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Sunflower Cheese Balls
4 ounces Muenster cheese, room temperature
4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon paprika
1/8 teaspoon red pepper
2/3 cup roasted, salted sunflower kernels
Combine cheeses, blend thoroughly. (Use food processor, if possible.) Add Worcestershire sauce, paprika, and red pepper; blend. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes. Roll in sunflower kernels immediately. Refrigerate cheese balls 2 hours. Serve with whole-grain crackers, bread sticks or miniature bread slices.

Makes 25 cheese balls
Sunflower Cookies
1 cup sunflower margarine
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups oats, rolled
1 cup coconut, flaked
1 cup raw or roasted sunflower kernels
In medium size mixing bowl, combine margarine and sugars until well-blended. Add eggs and vanilla. Stir together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; mix well. Add to margarine mixture. Stir in oats, coconut, and sunflower kernels. Drop by rounded tablespoons onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 350°F 8 to 10 minutes, or until cookies are brown around the edges. May substitute chocolate chips or raisins for coconut.

4 dozen cookies
European Chocolate Sunflower Cake
2/3 cup raw sunflower kernels
3/4 cup all purpose flour
3 tablespoons cocoa
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 eggs
2 egg whites
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup sunflower oil
1/4 cup red currant or raspberry jelly
Vanilla filling
Chocolate icing
Cover bottoms of two 9-inch round cake pans with waxed paper; grease sides of pan with waxed paper.

In a blender or food processor, process sunflower kernels to a coarse flour consistency. Sift together flour, cocoa and baking powder; mix with ground sunflower kernels and set aside.

Separate eggs. Beat 5 egg whites and salt until stiff. Beat oil with egg yolks; add to egg whites and sugar. Continue beating until mixed. Fold in flour mixture. Pour into pans. Bake at 350°F 15 minutes. Turn out onto racks; peel off waxed paper. Cool

Take one cake section and place top down on plate. Spread jelly over cake. Spread with Vanilla Filling. Top with second cake layer; frost with Chocolate Icing.

Vanilla Filling; Into top of double boiler, mix 1/3 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Gradually blend in 1 slightly beaten egg, 2 slightly beaten egg yolks and 1 cup warmed milk, stirring until smooth. Cook and stir until mixture thickens. Remove from heat; stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cool to room temperature.

Chocolate Icing: In Top of double boiler, melt 1 tablespoon butter and 4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate. Add 1/3 cup whipping cream and mix well using a wire whip. Remove from heat and add 1 3/4 cups powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Ice top and sides of cake. Sprinkle top of cake with 1/4 cup raw or roasted sunflower kernels.


8 to 12 servings
Country Hearth Bread
6 lbs water
2 lbs rye sour
8 oz honey
6 lbs, 8 oz clear flour
2 lbs whole-wheat flour
1 lb, 9 oz cracked wheat
1 lb oats
8 oz buckwheat
4 oz malt, non-diastatic
1 lb, 1 oz toasted kernels
1 1/4 oz yeast
Mix water, rye sour, and honey. Add remaining ingredients and develop. Add toasted kernels. Mix on low until incorporated. Take to bench for 15 minutes. Scale 2-pounds, 4 ounce dough pieces. Give full proof. Bake wih steam in hearth oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for about 30 minutes.

Approximately 9-10 loaves
   

LaPorte Sunflower Fair Committee • P.O. Box 1472 • LaPorte, IN 46352

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