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Saturday, 30 June 2012
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Jingle Bell Rock--Cute Dancing Christmas Toys
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Coffee Cake Recipes – 2013 – 2014 Christmas Cake
Following are two recipes for simple yet scrumptious coffee
cakes. Bake one up and gather the family together and swap stories while
enjoying great food and even greater company.
Simply
Cinnamon Coffee Cake
* 1 cup sugar
* 2 eggs
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* Dash of salt
* ¼ cup butter
* ¼ cup shortening
* 1 small can evaporated milk
Topping
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* ½ cup sugar, mixed with the cinnamon
* ¼ cup chopped pecans or walnuts, if desired
In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs,
flour, baking powder, salt, and milk. Pour half of batter into greased 8x8 inch
pan. Sprinkle with half the cinnamon and sugar mixture. Pour remaining batter
into pan and sprinkle with the other half of the cinnamon and sugar mixture.
Add chopped nuts, if desired. Bake in 350-degree oven for one hour or until
toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Serves 10-12.
Chocolate
Swirl Coffee Cake
* 1 cup sugar
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* ½ teaspoon salt
* 3 eggs
* 1 cup sour cream
* 2 teaspoons vanilla
* ¼ pound butter
* 1 small can or bottle chocolate syrup
Topping
* 1 teaspoon cinnamon
* ½ cup sugar, mixed with the cinnamon
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a
time, stirring until fully blended. Combine dry ingredients and add to creamed
mixture alternately with sour cream. Add vanilla and blend until smooth. Pour
mixture into greased 8x12 inch pan. Cut chocolate syrup into batter in pan
(using knife to cut into a decorative pattern). Sprinkle with cinnamon and
sugar topping. Bake in 375-degree oven for 35 minutes. Serves 10-12.
2013 Christmas Chocolate Bundt Cake Recipe
Chocolate Bundt Cake gets most of its sweetness from brown
sugar and maple syrup. There are various ways of making a chocolate Bundt cake,
but not all of them are easy. Below is one of the easiest recipes for making
this cake. For this cake, less butter is used than ordinary cakes. In addition,
you can opt to use butter milk along with icing sugar. For the cake, you will
need to following ingredients:
- Some unsalted butter for both, cake and the pan
- Chocolate porter (2 Cups). You can substitute this for
stout beer
- Natural cocoa powder (3 ¼ cups). The powder should be
non-dutched
- Wheat flour (1 Cup)
- All-purpose flour (1 Cup)
- Baking soda (1 ½ tablespoons)
- Muscovado or dark brown sugar (1 Cup)
- 3 large eggs
- Fine grain sea salt (3 ¼ tablespoons)
- Pure maple syrup (3 ¼ tablespoons)
- Plain whole yoghurt (350 ml)
For the chocolate-butter milk icing, you will need to use
the following ingredients:
- Butter milk (2 tablespoons)
- Natural cocoa powder, which should be non-dutched (1/4
cup)
- Powdered sugar (3 ¼ cups)
After you have gotten all the ingredients, you can get
started. First of all, you ought to pre-heat the oven to about 356 F or 180 C.
The oven should have a rack in the center. The cake should be baked in an
eleven or twelve cup capacity Bundt pan. However, the cake can be baked in
other pans as well. In case, you decide to use another pan for baking, you will
also need to adjust the baking time accordingly. Bake the cake until it starts
to pull away from all the pan sides. In addition, you should bake the cake
until it tests clean if a knife is inserted in its center.
In a separate saucepan, simmer the beer to about one cup.
Remove it from heat, add some butter and stir until it melts completely. Add
the cocoa powder and then stir the mixture until it is completely smooth. The
mixture should then be set aside to cool.
In another bowl, whisk the baking soda, sugar, salt and the
flours. In another mixing bowl, combine the yogurt, eggs and syrup until they
are uniformly mixed. Combine the mixtures of both bowls and fold until they are
fully blended together. Transfer this batter to the prepared pan. Bake for
approximately 45 minutes. Once baked for this long, your Chocolate Bundt Cake
will be ready.
Enjoy 2012 -2013 Christmas cake
Fantastic 2013 Christmas Cakes With Buttercream Poinsettias
The poinsettia, known as the Christmas Star in its native
Mexico because of its star-like shape, blooms profusely in the wild at
Christmas time in Hawaii, the Caribbean islands and its native Mexico.
