1 tsp vanilla. Beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Sprinkle chopped pecans over the frosted cooled cake.
Optional ingredients : Pineapple – coconut – raisins –
Ingredients3/4 cup butter
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp coarse sea salt
2 cups coarsely chopped Butterfinger Bars
Preheat oven to 350° Cream butter and sugars in mixing bowl. Add the vanilla and eggs; mix well. Add dry ingredients flour, salt and baking soda until smooth. Stir in chopped Butterfinger. Spread into a 9×13 baking dish and bake for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely.
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
2 1/2 – 3 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup chopped Butterfinger Bars
Cream the butter and shortening together until smooth. Add in powdered sugar and mix on low/medium speed. Sprinkle the top of the frosting with chopped Butterfinger.
