Pumpkin Spice Cake

This post was originally meant for Halloween. It was going to be mini pumpkins that were make by taking two mini bunt cakes and placing the bottoms together and holding it all together with frosting or glaze. But it went terribly wrong. The caramel that I put in the pan ( like a upside down praline cake ) 

was to thick and ruined the shape so the pumpkin idea was trashed, I had two choices. To make trifle or cake pops. So I chose the trifle.

The Ingredients:

4 TBSP butter

1/2 cup + 2 TBSP brown sugar

2 TBSP cream ( I used milk and thats why it failed )

2 eggs

3/4 cup + 2 TBSP sugar

1/4 cup + 2 TBSP oil

1/2 cup pumpkin
1 cup flour

1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp ginger
1/8 tsp cloves

Preheat the oven to 350˚F and grease and flour the pans.

In a pot mix the brown sugar, butter, and milk.

Over medium heat cook the sauce until the butter is melted and the sugar is dissolved.

Spoon into the mini bunt pan.

Next add the eggs, sugar, oil, and pumpkin to a bowl.

Whisk until blended.

In another bowl add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves.

Whisk to blend.

And add the dry ingredients to the wet.

Whisk to blend ( again ).

Pour into mini bunt pan and bake for about 37 minutes.

This was the result. Not that rounded at all but still tasted vey good.

Here you can see the the caramel left in the pan. 

So I decided to tear the cake into chunks. And the best part was that the caramel had soaked into the cake a little bit so the cake had a delicious caramel taste.

Vanilla Pudding

This recipe is part of a group of recipes that when put together will make a delicious pumpkin spice trifle. The first part was the caramel sauce and this is the second part. The recipe that I am using is from Allrecipes.com and it was so good that I changed nothing.

The ingredients:

2 cups milk

1/2 cup sugar

3 TBSP corn starch

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla

1 TBSP butter 

Measure your milk.

Heat the milk until the edges are bubbling. Remove from heat.

Add the sugar, cornstarch, and salt to a bowl.

Mix together.

And add to the hot milk.

And cook until thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon. Do not let this boil.
 Remove from the heat.

Mix in the butter and vanilla.

Refrigerate with plastic wrap pressed on to the top. This prevents a skin forming on the top.
Your done! This is great on its own but if you wait a little bit longer you can see how to turn this into a trifle.

Chocolates

Everyone loves chocolate. And everyone has there favorite flavor. This recipe enables you to make your own chocolate candies with your choice of filling. I filled mine with ruined latte fudge but you can use ganache, marshmallow fluff, nut butters, ect. This recipe is not a recipe with measurements it's all up to you to make a lot or a little.

The ingredients

Chocolate melts

shortening

your choice of filling.

Measure how much chocolate you want.

Melt for 30 sec - 1 1/2 minute.

Mix in a very small amount of shortening in to the chocolate melts. Just enough to make the chocolate spreadable. 

Using a brush or your finger spread a thin layer of chocolate on the mold. Put it in the freezer for 1-2 minutes. 

Add your filling.

And cover the top with chocolate. Freeze it for a few minutes and then pop the chocolates out of the mold.

These taste great and look nice to so enjoy!

Snow Caramels

Making candy using snow has been done for years. In the Little House On The Prairie books they make these out of fresh maple syrup by boiling it down into candy and pouring it over snow. This makes interesting shapes that are all unique. But the one downfall to these is that they melt quickly from the melted snow so these need to be eaten fast.

The Ingredients 

1/2 cup sugar

fresh clean snow

Pour the sugar into a small pot over medium heat.

When the sugar is melted and a dark amber color remove it from the heat.

Quickly pour the caramel over the snow and let it sit for 2-4 minutes.

These taste good and are very fun to make.

Mint Chocolate Mug Cake

Mint and chocolate go very well together. This recipe was originally for christmas but I didn't get around to posting it so here it is. I changed up this recipe a bit. Unlike my Chocolate Mug Cake this recipe has more sugar, butter instead of oil, more flour, and hot chocolate mix!

The ingredients:

3 TBSP melted butter
3 TBS Milk
2 TBS egg
1/4 cup + 1 TBSP brown sugar
1/4 cup + 1 TBSP all-purpose flour
2 1/2 TBS unsweetened cocoa powder
1/8 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp Vanilla
1 TBSP Mint truffle hot chocolate mix
3-4 Andes Mint Chocolate 

Add the melted butter to you mug. Use a big mug because this makes a lot of cake .

Mix in the milk, sugar, and eggs.

Add the flour.

And the cocoa powder.

Mix in the baking powder and vanilla.

Whisk in the hot chocolate powder. The batter should be very smooth and shiny.

Chop up the chocolates and add them to the batter.

Microwave for 1-2 minutes and enjoy!

Cookies and Cream Mocha

With it being so cold lately hot drinks are needed. Where we live it has been under 10˚ so a lot of coffee and tea have been drank. I made this recipe around the holidays when we had a lot of candy. This takes about 3-4 mini cookies and cream bars. The original recipe had half the coffee and was way to sweet.

The ingredients:

2/3 cup milk.

1/2 cup of Cookies and Cream.

1 cup Coffee.

Whipped cream.

Chop up the cookies and cream bars.

 

Add the milk and candy bar pieces to a double broiler.

Melt the chocolate over simmering water. 

Make your coffee.

And now for the last step. Mix half of the coffee with half of the cookies and cream mixture and top with whipped cream. Enjoy!

Minecraft Eetr Skins.

Todays post is a about Minecraft skins. A skin is the look of your Minecraft character in the game. 

To change your skin:

Go to http://minecraft.net

Log in

and follow these photos:

And thats it! Now that you know how to upload a skin, here are a few of my own.

StarCraft 2 Zealot Eetr.

Eetr As ghost.

Eetr

Jedi Eetr

These skins need explanation. An "Eetr" is a character that I created. It was originally a sewing project ( as you can see from the button eyes and zipper) called The Eater Of Dogs, which was supposed to be a red dog but since I had just learned how to sew I did not work out well. Towards the end I gave up and made a tail and reptilian tongue.  It ended up to be a large mouthed creature with flippers, a spiked balled tail, a zipper, a snake tongue, button eyes, and covered with sloppy hand sewn threads. After that he became part of a huge world ( 45+ characters and more than 5 worlds) of made up creatures and there adventures hence the name EetrsObsessions . Eetr also happens to be my favorite character to draw which is way all of these skins have a matching drawing. You can download these skins here:

 Eetr As Ghost Skin Download

Jedi Eetr Skin Download 

Eetr Skin Download

StarCraft 2 Zealot Eetr Skin Download