Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Red velvet cupcakes


I made this delicious cake from the recipe I found online here. It is so good!

Cake
2 cups soy milk
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup vegetable oil
2 ounces red food coloring
4 teaspoons vanilla extract

  • Add vinegar to soy milk, and set aside to curdle.
  • Sift flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
  • Add vegetable oil, food coloring, and vanilla extract to the curdled soy milk, and mix.
  • Pour liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients, and mix.
  • Fill cupcake liners ¾ full.
  • Bake in a preheated 350° oven for 20 minutes or until done.
I didn't use her recipe for the icing, but here it is.

Frosting
½ cup margarine, room temperature
½ cup Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cups confectioners sugar

  • Cream margarine, cream cheese, and vanilla extract.
  • Slowly mix the confectioner’s sugar into the creamed sugar, and then beat until smooth and fluffy.
  • Frost cooled cupcakes.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Honey Candy

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup honey

Boil in saucepan on medium high heat untill reaches hard crack stage. Rub Nucao onto your hands and stretch and pull untill white in color. Caution very Hot!!!

I like to make them in sticks because Marix is still at the choke on small hard thing stage.

Wheat Waffles




2 cups flour ( 1 cup white and 1 cup wheat)
4 tsp haines baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 Tbsp honey
1 and 3/4 cups ricemilk ( I like to use vanilla, is makes it vanilla-ie yes that is a word.)
6 tbsp canola oil
2 egg replacers ( to replace to eggs )

Mix dry ingredients together. Stir in remaining ingredients.

Cook on hot griddle.

Blender Wheat Pancakes



This is a great way to use whole wheat from your food storage.

1 cup ricemilk
1 cup uncooked whole wheat
2 egg replacers Needed to replace two eggs.
2 Tbsp oil
2 tsp baking powder (use Haines)
2 Tbsp honey or sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt

Put ricemilk and wheat in blender. Blend on highest speed for four or five minutes or untill batter is smooth. Add and blend on low, egg replacers, pil, baking powder, honey and salt. Bake on hot Griddle.

Variations:
We like to add 1/2 cups blueberries at the end and mix them in by hand wih a spoon.

Toppings:
Pure maple syrup
Cornstarch free powdered sugar
Bananas
Applesauce

Apple Brown Betty




Peel, Cut and slice 4 large apples and place in a casserole dish.

1/2 cup flour
1/4 cups oatmeal
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup Nucoa

Mix all dry ingredients together. Cut in Nucoa untill it is all blended in. Crumbs are smaller than pea size. Sprinkle the topping over the apples. Bake at 350 for up to 55 minutes, apples are soft and crust is brown.

Banana Smoothie




Ingredients

~4 unpacked scoops vanilla Elecare
~4 fl ounces vanilla flavored rice milk
~1 tablespoon apple juice
~1 tablespoon grape juice
~1/2 cup frozen bluebarries
~1/2 cup frozen medium banana, peeled and sliced.

Directions

Pour ricemilk and elecare into blender, and blend till frothy.
Add juices, berries and bananas. Mix untill smooth.
Serve immediatly.

This is a fun way to get Marix his protein. He also feels like his big beithers drinking a smoothie. THis makes nine ounces, so I usually freeze some in small tupperware containers. He loves to eat it like icecream.

Don't be scared by the elecare. This smoothie is so yummy. I like to eat it too.