Ferrel Family Recipes

I'm not sure when I started making German Pancakes, but I know why I did.  David's heritage is Swedish.  His mother is 1/2 Swedish and he is 1/4 Swedish, so he brought Swedish pancakes into our family.  Everyone loves them, but sometimes we want to switch it up a bit.  I have English and German heritage, so when I saw a recipe for German pancakes, I decided to give them a try and everyone loved them! Ingredients: 1 1/3 C. Flour (fluff it with a whisk) 2 C. Milk 4 eggs 1 tsp. Vanilla 2 Tbs. Sugar 1/4 C. Salted butter 1 lemon Powdered Sugar Instructions: Cube butter into a class baking dish (9x12) Put dish inside oven and preheat oven to 400 degrees Add flour to your mixing bowl and whisk it, then add milk and combine.   Add eggs, vanilla, and sugar and combine. Once butter is melted in the baking dish, pour batter into dish and put it back in the oven.  Make sure not to burn the butter!   Bake for 20-30 min.  (my oven is hot and finishes ...

David had some great roommates in college, and one of the wonderful things he learned from his roommates was how to make The Ultimate Dessert.  It is similar to grasshopper pie, or ice cream cake.  I made this dessert for my daughter's 11th birthday party and every kid told me they loved it and wanted more!  It has two of her favorite things in it, mint chocolate chip ice cream and Oreos.  You can't go wrong making this dessert for a party or get together and it stores well in the freezer! Ingredients: 2 (1/2 gallon) containers of your favorite mint chocolate chip ice cream.  We love Breyers.  Make sure the ice cream is in the paper container, not hard plastic because you will need to cut it 2 containers of Cool Whip, or 1 large container of Cool Whip 1 family size package of Oreos 1 container of chocolate syrup (Hershey's chocolate syrup for ice cream) 1 9x12 pan.  I use a glass one.  I have also made this in a cheesecake pan and it turned out gr...