Homemade Simple Fruit Cake

-Ingredients 

1 cup of granulated white sugar (or brown sugar)

1/2 cup melted butter

2 fresh large eggs (or store bought) 

2 tsps vanilla extract (or vanilla bean)

 2tsps Ground cinnamon (optional) 

1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 

1/2 cup milk

1 3/4 tsps baking powder 

Homemade maple/butter syrup (or store bought)

Freshly chopped fruit salad (or left over) 

-Materials

Large mixing bowl

Baking pan

Measuring cups and tsps

Whisk  

Oven mittens (or hear proof cloth)

-Steps

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). 


2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the sugar and butter. Mix in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla extract and ground cinnamon.

3. Then combine flour and baking powder, add to the creamed mixture and whisk well. Finally stir in the milk until it's smooth. 

4. Grease and flour a 9x9 inch baking pan, then carefully pour mixture into pan until it's even.


5. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven, carefully take out pan with an oven mitten or any cloth to protect from heat. Slice the cake with a knife how you want it and place a piece on a plate, finally add the fruits and syrup.

6. Enjoy! 

***Tips: 

-Before placing baking pan with mixture into oven make sure there are no bubbles by hitting the pan lightly on table to pop them because it'll make cake look better and who wants extra air?

-Cake is done when it springs back to the touch or when toothpick/fork is clean after placed in center. 


Simple Tasty Crepes

Ingredients 

1 egg

1 cup water

1 cup All Purpose flour

1 tsp Vanilla Extract or bean

1/4 Salt

Materials

A bowl

Measuring cups

Whisk 

Pan

Spatula 

Side plate

Toppings

Steps

(makes about 16)

1) Mix ingredients in bowl gently in same order as listed above with a whisk until 

mixture becomes smooth.

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2) Put stove to medium heat and place a flat pan.

3) With a 1/4 measuring cup take some of the mixture and pour in pan, then quickly

and gently turn pan around to make sure the mixture is flatted around.

4) Wait until the bottom side is lightly brown, by seeing bubbles appear, then flip it

 with a spatula until the other side is lightly brown too.

5) Place it carefully on a side plate.

6) Repeat step 3-5 again and again until there is no more mixture left and side plate

is full.

7) Lastly, when serving you can put whichever serving you prefer, either melted

 chocolate, fruits, whipped cream, ice cream, jelly or more.

Enjoy!

Delicious Cherry Cobbler!

Ingredients

4 tablespoons of melted butter (plus a little extra)

1 1/4 cups sugar (plus a little extra)

1 cup of self rising flour 

2/3 cups of milk

2 cups of fresh cherries w/o sugar (or any other fruits)

Ice cream or whipped cream for topping

Steps:

1. Gather the ingredients and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. 

2. Mix flour, sugar and milk in a large bowl until their is no lumps.

3. Pour the melted butter in a baking dish then pour the cobbler mix into the same baking dish. 

4. Separate the cherry juice and cherries. 

5. Turn on stove to low heat. Pour the cherries into a pot and mix 1/3 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon of butter without crushing the cherries. Then carefully  pour the mixture evenly on top of the cobbler mix.

6. Carefully put it in the oven for about 30 minutes or until it's golden brown. Once it's taken out of the oven let it cool for about 5 minutes then add whatever toppings you like.

Fresh out of the oven.

Enjoy!

Cans and cherry juice.

Cinnamon Rollls

Ingredients

2 cups of Whole Milk

1/2 cup Vegetable Oil

1/2 cup white granulated sugar

1 package Active Dry Yeast

4 cups All-purpose Flour

1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

1/2 Tablespoon Salt

About one stick of butter melted

1 cup brown sugar

About 1/2 cup powder cinnamon

MAPLE FROSTING Ingredients:

About 1 cup Powdered Sugar

2 teaspoon Maple Flavoring (syrup)

1/2 cup Milk

1/4 cup Melted Butter

1/4 cup Brewed Coffee (optional)

1/8 teaspoon Salt

Steps

1) To start making the dough, heat up the milk, vegetable oil, and white granulated sugar in a pan at medium heat. Set aside and cool to warm. Sprinkle the yeast on top and let it sit on the milk for about 1 minute.

2)Add 4 cups of the flour. Stir until just combined, then cover with a clean kitchen towel, and set aside about 1 hour.

3)Then, add the baking powder, baking soda, salt, and the remaining flour, stir. 

4) Remove the dough from the pan. Roll the dough into a large rectangle on a floured baking surface, like a clean table. The dough should be rolled very thinly.

5)To make the filling, pour one stick of melted butter over the surface of the dough and spread it evenly with your hand or spatula. Sprinkle 1/2 of powder cinnamon and 1/2 cup of the brown sugar over the butter. Add more if needed.

6)To roll it, start from the beginning at the end farthest from you, roll the rectangle tightly towards you. When you’re finished rolling, you’ll end up with one long log.

7) Cut with a sharp knife, about 1/2-inch slices each. Pour a few teaspoons of melted butter into a cake pan. Place the sliced rolls in the pan, but don't overcrowd. 

7) Preheat the oven to 375°F.

8) Cover pan with a clean towel and set aside to rise on a table for at least 10-20 minutes before baking. Remove the towel and bake for about 16 to 20 minutes, until golden brown. 

9) Now make the the maple icing, in a bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, milk, butter, coffee (optional), salt, and maple flavoring (syrup) until smooth and pourable.

10) When finished baking remove pan from the oven. Immediately drizzle maple icing over the top. The rolls will absorb some of the maple icing’s moisture and flavor, so you might want to add/make more maple icing. 

                                        Enjoy!

Pecan Pie!

