Sugar Free Pumpkin Rolls For the Holidays

Hey there folks. Been a long time since I posted a recipe, but I started some of my Thanksgiving baking today, so here ya go.


For the cake part

3 eggs
1 cup splenda
blend together for about 5 minutes

then add in

1 cup flour
1 tsp lemon juice
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg

Pour out onto a wax paper lined cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 5-7 minutes until done.

Take out and roll it up in the wax paper, then wrap that will a damp towel. Place in fridge to cool and form

For the filling
4 oz cream cheese
2 tablespoons splenda
1 tub cool whip

blend together and put inside the pumpkin roll, roll it back up and there you have it... a holiday favorite that you can enjoy without feeling bad over it!

Biscuits (part 2)

Okay, so after you get the dough worked up good... Like the end of the last post stated, you need to wash your hands, then sprinkle a little flour on to the dough ball and a little onto your hands. Now put your hand under the dough ball a little and give it a little flop.. rotate bowl a little, do this over and over until you have the dough coated well with flour and it has a good consistancy to it. Like the ball I got in the pic below.



Now pinch ya off a little ball of the dough and roll it up like a golf ball and then place in pan, and take your first three fingers and push it down a little.. If you look close at my pic you can see I pushed them down a little. Now take your finger and put a small well in each biscuit, and place small dollop of butter in each well.

Place in oven and bake for 10-15 minutes at about 425-450 based on how your oven bakes... take out when toothpick comes out clean. Now brush a little melted butter on top, put stove on broil and stick back in to get the tops nice and brown. Voila you just made biscuits.

Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits(part 1)

I am going to have to do two posts for this, because it won't allow me to upload all the pics needed to one post. so heres the first part.

Okay so I do not normally use a recipe for these, they are just kinda hit and miss, once you get it down to pat, you wont need a recipe, but to start it out for my friend that requested the recipe here ya go...


Okay First off get a cake pan a grease it with shortening.

I take about 5 cups of flour and put it in a big bowl... now hollow out the center of it, like your making a well in it... leave a little flour on the bottom of the bowl, but make a hole in the center of your flour.

Now take about one good size serving spoon and scoop ya up some shortening and put in the hole in the flour.









Now your going to slowly start adding in a little bit of buttermilk into the same hole as the shortening. just a little at first (also if you dont have butter milk, no big deal, use regular milk, cream, or just water ) you want to work your milk in with your shortening for a little while, then slowly start pulling in some flour from the sides and work it in with the milk/shortening mixture. Do not get it to stiff, you want it to stay sticky. Keep pulling flour in and working it, and then adding ya a little more water or milk until you get a good size ball of dough.









Okay have to go to second post for the rest of it... sorry guys

Chocolate Gravy (2) Never made this one

2 cups sugar
4 tbs cocoa
1 pinch salt
1 2/3 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbs butter

In a skillet put sugar, cocoa, flour and salt. Add to that milk, vanilla and butter. Cook and stir until boils. Let cook a little to allow to thicken more. Serve over biscuits. (also if either one dont get to the thickness you want, mix up some corn startch and water... bought 1 tbs of each, and pour in it.. make sure the gravy is boiling when ya do this though, so it will thicken... otherwise it just clumps up). Hope you enjoy this girl!!

Chocolate Gravy (for my Dear Friend Robin)

Ingredients
3 tsp cocoa
2 tsp flour
2 cups milk
2 tbs butter
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup sugar

Mix Cocoa, Sugar, Flour together, then add milk, mix until smooth. Heat and stir until thick. Take off heat, add butter and vanilla.


Note: My sis substitutes 1/2 cup sugar for 1/2 cup splenda and then does the other 1/2 cup with the sugar, so that it takes away some of the sugar content. This is the recipe we use here, but I have another one also I am going to post for you, but I have never made the other one.

Freaky/Scary cake thingy I got going on right now

Okay, so my sis sends me down a "starter" for a friendship cake. And me being the frugal person I am could not throw it out, even though I do not really like messing with these sort of things. So I start doing it.

It takes 30 days, 7 1/2 cups of sugar (no splenda sub for this one which makes it something we wont eat)

1 32 oz. can of each of these fruits. pineapples, peaches, fruit cocktail

1 jar maraschino cherries

now you add a can of each of the fruits every 10 days, peaches on the first day you get it, then the pineapples then the fruit cocktail and the cherries. along with that you also add 2 1/2 cups sugar every 10 days.

This mess is mixed up in a glass gallon jar (didn't have one so I used two half gallon Mason Jars)

Left to set out on the counter top for 30 days straight to do its thing. Scary

after you let it set out and make what smells like a nasty whisky, you drain the juice off, divide it in 3 parts 1 1/2 cups each, and give it to some other poor unsuspecting soul.

then you take the fruit, and add 1/3 cup of it to 1 box of yellow cake mix, 2/3 cups veg. oil. 4 large eggs, 1 pack vanilla instant pudding, 1 c. coconut, 1 c. chopped pecans.

do this 3 times, cause this crap makes three of these cakes.

bake it for 50-60 minutes in a 350 degree oven.

This cake scares me to death. Not to mention it has enough sugar and calories in it to drop a cow... it has set out for 30 days and just what I would say, rotted... yuck. I got it working, in the jars, and will make the cake, and take it to church dinners, or give it to family, but Myself or my husband will not be eating any of it, because he is a diabetic, we are trying to diet, and I am not sure I can get over the fact that it set out for an entire month, without being put in the fridge. Anyway, thought I would show you all a pic of it, cause it was bubbling this morning, and kinda made me uneasy.

My mom has ate a piece of one of the cakes already and says its good, but my mom would eat dirt with a little salt... love her heart she has no taste buds, so I can not honestly trust her opinion on it.

What kinda cook are you?

I often wonder, how do other people cook.. are they like me and can cook the normal stuff without recipes, and then the stuff they make, but not often, have to have recipes for.

I can cook my mac and cheese, potatoes, gravy, biscuits and such without a recipe at all... just throw it together, no biggie..but when it comes to my pies and cakes, my meatballs, anything "special" I best have the recipe handy. Not to tell me what to do with it, just what goes in it, I can remember how to put it all together, just not what to put in to put it together.. So my question to you is this...

Can you look at a recipe once, use it, tweek it, and then make the stuff over and over without the recipe?

Can you create awesome meals outta your head just from stuff in the cubbord?

Can you cook the old fashion stuff that people pay big money at The Cracker Barrel to get?

Just courious since most of my friends are all from or have lived in East Tennessee, just wonder how they are in the kitchen.