Does it get any better than Whiskey Frosting with 1/4 cup of butter?

Right now my dear husband is in the other room making really loud comments trying to make the latest installment of Millennium sound really interesting so I will come in there and hang out with him. Its not working. And Millennium is no X Files. I may have mentioned before that having two separate Netflix cues has saved our marriage. Dan and I share so many wonderful things. Well, I can't think of any right now, but I know there are some. One thing I'll tell you we DON'T share is a taste in movies. Most of the movies Dan gets I just plain refuse to watch. Here is a short list of his most recent returns:
Dead Meat
House of 1,000 Corpses
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Ring Two (Okay, I watched this because I liked The Ring and I wanted to see Astoria, but how STUPID can a movie get?)
Sin City (Also not so bad, I guess, if you are into the comic book, but I wasn't and the movie bored me)
The Waltons: Season 1

Okay, remember that old segment they used to play on Sesame Street? "One of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn't belong?" Let's play!! My husband is a SUCKER for the Walton's, Lawrence Welk and The Big Joe Polka Show. Actually,  watching all the living dead dance around the ballroom on Lawrence Welk isn't a big stretch from House of 1,000 Corpses. But, all I really live for is to make that man happy, so I spent about 15 minutes today trying to find the pilot episode of The Waltons,  The Homecoming for him. Netflix doesn't have it, shame on them. I finally found it, but on the way, I ran across Brandie Davis' report on Earl Hamner for Chilhowie High School which had this most amazing recipe of Olivia Walton's that I can't wait to make for Christmas Dinner:

Olivia's Applesauce Cake
1 cup of butter
3 ½ cups flour (sifted)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups applesauce
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cups light raisins
2 teaspoons cloves
1 cup chopped walnuts
2 teaspoons nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking soda                
Pinch of salt

Sift together: Flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.  Take ½ cup of flour mixture and stir into the nuts and raisins.  Set both aside.  Cream butter until whipped soft.  Add sugar a little at a time until mixture is smooth.  Beat in eggs vigorously.  Alternately stir in flour mixture and applesauce.  When all mixed together add nuts and raisins and mix well.  Pour batter into a well-greased cake mold.  Bake in a preheated oven at 350¥ for one hour.  Cool ten minutes, then turn out on cake rack.  Frost with Whiskey Frosting when cake is cool.

Jane's Whiskey Frosting
¼ cup butter
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tablespoon cream
2 tablespoons whiskey
Pinch of salt

Cream butter, add sugar and salt, then cream and whiskey.  Whip until smooth.  Frost cake.  Decorate with a sprig of holly.

Comments

[Cate]

I can sympathize. Most of the time my husband has the TV turned to "Cops" or "American Justice". We watch two shows a week together, "Lost" and "Survivor", and I'm just barely surviving this season's "Survivor."

The recipe looks great! I don't know when I'll try it, but I definitely will.

[Ragged Around The Edges]

OK, I am coming clean on this. I love the Waltons and I own (not rent) the Waltons: Homecoming which I insist upon watching every single holiday season.

I am so glad to hear that someone else does too. My grandmother used to say, "Crazy loves company."

[cat]

If he liked "House of 1000 Corpses" he might also like the sequel "The Devils Rejects". Best use of the song Freebird in a killing scene.

[Victoria Winters]

Dude, that sounds good! I'm digging the whiskey part...I'll try it soon.

[Molly]

My husband has the same horrid taste in movies. We have a Blockbuster Online account, and we have to go every-other-one with our movie picks so that I don't end up having to watch House of Wax (are you kidding me?) or Van Helsing with him. He's fine with it.

I liked Sin City, but probably only because of the lick-licicious Clive Owen. Mmmm.