Pie Filling Ingredients

1 cup of Pecan halves

3 tablespoons brown sugar

1 cup white sugar

1 cup corn syrup

3 Eggs

4 tablespoons melted butter

1/4 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp cinnamon 

Pie Crust Ingredients

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour 

1 cup cold butter

1 tsp salt

1 tsp sugar

8 tbsp ice cold water

Steps

1) Make the crust by adding all the ingredients for the crust and mix well until it forms like a dough. Then spread it to a circle and put in pan 

(as shown in the picture).  

Pie crust before baked

2) Mix white sugar, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, corn syrup, butter, eggs, and vanilla extract together in a bowl and mix well.

3)  Then pour all pecan halves at the bottom of the unbaked pie shell.

4) Pour the syrup mixture over the top of the pecan halves in the unbaked pie shell. Cover top of unbaked pie with a foil. 

Pie before baked

5) Bake the pie at 350º for about 30 minutes.

6) Carefully remove the foil and continue baking pie for 20 minutes more or until it is fully cooked.

7) Take out pie from the oven carefully and let it cool on a table for about 

30 minutes, then Enjoy!

Baked Pecan Pie

Tasty Simple Corn on the Cob Snack!

Ingredients

Corn

Water

Mayonnaise

Parmesan cheese

Chili Powder

Paprika

Materials

small knife

plate

large pot

Tongs

1) Peel all the corn.

2)Clean all corn with water.

3)Pour water in pot half way and turn on the heat to high until starts to bubble, turn to medium. Then put the corn in the pot carefully for 5 to 7 minutes.

4)Turn off heat, take out corn carefully with the tongs and put the corn on a plate.

5) Let the corn cool for a few minutes.

6)With a small knife carefully spread a small amount of mayonnaise on the corn, then sprinkle a little parmesan cheese, paprika and chili power.

7) Enjoy!

Ingredients and finished corn snack.

Before and after.

Corn Snack.

Crunch Sushi :)

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Sushi Pieces

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Sushi ingredients setup.

*This makes about 6 rolls of Sushi!

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Ingredients for Sushi:

6 Nori (dry seaweed sheets)

12 Crab Imitation 

12 thin slices of cucumbers and carrots

12 Slices of Cream cheese (optional)

12 slices Pineapple (optional)

Sushi rice

 Rice Vinegar

Sugar 

 Salt

Water in small bowl

Vegetable Oil

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Ingredients for Tempura Batter 

1 cup Water

1 cup of All-Purpose Flour

1 Egg

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Other Things Needed:

6 Plastic Wraps to fit rolling mat and wrap each sushi

Sushi Roller Mat (bamboo)  

Wooden Spoon

Large bowl 

Small bowl for water

Whisk

Napkins

2 or 3 Large plates

Large Metal Spoon
Deep Fry (Small Pot)

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• Steps:
  1) Cook the Sushi rice based on the instruction on the bag.
  
  

  2) While sushi rice is cooking, start slicing the cucumbers, carrots and pineapple/cream cheese (optional).
  
  

  3) Once finished slicing put them on a plate, then check if sushi rice is finished or not (if the sushi rice is hard then it is not cooked yet).
  
  

  4) Once the sushi rice is done cooking, turn off the heat and put it in a big bowl with the wooden spoon slowly by being careful with the heat. 
  
  
  5) Add about 2 TBS of rice vinegar, 2 TBS sugar and a pitch of salt. 
  
  

  6) Mix the sushi rice with the other ingredients slowly with the wooden spoon until well mixed.
  
  
  7) Then take the rolling mat and lay it on the table with a plastic wrap on top.
  
  
  8) Put one Nori sheet on the plastic wrap. Take a few spoons of rice on the Nori until you leave a little space on the top of Nori (for rolling sushi, make sure not too much rice added).
  
  
  9) Add whatever ingredients you want in the middle of sushi roll. (I put slices of cream cheese, cucumber, carrot and crab/shrimp).

                                         

                                                     Inside the Sushi roll, on rolling mat.

  
  
  10)  To roll it, first grab the rolling mat and plastic wrap then take it over the ingredients in the middle a little tightly. Then put a little water at the top of the Nori (where there is no rice) to glue the roll together. Roll it and tightly hold it together.
  
  
  11) Take the rolling mat out and keep the plastic wrap on the roll to keep its shape. Put the rolls on a plate.
  
  
  12) Repeat steps 7-11 until you finish with all rice or Nori sheets.
  
  
  13)  Tempura batter is to make the Crunch. Mix the ingredients for the tempura batter stated above.
  
  
  14) Take off each plastic wrap from each roll carefully and then cut each roll in half with a knife (with water on it, so it would be easier to slice). Put each half in the batter and roll it around until all sides is covered with the batter. Wash your hands from the batter.

  

  Sushi roll and Tempura batter.

  
  
  15)  Turn on stove to high then take a small pot on the stove top and add vegetable oil filled half way. Take a plate, put it next to pot on a table or other stove top (that is not on) and put a few napkins on plate to drain oil from sushi rolls after fried. 
  
  
  16) Once oil bubbles a little, put the heat lower to medium. Then take each sushi half one by one with a large spoon until pot is full to fry each side until it is brown.  

  

  Sushi rolls with tempura frying.

  
  
  17) Put each finished rolls on the plate with napkins carefully with a large spoon.
  
  

  

  Sushi rolls after frying.

  
  
  18) Let the rolls cool for about four minutes, then cut each half rolls into five pieces of sushi with a knife with water on it. 
  
  
  19) Put each sushi pieces carefully on a plate with a small bowl of soy sauce.
  
  
  20) Enjoy!
  
  

  

  Sushi rolls cut into pieces.

  
  
  
  
  
  
     

  

  Sushi Piece.