Bacon Wrapped Filet with Mushroom Marsala Sauce

This is a delicious Bacon Wrapped Filet with Mushroom Marsala Sauce.


The filet will melt in your mouth tender and we have four different cooking methods, broiled, pan-fried, grilled, or air fried.


Our filet is wrapped in applewood bacon and we prefer to serve it with one or more sides like our polenta, pasta dishes, grilled artichokes, and today I am making our favorite Roasted Vegetables.


When shopping for this dish, use the best quality ingredients and fresh is best.


The marriage of flavors from all of these ingredients will give you a gourmet filet that so easy to prepare.


For the best results always marinate the meat for at least 1 hour if not longer before proceeding with the cooking methods.


Our easy-to-follow instructions will give you a fork-tender filet that is a memorable meal and perfect when hosting a dinner party!


This recipe is made for very thick cuts of filets, and the Marsala sauce is also great on other lesser cuts of steaks, chops, or even ground beef patties.


Scroll down to our printable recipe card for the exact measurements and cooking methods and enjoy your filet easy instructions for a gourmet meal.

Bacardi Chocolate Rum Cake Recipe

I make this cake every year for friends that love Rum.

The buttery Rum flavor with Chocolate is just so addicting.

Most of the cakes are made with Bourbon, this is a nice change. The cake is dense like poundcake and has all the moistness it needs to melt in your mouth. You won't be sorry trying this one. Anyone that loves Rum will love this cake as well.


Cake:

1/2 cup hot brewed strong coffee

1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

1 box devils food cake mix

1 box instant chocolate pudding

1/2 cup canola oil

1/2 cup sour cream

4 eggs

1/3 cup Rum and 3 tablespoons water


Glaze:

1/4 cup butter

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup rum


Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Butter, flour a bundt pan.

In a small bowl, combine chocolate chips and hot brewed coffee until smooth microwave 40 seconds and stir to melt chips evenly. Set aside.

Mix all cake ingredients and beat until smooth. Add the chocolate mixture and blend together. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 55 minutes to an hour or until cake is tested with a tooth pick and comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes.

In a small saucepan, add butter, sugar bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add rum. Pierce the cake with a fork and pour the mixture over hot cake.

Chocolate Bark Fruit and Nut Candy

Who can resist an easy decadent slab of chocolate, with either bittersweet, milk, or white smooth melted chocolate, mixed with a various assortment of with nuts, fruits or other candy?.


This easy confection is made up of pistachios, dark chocolate, nuts, raisins, and whatever else your heart desires.


We often make this at Christmas time for those hard-to-buy folks but surely they love their candy.


Try some of our experimental additions and make this you own bark candy creation these super simple instructions will have everyone asking you for your recipe.


This is just a guideline to follow so substitute whatever your family and friends like in the recipe.


The kids love to help dump in the ingredients and it's a great first lesson in cooking and how to invent recipes on their own.


Check out our favorite mix suggestions and scroll to the bottom to our printable instructions.

Leftover Piecrust Pinwheel Cookies

Pie Crust Pinwheels are easy, mom made these all the time during the fall when she had leftover dough after making apple pies.

With several different filling options below, you can have a few different pie crust cookies baked in around 15 to 20 minutes.

Little flakey easy pie crust cookies made with leftover dough is the perfect way to repurpose pie crust deliciously!

Cherry Winks

Cherry Winks are a popular cookie that became a winning recipe for a National Pillsbury contest back in the 1950s.

The recipe is a basic cookie dough with dates, maraschino cherries, and nuts then rolled into cornflakes and baked.

These crunchy little gems are perfect for any holiday cookie tray and certainly have a delicious blend of flavor in every bite.

The sweet little maraschino cherries really give this cookie its character in color with the balance of sweet and crunchy coating from the cereal along with the pecans and sweet dates.

We love this vintage cherry cookie and it's surely a treat every Christmas holiday!

Scroll down to the recipe at the bottom of this page in a printable recipe card.

Italian Fig Cookie Thumbprint Recipe

Filling:

1 1/2 cups dried figs

3/4 cup yellow light raisins

1/4 cup silvered almonds or coarse chopped walnuts

1/2 cup mixed dried fruits

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup water hot

pinch of cinnamon

In a food processor chop everything until it's coarsely ground set aside.

3-3/4 cups all purpose flour
1  cup butter, softened
1/3 cup butter or lard
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup heavy cream plus two tablespoons
1 egg yolk

Combine all ingredients blending together until this forms a ball.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Roll into balls. With the bottom of a floured finger make an indentation in the center. Place on parchment paper. Bake for 10 minutes. Fill with fig filling. Bake at 350-degree hot oven until set not browned around 5 minutes. Cool sprinkle with powdered sugar.