0 Amazing Frosting

I made this frosting because I ran out of powdered sugar, generally I always make the same frosting, a little butter a little milk and a whole bunch of powdered sugar.. but as I said, I ran out. Since I already had the cake made I needed to frost it with something so I turned to google, remembering >THIS< that I stumbledupon a few weeks ago. Heres how it turned out:

And here is what you will need:

Yes, I know I'm about out of milk, don't worry theres probably another 2 gallons in the fridge, we keep it well stocked - milk is one of the things we go through the fastest.

Start with 5 tablespoons of flour in 1 cup of milk over heat(med)

Stir

Continue stirring, and with the other hand (keep stirring) throw two sticks of butter and a cup of sugar into the mixer

and mix

Are you still stirring? Why not? Get on it

Does it feel lumpy?

Kinda sorta, yeah

I'd say so. Keep stirring

It's lumpy. Stir it some more

Wow! It's magic! Keep stirring until it reaches the consistency of brownie mix

Remove from heat

Make sure the sugar/butter is good and mixed, you shouldn't see the grains of sugar

Add vanilla to the cooling flour/milk mix

Go take a nap, or check your email and suddenly wake up an hour and a half later wondering what happened like I did. You want to give it time to COMPLETELY cool down

Ew, it looks gross..

Dump it into the butter/sugar

Mix it really good

I'm not sure if you can tell by the picture but this is really SUPER light and fluffy, amazingly so. 

The recipe for the cake is >HERE<. Everyone loved it, Daddy even got a second piece of cake for the sole purpose of getting more frosting. I liked it. I think I would definitely use it again though I do like the sweetness of my usual frosting. 

Happy Baking!

Enjoy! =]

0 White Cake

White cake is simple and easy to make, I linked a recipe >HERE< you most likely have everything you need in your pantry already (if you're someone like me who likes to bake from scratch). Heres how it turned out:

Yummy right? Who doesn't love cake? Here is what you need:

See, I told you it's probably already in your pantry. 

Start with a stick of softened butter in the mixer.

Add a cup of sugar and cream together

Then add 2 eggs

Mix and add 1/2 C milk

Mix together

Add 1 1/2 cups of flour

Two teaspoons of vanilla extract

1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder

Mix it up real good

Pour into your baking dish of choice, I like my 6" round, I think it makes a really cute little layer cake

Bake at 350F for 30-35min -this will be longer(40mins) if you're using a larger dish and shorter for a smaller dish(cupcakes will be 20-25min)

To layer your cakes you may need to make a sacrifice to the kitchen gods =]

Use frosting to glue the layers together

Yay! Pretty cake =]

I was happy with this cake, its simple and easy to make and the cake itself isn't overly sweet(not that that would ever be a problem). I enjoyed making it almost as much as I've enjoyed having it for breakfast =] Cake for breakfast is quite possibly one of my favorite things in life, right up there with dunking french fries in chocolate milkshakes =]

Happy Baking! 

Enjoy! =]

2 Banana Upside-Down Mmuffins

I made these for Daddy, I found the recipe >HERE< and I saved it for a rainy day. Daddy really likes Banana Nut Bread and thats where the idea came from to make these. Heres how they turned out:

They look pretty amazing I have to say. Heres what you'll need:

Yes the bananas look gross.. its because they're frozen. 

Start with butter, 2 t in each muffin cup

Also 2 t of brown sugar, i used dark brown sugar. 

Put this in the oven at 375F for 10min

Put 1/2 C flour and 1 t baking powder in the mixer

Add nutmeg

Add 1/4 C dark brown sugar

Mix mix mix mix mix =]

Add 1/6 C canola oil

Add 1 egg

Add 2 T milk

Add 1 t vanilla extract

And I didn't have actual rum on hand so I used rum flavor

Mix mix mix mix mix =]

It should be about time to take out the muffin tin, did you forget about it? Yeah, me too, thats why I'm really glad I had a timer set. It looks bad but trust me it'll be alright.

Peel the bananas

Slice the bananas

Distribute the banana slices into the muffin tin

Spoon the mix into the muffin cups 

Bake for 18min at 375F

Flip them over onto a plate

They look really good =]

See, I told you not to worry about the black bubbly gunk. Daddy says they're really good too, I didn't actually try them, I don't really like banana. But they sure look good =]

*NOTE: I used a half recipe*

Happy Baking!

Enjoy! =]