Sour Cream Pound Cake (Emily)

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups butter softened
3 cups sugar
6 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 8oz container sour cream
1 tsp lemon extract
1/4 tsp almond extract

1. Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until the yolk disappears
2. Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda. Add to butter mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat batter at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in extracts. Pour into a greased and floured 12-cup tube pan.
3. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes or until long wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan, and cool completely on wire rack.

Spring Treats

Layered Strawberry Cheesecake Bowl (Robin)

3 cups sliced fresh strawberries
3 Tbs sugar
2 pkg Neufchatel Cheese, softened (or cream cheese)
1 1/2 cups cold milk
1 pkg vanilla instant pudding mix (3.4 oz)
2 cups cool whip topping, divided ( I left this out)
2 cups pound cake, cubed
1 cup chocolate chips

Combine berries and sugar. Refridgerate until ready to use.
Beat cheese until creamy, gradually beat in milk.
Add pudding mix and beat well.
(optional) Blend in 1 1/2 cups cool whip
Layer cake, cheese mixture, and berries in container.
Melt chocolate chips and drizzle on top.

Lemon Icebox Pie (Jamie Booth)

1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 tub cool whip(8 oz.)
1 envelope lemon(or lemon lime for key lime flavor) koolaid mix
graham cracker pie crust

Mix first three ingredients until well blended and spread in pie crust. Freeze and serve. Store in freezer.

Strawberry Jello and Pretzel Salad (Lindsey Slagley)
1 large box strawberry jello
2 cups boiling water
1 (10 oz) box frozen sliced strawberries, thawed
1 (12 oz) tub cool whip
8 oz cream cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
2 cups pretzels, smashed in small pieces
3 Tbsp sugar
3/4 cup butter, melted

Mix pretzels, butter, and sugar and spread in a 9x13 dish. Press into the bottom of the dish and bake at 325 for 8 minutes. Cool.
While that is baking, mix jello powder and boiling water and stir for 2 minutes (until all jello powder is dissolved). Then, stir in sliced strawberries. Chill for 2 hours or until slightly congealed.
In a separate bowl, mix cream cheese, cool whip, and powdered sugar until fluffy.
Spread cream cheese mixture over cooled pretzel crust. Then, spread slightly congealed jello on top of cream cheese and chill until firm. Cut into squares.