I'm So Happy! Sorry we haven't posted in a while!

This post was supposed to be posted 2 days ago

Hello! I'm glad that you are visiting our blog today!

We had some difficulties with our blog,

See this post that I posted yesterday.

Well! lets carry on!
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Yesterday I got a box from my Grandma that had some baking supplies in it and alot of recipes and little cookbooks

Here are some of the other things she sent =)

A cookie press!!! I have never even seen one of these before,but they are so FUN! =P

I made cookies last night with this one and a few others that the boys chose.

There are also these, I don't know what these are for...Mommy thinks they might be for like cookie sticks or something...if you know, I'd like to know =P



The recipes(a little blurry, but you get the picture)



She sent these cake pans too, my Mom said she recognized
these from when she was growing up.

Measuring cups...they come in handy ;)

And a pastry blender! I can't wait to see how good it works!

She also sent a thing of sprinkles, chocolate chips and small M+Ms!

I made spritz cookies with my cookie press, here are how they turned out!



Me, pressing dough into the press...





Before 
(they look like white chocolate chips smushed together :)



After =D

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So that is why I'm happy, I know I said I would post about Lilis birthday,
and I was going to but that whole week we were busy and then the weekend was busy with Hannah's birthday, and I now finally I have time to post about our past however long its been...=)
I have a couple pictures of Lilis birthday I think
{Hannah's pictures}



The day before Lilis birthday...

James and...

I went with the...

Grays to their....

(blurry) Cousins/nieces house to watch the ...

 

Shuttle go off! ;) You can't really see it but its there!

While we were there, we also had fun jumping on the trampoline,

And wading in the water...and getting our pants/skirts wet ;)




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Then on Lilis birthday, the Grays came over for a little birthday for Lili,
the Kennys also came over!

The now three year old! =D

Her cake!
(chocolate cake with green fondant and lollipops and umbrellas on it)

And the three year olds friends!

Happy...erm...UN-BIRTHDAY Lili!!!
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Then a week after that was Hannah's birthday...

The Grays picked me up, and we went to a restaurant to eat
with Hannahs grandma and some of her friends,

Here are a couple pictures that Hannah took...
A pretty flower...

Jubileeah ^_^
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The rest of Hannahs birthday will be in a different post.


T.T.F.N.
Carol-Anne

Wow! Picnik Editing

Hello all you peoples out there!

Carol-Anne here.

Yesterday the Grays came over to hang out for a little birthday party for Lili who turned three yesterday!

(posts about that soon =D)

Well anyway I took this opportunity to take some cute pictures of Jubileah,

and here is one I edited on picnik...a website Hannah and I are loving right now.

Is she adorable or what!

=D =D =D

I have more pictures of Juby if you'd like to see them and like I said before we will be posting about our weekend soon!

~Carol-Anne

Happy Birthday Noah!

Yay! I know its late, but my brother Noah turned 8 on Wednesday the 2nd!
He's my last brother to turn 8...

Happy birthday Noah!

Do you want to see his cake that I made him?
He wanted a homemade icecream cake, so I just made chocolate cake in a big brownie pan then cut it in half and put cookies and icecream in the middle and homemade whipcream, sprinkles and a little bit of frosting on top, sounds good huh? Well it was!

Well I only got 1 picture of it, Stephen tried to get a picture of it before Noah blew out the candles but once we put in on the table in front of him he just blew them out without even waiting, soooo...well here is the picture of the cake...

This picture I took when I finished it before the whole candle thing.


Happy Happy Birthday To NOAH!!!
Love Carol-Anne

(p.s. If you want any of the recipes I used just comment saying so)

Pebbles and Bamm Bamm:Let the sun shine in

My Mom put this song on for Noah the other day because he wasn't so happy, I liked it and thought I would post it for y'all because its a catchy song!

Smile! Love Carol-Anne

(p.s. Happy 8th Birthday to my youngest brother, NOAH!!!, cake pics later!)

Elishas birthday and more recipes....=)

First off I'm going to ask if I am boring you with all these recipes? Am I???

I will never know unless you tell me(whoever you readers are).

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Anyways last night we had a little party get together for Elisha, he requested butterscotch cake with caramel on top(which is one of the recipes I will be posting if you're interested) and I have never even heard of a butterscotch cake, so I was like 'yay another recipe to post!' lol.

Ok well lets get started!

Here is the recipe for the butterscotch cake.

                                         Here is the cake finished, its kinda not this color though...

Its kinda in the middle of these colors...sorry I couldn't get the light right.

