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On New Year's Day, I made a St. Basil's Cake for family.  His feast day is actually today, but there were more people to celebrate with on New Year's Day ;)

I found the cake and the story and recipe on Lacy's blog.  I read this post last year, bought the Knox gelatin so that I could make the cake, and never did.  I am glad that I managed this year :)  

Below are the pictures that I remembered to take during the process.  It's super easy.  

Make 4 types of jello, chill in separate containers,  cut into cubes/ pieces, then throw it all into a pan, bowl, etc.  I chose a spring form pan. 

 

 pretty!!!

 (this is sweetened condensed milk + 2 cups of hot water and 2 packages of Knox gelatin)

 See how pretty it is after I poured the milk over the colors!  

Refrigerate for about 2 1/2 hours.

 The topping is heavy whipping cream all whipped up with vanilla and powdered sugar to taste. Lacy's recipe called for knox gelatin to make the hwc more firm, but I didn't have the time for that.  It worked fine without it.

 yummm. I didn't make the first cut because the grown ups in the house got to the cake even before the kids, so this is the best picture you get ;)  It had fantastic reviews!  

Totally make this cake for any reason -- if you and your littles need to brighten up a dreary winter day, this could be something fun for you to do with them.  

The littles will love it and so will all of  your grown ups, too!  

Blessings! and Joy!

nIcole mArie

Check out Lacy's blog for the exact recipe :)

Happy Donut Day!

This past Tuesday was a special day in our house.  We celebrated "Donut Day" -- many others celebrated this same day by a different name -- Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Pancake Day, Shrove Tuesday. All of these are ways that the faithful can celebrate one last day before Lent, the season of penance and fasting which begins on Ash Wednesday.

How did we celebrate this, you might find yourself wondering?  Well, I hope that you are wondering because I'm going to share.  We made donuts for breakfast (and the rest of the day, I suppose)!  Yes!  The little boys were really excited about the idea of making donuts.  I found this recipe via Pintrest and figured that since it was so very simple, I could tackle it with the littles.   We skipped the "dip in butter step" as I thought that they were  bad  good enough as it was ;)

We made cinnamon sugar donuts and powdered sugar donuts.  Do you see the heart shaped centers?  The minis next on the right are baby hearts :)  

 yummy!

The little boys eating donuts and watching a movie. 

See, the problem with finding the yummy donut recipe was that it lead me to this ho ho cake recipe also in the same website, and I instantly felt compeled to  bake it as well.  I mean, it was for a special day.  Thanks goodness we had a Fat Tuesday party to go to! I took donuts and cake to the party/playdate and happily shared most of both sorts of sweets.

Aunt Terri and Michael, the cake is the stand-over-it-with-a-fork yummy kind of cake.  I guess that I shouldn't admit that in public, but oh my gosh, it was so good.


No. No, I did not run on this day.  I probably should have though ;)

Blessings! and Joy!
Nicole