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

Wishing you and yours a very Happy Holiday Season!! This festive, colorful holiday card features a collage of 4-6 photos which may be left in color or converted to black & white or sepia as you wish. In a dusky red & a deep green, you can also change the colors to anything you wish – see the product page for more color ideas or request your own in the “design notes” field.

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.

These two sweet kitty cats – and their owner – customized our Thanksgiving Photo Collage Card to showcase several photos of themselves and their house, complete with feline pumpkin fun! Creating a larger text area allowed a whole verse to be printed on the card, wishing their loved ones a bountiful Thanksgiving day… a joyous Holiday season… and a prosperous, healthful, happy New Year.

Merry Christmas from our family to yours! This festive bright blue & white version of our Happy Holidays Photo Collage Card uses six colorful photos of this happy family playing in the snow with text atop the photos for a flat card that is perfect as is, or that can be printed on flat or folded cardstock to include additional text or another photo on the inside or back.