She uses any recipe for a Lemon Glaze. Here is one from BettyCrocker.com if you like this one:
Tart Lemon Glaze
2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
2 tablespoons grated lemon peel
1/4 cup lemon juice
Mix together until smooth. Poke holes into cake with long fork. Pour on glaze and allow it to cool for 20 min.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Millie's Cream Cheese Pound Cake
My friend brought this to a going-away brunch the other day and it's delicious! The recipe is an old Italian Grandma's (Millie), so you know it automatically good. I asked her for the glaze recipe too, so I'll add that when I get it. Enjoy!
3 sticks butter, softened
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups flour
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Beat together butter and cream cheese. Add rest of ingredients. Butter loaf or bundt pan. Bake for 45-60 minutes or until it tests done. Remove from pan.
3 sticks butter, softened
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups flour
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Beat together butter and cream cheese. Add rest of ingredients. Butter loaf or bundt pan. Bake for 45-60 minutes or until it tests done. Remove from pan.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Breakfast Granola
Update: Price out this recipe with all the ingredients. Based upon what you put in, it's $2.25-$2.75 for 2 qts or 64 ounces. A box of cereal is usually 9-12 oz. Even if I pay $1 for a box of cereal, this is still a fourth to a sixth of the cost and much healthier.
My mom would make this all the time growing up and we'd eat it with milk like cereal. It's healthy and pretty inexpensive to make. I'll write the official recipe, then how I make it:
6 c. rolled oats
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 c. coconut*
1/4 c. sunflower seeds*
1 c. chopped nuts
1/4 c. wheat germ
Mix all ingredients. Sir in and coat with the following mixture:
1/2 c. oil
1/3 c. honey
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. raisins or other dried fruit (don't add these quite yet)
Spread on cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Pull out, stir around, then add dried fruit. Cook for another 5-10 minutes. Yield: about 2 qts.
In my recipe, I only put the non-* items. I'm sure it's good with the rest and even healthier, but it makes it more expensive and my mom never made it that way. You can add as much/little dried fruit and nuts as you want. I've also added cinnamon, chocolate chips, etc different times I make it to spice it up. Variation is fun!
Enjoy!
My mom would make this all the time growing up and we'd eat it with milk like cereal. It's healthy and pretty inexpensive to make. I'll write the official recipe, then how I make it:
6 c. rolled oats
1/2 c. brown sugar
1 c. coconut*
1/4 c. sunflower seeds*
1 c. chopped nuts
1/4 c. wheat germ
Mix all ingredients. Sir in and coat with the following mixture:
1/2 c. oil
1/3 c. honey
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. raisins or other dried fruit (don't add these quite yet)
Spread on cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Pull out, stir around, then add dried fruit. Cook for another 5-10 minutes. Yield: about 2 qts.
In my recipe, I only put the non-* items. I'm sure it's good with the rest and even healthier, but it makes it more expensive and my mom never made it that way. You can add as much/little dried fruit and nuts as you want. I've also added cinnamon, chocolate chips, etc different times I make it to spice it up. Variation is fun!
Enjoy!
Friday, February 6, 2009
Lily's 6mo cake
Lily turned 6mo old yesterday!! Yay! I decided I wanted to make her a cake to celebrate. I thought of a lot of cute ideas, then decided to keep it simple. (Good thing too!) I didn't like the chocolate frosting recipe I had (tastes good, but the color is a little odd looking), so I went online and found a good one. I made it and it wasn't frosting-like at all! It was a glaze and kept running off the cake. It was a mess. I had to keep scooping it up and trying to put it back on. THEN, after I cleaned up that fiasco, I wanted to write on top of her cake in frosting. Make sure when you do this, your frosting is not still cold from the refrigerator! It wouldn't stick to the cake. (Hence why the "H" in happy is so screwed up) I finally figured things out, and it actually turned out pretty good, inspite of me.
So now I pose the question: How the heck did you frost and use foundant on an ICE CREAM CAKE for our wedding Devee?? I was impressed before, but now I'm in awe!!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Matt's Christmas Present
So for my birthday my husband got me Photoshop Elements so I can start my digital scrapbooking. It has been kind of fun to play around with it. I have this picture of Lady C with him that I really love and wanted to make some changes to it and put it in this black and silver frame we've never used from our wedding. Above is what the picture looked like before, and here it is after -
I love Photoshop! And this is only the beginning!
Holiday Bows
I thought I would post a picture of Lady C with the little bow I made her. I made the headband with my new sewing machine (thanks mom!) and made the bow with the help of our quarterly enrichment meeting. This is one of the pics in our Christmas card. Isn't she cute!
I'm finally catching up on everything I need to do for Christmas. I don't know how mom does it.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Christmas Bow
I made my first hairbow last night. Since we were given so many hairbows, I didn't have to make any until now, for Christmas. My first attempt was an overload of the senses (too many patterns of ribbon in bright colored green), but it was corrected in the end. I'll post pictures once Lily wears it!
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