Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
peach cake with cream cheese glaze
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__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Peach Cake With Cream Cheese Glaze
Ingredients for cake:
3 eggs, beaten
1 and 3/4 cups white sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon bakin' soda
2 cups fresh peaches - peeled, pitted and sliced
1/2 cup pecans, chopped
Instructions for cake:
1) Preheat oven to 375�.
2) Grease and flour a 9 by13 inch pan.
3) Thoroughly beat together the the eggs, sugar, oil, flour, salt, cinnamon, baking soda, peaches slices, and pecans in a large bowl.
4) Pour batter into the pan and bake for about fifty minutes.
5) Glaze cake once it cools.
Cream Cheese Glaze
Ingredients for glaze:
1 three ounce size package of cream cheese
3 tablespoons whole milk
2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
Instructions for glaze:
1) Combine cream cheese, milk, and sugar in a small bowl.
2) Stir 'til the consistency is smooth, addin' more milk
and/or powdered sugar as needed.
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