Archive for the ‘Cooking and Baking’ Category

Flower Cupcakes

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

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These flower cupcakes are a fun treat and are super easy to make. First get some cake mix and bake cupcakes according to the directions on the box. I used yellow cake mix, but you could choose any flavor you want, including chocolate that would look like soil from which all beautiful flowers grow. Chocolate frosting would look like the soil, too, if you’re into pure chocolate treats. You could even decorate the tops with only chocolate candy…

Go to the candy aisle of your grocery store and find some candy that will look like petals and the center of flowers. Lemon drops, candy raspberries, sour gummy worms, and fruit roll-ups are a good place to start. Place a lemon drop in the center, and place other candies like petals around the flower. Or cut fruit roll-ups to look like petals, and place them on top of the icing around a candy at the center. I used green icing to represent the fresh spring grass.

My children had a great time decorating and eating these yummy spring flower cupcakes!

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Resurrection Rolls

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

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These easy resurrection rolls take 5 minutes to prepare (plus 10 minutes to bake) and are a beautiful picture of Christ’s empty tomb. This is why it is a perfect treat for the week leading up to Easter. It is basically a crescent roll wrapped around a marshmallow. When you bake it, the marshmallow mostly disappears, creating what looks like an empty tomb.

These are the 4 ingredients you will need:

  • large marshmallows
  • a can of crescent roll dough
  • 1/4 cup of butter
  • 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon

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Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees. Place the butter in a bowl and microwave until the butter melts. (This took me 25 seconds, but each microwave is different.) Stir the cinnamon into the melted butter.

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Open the can of crescent rolls and pull apart each piece of dough. Unroll the dough on a cutting board, so that it is ready for the dipped marshmallows. Now dip the marshmallows into the melted butter. It’s almost like you’re baptizing the marshmallow, symbolizing that Christ had to die and be buried.

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Place the marshmallow into the center of the dough and scrunch the dough around the marshmallow. Christ was buried for three days.

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Now put the resurrection rolls into the oven for 10 minutes. When they come out, you will see that the marshmallows have disappeared, leaving an empty tomb.

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Rainbow Cake

Monday, March 11th, 2013

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My kids squealed with joy when they saw how beautiful this rainbow cake turned out. It was not difficult to make.  Buy a box of white cake mix and some white frosting. Mix the cake batter together, and divide the batter equally into six bowls.

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Using cake icing dye (that you can find at craft supply stores in the cake aisle), put a few drops into each bowl with the following colors: red, orange yellow, green, blue, and purple.

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After mixing them well so that they look like bold colors, spoon three colors one by one on top of each other. Try not to mix the colors. If you want the cake to have straight colors, you could bake each color layer separately, but being a busy mother, I don’t have that kind of time. So I just put red, orange and yellow into one greased and floured round cake pan, and green, blue, and purple into the second pan.

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After the cakes come out of the oven, cool them on a rack. Place them on top of each other, and put them in the fridge to make the cake easier to frost and  cut smoothly. Mix green food coloring into the frosting, and frost the cake. Now you can enjoy your delicious rainbow cake.

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How to Make Marble Fudge

Monday, December 17th, 2012

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Marble fudge is delicious and simple to make! You swirl white chocolate and dark chocolate together for a perfectly blended flavor. If I had known how easy it was to make, I would have made it sooner.

How to Make Marble Fudge

In one saucepan, throw:

  • 3 cups of white chocolate chips
  • 14 oz. can of sweetened condensed milk
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda

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Throw these ingredients into another saucepan:

  • 12 oz. of semisweet chocolate chips
  • 14 oz. can of sweetened condensed milk
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda

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You need two people, one to stir each pot. When both chocolate pots are melted (after about 5 minutes), take the pots off the stove and add to both pots :

  • 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts

Then add to the dark chocolate:

  • 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

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Now scoop out the white chocolate and dark chocolate in blobs, placing the melted chocolate on top of a 13 by 9 by 2 inch glass pan lined with non-stick foil. Grab a table knife and swirl the chocolate on the top of the fudge. Place it in the fridge for 3 hours. Then remove the foil and place on a cutting board.. Cut into squares. You now have delicious marble fudge to give to family and friends. Or you can eat it all yourself!