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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Kwanzaa Party Menu Ideas
Kwanzaa Party Menu Ideas for a Bright and Vibrant Kwanzaa Celebration
By Gail Leino
Kwanzaa is an African holiday celebrated during December. The holiday involves much food, dancing, and poetry during the celebration. Here’s an idea of the sort of food you might like to serve for Kwanzaa:
You may find on the menu for Kwanzaa sweet potato pie, Okra, vegetarian stew, Futari, and Benne cakes. Depending on where you live you might even find Kwanzaa is celebrated with Christmas adding to the menu items you may find on the table.
Furtari is an African squash and yams dish. You will need 1 small onion, 2 tablespoons of oil, 1 cup of coconut milk, 1 pound Hubbard squash, ½ teaspoon of salt, ½ teaspoon of ground cinnamon, 2 medium sized yams, and ¼ teaspoon of ground cloves. In a skillet you will cook the onion until it is tender, then stir in the remaining ingredients and heat until boiling. You will cook the dish until the vegetables are tender.
Sweet potato pie involves 2 cups of sweet potatoes, 4 tablespoons of margarine, 3 eggs, 1 cup of sugar, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon of nutmeg, ¾ cup of milk, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, 1 pie shell, and ¼ cup of chopped pecans. First of all, cook the sweet potatoes by steaming them in the microwave. In a food processor you mix the sweet potatoes with the butter. Then blend in the eggs, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. The milk and vanilla is added next. You can bake the pie for 35- 40 minutes at 375 degrees.
The types of dishes traditionally served at Kwanzaa really are diverse and interesting. Why not add your own touch to one of the traditional dishes? Whatever you choose, your guests will be sure to enjoy everything on offer at your celebration.
Mrs. Party... Gail Leino takes a common sense approach to planning and organizing events, celebrations and holiday parties with unique ideas for Kwanzaa party supplies and fun party games. She explains proper etiquette and living a healthy life while also teaching organizational skills and fun facts. The Party Supplies Hut has lots of party ideas with hundreds of free holiday printable games and free birthday party activities. Over 100 adorable Themes including Party Supplies to fit your birthday celebration, holiday event, or "just because" parties. Party themes include cartoon characters, sports, movie, TV shows, luau, western, holidays, and unique crazy fun theme ideas.
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Sunday, August 16, 2009
Butter Pound Cake Recipe
by Timothy Samuel
This is a really rich pound cake which is tasteful alone or with ice cream or a fruit topping such as peaches. This is probably one of the best if not the best pound cake recipe I have ever made. I have made cream cheese, sour cream,buttermilk, etc and whipping cream still seems to be the best to me. This cake is very moist, easy to make and very delicious. Oh, my goodness talk about exceptional! This cake is so incredibly good! These classic cakes have a dense crumb, a tender, moist texture and a rich, buttery taste.Bakers use the creaming method-beating the fat and sugar together to hold air bubbles-and chemical liveners like baking powder, rather than beaten eggs like sponge cakes and angel food cakes to create their fine texture.
Some recipes also call for chemical liveners baking powder or baking soda, milk, buttermilk or sour cream, flavoring extracts, and a pinch of salt to heighten the flavors. Over-mixing, which would cause the cookies to spread flat when baking, is hard to do when creaming butter and sugar for a cake. Since there are so few ingredients in these cakes, use high-quality butter and pure flavoring extracts, measure with perfect accuracy and follow the recipe directions to achieve the best results. This is my favorite style of pound cake, resulting in a firm cake that is great for cubing, slicing or snacking it's highly addictive and is great for dipping in ganaches and creams or sauces. Butter Pound cake recipe
Ingredients
1 cup butter
1 8-ounce package cream cheese
6 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2-1/4 cups sugar
1/4 cup poppy seed
2 teaspoons vanilla
Directions
1. Allow butter, cream cheese, and eggs to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, grease and lightly flour a 10-inch tube pan; set aside. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl beat butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer on medium to high speed about 30 seconds or until softened. Gradually add sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating on medium speed about 5 minutes or until very light and fluffy. Add poppy seed and vanilla. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating on low to medium speed 1 minute after each addition and scraping bowl frequently. Gradually add flour mixture, beating on low speed just until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
3. Bake in a 325 degree F oven about 75 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 15 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool thoroughly on wire rack. Drizzle Lemon Icing over cake. Makes 16 servings.
