Two Pinterest recipes

Here are two more recipes from Pinterest I tried, the first, scrambled eggs cooked in a muffin tin. They were good and easy but there is just something with the texture once they are cooked that makes them more like a quiche than actual scrambled eggs.
Basically you add whatever you want to the scrambled eggs, scoop them into the muffin tin and bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

The second are sugared roasted almonds. These were amazing, delicious and addicting. They tastes much better the second day. Sadly, I can not find the recipe. I have this really bad habit of writing out the recipes that I like and deleting the pin or if I don't like the end result I just delete the pin but this time I think I deleted before I wrote it out. One day I will find the recipe again.

Best home made bread ever

I found this recipe on Pinterest (link to original website at the bottom) and I have to say that it is my new favorite recipe for rolls and bread. They are soft and flaky, melt in your mouth delicious and the recipe makes enough for 12 giant rolls and a big loaf of bread.

Here is the recipe
Ingredients

1 pkg dry yeast
1 tsp sugar
1/2 cup warm water
2/3 cup sugar
3 tbsp shortening
3 eggs
5 to 6 cups flour
3 pinches of salt
Instructions

Mix yeast, sugar, and warm water. Set aside in warm place to rise. It will bubble and rise up. While waiting for yeast mixture, cream 2/3 cup sugar with 3 heaping tablespoons shortening. Beat in eggs, one at a time.

Sift 5 to 6 cups flour and 3 large pinches of salt. Add yeast mixture to creamed mixture, plus 1-1/2 cups warm water. Add flour until dough is right texture for bread. Turn into large greased bowl or pan, and let rise to top (will probably take about 2-4 hours or longer). Keep covered.

Once dough has risen, turn out onto floured surface. Coat generously with flour by turning and shaping. No kneading is necessary. To make loaves, just divide and shape into loaves. To make rolls, roll out to desired thickness. Then cut with a cup or glass. Place in greased pans, and let rise (will probably take about 2-3 hours).

Once rolls have risen well, bake for approximately 15 to 20 minutes at 425° or 450°. It might not take quite that long, so be watchful that they don't brown too quickly; may need to cover with foil, so rolls can bake through.

Recipe from here.
http://www.mamabzz.com/2013/01/homemade-bread-rolls-recipe.html

Home made lollipops

So easy and fun to make, I might invest in a few molds :)

1 cup of white sugar
1/3 cup corn syrup
1/2 cup water
Parchment paper
Sticks
Molds

Put all three ingredients in a pot, stir until it begins to boil. Once it boils slowly turn up the heat until it reaches 300 on a candy thermometer.

Remove from heat immediately and once cooled to 275 add food coloring and candy flavoring stirring quickly.

Pour or spoon over sticks or into molds quickly as it begins to harden fast.

If using molds make sure to grease them first so the candy does not stick to them. Let them sit and dry for at least an hour before wrapping them otherwise they will stay sticky.

This recipe is not mine, I found it using google search unfortunately now I can not find the same blog I used. Once I find it again I will post a link.

Bread

Today was a day for cooking. I made some mini loaves of bread, and one bigger loaf. I love the mini loaves because they are the perfect size for sandwiches to be packed for work and school lunches. I also love that I have control over the ingredients, organic no additives or preservatives etc... I know exactly what we are eating.

I just used my basic bread recipe, it is a base that you can build off of, add cinnamon and raisins, dried fruit, whole grains etc... But today I just felt like making plain bread.

The recipe I use is simple, 1 package of active dry yeast, add 1/4 cup of warm water and 1 tsp of sugar to the the yeast stir and let sit for 15 minutes.

Add 2 cups of warm water, 1 tsp of salt and add flour kneading until the dough is no longer sticky, cover in a greased bowl and let rise in a warm spot for two hours.

Add more flour and knead a second time. Grease the pan you will be baking it in, place dough in pan cove and let rise for two hours. Bake at 400 for 40 to 50 minutes.

The dough should use at least 6 cups of flour otherwise it will taste strongly of yeast. The crust comes out of the oven very hard and crispy (hard as a rock lol) but softens as it cools. If you put it in a Tupperware container it softens even more.

My favorite mix for this is 40% whole wheat flour, 60% white, add toasted flax seed, sunflower seeds and any other seed / grain i happen to have in the house at the time.

Another good one is to spread the dough out, put Swiss cheese and slices of ham on top, roll it and bake. So tasty and all you need to do is cut off a piece and instant lunch :)

Hazelnut hot chocolate and cookies

It is a cold day here today, cloudy and dreary. I have 200 cookies to make for a BBQ at work, I'm exhausted and would rather spend the day curled up on the couch with Aly watching Harry Potter and reading books or coloring.

To give us some much needed energy me and aly made some hazelnut hot chocolate from scratch and it was good. The recipe is very simple

2 cups of milk
2 tblsp cocoa powder
4 tblsp home made nutella (store bought works too)
You can add more or use less nutella to your taste. 4 tblsp gives the hot chocolate just a nice mild barely there hazelnut taste.

Now that I have energy I am off to try to make 200 cookies in 3 hours and get my house and kitchen clean while I'm baking lol. Hopefully I at least get all the cookies made.

Tye Dye Cake

For my Dad's birthday me and the kids made him a tye dyed cake. Since we had enough batter for two cakes, we did a test run with a cake for us first. I wish I had gotten a picture of the finished and then cut cake that we gave him, that one looked a lot better lol. Although there is no picture of it, we used chocolate pudding as the icing and covered it in rainbow sprinkles.

Step 1: Make a white cake batter, seperate into bowls and add food coloring.

Step 2: Pour batter in rings starting in the center of the pan, don't worry the batter spreads and fills the whole pan.

I love how bright the colors were in the uncooked batter, however the next time I do this I will add a lot more food coloring because once cooked the colors are very faded.

Step 3: Take a tooth pick and mix the colors together a bit to give it more of a tye dyed effect.

Step 4: Bake your cake, let it cool ice and enjoy!!

This is what the cake looked like out of the oven and cooked. I really really do wish that I had a picture of the iced one.

I got the original idea for the blog from birdonacake.blogspot.ca it is the post from February 15, 2012 I would link directly to it but my computer is having issues at the moment. The desktop is so old that it really should be retired since having multiple pages opens just about crashes it but I figure that since we have the laptop until the desktop dies, no need to replace it lol.