Pear Squares

ok, so Ron dated this girl that I wasn't too crazy about. Ok, actually...i just didn't like her (sorry ron). One thing that i think everyone agreed upon was the fact that this girl could BAKE. she made the most amazing things. Two things off the top of my head that I like to use from her are the caramel popcorn cereal and her pear square recipe.

Here's the recipe!

Ingredients:
CRUST
1/2 cup butter
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup walnuts (i used pecans)
3/4 cup flour

FILLING
8 oz cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/s tsp vanilla
1 can of pears
sprinkling of cinnamon and sugar

PREHEAT OVEN TO 350.

CRUST:
blend butter, sugar, vanilla. Mix in nuts & flour. Press into 8 x 8 pan. Bake for 10 miutes at 350.

FILLING:
blend together cream cheese, sugar, egg and vanilla. spread mixture onto the baked crust. slice can of pears on mixture, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
bake 25 - 30 minutes in 375 degree oven.

cool and refrigerate.

Thanksgiving - Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread

So I baked a lot of stuff for Thanksgiving. The best two recipes were the pumpking bread and one other, which i will share on a separate post.

I got this recipe off of allrecipes.com, submitted by Laurie Bennett. My nephew liked this one so much that I gave them a whole loaf to eat. It's like a pumpkin pie in bread form...super moist, too!

Ingredients:
1 (15 ounce) can of pumpkin puree
4 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup water
3 cups white sugar
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp ground ginger

1.) Preheat oen to 350 degrees. Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans

2.) In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans

3.) Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated over. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (i did it just before this point to retain its moistness).