It was adept to acquire dorsum into the swing of sewing yesterday, but at that spot was also some fourth dimension inwards the kitchen. Ever since acquiring a 6-inch bundt pan, I've been itching to attempt reducing an existing cake recipe into a cake for two. Yesterday was the day. For reference, here's a link to the master recipe from Cooking Light. (Weirdly, the motion-picture exhibit at that link is non at all the cake that goes alongside the recipe. Don't live confused...you're eyes are non deceiving you.)
So, anyway...a 6-inch bundt pan has a mass of iii cups, spell a full-sized bundt pan has a mass of 12 cups. And so...I'm rattling adept at math...I figured out that I could cutting whatever existing recipe downward to one-fourth of the master to create a cake for two. And hither it is!
It's thence cute, I could but consume it up. And I intend I will! It needed to cool completely, together with thence I added the creamy orangish glaze. The glaze is made from cream cheese, together with I constitute it difficult to mix it upward rattling well. Even though I started alongside room temperature cream cheese, I ended upward giving it a quick shot inwards the microwave to brand it possible to whisk it to a creamy texture. When it was applied to the cake...Ta-Da!
The recipe calls for canned sugariness potatoes, but I wanted to utilization the fresh ones from our CSA share. I peeled together with roasted mine, but I genuinely intend boiling would convey been a ameliorate choice. Roasting gave them a piddling crust, together with boiling would convey left them alongside to a greater extent than moisture. They would convey been easier to mash. Or....you tin but utilization canned ones if you lot like. We each had a slice lastly night, together with it was genuinely thence good. With the master from Cooking Light, it's also relatively depression inwards fat.
So, here's my adapted recipe to brand this a cake for two. It occurred to me this morning, I could convey made it fifty-fifty lower inwards fatty yesteryear using 2 egg whites inwards house of the whole egg.
Sweet Potato Bundt Cake alongside Creamy Orange Glaze
adapted from Cooking Light
Cake:
Cooking spray
1/4 teaspoon flour
2 tablespoons fat-free milk
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
1/2 15-oz tin sugariness potatoes, drained together with mashed (about 1/2 cup)
3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 loving cup granulated sugar
1/4 loving cup packed chocolate-brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon terra firma ginger
1/8 teaspoon terra firma nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon terra firma cinnamon
Glaze:
iii tablespoons powdered sugar
2 tablespoons (1 oz.) 1/3-less-fat cream cheese, softened
1/4 teaspoon grated orangish rind
3/4 teaspoon fresh orangish juice
3/4 teaspoon fat-free milk
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
To ready the cake, coat a 6-inch bundt pan alongside cooking spray, together with dust alongside flour. Set prepared pan aside. (I used Baker's Joy together with skipped the flour.)
Combine 2 tablespoons milk, fossil oil vinegar, vanilla, egg, together with sugariness potatoes inwards a medium bowl.
Lightly spoon 3/4 cups flour together with adjacent seven ingredients (through cinnamon) inwards a large bowl, stirring good alongside a whisk.
Add milk mixture to flour mixture; vanquish alongside a mixer at depression speed until blended. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake at 375 degrees for xxx minutes or until a wooden pick inserted close the centre comes out clean. Cool inwards pan 10 minutes on a wire rack, withdraw from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.
To ready the glaze, combine powdered saccharide together with remaining ingredients inwards a bowl; stir good alongside a whisk. Drizzle glaze over cake.
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While I was waiting for the cake to bake together with cool, I got to go making the quilt dorsum for Semper Fi. Nothing fancy here. I used the stuff you lot run into below.
And thence I was ready to cutting the strips for the binding from this diagonal stripe. And allow me tell you, at that spot was 1 piddling kitty who was happy to live dorsum inwards the sewing room.
Do you lot intend your furriends would similar to run into my stomach furs?
Now Semper Fi is ready for quilting. I'll acquire it sandwiched during the Thanksgiving weekend, together with thence get-go quilting it inwards December.
When the dorsum was completed, I decided to brand some placemats for the 5th wheel. I've been wanting to brand some for quite a while, together with thence I saw these on Facebook the other day. They were on a continually-running video from Quilter's World. I had a difficult fourth dimension capturing the photograph because of the video, but thence I saw it spell using my phone, together with quick-as-a-wink snapped a covert shot equally they rolled on by.
And those looked pretty darned simple. I similar how they're quilted too. So I went earthworks through my stash. I wanted to utilization some of my scraps, together with I wanted to utilization something that wouldn't necessitate to live washed every fourth dimension nosotros ate a meal...also something kind of appropriate for go together with retirement, together with something that would blend inwards alongside the browns, grays, golds, together with blacks of the RV interior decor. Then I came across this 1 that was the backing for the Solstice to Solstice quilt.
It has some dainty inspirational messages on it: Create a Beautiful Life. Find Joy inwards Simple Things. Create Happy Moments. Focus on the Good. And that seemed to capture all of the things I was trying to capture alongside my placemats. So I dug out a duo of other scraps together with pose these out for sewing. As I expression at the paradigm below, I'm wondering if I should supplant the white strip alongside a dark one. I'll banking concern lucifer it out this forenoon together with brand a determination 1 means or the other.
I convey a lot of that head fabric, together with thence I'll utilization the same both front end together with back. When I convey those sewn together, I'll acquire to go catching upward on the Tiny Tuesday blocks. (Note to self: Check to run into if there's some other 1 out today.)
Okay, thence I'm on Tree #7 of the Twelve Trees for Christmas, together with my, oh, my.
The video Mary Corbet made makes the braid stitch expression easy, but I fumbled around terribly alongside this. I tried unlike things: stuff inwards the hoop, stuff out of the hoop, stuff loosely hooped, stuff tightly hooped. Also, I idea a longer milliner's needle mightiness help. It did, but I finally decided that reverting to my method of "stabbing" was the best bet for me. If you lot spotter her video to the end, she says her lines are well-nigh one-half an inch apart. Also, her lines are straight. Mine are curved together with well-nigh an 8th of an inch apart, thence my slice is a piddling to a greater extent than challenging than the demonstration online. This was equally far equally I got yesterday earlier I idea I mightiness lose my mind.
Briefly, I considered starting over together with but doing a loose chain stitch, but thence decided to stick it out. I chose this projection because I wanted to larn some novel stitches, together with thence this is a learning project. (Aren't they all?) I'll practise the best I tin for now, together with when I come upward dorsum to expression at it a twelvemonth from now, I'll live able to run into how much progress I've made. At least, that's what I'm telling myself. Besides...there's that masochist inwards me that needs to live fed sometimes. What ameliorate argue could at that spot live for having cats?
Okay, thence enough on the horizon today. Our weather condition has been lovely for the yesteryear week, but we're expecting pelting today. Is this it? Has the Big Dark arrived? Time volition tell.