One of our favorite places to be is in the kitchen. We love to bake and cook and it all stemmed from our mom's passion of cooking. She would find a recipe that she loved, and then make it all year long. We used to say, "That was the year of the cheesecakes" or "That was the year of cinnamon rolls." Some of our fondest memories revolve around cooking together in the kitchen. We love to get together as family and contribute our best recipes for the meal. And we are constantly calling each other saying, "You've got to try this recipe!" We'd like to share our favorite recipes with you. So, happy cooking, happy baking, happy eating, and then happy exercising afterwards to burn those calories!


Thursday, November 3, 2011

Birthday Cake Frosting

Birthdays have always been a big deal to us. Our mom would make us a poster out of butcher paper and hang it in the dining room. She'd decorate our bedroom door with balloons and streamers. She'd make us a special breakfast. We loved our birthdays! This recipe is for my favorite birthday cake frosting. I love it paired up with just a simple yellow cake mix. It also tastes great as the filling for chocolate chip cookie tarts and sugar cookie tarts.

Birthday Cake Frosting

INGREDIENTS:

- 1 1/2 cup Crisco

- 2 lb. powdered sugar

- 1/2 cup water

- 1/2 tsp. salt

- 1 tsp. vanilla

(I cut the recipe in half if I am decorating cupcakes. That would be enough for 24 cupcakes. But if you are doing a cake that is two 9-inch circle layers, the full recipe is good because there's plenty to put in between the two layers, and frost the entire top, sides and if you are talented in making flowers and petals [which I'm not], then there's plenty for that.)


DIRECTIONS:

Cream all ingredients at high speed for 3 minutes. This is the best type of icing for decorating cakes. To thin down the icing for writing and borders, add a few drops of liquid. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Whip up before using the second time.

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