Apple Cake in a Jar Recipe #3 and My First Cricut Imagine Label

Finished using Cricut Imagine

Apple Cake in a Jar

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Ingredients for Apple Cake in a jar

Bake at 325 Degrees (Preheated)

Cooper cuts apple to chop

Such a great helper

Pushes button on chopper

Chopped apples

Mix Ingredients

Medium speed

Grease jars well

Place in oven at 325 degrees on a flat pan

Boil lids to santitize

Cooked cakes see how it pulls away to dump out

Wipe lids well and dry then place lid (flats) on and seal with rings while still hot

MY BIG SUPRISE from hubby arrived Wednesday evening

Your finished product makes great gifts

Hello again,
       Recipe #3 already getting close to Christmas. Boy did I get a big surprise Wednesday evening a Cricut Imagine was delivered to my door......can you believe it? I couldn't!!! It came from HSN and let me tell you I was printing and cutting in no time. I was so scared to even think about getting one after some of the reviews but hubby said you can't go by that all the time.....okay....so he ordered it and I had no trouble at all and it worked PERFECT!!!!! A must if you have considered it!!! I had a ball! Over IMPRESSED!! Well anyway I used the Cricut Imagine to cut and print the labels from Kate's Kitchen cart. Too too cute!!! The fabric is a depression print. I also used twine and Tim Holtz distress inks.
        Apple Cake in a Jar
2/3 cup of Crisco shortening
2 2/3 cups of white sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp. of cinnamon
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. of baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. salt
3 cups of all purpose flour
2/3 cup of water
3 cups of apples cut up or chopped
2/3 cups raisins
2/3 cups of pecans (optional) chopped
jars wide mouth pint or quart (pint work best)
Usually 8-9 for pints size and 3 for quart size. Must be wide mouthed jars.
Mix all ingredients together in order given. Sterilize jars and lids...drying well. Grease jars with shortening. Fill the jars half full and bake on middle rack at 325 degrees for 45 minutes or when knife inserted comes out clean.  Promptly remove the jars from the oven, wipe the rims of the jars with a wet warm cloth and then dry now place flats on and seal with ring allow to cool and then check to see if the seal popped by touching top if it does not make a sound then it sealed and will last up to a year shelf life. When dumped from jar slice and use cream cheese frosting on little cakes. YUMMY! Recipe from Frances Lassiter of Aulander NC. Given to me in 2003.
        Hope you like it. It makes a sweet gift and so EASY!!! Let me know if you tried it! It also makes a great gift to mail to a service person...they can enjoy a fresh moist cake anytime. Until tomorrow.....Cyber Hugs, Dawn Gallop :o)

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there's no place like Gnome for the Holidays Imaginisce card and Crescent Bundle Surprises Recipe #2

Imaginisce Gnome Card



Copics Used



Close up

Ingredients for Crescent Bundle Surprises

Snickers Bar cut into pieces 2.07 oz. size

Pillsbury Crescent rolls cut in half bottom up

Snicker pieces on top of Pillsbury Crescent roll halves

Rolled up on pan/stone

Put in oven at 375 degrees

after cooled frost with cream cheese frosting in sandwich baggie with tiny hole in end

Yummy now eat!!

Pizza oven update

Abigail

Hello,
     Wanted to start early today at trying to get this post up..lol! So good morning!! Sitting here having my tea while the sun is beginning to shine....yippie! It is very cold here today at 34 degrees....I know so cold for some but for us southerners yeah its cold! lol! The card I made using the same sketch as the lo I did on Saturday. HERE is the link. The sketch is by the talented Melinda Spinks http://thescrapfarm.blogspot.com/
A fabulous little sketch. I have really enjoyed all the Imaginisce stamps, All About Scrapbooks sells them where I teach classes. They just make great little stamps for an awesome price. Imaginisce has a great sketch this month too check it out HERE. I hope to participate and I hope you can too. The little house on my card came from Nancy one of my wonderful students, it was a brand new punch she said she had no use for...I love it, thanks Nancy!! The cardstock is an Archiver's stock and the snowflakes and circles are Fiskars punches. The Santa gnomes were colored in using the copic sketch markers and paper pieced. I punched the house out several times to add lift. The sewing is my Brother sewing machine and Sulky metallic thread.
     The Pizza oven is coming along....still waiting for the mortar to dry. Bruce works on it ever moment he is not at a work...so real soon!! We can't wait!! Abigail my sweet granddaughter came over the other night  I gave here a little paint set Cooper picked out just too cute. Love that pic of her.
       The recipe #2 is Crescent Bundle Surprises found on page 67 of a Taste of Home magazine Fun Food. Sept. 25, 2009.  The recipe comes from Joyce Platfoot of Wapakoneta, Ohio. We have been making these since I found the recipe...oh my. The family loves them...Bruce says "take these away from me." They are just so easy and fun. The kids can do it!  All you need is 1 tube of Pillsbury Crescent rolls, 8 fun size Snicker bars, halved. 1/4 Cup of cream cheese frosting. Simple as that! I used the 2.07 size Snicker bar cut into pieces it took 2 candy bars to do the one tube. I froze them is a Tupperware container flat and pop out when a snack is needed or your holiday table.
CRESCENT BUNDLE SURPRISES
1 tube (8 oz) refrigerated crescent rolls
8 fun sized Snickers candy bars, halved ( I used 2.07 cut into pieces)
1/4 cup cream cheese frosting
sandwich bag/ pastry bag
See steps above. Cook on ungreased pan/stone at 375 degrees cool and frost. Use the sandwich bag to frost by cutting small corner off and pipe out or use a pastry bag and tip number 5.
Have a wonderful day and see ya tomorrow with Recipe #3...surprise!! Also I got something in the mail last night it was around 7pm or after...can't wait to share. Cyber Hug, Dawn Gallop :o)

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A quick necklace and a PECAN PRALINE Recipe #1

Necklace

Close up

Ingredients for Pecan Pralines

Step 1 Mix sugars, half and half

Stir and cook until thoroughly mixed and temp. reaches softball stage 230 degrees

230 Degrees (soft ball stage)
I use a Wilton Candy Thermometer

Once temp reached add butter and then vanilla

Mix in Pecans

Lay out flat until parchment paper or wax paper

YUMMY!!!  They freeze too.

