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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Nutella Swirl Pound Cake

I have been trying to clean out my fridge, and noticing that I have quite a lot of fat ingredients sitting  in the fridge. Since I have a jar of Nutella left, I thought I would add some in today's recipe.


It is a quick bread recipe, it is very easy and fast to make. Combine all ingredients together, mix well then it is done!



Here is the ingredients you need:


Butter (placed in room temp.)     3 Tbsp/ 50g
Cream Cheese (room temp.)       1/2 C,  100g
Sugar                                           3 Tbsp / 50g
Egg                                               2
Cake Flour                                   1 C/ 120g
Baking Powder                            1/2 tsp
Milk                                             1 Tbsp
Vanilla Extract                            1 tsp
Nutella                                         2 Tbsp


Instruction:

1) Pre-heat oven to 360F
2) Cut baking sheet place for a baking pan for the size of 4" x 11"
3) In a bowl, using an electrical mixer to beat cream cheese and butter which is placed in room temperature for at least 20 minutes until well mixed
4) Beat in sugar.
5) In another bowl, beat 2 eggs
6) Slowly beat in beaten eggs in 3 portion into the batter, mix well before adding another portion of egg mixture
7) Using sifter to shift flour into batter, mix until well blended
8) Add is baking powder and vanilla extract, mix well
9) Once your mixture is ready, spoon 1/3 of batter into another bowl, mix nutella until cooperated
10) Now you have 2 colour of better, pour nutella batter on top of the original batter, using a spatula to cut through batter using a "8" motion. (as if you are writing the number 8 when mixing the batter)
11) Slowly and gently mix using the 8 motion for about 8 times
12) Pour batter into pan, gently smoothen the surface
13)To create a pattern on surface, use a toothpick/ skewers or chopstick and dip in nutella, gently draw lines across the surface of the batter
14) Using another clean toothpick, ( not dipping in nutella this time) draw across the surface in an opposite direction. (if you draw your line with nutella across horizontally, you need to draw across with a clean toothpick from the top to bottom)
15) Bake for 30 minutes or until insert comes out clean
 

Monday, June 30, 2014

Rice Kirspy Chocolate Bar

Here is a simple idea of foodie gift. Fast and Easy. Great for a thank you gift, bride gift or a "sorry" gift.



 Ingredients:

~handful of chocolate wafer melt ( melting chocolate)
    I get my chocolate wafer at bulk barn, which is a franchise snack/ baking store store in Ontario. I get as much as you want in a bag and purchase it by weight.

~ handful of rice crispy


Instruction:

~ Pick out a chocolate mold, ( I have used an ice cube mold, baking pan, pretty much anything that can hold liquid, but keep in mind that, to narrower the container, the better.)

~ Using double boiler methods to melt chocolate, be careful not to mix chocolate with water.
  ( I used microwave does the melting, make sure to mix chocolate content every 20 seconds)

~ Pour a layer of chocolate on the bottom of the mold, and sprinkle a rice crispy on top, spread evenly.

~ Cover with plastic wrap, put in freezer for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare next batch of melting chocolate, if you want to do a different colour layer.

~ Take chocolate bar out of the fridge, pour next chocolate layer on top, smooth surface with spatula or a spoon. Put chocolate back to fridge for another 10 minutes

~ Used leftover chocolate mixture to create chocolate garnish on top, put chocolate mixture into a piping bag, and create any garnish you want. 











Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Flowers Framing

 

Photo Frames – Coles   $ 2.50 (on sale for 75%)

Letter Cards –Michaels $ 2 for a pack of 10 cards



Flowers can only last so long. I thought I would keep these flowers a little longer by framing  pieces of valves.

Frame valves when they are in their best shape. Place a hard cardboard and hard cover as a background for support. I used a letter card in mine.

 This could be a thoughtful gift to anyone, and to add personalities , you could write messages on spare space on the card