Do-Nothing Cake

 

It's hot outside and no one feels like making a big fussy cake......so we're not going to!  This is a Do-Nothing Cake!  You don't even need your mixer to put this one together.  You probably have most of these ingredients in your kitchen right now and this on only takes 30 minutes to make!  

Cake Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/8 teaspoon salt
2 cups white granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 20 ounce can crushed pineapple with juice (do not drain)

Frosting Ingredients:

1 stick butter or 8 tablespoons or 1/2 cup
1 cup white granulated sugar
3/4 cup evaporated milk
1 cup chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts)

1 cup shredded coconut

Cake Instructions:

Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla extract and pineapple. Stir with a spoon to combine all ingredients. Spray a 9 x 13 baking pan with cooking spray and add batter. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 30 -35 minutes until the center tests done. Make frosting below and poke holes in hot cake with a wooden spoon.

Frosting Instructions:

Bring butter, sugar and milk to a boil in a pan on top of the stove. Cook and stir about 3 minutes. Remove from stove and stir in nuts and coconut. Pour over hot cake.

Notes
The original recipe calls for 2 cups sugar in the cake.  I use only 1 cup and the cake is plenty sweet.  I also make my frosting with 1 1/2 cups coconut instead of just one.

World's Tastiest Tea

 

OH MY GOODNESS!  This is the best tea I've ever had in my life!  I'm old and southern, so I'm pretty sure that my Mama put tea in my baby bottle.  I might have put it in my sons baby bottles as well.  Needless to say I am a tea snob and I've had good and bad teas over the years.

While traveling for business in Cleveland, there was a local restaurant that we hopped to for lunch frequently.  We'd order tea and we got apricot tea, raspberry tea, blackberry tea... all seriously lacking the sweetness we craved.  One day, I asked if I could go into the kitchen and show them how to make the tea we wanted.... and they said yes!  From that day on, we'd call a day in advance and tell them we were coming and they would follow my recipe and make sweet tea for us!

This was all fine until a few weeks ago, when I went to a Women's Guild event and was served this unique tea!  As we started our luncheon, my friends said you HAVE to figure out this tea and put it on the radio.  I asked a hostess and she gave me the basic ingredients but no measurements.  After some research and a few weeks of testing.... this is the BEST tea I've ever had!

You'll need:

Tea - you can use cold brew tea or instant

    Cold Brew is six bags per gallon or Instant Unsweet Tea is 1/2 cup per gallon of tea

3/4 cup Country Time Lemonade  mix

1 cup white sugar

1 cup white grape juice

That's it!  4 ingredients to the most refreshing and delicious tea of my life.  No need to boil tea bags or heat up your kitchen.  God Bless who ever invented cold tea bags.... they have changed my life.

This is wonderful for the summer and I hope that you and your family enjoy this as much as we have.