My Recipes
Key Lime Pie
This is a super easy, mild pie. Ingredients: Make or purchase your favorite graham cracker crust. If you use an extra-large crust, double the recipe for the filling and add a few minutes to the cooking time Filling: One can sweetened condensed milk 3 egg yolks ¼ c key lime [more]
Best Ever Chocolate Frosting
In case you missed it on the Juliet Brilee Facebook page, here's the recipe for the cooked fudge frosting from the bookChristmas Cake Day. It's good for a Valentine's Day cake too. Who doesn't love chocolate on Valentine's Day? Cooked Chocolate Fudge Frosting You’ll probably want to double this. 4 oz. [more]
Vanilla Butter Cake
Recipe from Christmas Cake Day Ingredients: 3 cups of sifted flour (I don’t always sift mine) 2 cups of sugar 1 cup of butter (two sticks slightly softened) 4 eggs 1 cup evaporated milk ─regular evaporated, not sweetened condensed 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 TABLESPOON baking powder 1/8 teaspoon salt [more]
Cream Cheese Frosting
For Tara’s Carrot Cake or any cake you love… (double this for a layer cake) 8 oz cream cheese, softened 6 Tablespoons butter, room temperature 2 ½ c powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 ½ Tablespoons …lemon juice…or juice of a small lemon Cream butter and cream cheese together [more]
Tara’s Carrot Cake
3 eggs (Tara uses the ones from her chickens) ¾ c buttermilk (yes buttermilk you can add vinegar to fresh milk and sour it, but buttermilk is better. So what you do is: purchase buttermilk and freeze it in ¾ c. bags. Defrost as needed.) ¾ c vegetable oil 1 [more]