Colby and his "Stocking Project"

Dusty sad he didn't want to wear a bib

Dusty and Cooper sitting and watching TV under the quilt I made

Hello hello again,
    Finally getting this up today starting the December first can you hardly believe it. It seems as this year has been a blur so many things going on and yet you blink and its another year over...oh my where does it all go??? I was reading in a book last night The Artistic Mother  by Shona Cole her blog is at http://shonastudio.blogspot.com/  An amazing artist. The book is about how you can find time to create with little ones. A contributing artist in her book Misty Mawn described time perfectly "If I had all the time in the world (to create), it still wouldn't be enough." I thought  how true. An awesome book and they have it at Amazon so check it out some of them are even used and real cheap.
       The necklace was a charm I found at Michaels and the chain too put them together and BAM!! A beautiful necklace I have actually enjoyed wearing. I love easy peasy put togethers and functional too.
The pictures of Dusty and Cooper under the quilt I made when I was pregnant with Colby Shane(before we knew the sex).....I was mostly attracted to the patterns on the prints and it looked good together it is rail fence quilt. We all love it! Colby had to make a stocking for his class with his name on it and we used some Rusty Pickle pp and Jolee's to make it special...he had such a good time making it he even traced the stocking. He even gave the nutcrackers "coconuts" as he said, gotta love it!! You can just see how proud he is. Dusty on the other hand I was reading somewhere...oh my forgive I wish I knew where...one of my books a blog???? Take pictures in the kitchen of the now right now and we had to leave but the boys needed a snack so Dusty had a scrambled egg, well to avoid ketchup on him Amanda put the bib on and oh my...talk about one upset little guy.....whew. He finally compromised and kept the bib on and ate his egg, but  I just thought that sad face was picture perfect and defiantly in the now!!!

Recipe #1   PECAN PRALINES
 1 1/2 Cups of Sugar
3/4  cups of light brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup + 2T. Half and Half
1/2 stick of unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups of pecans
1 tsp. vanilla
Combine sugars together with half and half in pan and cook at almost high heat I use the third dot on my burner dial. Cook until the candy thermometer reaches the soft ball stage or 230 degrees Very important.  Then take off burner and butter and vanilla. Stir then add pecans stir until the shine leaves the mixture and spoon unto parchment paper and/ or wax paper.  Cool and eat. Store in an air tight container or freeze flat in a Tupperware container. A yummy start to the holiday goodies. 
I'm not sure where this recipe came from I have had it hand written for years and who knows...I have many like that, but makes a yummy yummy candy. Hope you like it. Have a wonderful day. Cyber hugs, Dawn Gallop

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tis the SEASON to be jolly fa la la la la Imaginisce Style



Layout Using Imaginisce

 

http://thescrapfarm.blogspot.com/



Close up Cooper and Dusty

Title using Imaginisce and Spellbinders

Journal Tag

Imaginisce stamp and Copic Markers

Music notes Cricut  Disney Hannah Montana Cart.



Hello everyone,

        Sorry for the delay in the post on Monday it was Coltens ninth birthday and we celebrated it at Red Robin at his request. Well before we got home Bruce was so sick with the flu virus. Within a few hours me then Colten, then Dusty...well needless to say it hit everyone Amanda being last and today is the first day anyone felt well.  So can you imagine all the laundry I have...lol!! Any volunteers??? I was still working on it as it needed but whew tough when you have the flu. I started on a Happy Thanksgiving post and never finished it...but wth the pizza oven it almost finished but of course we have not worked on it this week. Today is the first day Bruce has been able to work on the oven...I can't wait.
        I had made this lo for the November Imaginisce Blog Challenge. Well with the illness here it was late...it was due November 25th. Oh well I had a blast making it. Do you know it has been since March that I have made a layout??? Can you believe it?  With all the altered projects and teaching layouts have just not been on the front row....but it felt good!! The wonderful little skecth is from Melinda Spinks   her blog is  http://thescrapfarm.blogspot.com/ check it out AMAZING!!! The challenge to use 75% Imaginisce well I covered that it is 100% Imaginisce except for the use of Spellbinders and Cricut and Copics.  
        All the pp is Imaginisce and the tiny bling on the reindeer's nose in the lead is the I-Rock I colored the rhinestone and then heated worked perfect. I used R29 Copic marker. The reindeers were all colored in with Copic markers.The girl reindeer has a tiny bone punch for a bow on her ear Copics and stickles.  I inked the pp slightly with  Tim Holtz Ranger inks. The doodles I did myself with Uniball Signa white pen.....love that pen! The title is a rub-on from Imaginisce. The Spellbinder nestablities made into an ornament using the ribbon from Imaginisce. The music notes I cut from the Cricut using my Gypsy in several sizes from the Disney Hannah Montana Cart. Love em...I can just hear and feel the music the boys were making..... The journal tag is Imaginisce and reads Dear Santa, We love our drums. Pa rum pum pum pum. Pa rum pum pum pum pum. Oh I just love it. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful  Thanksgiving weekend. Cyber Hugs, Dawn Gallop

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