Gooey Butter Cake Recipe
Easy butter cake recipe that yields moist and delicious butter cake, with drool some butter cake pictures. Those butter cake slices look so appetizing with afternoon coffee.
For the crust:
1 (18.5 ounce)box of yellow cake mix
1 egg
1 stick (1/2 cup) of butter, melted
For the Filling:
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 pound box of confectioners sugar
1 stick (1/2 cup) of butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Spray a 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish with Non-Stick cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl, mix together the cake mix, the egg, and the melted butter. Pat the dough down into the bottom of the glass baking dish. Set aside. In the same bowl, mix together softened cream cheese until smooth. Add the eggs and vanilla. Mix in the confectioner's sugar. Beat well and then slowly add the butter until all ingredients are well mixed. Pour onto crust and bake for 40 to 50 minutes.
When you go to take it out of the oven, it will seem awfully "gooey" in the center but it will set up a bit as it cools. More tips at http://www.Teegoes.com
For more great tips go to http://www.Teegoes.com
Article Source: http://articlenexus.com
This is a really rich pound cake which is tasteful alone or with ice cream or a fruit topping such as peaches. This is probably one of the best if not the best pound cake recipe I have ever made. I have made cream cheese, sour cream,buttermilk, etc and whipping cream still seems to be the best to me. This cake is very moist, easy to make and very delicious. Oh, my goodness talk about exceptional! This cake is so incredibly good! These classic cakes have a dense crumb, a tender, moist texture and a rich, buttery taste.Bakers use the creaming method-beating the fat and sugar together to hold air bubbles-and chemical liveners like baking powder, rather than beaten eggs like sponge cakes and angel food cakes to create their fine texture.
Some recipes also call for chemical liveners baking powder or baking soda, milk, buttermilk or sour cream, flavoring extracts, and a pinch of salt to heighten the flavors. Over-mixing, which would cause the cookies to spread flat when baking, is hard to do when creaming butter and sugar for a cake. Since there are so few ingredients in these cakes, use high-quality butter and pure flavoring extracts, measure with perfect accuracy and follow the recipe directions to achieve the best results. This is my favorite style of pound cake, resulting in a firm cake that is great for cubing, slicing or snacking it's highly addictive and is great for dipping in ganaches and creams or sauces. Butter Pound cake recipe
Ingredients
1 cup butter
1 8-ounce package cream cheese
6 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2-1/4 cups sugar
1/4 cup poppy seed
2 teaspoons vanilla
Directions
1. Allow butter, cream cheese, and eggs to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, grease and lightly flour a 10-inch tube pan; set aside. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl beat butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer on medium to high speed about 30 seconds or until softened. Gradually add sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating on medium speed about 5 minutes or until very light and fluffy. Add poppy seed and vanilla. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating on low to medium speed 1 minute after each addition and scraping bowl frequently. Gradually add flour mixture, beating on low speed just until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.
3. Bake in a 325 degree F oven about 75 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 15 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool thoroughly on wire rack. Drizzle Lemon Icing over cake. Makes 16 servings.
Gooey Butter Cake Recipe
Easy butter cake recipe that yields moist and delicious butter cake, with drool some butter cake pictures. Those butter cake slices look so appetizing with afternoon coffee.
For the crust:
1 (18.5 ounce)box of yellow cake mix
1 egg
1 stick (1/2 cup) of butter, melted
For the Filling:
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 pound box of confectioners sugar
1 stick (1/2 cup) of butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Spray a 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish with Non-Stick cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl, mix together the cake mix, the egg, and the melted butter. Pat the dough down into the bottom of the glass baking dish. Set aside. In the same bowl, mix together softened cream cheese until smooth. Add the eggs and vanilla. Mix in the confectioner's sugar. Beat well and then slowly add the butter until all ingredients are well mixed. Pour onto crust and bake for 40 to 50 minutes.
When you go to take it out of the oven, it will seem awfully "gooey" in the center but it will set up a bit as it cools. More tips at http://www.Teegoes.com
For more great tips go to http://www.Teegoes.com
Article Source: http://articlenexus.com
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