2 cups cake flour(I have never used cake flour before, I used regular flour to make this)
1/2 cup butter or margarine(softened)

1-1/2 cups brown sugar

1 cup milk

3 tsp baking powder

1 tsp Vanilla extract

1/2 tsp salt

2 eggs

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• In mixing bowl put dry ingredients and mix.

• Add brown sugar, butter, 2/3c milk and vanilla, mix.
• Add egg yolk and rest of milk, mix again.
• Pour the mixture into greased cake pan.
• Bake the cake at 350F for about 20-25 minutes.

Well, what I did for the caramel icing was boil two cans of sweetened condensed milk(should of been one),

a couple tablespoons brown sugar,

a dash of salt and a tablespoon or so of butter.

Well everybody agreed that it was a very sticky cake, more like candy! lol.

So next time I make that cake, I will use less caramel icing, you should of seen the younger kids eating it,

their mouths were all stuck together from the icing and all, haha.

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We also had chocolate cupcakes with blue cream cheese frosting(Elisha's favorite color).

They were really good too,

I use my Great-grandmothers recipe for chocolate cake and a new recipe for creamcheese frosting that I've never used before, it was the best frosting I made before though, so I will be making it alot.

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Later on that day, well evening, friends came over for a small celebration of Elisha turning 12!

I have 0 pictures of Elisha to show you because they were too silly and blurry, of course!

I don't really have alot of any pictures to show you, Hannah would be embarrassed to see the pictures I have of her put on here, I didn't really have my camera during the whole night, too much fun.

 Hannah, Elise and I were having fun with the cameras at first...

                                                       Trying to get the contraption to work!

                    'What do ya got in the fridge?' lol jk I think he was getting something for one of the ladies.

                                                                   Is he cute or what?
                                            

Here is the last picture I have to offer, but of course you want to see it, right?

She is soo CUTE!

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Happy birthday to Elisha!

Sometimes you can be annoying and silly, but that is what I love about you,

I see how God works in you and are blessed to be able to call you my brother.

I hope the Lord works in you more and more this year that you are TWELVE!!!

-Love Carol-Anne...

Fun Fun...And Cheesecake Making...

Ok so I told you in my last post that the next baking project was going to be fondant and cheesecake, Hannah has the fondant pictures so I will post about the cheesecake and maybe get the pictures from Hannah later.

I'm also posting a couple pictures of that night when the Kenny's and Grays came over to celebrate my Moms birthday.

This is a sneak peek on mine and Hannahs first fondant project...

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I made a chocolate cheesecake for my Mommy's birthday.

I don't know where we got the recipe for the cheesecake, but its called 'Fudge Truffle Cheesecake' and trust me, it tastes as good as it sounds!

 Recipe for cheesecake filling

3 8oz packs of cream cheese (it makes it alot easier if you soften it first)

1 14oz can of sweetened condensed milk (NOT evaporated)

1 12oz package of chocolate chips, melted

4 Eggs

1/4 cup coffee flavored liqueur(this ingredient is optional, I've never made it with it before, but I thought I would try it)

2 teaspoons vanilla extract
 

Recipe for cheesecake crust

1 1/2 cups vanilla wafers, About 45 wafers

6 tablespoons powdered sugar

1/3 cup unsweet cocoa

1/3 cup margerine or butter, melted

 

Prepare cheesecake filling

In large mixing bowl, beat cheese until fluffy.

Gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk until smooth.

Add remaining ingredients which include eggs,

Vanilla,

Melted chocolate,



and coffee flavored liqueur.
Mix well.

Now the batter should be looking like this!

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Now for the crust.

In medium mixing bowl(I use a blender), mix vanilla wafers,

Powdered sugar,

Cocoa powder and

melted butter or margarine.

Press firmly on bottom and 1/2 inch up side of 9-inch springform pan

Fill prepared pan with cheesecake batter, bake 1 hour and 5 minutes.

Now if you followed all the steps correctly your cheesecake should look like this!

Yes, it does taste better than it looks, lol.


There you go, now you know how to make Fudge Truffle Cheesecake!

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Here are a couple pictures of the night of my Mothers birthday...

Here we have the parents chit-chatting,

Mr Gray brought pizza for dinner...

All the little kids went to my room to play puzzles,
I could not get a decent picture of the little munchkins

Goodbye all you peoples, have a nice rest of your day.

~~Carol-Anne~~


Oh and be sure to check out our Art page, it has alot of cool pictures that Hannah and I took.
We update it alot too.