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and what fun it is to plan some real Easter treats for that
family of yours! Here in our Kitchens in Golden Valley, we've
had half our fun before hand making the things we think
you'd have fun making this happy, happy Easter.
Sweet Easier Eggs ... for instance. Old-fashioned Choco
late Cream Easter eggs, that look so pretty and taste so good
we just had to give you the recipe right here.
Chocolate Cream Easter
Eggi. Combine I pkg. Betty
Crocker Creamy White Frost
ing Mix with 5 thsp. soft but
ter and 3 tbsp. flour. Add 2
thsp. hot water. Knead 20 to
30 times on a board lightly
dusted with confectioners'
sugar. Divide and shape into
8 eggs. Chill.
Coat eggs with Old-fashioned Fudge Frosting (the recipe is
on the Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge Flavor Frosting Mix
pkg.), by dipping eggs in frosting and ending with a swirl on
top If you'd like, decorate with Betty Crocker Creamy
White Frosting tinted in pastel colors.
You'll find it helps to krrp the fudge frosting over hot water while
you coat the eggs.
No Easter planning would be complete without some
ideas for a nice Easter breakfast. Maybe you'd like to start
with fresh pineapple. (It's pretty sure to be in your stores
around Easter time.) And then maybe scrambled eggs, with
a light, tender coffee rake, served hot and fragrant from the
oven. We have one called "Jam Velvet Crumb Cake, and it's
just so good we thought we'd pass the recipe on to you.
JAM VELVET CKUMB CAKE
113 cups Bisquick .
cup sugar
3 tbsp. soft shortening;
4 cup milk
I tup. vanilla
Heat oven lo 350 (mod.)- Grease and flour a sq. pan, 8x8x2".
Mix Bisquick, sugar. Add shortening, egg, Vi cup of milk.
Beat vigorously 1 min. Stir in gradually remaining milk,
vanilla. Beat Vi minute. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 35 to
40 min. Cut into squares. Spoon Vi cup your favorite jam
or preserves over the warm cake squares. Serve warm.
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NEWS OF THE MONTH: FRUIT P LATTER PIE
1 rup aiiW COLD MEDAL
"Kitchen-teated" Enriched
Flour
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13 cup lard (or 13 cup
plus 1 tbsp. hydrogen&ted
shortening)
13 to Yl c"P rrn ted
sharp Cheddar cheese,
if desired
2 tbsp. water
fruit, fresh or canned,
drained pieces
Heat oven to 475 (very hot. Mix flour and salt. Cut in
shortening and cheese. Sprinkle with water, mix with fork.
Round into ball. Roll into 13 to 14" circle on lightly
floured cloth-covered hoard. Transfer to baking sheet, turn
up edge I" and flute. Prick. Hake 8 to 10 min. Cool. Ar
range fruit on pastry. Sprinkle with 1 lo 2 thsp. sugar.
Spoon rup Orange Sauce (recipe below) over fruit.
Serve in pie-shaped wedges with sweetened whipped cream
and additional saure. 12 to 14 servings.
Orange Sauce: Mix in saurcpan cup sugar, tsp. salt,
1 thsp. cornstarch. Stir in 4 cup orange juice, 2 thsp.
lemon juice and xa cuP pl"& 2 thsp. boiling water. Bring
to boil and boil 1 min.; stir constantly. Cool. Add Y t8P
each grated orange and lemon rind, if desired.
Easier Baiket Cupcakes
are fun to make, too. You'll
want these: I pkg. of Betty
Crocker Yellow Cake Mix, 2
pkg. of Betty Crxker Lemon
Fluff Frosting Mix, marsh
mallows (24 to 36, depending
on the size o your cupcake
pans), small yellow gumdrops
24 to 3d) anil colored pipe
cleaners (48 to 72).
Bake your cupcakes the way it tells yon on the Betty
Crocker Yellow Cake Mix pkg. hrost the sides of each cup
cake. For a basket effect, draw the tines o a fork through
the frosting. Frost the tops of the cupcakes. Snip the top
halves of your marshmallows into six sections, cutting about
V of the way to the center. Spread each section gently to
make it look like a petal. Press a gumdrop in the middle for
a center. Put one marshmallow "flower" on each cupcake.
Make basket handles of 2 colored pipe cleaners twisted to
gether and bent into an inverted "17." Press the ends of the
handles into the rims of the cupcakes. 24 to 36 cupcakes.
We have one hit of news we know you'll want to hear.
A new 20-page booklet, that tetU you how to make all kindi
of good things with oil as the shortening ! It's railed "All
American Favorite Keripes with Cold Medal Flour," and it
tells you how to make breads, cakes, rookies, desserts, main
dishes, salads . . . even things like broiled oven French fries I
If you'd like a copy, write to me-Belty Crocker, Dept. 735,
KH) Second Avenue South, Minneapolis 1, Minnesota.
And we're really excited nlioul another great idea fr6m
our Gold Medal girls the Fruit Platlcr Pic shown above. It's
a big fruit platlcr with a crunchy cheese crust. Wonderful
conversation piece, we think, for a buffet or a brunch or that
haslcr breakfast wc were talking about!
Here are ju$t a feio of the girU in the kitchens who
want to join me this month in wishing you a happy Easter.
And always we wish you happiness every day and
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There's always something new from Betty Crocker