Friday, January 30, 2009


What you need:
    Recipe:
  • 2 cake mixes (your favorite kind)
  • Buttercream icing (recipe below)
  • Maraschino cherry with stem
  • Pirouette style cookie
  • Vanilla pudding (for filling)
  • Piping bag
  • Melon baller
  • Knife
  • Baking pans
  • Bowls/spoons for mixing
    Buttercream Icing:
  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup shortening
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 3 tsp water
  • Yellow food coloring
  • Blue food coloring

What you do:

  1. Make both cake mixes in round 8” pans and bake according to package directions.
  2. When cake has cooled, stack together and cut out triangle shape.
  3. Spoon vanilla pudding over fist layer of cake and place 2nd cake layer on top gently. Place cake in refrigerator until ready for decorating.
  4. Make Buttercream Icing by mixing all ingredients together expect food coloring.
  5. Tint 1 tablespoon of icing blue.
  6. Tint approximately 1/3 of icing dark yellow (the more food coloring added the darker the yellow will be).
  7. Tint the rest of the icing a pale yellow (less food coloring will make a lighter yellow).
  8. Take cake from refrigerator and start with icing the cake using the darker yellow for the top and the lighter yellow for the sides of the cake.
  9. Make small indentions on the sides of the cake using the back of a melon baller.
  10. Pipe a blue icing swirl and arrange cookie and cherry on top of your cake and enjoy!

Delicious Hot Chocolate

What you need:
  • 2 cups of milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp chocolate milk powder
  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • Whipped cream
  • Sauce pan
  • Wooden spoon

What you do:

  • Warm the milk, vanilla, sugar, and cinnamon in the saucepan. When the milk is warm, add the chocolate milk powder. Stir in until well combined. Remove the hot chocolate from the heat and pour into two mugs. Top with big, fluffy dollops of whipped cream and enjoy!


Source: Webkinz.com

Cowabelle's Chocolate and Vanilla Milkshake


What you need:
    Enough to serve two
  • 1 1/2 cup of vanilla ice cream
  • 1 1/4 cup of milk
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tbsp of chocolate milk powder
  • Milkshake maker or blender

What you do:

Put the milk, ice cream, and vanilla into the milkshake maker or blender. Mix until smooth. Add the chocolate powder. Mix until well combined. Divide up among friends.




Source: Webkinz.com

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Sweet Fizzy Treat


What you need:
    Enough for one
  • 1/2 cup of milk
  • 3/4 cup of soda water
  • 2 tbsp chocolate syrup

What you do:

  • Pour the milk into a glass. Add the soda water and stir. Drizzle in the chocolate syrup and stir gently. Add a straw and enjoy!

Source: Webkinz.com

Tropical Citrus Fizz


What you need:
  • 1 cup ice cubes
  • 1 cup orange juice
  • ¼ cup crushed pineapple
  • ¼ cup pineapple juice
  • 3 tbsp strawberry & banana yogurt
  • ¾ cup ginger ale
  • Orange slices
  • Fancy glass
  • Blender


What you do:

  1. Place all the ingredients into blender.
  2. Pulse until ice is completely crushed.
  3. Pour into fancy glass and add an orange slice to the rim.
Source: Webkinz.com