Watkins Chocolate Pound Cake

Ingredients:

Cooking Instructions:

Cream the margarine, shortening and sugar.  Add eggs to the mixture one at a time, beating well after each egg.  Starting with one of the remaining liquid ingredients, add one liquid followed by one dry ingredient to your creamed mixture, mixing well after each addition round of a liquid and dry ingredient.  Continue doing this until you end with the final liquid ingredient.  Next, grease and flour a tube pan.  Add your batter to the pan.  Sprinkle the chopped nuts on top of the batterr and gently press the nuts into the batter.  Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes at 325 degrees F.

Watkins Products Was the Winner on Super Bowl Sunday

As a professional Watkins products associate, I’m a constant advocate (and cheerleader) for what we call, Watkinizing Your Home.  With a treasure chest of 350 products for home and personal use, Watkins associates have been Watkinzing American homes for 141 years, since Watkins Incorporated was founded by J.R. Watkins in 1868.

Having been born into a family of avid users of Watkins products, I guess you could say I’ve had a Watkinized-home all my life.  Watkins products have played a role in every major family event of my life, ranging from preparation of Thanksgiving dinners, to Christmas desserts and Super Bowl Sunday snacks.  So it came as no surprise to my friends that our Super Bowl Sunday party showcased a hit parade of Watkins products that our guests marveled over and raved about throughout the afternoon and evening.

My wife and I received numerous compliments about how great our Watkins snack and dip mixes tasted, generous pats on our backs for the spectacular flavor of our barbecued shrimp and burgers that were brushed and glazed with Watkins barbecue sauce and kudos to my 12-year old for 3 batches of Watkins Snickerdoodle Cookies she baked for everyone.  In fact, everyone in the house gushed over the rich and delicious flavor of the Watkins pure ground cinnamon my daughter used to coat her Snickerdoodle cookies.

Needless to say, everyone was impressed by the sheer number of Watkins products used in preparing the dips, snacks, salads, vegetables, meats and desserts.  I had several requests for product samples and catalogs, with others simply saying “Order me some of this” after eating something they liked. 

Other Watkins items that played a role in our Super Bowl Sunday were Watkins vanilla and cranilla candles that delivered their wonderful aromas throughout our house,  a prominently displayed canister of lavender-scented Watkins room freshener in our bathroom that set alongside Watkins hand soaps and lotions, and Watkins hand soaps and dishwashing detergent displayed near the kitchen sink and used when it came time to clean up at the end of the party.

All in all, Super Bowl Sunday ended up being a great day for the Pittsburg Steelers, but it was a fantastic day for Watkins products in the Whitley household.  If you’re looking for a great home-based business opportunity, I highly recommend you take a look at selling Watkins products.  However, I never think of operating a Watkins business as “selling products.” Instead, I think of Watkins more-so as a “product introduction business.”   Why?  Because Watkins products are so great, and their quality is so outstanding, that the mere introduction of Watkins products to others not only leads to product sales, but the capture of life-long users of Watkins products that spread the word of Watkins to others, leading to new clients and future Watkins business owners.

Million Dollar Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe and Watkins Cinnamon

Double Delight Peanut Butter CookiesCarolyn Gurtz of Maryland recently won Pillsbury’s annual million dollar prize for baking with her innovative peanut butter cookie recipe, which adds a whole new twist to Pillsbury’s Create ‘n Bake® refrigerated peanut butter cookie dough.  This wonderful recipe that Carolyn calls her Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies, is described by Carolyn as “crunchy and sweet on the outside, creamy on the inside.”   I’ve given the recipe an added boost in quality and taste by recommending that the cinnamon be Watkins pure ground cinnamon. 

So just how does a peanut butter cookie become creamy on the inside while staying crunchy on the outside?  It comes from the wonderful idea that Carolyn had in wrapping Pillsbury’s cookie dough around a ball of creamy peanut butter mixed with powdered sugar.  Now doesn’t that sound yummy?  The whole cookie is rolled in a mixture of granulated sugar, Watkins cinnamon and chopped dry roasted peanuts before placement on the baking sheet. 

Now this is a recipe that will knock your socks off and send your taste buds drooling for more.  Given the fact that Carolyn won a million dollars for this great recipe, you can’t go wrong giving it a try.  I highly recommend that you use Watkins cinnamon when making the sugar, cinnamon and peanuts coating for the cookies.  Watkins pure cinnamon contains no foreign ingredients or fillers, unlike many other brands of cinnamon found on your grocer’s shelves.

Ingredients

DIRECTIONS

  1. Heat oven to 375°F. In small bowl, mix chopped peanuts, granulated sugar and cinnamon; set aside. 
  2. In another small bowl, stir peanut butter and powdered sugar until completely blended. Shape mixture into 24 (1-inch) balls. 
  3. Cut roll of cookie dough into 12 slices. Cut each slice in half crosswise to make 24 pieces; flatten slightly. Shape 1 cookie dough piece around 1 peanut butter ball, covering completely. Repeat with remaining dough and balls. 
  4. Roll each covered ball in peanut mixture; gently pat mixture completely onto balls. On ungreased large cookie sheets, place balls 2 inches apart. Spray bottom of drinking glass with CRISCO® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray; press into remaining peanut mixture. Flatten each ball to 1/2-inch thickness with bottom of glass. Sprinkle any remaining peanut mixture evenly on tops of cookies; gently press into dough. 
  5. Bake 7 to 12 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Store tightly covered.

High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): No change.

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