Have your Cake and Eat it too...

Me and my husband were invited to a barbecue by some friends, they called us up and told us it was a food network party! So, were assigned a chef and we had make one of their recipes. At first I was a little nervous, I never do this and I thought what if it doesn't turn out? Then my cute friend said "Well, everyone is doing it. So they will understand if it doesn't work out"

I was excited when I was assigned Paula Deen, She is actually the only chef I know. Just because I recently watched her on Oprah and loved her. I chose to make her Red Velvet Cake. I couldn't be happier with the way it looked...I haven't tasted it yet, so I will let you know! I am off to the barbecue. She has this website http://www.pauladeen.com/ with a lot of other fun recipes.

Grandmother Paula's Red Velvet Cake

Ingredients:
2 eggs
2 cup sugar
2 tablespoon cocoa
2 ounce red food coloring
1/2 lb (2 sticks) butter
2 1/2 cup cake flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon vinegar

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat eggs; add sugar. Mix cocoa and food coloring. Add butter and egg mixture; mix well. Sift together flour and salt. Add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Blend in vanilla. In a small bowl, combine soda and vinegar and add to mixture. Pour into three 8-inch round greased and floured pans. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until tests done.
Icing: 1 16-ounce box of confectioner's sugar 1 stick butter, softened 1 cup melted marshmallows 1 cup shredded coconut 1 cup chopped pecans 1 8-ounce package of cream cheese
Blend cream cheese and butter. Add marshmallows and sugar and blend. Fold in coconut and nuts. Spread between layers and on top and sides of cooled cake.
Yield: 16 to 20 servings Prep time: 15-20 minutes Cook time: 20-25 minutes Ease of Preparation: moderate
L&S SCCB, Pg. 126-127
Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

I promise I will get to scrapbooking this week!!!

Recipes and Scrapbooking

This darling page is from the 6 x 6 recipe book, a 20 page kit we had last summer. Everything came all ready to assemble all you have to do is glue and add your favorite recipes!!!

One of my favorite recipes lately is my cousin's Honey Wheat Bread (I think that's why I am up 5 lbs.) who can resist a slice (or a loaf in my case) of homemade bread?

Honey Wheat Bread

2 1/4 teaspoon yeast

2 cups warm water

2 cups white flour

3 cups wheat flour

1 teaspoon salt

5 table spoons olive oil

4 table spoons honey

In a small bowl mix yeast and water, In a big bowl mix flour and salt, add honey and oil to the yeast mixture and stir. Then mix the bowls two together. Mix up very will and knead till smooth (about 10 min. if you do it the old fashioned way like me) Grease bowl and let rise for 1 hour. Punch down bread and separate into bread pans, cover and let rise about 1 hour. Bake at 370 for 25-30 min. until golden brown.

Oh, If you love bread (like me) you better double the recipe!!!