I did it! My first wedding cake

I made the wedding cake I tried before (preparation weddingcake) on thursday and friday.

 This was my instruction ;)

 The blue icing covers chocolate spongecake, strawberries and choco whipp ;)

 The white decoration is on

 sprinkled with white chocolate shavings and finally stick the hearts in... ready!!!

I was so happy and relieved when I was done :) and I got such a cute compliment: "Yummiest wedding cake ever" :))) That makes me smile :)
Rita

Preparation weddingcake

I am already excited. Next weekend I'm going to make my first wedding cake :)
I made a small and simple try of it for the wedding shower... here a foretaste, but the weddingcake will be a bit different ;)

 the inside ;)

Rita

Thank you cake

For the teachers and staff in school I made a cake and some small cards from free printables :)

 Chocolate cake with strawberries and choco whipp :) mmhhh...

Rita

Cowgirl cookie mix

I already tried the ccokie mix here... the recipe is from Bakerella.
This time I made the cowgirl cookies for Melissi's 3rd bithday :)
A bit decoration and ready is the gift :)

Rita

Football cake

Here the football cake I made...
it is choco-spongecake with raspberries and choco-whipp... mmhhh...

football cake

football cake

Regina Riot football cake

Have a nice sunday,
Rita

Bye bye pastor Stephen

On June 12th we had to say goodbye to our corean pastor Stephen and his family. They are moving to Trenton, Ontario. Pastor Stephen arrived there after 3 days driving, his family will follow when their house is sold. Pastor Stephen was a big friend of all kids in church. They love him and he had always something for them, candys, suckers, crackers...
Minok was teaching sundayschool and worked in Minigo, where JJ goes to. The first time JJ was only going to her, till he got used to the others and we will miss her very much too. The 3 boys are very nice and full of joy and liked our germen "Haribo"-candies and my cakes. So we gave them one of our precious Haribo-packages and a big cake ;)
We will miss them here and hope, that we can visit them and the Glawatzkis in Ontario someday...

 The church is praying for them...

I choose this cake, because they bought this cake at the springsale in small and liked it so much ;)

Rita

Cheesecake, cheesecake, cheesecake

Finally I tried canadien/amarikan style cheesecake, with creamcheese instead of curt cheese.

#1
cheesecake with creamcheese plain and with caramelsirup

cheesecake

 #2
Cheesecake with creamcheese and strawberry sauce

cheesecake with strawberry sauce

 #3
no-cheese-cheesecake with strawberry sauce :D Just with sourcream... that tasted more german-like and the canadiens at Nick's work even didn't notice :D

Want to see more cakes??? :)

Rita

Blueberry cake

This time I made my raspberry cake with creamcheese icing with blueberries instead of raspberries and it was very good too ;)

blueberry cake with creamcheese icing

Tommorrow more cakes ;)
Rita

Mashmallow Balls

Last week I tried the marshmallow balls first time. I loved to eat them at Albina's place :)

Marshmallow Balls:

10 caramel candy
1 / 2 tin sweetened condensed milk
1 / 2 cup butter or margarine

1 package marshmallows
Kellogg's Rice Krispies

1.The sweets melting slowly on medium heat, add the condensed milk and butter / margarine. Melt with constant stirring, until it is a smooth cream (do not boil).

2. the marshmallows just dip completely into the cream and immediately roll them in the crispies.
A little bit cooling down and hide from kids:)!


(By the way, the cream can be warmed again even after cooling and the finished Marshmallow Balls can be frozen.)

To bad they are all gone... I would love to take a biiiig bite!!! :)

Rita

Cookies from the jar

I've tried something new ... All cookie ingredients filled in a jar ... create your own baking mix, which also looks nice ;)
Here is my first try ...

