apple sticky buns

Company in town for the holidays? Serve them these 

Apple Sticky Buns for breakfast. 

* warning: you might need to make multiple batches. They will go fast ! 

      Dough

• 2 tablespoons yeast
• 2 cups warm water
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup shortening, margarine, or butter
• 2 tsp salt
• 2/3 c nonfat dry milk
• 1 egg
• 5-6 cups flour

      Filling

• 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 2 tablespoon sugar or a little extra
• 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• nutmeg to taste if you want to change it up!

     Sauce

• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• 1/2 cup corn syrup
• 4 tbsp honey. I did not add this time, but I think it would enhance taste
• 1 cup pecans or your favorite nut - did not add as we were out
• 2 apple finely cubed

1. add yeast to water for 5 minutes
2. add sugar, butter, salt, dry milk, egg to bowl
3. add salt, 2 cups flour
4. kneed with dough hook. Keep adding flour one cup at a time until it pulls away from the bowl 
5. grease bowl a different bowl, turn dough over to cover with grease, place in a warm place to double in size. punch it down.
6. roll out thin or thick depending how you like them. This recipe is large enough to make 24 of these, you can half it for a smaller batch
7. spread butter over rolled out dough
8. add filling evenly
9. roll up tightly and cut in half. Then those two in half. Now in thirds and you will have 12 evenly cut rolls.
10. add all ingredients for sauce into pan and boil until sugar dissolves. 
11. there are two ways to do these, in a 9x13 pan or a muffin pan. Either way add sauce to bottom of 9x13 or evenly to 12 muffin tins. 
12. add rolls to pan and let rise.
13. Bake for 25 minutes or until done. let cool and flip over onto platter and enjoy!

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Butter cream Frosting. Happy birthday Son

My son's birthday was the beginning of the month and he requested cupcakes with blue and green swirl frosting. So I made my super easy, extra delicious 

Butter cream vanilla frosting. 

• 3 cups confections’ sugar
• 1 cup butter softened over night
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1-2 tablespoons whipping cream  

In a standing mixer equipped with the whisk, mix overnight soft butter and confection’s sugar. Mix on a low speed until blended then increase to medium and whisk for 3 minutes.

Add vanilla and cream and beat for another minute. Add more cream according to desired consistency

- you can get clear vanilla at most cooking stores if you want pure white frosting.

-make sure and whisk for the whole 3 minutes- it does make a difference.


(recipe card at end of post) 

This year he wanted a Mario Kart Wii birthday party, and he wanted to ride his bike. Which he just learned how to ride without training wheels!!!

• The first thing I did was spray paint boxes gold and added numbers to create 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place platforms. I then found pictures on-line and printed them onto stickers and stuck them onto toothpicks and inserted into the cupcakes. 
• With the extra spray paint I covered a $1 cup I found to look like the trophy. This made a perfect holder for the markers in which the kids used to decorate their own t-shirts. This way they could "choose" which character they were going to be. 
• It was a hot day and hydration was needed. I created labels and printed them on sticker paper and wrapped them around water bottles.
• I found gold coins, mushroom looking balloons, and yellow star candy to top off the decor. 
• For give-away bags the kids got crazy straw water bottles, their decorated shirts, Mario stickers, and gold coins. 

A picture of the whole table. 

Next was the race track. It was very very windy so we had to do some heavy duty taping, which ruined the look of my decor a little.

I wanted to recreate a race track.  

• We set up a starting line, and had laminated photos of the icons you get when you run over the question marks. The kids had a blast pretending that they had run over a bullet, star, mushroom, or lighting cloud. 
• We also blew up posters of the characters on their vehicles so it looked like they were also involved in the race. 

The kids had a blast. They raced, raced, and raced some more. The cupcakes were a big hit and overall it was a great party. 

Happy 5th Birthday Son. Hope this is a great year!! 

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Farm Fresh Friday- Grilled Zuchinni Boats FIlled with Spanish Rice

Growing up, my Mom always made Spanish Rice and then hollowed out Zuchinni and roasted in the oven. I was always a fan of the Spanish Rice, but at that age not so much of the Zuchinni. Now, I love Zuchinni and while visiting my parents, my Dad pulled a massive Zuchinni out of the garden and a small one. I told him lets do the traditional one, but I wanted to gourmet one up on the grill. Try this, it's amazing!

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