YOUR SPECIAL DAY and RECIPE

 {TODAY IS YOUR SPECIAL DAY}

Just another Card using this adorable little with her Easter Bunny from MY BESTIES which you can purchase here

  The buttons and design papers are from my stash. The flowers have been created with flower and circle punches. The sentiment is also CREATE WITH TLC.  

Thought I will also share a POPPY SEED CAKE

I have made for many many years since a dear friend and colleague shared it with me.

Its also a favourite with many men.

I would love to enter my little card creation into the following challenges:

Scrapbook Stamp Society - ATG + Optional Easter
613 Avenue Create - ATG + Twist Use a Bird

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Inspiration Destination - ATG
My Besties Colour It, Create It, Show It Off - ATG

My Besties Deautschland - ATG + Option Easter

My Besties French - ATG
My Besties Spanish Challenge - ATG
My Besties UK - ATG or sketch

My Besties 3D and More - ATG
My Besties Dutch Girls - ATG and/or dots and stripes
Just Keep on Creating - ATG

PDE Linky Party - ATG
Create and Inspire - ATG

Crafty Friends - ATG

My Besties International - ATG + Optional Anything but a Card

Creative Moments - ATG + Spring has Sprung

Word Art Wednesday - ATG + uplifting sentiment
Lemon Shortbread - ATG
Crafty Girls Creations - ATG
Art by Mi Ran - ATG
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - ATG
Craft Your Passion - ATG

A Gem of a Challenge - Easter
My Sheri Crafts - Spring Fever
QKR Stampede - Add a Sentiment
Craft Rocket Challenge - ATG
Dragonfly Journeys - Hippity Hoppity

Creative Craft Cottage - ATG
Love to Scrap - ATG
DigiStamps4Joy - ATG + Twist Add an Animal (Duck)
The Crazy Challenge - Flowers
Scrapping4Fun - ATG
Sparkles Forum Challenge - Make it Girly
Little Red Wagon - Easter or Spring
The Crafty Addicts - ATG  or add a charm

Thank you for stopping by and your inspirational love you leave behind.

Crafty Hugs

FRUIT-SQUARES: THE RAW MIX

FRUIT-SQUARES.

SPRINGBOK MOM'S FRUIT SQUARES

SQUARES2.

Thank you so much Sheila for this absolutely delicious/divine FRUIT SQUARES recipe. This is definitely going to become a big favourite of the Fourie household.

Don't waste time, with Xmas round the corner this is a must. It is so quick and easy ... a 'one bowl' recipe. Hardly any washing up to do.

I used Sugarbird's mixed fruit in a box (has got cherries in it as well). The one box equals two cups of fruit.

As Sheila says:
"These are divine, I take no responsibility if you eat them all at once!!!!! They are great for Xmas sprinkle with some icing sugar when cool.
ENJOY"

Here's the recipe:

2 cups selfraising flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup oats
1 cup coconut
2 cups mixed fruit (dates,cherries work too)
2 eggs
1 tsp.almond ess.
250 grms melted margarine (BUTTER)

Mix all ingredients together and press into greased baking dish.
Bake at 180 c until golden brown (25-35 mins.)
Cut while still warm.

- Tuty Fruity Signing Off

RUSKS

.

KINROSS’ NOVICE CHEF
[Buttermilk Rusks]

It’s quite obvious … yours truly has got a little more free time on hands … resulting in the Fourie household enjoying some homespun baking … its only rusks ... at least it is a start. I am enjoying our new Defy Double eye level oven … one of many great assets our new home has to offer. It has been 16 years since I had the joy of a spacious oven. The oven was officially inaugurated with these sumptuous buttermilk rusks. I have been baking these since childhood and it is truly a tried and tested recipe. Here it is … if some of you would like to put it to the test.

Recipe for Buttermilk Rusks

Ingredients:

(1 cup = 200ml)

[A]
10 cups Self Raising Flower
2 cups Sugar
1 teaspoon Salt
[Mix everything together]

[B]
2 Eggs
500ml Buttermilk
[Mix well]

[C]
500g Butter (250g butter + 250g margarine)

Method:

* Rub C into A
* Add B to A&C mixture
* Spoon mixture into three average sized bread baking tins
* Bake one hour at 180 deg Celsius
* Allow to cool and cut rusk shapes as desired
* Dry in oven overnight at 100 deg Celsius

Health Version

* Replace 10 cups of Self-Raising Flower with:
5 cups Self-Raising Flower, 5 Cups Nutty Wheet, 10 teaspoons Baking Powder.
* Add some raisins and/or mixed fruit and/or chopped nuts.
* Follow Method as above.

- Industrious Chef Signing Off

TOPLESS LEMON MERINGUE PIE - Monday, 27 August 2007

The Bundu Chicks got rid of their Monday blues by way of a reunion in the blue room and each created a layout of our Bundu weekend's highlight which I brainstormed for them during the past weekend.

Stuffing our faces - rrom left to right: Yours truly, Jenny Reid, Tracy van Zyl, Sheila Corfe, Kerry Harper and Michelle Ramsay

Michelle rounded the evening off with her deliciously home baked lemon meringue pie - definitely the best I have ever tasted. Michelle being the excellent listener she is - remembered that at some stage I mentioned that lemon meringue pie is my favourite cake and that since we have moved to Durban nearly six years ago, we have not managed to find any coffee shop who beats Greenfields' in Lynnwood Road, Pretoria's lemon meringue pie. Well Michelle, at last we have discovered the Ramsay Coffee Shoppe that not only produces the most scrumptuous chocolate crunchies, but lemon meringue pie as well. Mmm... wonder what other yummie stuff the Ramsay Coffee Shoppe has got up her sleeve. Michelle has once again been so kind as to share her mouthwatering recipe with us:

LEMON MERINGUE PIE Base ¾ packet tennis biscuits 125g margarine Crush biscuits and add melted margarine. Press into pie dish. Bake at 180°C for 10 minutes. Filling 1 tin Condensed Milk. Juice and rind of 1 lemon (or 125ml lemon juice). 2 egg yolks. Beat condensed milk and lemon until thick. Add egg yolks and mix well. Pour into pie shell. Topping 2 egg whites.

3 tablespoons castor sugar. Beat egg whites adding sugar slowly, until stiff. Put on top of mixture. Bake at 150°C for 10 minutes Once cool refrigerate. TIP: I separate the eggs and then do the topping first (as you need a clean beater otherwise the egg whites won’t stiffen). I then place that one side and carry on with the base and filling.

- Pie-in-the-Sky Signing off