This Christmas plant is favored so much in the United States
that its holiday season purchases total more than the annual sales of any other
potted plant here with 80 percent of these plants coming from a California
grower. So it stands to reason, your cakes decorated with the perennial popular
poinsettia will be a big hit!
Decorating with buttercream poinsettias is a beautiful (and
with the following instructions) easy way, to bring Christmas cheer to your
cakes whether as a featured decoration or as part of a Christmas scene you
create.
Before we go on to the piping how-to's for this incredibly
easy to make flower, here are some striking ways you can use the scarlet red
(hands down, the most popular variety) poinsettia on your Christmas cakes.
-A border of small poinsettias will provide a pretty frame
for many Christmas cake designs. -Poinsettias can be part of the design. For
example, on a cake decorated with snowmen, pipe a poinsettia on Mrs. Frosty's
hat. -Use the Christmas star in lieu of a bow on a cake decorated as a gift
(where icing ribbons run horizontally and vertically over the top and down the
sides like on a package). Pipe a large poinsettia in the center. -Create a
poinsettia wreath around the top of the cake. Pipe a few rows of leaf borders
(using dark green icing and overlapping), and then pipe your poinsettias on top
of the wreath. Then with round tip, pipe red, holly berries in between the
poinsettia. In the center of the cake, write your Christmas message. -Decorate
a multi-tiered, stacked Christmas cake (or Christmas wedding cake) with
cascading poinsettias. -Create a bouquet of poinsettias with cup cakes. Pipe
the Christmas flower on top of each cupcake and then assemble your Christmas
cupcakes on a large platter. Or place them on a tiered stand, and on the top
tier, arrange real poinsettias in a vase.Christmas cake 2013 – 2014
WALNUT BANANA
Ideal teatime cake with the goodness of whole-wheat flour.
Preparation Time : 40 minutes
Cooking Time : 50 minutes
Servings : 6
Ingredients
Whole wheat flour 1 cup
Refined flour 1 cup
Ripe bananas, mashed 3 medium
Walnut kernels, chopped half cup
Baking powder 1 and half teaspoons
Salt a pinch
Cinnamon powder half teaspoon
Nutmeg powder a pinch
Butter 300 grams
Brown sugar 2 cup
Vanilla essence 2 teaspoon
Eggs, whisked 5
Milk 4 tablespoons
Method
- Preheat oven to 200 C.
- Grease and line a nine-inch by four-inch loaf tin.
- Sieve whole wheat flour, refined flour, baking powder,
salt, cinnamon powder and nutmeg powder.
- Cream butter and brown sugar together in a bowl till
light. Add mashed bananas, vanilla essence and mix.
- Beat eggs with a hand blender till light and fluffy.
- Add one third of the flour mixture to the banana mixture.
Add one third of the beaten eggs and mix with a light hand. Again add one third
of the flour and one third of the eggs and mix. Add the remaining flour,
walnuts and the remaining eggs and mix.
- Add milk to correct the consistency of the batter.
- Put the batter into the prepared tin and place it in the
preheated oven. Bake at 200 C for 40 minutes.
- Check if it is done by inserting a skewer. If it comes out
clean it is done. If not, keep the tin back in the oven and bake for another 10
to 15 minutes.
- Cool it before cutting into slice
Enjoy by serving this cake hot or cold.
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Happy Father's Day - You Deserve It
Happy Father's Day - You Deserve It
That's right, you are entitled to celebrate and be
celebrated on father's day. You tried to do your best to provide your children
with a decent life and now you are entitled to celebrate the fact that you are
a father.
You did participate in bringing your children into the
world, didn't you?
You did try and give them the best education you could
afford, didn't you?
You did love and help care for them, didn't you?
Now it's your turn to be recognized for your efforts.
I think too often that us fathers are taken for granted. It
is assumed that we will care for our children. It is assumed that we will pay
attention to their needs and wants. But this isn't true in all societies, and
it certainly isn't true in all species.
It makes sense to me that we do what we do as fathers
because we want to. I think its part of an ingrained gene that God gave us to
help make up part of the human family. I think it's a special characteristic
that we have been blessed with.
So lets celebrate the way we are on father's day. And while
we are doing so lets not forget our wonderful children who are the product of
our efforts. And let's not forget God who has given us the capacity to care
about our family and our children.
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