What You Need:

1 cup flour
2/3 cup white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
dash of cloves
1/2 cup milk
1 can (16 oz) pears -drained and chopped
1/2 cup chopped pecans
3/4 cup brown sugar -packed
1/4 cup butter or margarine
3/4 cup water
Ice cream or whipped cream

How To Make It:

Mix up the main dry ingredients first (flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, cloves) then add milk and continue to mix until smoothed.
Stir in the pears and pecans.
Pour batter into a 2 quart casserole dish.
In a small mixing bowl mix the brown sugar, butter and hot water.
Pour this mixture over the batter in the casserole dish.
Bake for 45 minutes at 375 degrees F.
Serve alamode.

This Christmas Cake Recipe Serves 8 – 10.

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What You Need:

CRUST:
2 cups crushed vanilla wafers
6 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

CHEESECAKE:
4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
1 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons rum*
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 cup heavy cream
4 egg yolks

How To Make It:

Make the crust by mixing together the crushed wafers, butter and nutmeg.
Press the mixture into the bottom of a spring form pan.
Bake the crust for 10 minutes at 325 degrees F.
Blend together cream cheese, flour, sugar, rum and vanilla.
Add one egg at a time to the mixture and continue to blend well after each addition.  Then blend in the 4 additional egg yolks and the whipping cream.
Pour cheesecake filling into prepared pan.
Bake for one hour at 325 degrees F.
Completely cool before removing from spring form pan then refrigerate over night.

This Christmas Dessert Recipe Serves 8.

*For a non-alcoholic family friendly version you can use rum extract, vanilla extract, white grape juice or apple juice!

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