How To Make Brown Soup Stock

A good soup always starts with a good stock, so I think it is important to know how to make your own stock as it is always tastier than the stock you buy. If you have a pot such as the Cuisinart Classic Stockpot, you will be itching to try this recipe.

Ingredients:

• 6 lbs. shin of beef
• 3 quarts cold water
• 1/2 cup each of diced celery, carrots, turnips and onions (a food processor such as the Cuisinart 11 Cup Pro Custom 11 Food Processors, will come in handy here!)
• 1/2 teaspoon peppercorns
• 6 cloves
• 1/2 bay leaf
• 2 sprigs parsley
• thyme and marjoram to taste
• 1 tablespoon salt

Method:

1. Wash the meat and cut into small pieces
2. Brown half the meat in a hot frying pan in morrow from a marrow-bone
3. Put the rest of the meat with the bone and fat into your stock pot
4. Add the water
5. Let it stand for 30 minutes to extract the meat juices
6. Put on the stove and add the browned meat and heat gradually to boiling point
7. Remove scum as it rises
8. Cover and cook slowly for 6 hours at simmering point
9. Add vegetables and seasonings
10. Cook for another hour and a half
11. Strain and cool as quickly as possible

Tasty Loaf Cake Recipe

If you are having a birthday party coming for you little girl, you may be looking for easy recipes to bake the birthday cake with. Well here is an easy "loaf cake" that is obviously in the form of a bread loaf. It may seem a funny shape, but with a little imagination it can become a very pretty birthday cake.

Disney Princess Parties are very popular and as you will be able to get all the Disney Princess Party Supplies online, you only have to bake this loaf, a few other snacks and drinks and you are all set to go.

To bake this cake an electric beater, such as the Cuisinart SM-55 5-1/2-Quart Stand Mixers, is vital.

Here is the recipe for the tasty loaf cake:

Ingredients:

• 4oz butter
• 4oz sugar (1cup)
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 11/2 cup flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Method:

1. Add all the ingredients to the bowl of your mixer.
2. Mix at a high speed until creamy
3. Pour into a lined and greased tin of 8"x 5"x4"
4. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 55 minutes to 1 hour.

What can be easier? So not you can wholly concentrate on the rest of the Disney Princess Party and the cake is taken care of. Remember, with all the other snacks the kids never eat that much of the birthday cake so you do not have to bake a very big cake.

Cake Decorating 101

If you have seen television shows like “Ace of Cakes” or “Cake Boss,” you know how time-consuming decorating a cake can be. Chances are you’re not interested in creating elaborate cakes like those on television but you would like to learn something more than merely frosting a cake. Cake decorating is an art, but luckily it is one you can learn with some practice.

The main items required for cake decorating include:

• Pastry bag with plastic couplers
• Decorating tips in assorted shapes
• Offset and straight icing spatulas
• Lazy Susan or rotating cake stand
• Food coloring to tint icing

If you’ve never really decorated cakes before, you may not know what some of these items are. Here are the explanations to help you.

The pastry bag is the container used for icing. Attached to the bag is a plastic coupler which enables you to change decorating tips and use the same icing. Scoop icing into the pastry bag with a spatula but don’t overfill it. In fact, if you fill it much more than half full you could have problems.

Decorating tips come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Normally you can purchase a decorating tips kit with three to four plastic tips. However, if you’re serious about learning cake decorating you’ll want to invest in the metal tips. They can be found in different shapes including round for piping and detail outlining, leaf, drop flower, ruffle, basket weave, rose and various specialty tips.

The offset and straight spatulas are a cake decorator’s best friends. You’ll use the spatulas for preparing the icing base for the rest of the decorations to adhere to. If the base isn’t done correctly, you may find the decorations slipping off. Of course, it also helps that you have the right butter cream recipe for the icing; it has to be the correct consistency for decorating.

A lazy Susan or rotating cake stand can make or break your decorations. These items will allow you to rotate the cake without much effort, which means you can keep the correct pressure on the pastry bag. When you have the correct pressure on the pastry bag you can feel sure the decorations will look uniform.

Food coloring is an optional tool but one that many cake decorators use. When you’re making a good butter cream icing it will be a pale yellow or off-white in color. You may decide your cake needs some punch. Adding food coloring sparingly until you reach the desired shade while you’re making the icing will give you the colors of the rainbow to choose from.

Some other items you may want to purchase and have on hand include edible decorating pens. These are pens filled with food coloring and have a paintbrush type of tip. This type of tool is great if you don’t feel comfortable piping words on a cake yet. Since the pen is made from food coloring, the “ink” is completely edible.

Marzipan is a confection made of ground almonds, egg whites and sugar. It can be rolled out like to cover a cake completely or molded into various shapes. Fondant is another way to achieve a perfectly iced cake. Depending upon where you live you may be able find pre-made marzipan items and tubs of fondant in bakeries or cake decorating shops.

Maybe you’ve never thought about cake decorating. It is something you can learn either by trial and error or by taking lessons. Once you know how, you’ll be able to make beautiful cakes.

Tasty Orange Pudding

I love orange pudding and I am convinced you family and guests will love it as well. Making this pudding with a Hamilton Beach Stand Mixer 63220 is as easy as can come as you can mix the dough in the Hamilton Beach Stand Mixer 63220 all the way.

Orange Pudding:

Dough Ingredients:

• ¾ cup flour
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup milk
• 2 ozs. Butter
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon apricot jam or syrup
• ½ bicarbonate of soda
• ½ teaspoon grated Lemon rind
• 1 Egg

Method:

1. Cream the eggs and sugar
2. Add the melted butter
3. Add the rest of the ingredients except the bicarbonate of soda and milk
4. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the milk
5. Add the milk mixture

Syrup Ingredients:

• 1 cup water
• ½ cup sugar
• Pinch of salt
• ½ cup orange juice
• 1 heaped teaspoon of butter

Method:

1. Boil the ingredients and pour into a deep oven dish
2. Pour the dough into the syrup
3. Bake at once in an oven of 350-375 degrees Fahrenheit for about 20-25 minutes until done (ovens differ, you will have to experiment a little here)
4. Serve with custard and cream

So, grab your Hamilton Beach Stand Mixer 63220 and start experimenting with this recipe.