volcano cake

volcano cake

At Home Ice Cream Parlour:

At Home Ice Cream Parlour:

The first annual ice cream and movie night to help celebrate our hard working greeters.

For the fun parlour labels check out: http://www.eatdrinkchic.com/post.cfm/diy-ice-cream-parlour-make-your-own-sundaes-buffet-concept-for-wedding-or-party

Chime Cake (Chocolate and Lime)

Chime Cake

Serving Size 20 ish

I made two sheet cakes and covered them with chocolate hard glaze. ( save some of the glaze for decorating ) Once the glaze was some what hard I put the lime frosting on top of one of the sheet cakes and flipped the second cake on top. Once this was done I placed the cake back in to the refrigerator to cool and set. After all of the chocolate had hardened I cut the cake in to the sail boat shape and placed it in the shape. After moving the cake I covered it with the remaining frosting and outlined it with the reaming chocolate glaze.

Key Lime Honey Cake

This is a very moist, light and clean tasting cake; balances out the lingering taste in your mouth after a heavy dinner. Honey and key lime cake recipe >>

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

I doubled the recipe in order to make 2 sheet cakes

1. Step 1
   Gather and prepare the following items for the honey and key lime cake recipe:
   
   -- Ingredients --
   
   (For the Cake)
   * 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened / butter preferred
   * 1-1/6 cup white sugar
   * 2 large eggs
   * 2 teaspoons grated key lime zest
   * 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
   * 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
   * 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
   * 1/4 teaspoon salt
   * 3/4 cup key lime juice
   * 4 tablespoons pure honey
   * 2 to 3 drops green food coloring, optional
   
2. Step 2
   - - Make the Cake --
   
   Lightly grease a cake pan. Set aside.
   
   Sift together the baking powder, baking soda, flour, and salt. Set aside.
   
   Beat together using electric mixer on high speed the butter (margarine, if using) and 3/4 cup of the sugar. Beat until light and fluffy.
   
   Fold in the egg yolks (reserve the whites) one at a time to the above mixture. Stir in lime zest. Add green food coloring (optional, if you want your cake a pretty lime green color). Add sifted flour mixture, alternating with 1/2 cup lime juice, beating to form batter. Add honey, and egg whites to the cake batter.
   
   Pour batter into prepared cake pan. Bake for 38 minutes at 350°F or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
   
   Cool cake for 15 minutes in pan on wire rack.

Chocolate hard glaze

Ingredients

• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/4 cup shortening or margarine
• 3 tablespoons light corn syrup
• 1 tablespoons water

Place all ingredients in a pot. Heat slowly steering the whole time

Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosting:

I doubled this recipe to make sure I plenty of frosting. Next time I am going to not put in the totally amount of confectioners sugar. I thought the frosting was a little to liquidity.

8 oz cream cheese softened (230 grams)
8 tablespoons butter (114 grams) — salted
3 ¼ cups confectioners’ sugar (442 grams) 1 box
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon lime juice

Frosting:
In a mixer cream together cream cheese and butter. Add sugar and vanilla, then beat in the lime juice – beating and scraping sides of bowl all the while.

Curried Chicken Salad

I started my new year of with making a recipe out of the new cookbook I got "Fix-it and Enjoy-It Healthy Cookbook" consisting of 400 great stove-top and oven recipes. I started of with the Curried Chicken Salad.

This salad makes about 10 main dish servings, but i cut it in half and added in apple, carrots, and did not add in toasted slivered almonds.

The dish is a great fresh start to a new year with only 252 cal per serving!

Curried Chicken Salad

1cup fat free mayonnaise

3/4 cup plain non-fat yogurt

2 Tb honey

1 Tb lemon juice

1 1/2 Tb curry powder

6 cup chopped cooked chicken, cooled

3 cup halved red grapes

3/4 cup toasted slivered almonds

3/4 cup diced celery

Romaine lettuce.

Sweet and Salty Granola Today I found this simple granola recipe after running. I added dried fruits to the mix like raisins and cherries ( about handful each). It filled are house with the sweet smell of cinnamon and brown sugar. Perfect for the fall season!

I will submit pic once my camera gets working. Found at Allrecipes.com By: Alison M Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 45 Minutes Ready In: 1 Hour Servings: 16

"A great granola recipe that's a perfect addition to cereal, yogurt, fruit or even just to enjoy plain."

Ingredients:

3/4 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup water 3 cups rolled oats 1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup chopped walnuts 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 tablespoon honey 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions:

1.	Preheat an oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Cover a 10x15 inch pan with wax paper.
2.	Mix brown sugar and water in a microwave safe bowl. Cook in microwave to dissolve the sugar, about 1 minute. Combine oats, salt, walnuts, and cinnamon in a large bowl. Stir in sugar mixture, honey, and vanilla extract. Mix well. Pour mixture onto the prepared pan, spreading evenly. Create clusters by squeezing small handfuls of the oat mixture together.
3.	Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and gently stir granola using a spoon. Return to the oven and bake for an additional 25 minutes. The granola will be slightly browned and will continue to harden as they cool. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe-Tools/Print/Recipe.aspx?RecipeID=201510&origin=detail&servings=16

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