Check out these delicious home-style soups and stews. It’s perfect timing for the colder weather and holidays coming up. Your family will love these recipes!

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Ladies Night, March 31!

While the men are at the Priesthood session of conference, the ladies get to experience some amazing deals at Deseret Book with featured guests for all to enjoy. Come see Brenda, our head baker, as she give samples and promotes our newest cookbook “Cookies and Sweets”. See you there!

Visit the below link to find out more about Ladies Night!!

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Pick up a special treat for your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day! Get them something delicious from any of our pantries at Deseret Book, or order them right from our bakery in Salt Lake City!

Give our catering office a call at 801-539-3250

We look forward to helping make your Valentine’s celebration as sweet as possible!

Give our catering office a call at 801-539-3250 to place your order.

We look forward to helping make your holiday celebrations very fulfilling!

(Much like a truffle)

1     18.25    ounce cake mix (prepared and baked as directed on the box for a9x13 cake)

1 ½   cups    frosting or cream cheese (choose a flavor that goes with the flavor of cake you made)

1   package   chocolate bark (regular or white)

Wax paper or parchment paper

After cake is cooled completely, crumble into a large bowl.  Mix thoroughly with the frosting. (It may be easier to use your hands to mix this but they will get messy.  Roll dough into walnut size balls.  Place on a pan that has been lined with wax paper or parchment paper.  Allow to cool 2-3 hours or place in the freezer for 45-60 minutes.  Melt chocolate in the microwave according the package directions (this will burn easily).  Dip each ball in the chocolate and allow to cool.

Variations

Any flavor of cake and frosting can be used. The trimmings from cakes  can also be used just adjust the amount of frosting to the amount of cake.

Instead of dipping the balls in chocolate they can be rolled in cocoa, coconut, finely chopped nuts (any kind), sprinkles.  Anything you would like.

If you would like to make a fun treat for your children place a lollipop stick in the cake ball before it is dipped in chocolate.

12-14 servings

1          cup     sugar

1          cup     white corn syrup

½         cup     water

2          Tbsp.  butter or margarine

1          tsp.     vanilla

2-3      drops food coloring (your choice, it is optional)

18       cups   popped corn

1 ½     cups   small gumdrops or M&M’s plain or peanut

1 ½     cups   nuts (mixed or peanuts or almonds)

Grease well on 10” tube pan and set aside.  Place popcorn, gumdrops/M&M’s, and nuts in an extra large bowl.  Combine sugar, syrup, water and butter in a saucepan.  Cook on high until sugar mixture begins to boil turn to low and cook until mixture reaches 240-degrees on a candy thermometer.  Remove from heat allow to cool 5 minutes.  Add vanilla and coloring stirring till well mixed.  Pour syrup over pop corn mixture and stir until popcorn is well coated with syrup.  Press mixture into the tube pan.  Allow to cool 5 minutes unmold cake.  Place on a serving plate.  Slice servings with a sharp knife.  This can be wrapped in plastic wrap and frozen.

Dates and Locations:

October 6 and 7, 2011: Chandler, Arizona

October 22, 2011 (11:30am-1pm): GRAND RE-OPENING of VALLEY FAIR Deseret Book

November 12, 2011 (11am – 1pm): Layton, Utah Deseret Book

The long awaited Cakes and Cupcakes cookbook will be out on the shelves NEXT WEEK!! Be the first one to find out the delicious secrets of The Lion House in this new book. You won’t want to miss these wonderful recipes, especially with the holidays coming up so soon!

Visit any Desert Book location after September 26, 2011

to find this amazing cookbook!

The Lion House Bakery is baking up a NEW cookbook and this time it’s all about cakes and cupcakes! Brenda Hopkin, Head Baker of The Lion House Bakery, just got done with a series of photo shoots for the cookbook. The bakery smelled delectable as Brenda and her staff created their masterpieces for the photo shoot. (The below pictures are not featured in the cookbook. They are merely photographs during the preparation for the photo shoot.)

The cookbook is scheduled to come out in September of 2011! So get ready for some new insights into the world of cakes!