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Here are a few favorite recipes that I was able to help my grandma make many years ago before she passed on. While I won’t be baking all of them for Easter, I will be baking one. It is the Impossible Pie. The Impossible pie is a crust-less coconut pie. Hope you enjoy them!

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Impossible Pie ( a crustless coconut pie)

2 cups milk
4 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 stick butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup coconut flakes
nutmeg

Mix all ingredients except coconut. Blend for 5 minutes. Stir in coconut flakes. Pour into greased pie pan and sprinkle with nutmeg. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.

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Carrot Cake Supreme

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup oil
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups grated carrots
1 (8oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained
3 oz. coconut flakes
1 cup pecans, chopped

Grease and flour 3 round cake pans. Stir together first 4 ingredients. Set aside. Beat eggs and next 4 ingredients at medium speed until smooth. Add flour mixture, beating at a low speed until blended. Fold in carrots and next 3 ingredients. Pour batter into pans. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Cool completely and frost in between layers and on top and sides with cream cheese icing.

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Carrot Cake

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
4 eggs
1 cup oil
3 cups grated carrots

Grease and flour 3 round cake pans. Preheat oven to 300. Sift together dry ingredients; then add the eggs, one at a time. Pour oil over carrots and add to first mixture, mixing well. Bake in 3 layers until done.

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Cream Cheese Icing ( need to double this recipe to do in between the layers of the cakes)

1 (8oz) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 stick butter, softened
1 box confectioners sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup. pecans, chopped

Petticoat Ranch by Mary Connealy

My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I loved this book. It starts with a woman who became independent after her husband died and so use to do things on her own. Then it adds a man used to doing things his way without the thought or question of others. Out of need, they come together to help each other and in turn learn so much about what God expects of them. To depend on HIM and not their individual selves!

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I follow many blogs, but one of my favorites is i am mommy, by Amanda. She also has another great site called i am baker. Today on her i am baker post, she has created an awesome Easter cake. It is in the shape on an egg. On the inside of the cake, she has a really neat surprise! Amanda has a true talent when it comes to baking and decorating. Be sure to check out i am baker!

I follow many blogs, but one of my favorites is i am mommy, by Amanda. She also has another great site called i am baker. Today on her i am baker post, she has created an awesome Easter cake. It is in the shape on an egg. On the inside of the cake, she has a really neat surprise! Amanda has a true talent when it comes to baking and decorating. Be sure to check out i am baker!

I have missed a couple of weigh-in’s since my last one. The first week I missed, we were in Florida and I had lost 3 lbs. Then last week, I was sick and don’t think I got on the computer at all on that day. I didn’t lose anything that week anyhow.

However, being sick last week I did lose some weight. In fact, I lost 3 lbs. Now, while I am happy I did lose that weight, it was not in a healthy way. I was sick all week and for most of that week couldn’t hold anything down.

I am still counting calories and doing my best to exercise 20-30 minutes a day. I will eventually up the exercising time.

I am off to a great start this week and look forward to the next weigh-in!