And the finished cookies to ... They were a little dry, next time I take a little bit more butter or less flour, but they taste good anyway ;)

 


I did no decoration of the glass, with decoration it can be a nice little gift :)
The idea is from Bakerella ... this cowgirl cookies from her, I've planned for Melissi's birthday ;)

Rita

My Birthday cakes

I now not very much people make their own birthdaycakes, but I do and I love it!!!
I was wondering how to celebrate my birthday this year, and Albine had a great idea: a girls-/ladiesnight cakeparty :) And it was awesome!!! We talked and laught so much and ate lots of cake of course. Here the cakes at the beginning of the party...

strawberry cupola with spongecake roll, strawberry-, vanilla-, chocoicing and shortcrust

Chococake with choco-and vanilla whipp

Brownies with sweetend condensed milk and pecan

Chococake with sweetend condensmilk, caramel and vanillawhipp

Raspberrycake with creamcheese icing

It wasn't really much cake left, after all ladies took some cake for their spouses. We have to repeat a cakrparty ladiesnight, it was sooo cool!!! After we bought our lot and Nicks parents were here on my last birthday I didn't expect anything for this year, but it turned out great!!!

Thanks for stopping by,
Rita

yummy worms in dirt

I wanted to bake something for Lukas's class, but I didn't till yesterday. I also didn't have a spezial idea, so I would make just cupcakes... but a few days ago I saw these fancy cupcakes in a blog and my boys loved them, so I had to try :)
Yummy worms in dirt

 a couple more of them together looks even more real :D

 They were easy to make... I just baked some cupcakes, spread chocolate whipping cream on them, rolled in brownie crumbles and put the worms in :)

And not only my kids were thrilled of them, Lukas's class and JJ's minigo/preschool (they got some too, JJ was so consistent in asking and we had some left) liked to eat the worms in dirt too :D

Rita

Milk bread recipe

I've been asked for this recipe too ;)
This bread made as a braid is very typical for Easter in Germany, also a braid formed to a circle sprinkled with coarse sugar.

Milk bread:

1 tsp. yeast

1/4-1/2 tsp. salt

80g sugar

1 cup warm milk

mix together, add

100g soft butter

2 eggs

450-500g flour (sometimes I change a part of it to whole wheat)

knead well, cover, let grow for 1- 1 1/2 h

knead again, form 3 long rolls, braid them together, place on sprayed pan

let grow for 45 min. again.

spread with milk/whipping cream right before baking at 180-200°C for appr. 40 min.

take out of the oven, let cool for a few minutes and take a bite :D

Rita

Blackbread (no flour bread) recipe

I've been asked for the recipe of the german blackbread. It is from a german webside...

Blackbread:

first Step:

100g sourdough

4 cups warm water

250g cracked wheat

750g course rye meal

stirr all together, cover with cling wrap, that it couln't dry out and let sit over night at room temperature. 

step 2:

Next day stir it well, take 100g of the dough (now all sourdough) and put it in the fridge or freezer,

it is now the sourdough for next time...

step 3:

put the rest from step1 into a big bowl, add

375 (- 500ml) warm water

30g salt

1/2 c. molasses

250g cracked wheat

750g course rye meal

optional: 1c. sunflowerseeds and flax seeds

stirr all together

step 4:

pour the dough in 2 (or 3) loaf pans, cover with aluminium foil and let stay for 2 hours at room temperature.

step 5:

bake at 160°C for 90 min. with the alu foil, remove the foil

and bake for more 40 min. without the foil 

(more or less bakingtime depens on how dark you like it)

step 6:

take the bread out of pan and let cool for a few hours before cuting and enjoying :)

Hope you take a try. This bread is really different then the amerikan/canadien ones!!!

Have fun,

Rita

Lukas's 6th Birthday

My big boy turned 6 on friday. Wow, how time flies!!! I'm a mommy for 6 years now!!!
Here Lukas in the morning opening gifts from germany!!! Thank you sooo much!!!

 We had rice-casserol with apples, raisins and cinnemon... his favorite menu :)

 I asked him which cake he would like for his birthday, and he wanted strawberrycake... here it is.

 Aren't they cute?! :D

 Noah Jamie tried sponge cake the first time and he love it :)... my boy :D

 For Saturday we planed a Lego-Birthdayparty. Lukas helped me with the preparations and did the invitations and the name tags. I'm so proud of him!

 His crown

 Mini-cupcakes

 ... and the Lego cake :)

 At the party... all kids who were invited came and so we had 12 kids here (with ours). They had fun to play... of course Legos!!! and ate too less... we also had raspberry cupcakes and a legocake with m&m's... so the parents had to help eating :)

 the goodiebags...

And the party was over...
Lukas was very happy with his presents, he liked the Legos the most... of course ;) Thank you very much for making my boy smile!!!

Rita