Ceratized: 2016

Friday, November 11, 2016

Grandma Edith's Oatmeal Cake

This is my all time favorite cake! I made it recently and thought I'd share! Enjoy!

Oatmeal Cake
1 1/4 Cups Hot Water
1 Cup Rolled Oats
1/2 Cup Margarine
2 Eggs
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1 Cup White Sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
1 1/2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
1/4 tsp. Nutmeg
3/4 tsp. Cinnamon
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Baking Soda

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a bowl combine hotwater, margarine and oats, let stand until margarine melts.

Add eggs, sugars and vanilla to oat mixture, mix well.

Sift flour, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon,and salt into wet mixture, mix well.

Place batter into a buttered cake pan and bake for 40 minutes.

Now there are two different options for the frosting, I'll let you choice which one you like best!

Oatmeal Cake Topping
6 Tbsp. Butter
3/4 Cup White Sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
1/4 Cup Milk
1/2 Cup Chopped Nuts
1/4 Cup Shredded Coconut (optional)

Heat milk, sugar, butter and vanillabin a sauce pan until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved.

Mix in nuts and coconut.

Pour over baked cake.

Penuche Icing
1/2 Cup Butter
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Milk
1 3/4 to 2 Cups Powdered Sugar, sifted

In a medium sauce pan melt butter, add sugar and bring to a boil, boil for 2 minutes srirring constantly.

Stir in milk until it comes to a boil. Remove from heat and cool to lukewarm

Once mixture is lukewarm beat in powdwred sugar until it reaches the desired consistency. (If it becomes too stiff add a little hot water)

Frost cake with desired amount.

Hope you enjoy!

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Summer Adventure

Over the Summer of 2015 I worked as a Nanny, here are some of the foods I made while working.

Pretzels

Build Your Own Pizza

Mini Apple Pies

Spam Musubi

S'mores Oreo Truffles

Pound Cake

Strawberry Short Cake

Apple Pie and Blueberry Pie

Cinnamon Sugar Pie Crust

Peach Cobbler Cake

Citrus Roasted Chicken

Peach Cobbler Cake

Chicken Pot Pie

Zucchini Bread

2015 Birthday's

Here is what I was able to make for the 2015 birthday's. I wasn't able to make something for everyone, due to having moved for work for a summer job. But everyone seemed to understand.

A Beanie for my June Aunt

A beanie for my November Cousin

A Beanie for my March cousin

Back of beanie

Other side of beanie

A Flower hot pad for my cousin's girlfriend

Other side of flower hot pad

A Beanie for my February Grandpa

Brim folded over

Top of Beanie

A Beanie for a Friend

A Beanie for my June Cousin

Christmas Knitting 2014

For Christmas in 2014 we started a new extending family tradition of drawing names so that we only needed to get a gift for one person. I got my June cousin who loves The Oregon Ducks. So I made him an Oregon Ducks "O" blanket.

I began looking online for a preexisting pattern, but i couldn't find any that fit the picture in my head so I made up my own.

The main body of the blanket is Stockinette stitch with a boarder of Seed Stitch. I put the "O"s on using Duplicate Stitch.

As you can see in the pictures the placement of the "O"s didn't make it exactly perfect, but I think it adds character to the blanket. I like how it turned out. My Cousin seemed to like it too, at least from what I could tell.