For mikey. How to Increase Your Local Business Facebook Reach in Minutes a Day. Small local businesses and many nonprofit organizations have unique challenges in online marketing, largely due to their restricted budgets. Facebook is a marketing platform many believe, at first, to be “free.” As they inevitably learn, nothing in life or business is free. Facebook, especially, can be a time-suck and a business owner’s time is money. Without the budget for Facebook ads or a professional social media manager, it’s challenging to build a base of engaged local fans.
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Get Your Current Customers on Board. Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake | alexandra's kitchen. I swear buttermilk is magic. I’ve dwelled on this before. Buttermilk seems to turn everything to gold. Super-moist, super-delicious gold. Anyway, I needed a simple, summery, breakfasty, cake-like-but-not-dessert-like recipe to make this morning. One of Ben’s friends had crashed here last night, and I thought it only appropriate to treat him to a proper breakfast. In other words, I was craving sugar and carbs. Nobody. Buttermilk-Blueberry Breakfast Cake Ingredients ½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature 2 tsp. lemon zest or more — zest from 1 large lemon 7/8 cup* + 1 tablespoon sugar** 1 egg, room temperature 1 tsp. vanilla 2 cups flour (set aside 1/4 cup of this to toss with the blueberries) 2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. kosher salt 2 cups fresh blueberries ½ cup buttermilk**** 7/8 cup = 3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons** This 1 tablespoon is for sprinkling on top*** To make homemade buttermilk, place 1 tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice in a liquid measuring cup.
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Autumn Delight Cake. So it turns out this cake has more ingredients than any cake I have ever made! And when I started to write the cake description in the blog title, I realized that there are 18 words and two ampersands in the name. Yep. Okay, ready? The Autumn Delight cake is a 4-Layer Sweet Potato & Ginger Layer Cake with Toasted Marshmallow Filling, Candied Pecans and Brown Sugar & Cinnamon Buttercream. What I love about this recipe is how moist, creamy, and unexpected some of the elements are. So think about it this way: Every bite is crunchy, then brown sugar creamy, then dense, moist & spicy, then sweet and crispy, oh, and then crunchy, and then dense, moist & spicy, and then sweet and crispy, and oh, yet again crunchy, then dense, moist & spicy, then, alas, sweet and crispy, and then dense, moist & spicy.
If the sweet potato thing is throwing you off your dessert-loving game, well, don’t fear. Ingredients For the Cake Layers: For the Filling: For the Buttercream: For the Candied Pecans: Instructions. Darkest Chocolate Crepe Cake. Cake Batter Cinnamon Rolls. So… I didn’t just make one outrageous cinnamon roll last weekend. I clearly made two. I think this is the end of the cake batter era. Unless I come up with something even more ridiculous to create with a cake batter flavor, I’m pretty cake battered out. Even the glaze is a cake batter glaze!
These are just as simple as the regular cinnamon rolls, and perhaps simpler than the cookie dough stuffed version. In all of this cake batter madness I’ve had going on lately, there is one thing I haven’t been able to master: the cake batter flavor without the actual cake mix! So these tasted just how they look – over the top. Holy sugar rush. Of course I find them wildly fun with all of the sprinkles going on. [print_this] Cake Batter Cinnamon Rolls rolls recipe from The Pioneer Woman (with a few additions) makes 4 pans of cinnamon rolls 2 cups whole milk 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1/2 cup sugar 1 package dry yeast (or 2 1/4 teaspoons) 4 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda. How to Make Marshmallow Fondant. This time I decided to make it with those mini fruit flavored marshmallows. I had to sort them by colour first. I figured they would add a little bit of flavor to the fondant so I wouldn't have to add much flavoring oil.
I use gel colours to dye my fondant but regular food colouring will work too. You won't be able to get really dark colours without making your fondant sticky, but for lighter colours you can just even it out with more icing sugar. I also had lemon oil and coconut flavoring on hand.. oh la la the value brand (which still works fine). Step One: Take a couple of handfuls of marshmallows and put them in a microwave safe bowl. I like to make smaller batches because its easier to add the colour to the melted marshmallow than it is to work the colour into the fondant later.
Step Two: Stick the marshmallows in the microwave for ten seconds at a time until the are puffed up and easily stir into a goo with a wooden spoon. Step Three: Step Four: Fondant with the icing sugar kneaded in. Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies « Betchacanteatjustone's Blog. This just may be my new favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie. It’s made with butter AND cream cheese. It’s dense, chewy, chocolatey and very delicious.
I had half a package of cream cheese that needed to be used up and I really wanted chocolate chip cookies so I figured surely there must be a recipe… a quick google blog search led me to baking blonde and a really delicious recipe that’s definitely being added to my regular cookie repertoire! Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe from BakingBlonde 4 oz cream cheese, softened (recipe called for 5-6 but I only had 4)3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled1 cup brown sugar1/2 cup granulated sugar2 tsp vanilla extract1/2 tsp baking soda1/2 tsp salt2 cups plus 3 tbsp all purpose flour1 1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and line baking sheets with parchment Cream together the butter, cream cheese and sugars until light and fluffy.
Sift together dry ingredients and then add them to the butter mixture. Enjoy! 25 Days of Christmas Cookies Christmas at Epicurious. Angry Cherry :: a baking & food blog. Cake Challenge {Wiltons Grass Tip} You guys aren't messin around. When I placed the idea out there.. the idea that I would create three different cakes from one decorators tip...
I had NO idea what I was thinking. The most commonly requested tip was Wiltons #233. The grass tip. Most commonly used to make grass. Grass. And nothing else. I was stumped. I didn't even own one. (actually, I bought four, which really helped when decorating all these cakes!) I wanted to make sure all these cakes served a purpose, so this cake is for some friends that just welcomed another baby into their lives. I held the tip at a 90 degree angle, applied pressure and make slight circles with the tip.
While I will never claim to be an artist (I have too much respect for the people that are!) I hope its self explanatory, but if not, here is my very technical descriptions. I took the frosting and made swirly lines and stuff. And while I can honestly tell you that all of these cakes are very easy to execute, this was probably the easiest. And my favorite.
Strawberry Torte. Nutella Mug Cake. Bring Your Child's Favorite Characters to Life with These Disney-Themed Lunches Healthy Mickey-Shaped PB&J Muffins: A Breakfast the Whole Family with Love A Yummy Instant Pot Chicken and Rice Recipe Even the Pickiest Eaters Will Love This 3-Ingredient Coffee Fudge Is the Best Morning Pick-Me-Up. The Perfect Crusting Buttercream. I use this recipe when making my rose cake, my hydrangea cake, or any cake that I want the frosting to be able to hold its shape!
This makes quite a bit, but can be refrigerated quite easily. Crusting Buttercream 1 bag powder sugar (two pounds or about eight cups) 1 cup shortening (I used original Crisco) 1 tsp vanilla extract (use clear if want white frosting) 1/2 cup - 3/4 cup milk Cream shortening and vanilla in mixer for 2-4 minutes. Enjoy! *Some people seem to get very upset that I call this frosting a buttercream. I dont have a much better answer.
Muffins & cupcakes.