slightly at room temperature. Using an electric mixer, whip butter and honey together in a bowl until well mixed.
To give the butter an extra flair, you can:
put the mixture in a butter mold and allow to chill;
roll butter up in wax paper, allow it to chill, and slice when ready to use;
spread softened butter in a shallow pan, chill, and, when it is firm, use a miniature cookie cutter to make different shapes;
run semichilled butter through a pastry bag, using a star tip.
You can also adapt the above to suit your needs. For example, you could add fresh strawberries, blueberries, peaches, or other fruit. Fresh herbs like basil, thyme, and oregano—as well as fresh garlic—help make wonderful herbed butter (for this you should omit the honey).
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Desserts
CAKES AND PIES
Caramel Apple Cake with Caramel Topping
Rum Cake
Coconut Cake
Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake
Low-Fat Peach Cake
Savannah Chocolate Cake with Hot Fudge Sauce
Mama's Pound Cake
Chocolate Chip Nut Cake
Luscious Lime Cheesecake
Grandmother Paul's Sour Cream Pound Cake
Gooey Butter Cakes
Grandmother Paul's Red ‘Velvet Cake
Cheesecake
Pineapple Cake
Chocolate Sheet Cake
Banana Split Cake
Grandmama Hiers's Carrot Cake
Tunnel of Fudge Cake
Old-Time Lemon “Cheesecake”
Better Than Sex? Yes!
Punch Bowl Cake Chocolate Pound Cake
Easy Coffee Cake
Applesauce Cupcakes
Chocolate “Damnation
Peanut Butter Cake
French Coconut Pie
Butterscotch Pie Corrie's Kentucky Pie
Mini Pecan Pies
Praline Pumpkin Pie
Chocolate Chip Pie
Chocolate zAlmond Pie
Strawberry and Cream Pie
Thanksgiving Pie
Mama's Chess Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Banana Cream Pie
Million-Dollar Pie
Pastry for Two-Crust Pie
COOKIES AND BROWNIES
Chewy Pecan Cookies
Snickerdoodles
Lady Lock Cookies
Southern Tea Cakes
Sliced Nut Cookies
Butter Fingers
Goodies
Low Country Cookies
Thumb Print Cookies
Butter Cookies
Grandma's Iced Georgia Squares
Fudgie Scotch Ring
Lady Brownies
Cream Cheese Brownies
Peanut Butter Bars
Aunt Glennis's Blonde Brownies
OTHER CONFECTIONS
Peanut Butter Buckeyes
Pecan Clusters
Peanut Butter Balls
Old-Time Chocolate Fudge
Five-Minute Fudge
Baked Apples
Strawberry Mold
Walnut Praline Brie with Fruit
Crème Caramel
Rice Pudding
Banana Pudding
Savannah “Tiramisu”
Peach Cobbler
Caramel Apple Cake with Caramel ‘Topping
SERVES 15 TO 20
2½ cups sugar
3 eggs
1½ cups vegetable oil
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts
2½ cups diced apples, canned or fresh
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together sugar, eggs, and oil. Add flour; mix together until well blended. Add vanilla, nuts, and diced apples. Spread into a lightly greased and floured 13 × 9-inch baking dish; bake for 45 to 60 minutes. Cake is done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. When cake is done, punch holes in it with a knife and pour topping over.
CARAMEL TOPPING
¾pound (3 sticks) butter
2 cups brown sugar
¼cup milk
Heat all ingredients together over medium heat. Bring to boil, stirring constantly. Let boil for about 2 minutes. Pour over warm cake.
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Rum Cake
SERVES 12 TO 16
1 cup chopped walnuts
One 18¼-ounce package yellow cake mix
One 3½-ounce package instant vanilla pudding mix
4 eggs
½ cup buttermilk
½ cup vegetable oil
½ cup dark rum
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Sprinkle nuts over bottom of pan. Mix remaining ingredients together. Pour batter over nuts. Bake for 1 hour. Cool. Invert on service plate. Prick top with fork or toothpick. Drizzle and smooth glaze evenly over top and sides. Allow cake to absorb glaze. Use all the glaze.
GLAZE
4 tablespoons (½ stick) butter
¼ cup water
1 cup sugar
½ cup dark rum
Melt butter in saucepan. Stir in water and sugar. Boil 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in rum.
Coconut Cake
SERVES 12 TO 16
One 18¼-ounce package yellow pudding cake mix
1 cup sour cream
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