2 medium eggs.
2 cups of flour.
1 cup of buttermilk.
1 ½ cups of sugar.
½ cup of butter.
2 tablespoons of cocoa.
2 tablespoons of hot coffee.
1 teaspoon of red food coloring.
1 teaspoon of baking soda.
1 teaspoon of salt.
Frosting.
Preparation Instructions:
Preheat your oven to 325°F (160°C).
Cream the butter; then add the sugar, beating thoroughly.
Add the eggs and beat well.
Combine the coffee, cocoa and red food colouring; then to creamed mixture and beat.
Dissolve the baking soda in the buttermilk, stirring thoroughly.
Combine the flour and the salt; then add to creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk mixture.
Pour the batter into 2 greased and floured eight-inch round cake pans.
Bake for 35-40 minutes.
Allow to cool in pans for 15 minutes.
Remove from pans and allow to fully cool.
Spread frosting between layers and on top of cake.
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2 pkg. unsweetened strawberry Kool-Aid
1 – 6 oz. can frozen orange juice
1 – 48 oz. can pineapple juice
2 quarts water
2 c. sugar
1 liter ginger ale
1 pkg. frozen whole strawberries
Combine all ingredients, adding ginger ale and berries just before serving (the strawberries can get slimy if left in for a while, you can omit them if the serving time is long).
To keep you warm this winter!
- Chai Mulled Apple Cider
- Hot Orange Chocolate Cocoa
- Almond Joy Steamed Milk
- Warm Gingered Green Tea
- Hot Grape Punch Recipe
- Hot Caramel White Chocolate Milk
This is a great craft idea for Christmas presents! Be sure to use fabric paint. It washes off hands and feet quite easily when wet…and peels off very easily from skin when dry, and it will make a permanent design on your sheet. Try squirting a spiral of the paint onto a paper plate and have the kids smear their hands around in it.
There are a couple of ways to do the reindeer’s head. First, you can use a footprint with the toes up and the heel where the nose will be placed. Do that footprint first … then do the handprint antlers slightly overlapping it (use both hands in doing the antlers … left for left, right for right). Second, just draw on a head for the reindeer using fabric paint – a fairly simple oval shape, colored in with the fabric paint. Then paint on the eyes and a nose (red, of course)
You can then draw a simple string of Christmas lights (bulbs of various colors) winding through the antlers if you wish.
Other cute holiday shirts to do are Christmas trees made out of upside down handprints .. a row of 3 handprints on the bottom, two in the middle, one on top. You could even draw on a star and ornaments (or use fingerprints for ornaments). Also, you can use an upside down handprint in white to be Santa’s face, with the fingers being his beard … draw on his eyes, nose, mustache, hat, etc. Or you can make a simple angel figure … just do a basic triangle for the body, a circle for the head and two handprints for the wings. You can obviously add more details if you want.
A fun collage holiday card featuring several photos of this happy family, this design is perfect for those who want to showcase multiple photos or can’t get a good photo of the whole family together. The block colors (shown in red & green on the main example, see some of endless other color ideas on the product page) & the font may be changed to suit your photos or personal taste.
Available in sets of 25, white unlined 28 lb. envelopes are included with this design order which can be placed here: Custom Colored Collage Photo Holiday Card.
The Marshmallow Peeps are back and invading the stores! Who would have ever thought this innocent, cute bit of fluff could get into so much trouble!
We are doing something fun for this holiday – Tell us your Peep stories. Time to confess what you do to these adorable little critters.
From the drying them out in desk drawers to making them explode in the microwaves – which we don’t recommend by the way 
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Share your story and make us all laugh!
You can use Red Cabbage, onion skins (red or brown), beets, tea bags, paprika or coffee to dye eggs.
Add 1 quart of water and 2 tablespoons white vinegar to a large pan; if more water is necessary to cover the ingredients, proportionally increase the amount of vinegar. Bring to
a boil,then lower heat & allow the ingredients to simmer for 30 minutes. Strain dye into a bowl, and let cool.
Add eggs to the strained dye and boil 10 minutes, turn off the heat and let the eggs sit for another 10 minutes. Take out and cool on paper towels, refrigerate.
