Month: August 2020

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A secret recipe…

Posted on by theblessedpath

The secret recipe handed down from Mom’s Mom is…

Mom’s Apple Cake

This ‘cake’ isn’t as sweet as most cakes and is a great snack. The apples add a little crunch, while the raisins make it chewy and flavorful.  A family recipe, with a few little alterations.

I personally love this apple cake and used to make it often, but it’s become scarce. Luckily, that makes it a real treat!😋🍎

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup flour
  • ½ cup butter (dissolved)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 eggs (separated)
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 apples (preferably Granny Smith)
  • 1 cup raisins
  • 1 tablespoon rum

Directions:

  1. Soak raisins in rum 1 hour before baking cake.
  2. Separate egg yolks from egg whites.
  3. Mix flour, sugar, milk and egg yolks in a medium-sized bowl to make a smooth batter.
  4. In small bowl, mix egg whites with butter.
  5. Add the egg white mixture into the flour-batter.
  6. Put in the raisins and a teaspoon rum.
  7. Cut apples and fold them into the mixture.
  8. Bake at 350ºF for 1 hour (180ºC)
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Pina Colada Cake

Posted on by theblessedpath

Like I said, yesterday was Mom’s birthday. I made her an AWESOME Pina Colada cake. Inside, there was two layers of coconut white cake and a thick layer of pinnaple-coconut filling.The pinnaple was crushed from a can and boiled down with coconut extract, sugar, and shredded coconut. It was iced in a Whipping Cream frosting and three tablespoons of rum. To make sure it was really light on the rum, I added lots of cream to dilute. No worries!🍺

Then, I topped it a ring of eight whipped cream swirles, with pinnaple chunks in between them and coconut shavings on top of them. I used the rest of the pinnaple filling to top inside the ring, and did a big swirl in the center of that. Finally, I threw coconut shavings on the sides of the cake and topped the swirls with pink umbrellas 🍰! Yes, the umbrellas were very necessary. Happy birthday, Mom!

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Strawberry Pancakes!

Posted on by theblessedpath

You might realize I’m obsessed with strawberry. You’d be right. 🍓

BUT this time I have a good reason for making them Strawberry: it’s Mom’s birthday🎉.

Strawberry Pancakes are something I’ve been dying try, and we had a carton of strawberries left over from Isabel’s birthday cake (which happened Tuesday). So I had to use the carton of strawberries before they went bad, and what better occasion!

So I started out with chopping the strawberries into fairly big cubes. Then, I mixed them into my pancake batter. I tried a pancake, but the pieces were wayyyyyyy to big. So, I took out the immersion blender ( I call it the stick blender) and stuck the blade into the measuring cup my batter was in, and whizzzed it on. I only pulsed it very briefly, because I still wanted the strawberry texture, not just the pink blush color.

Well, I cooked them like normal, and made Mom a big, pink, heart pancake💗. I served it on the birthday plate with maple syrup and slivered, fanned-out strawberries.

Later on, I made her a Pina Colada Cake, but more on that in another post.