Easter Recipe Card, Jello Cake Recipe, and Delicious Frosting Recipe

My family loves to celebrate Easter. Like Christmas, here in our home on Maui, we love to make special sweets, color eggs, and get the adults get so excited about hiding the eggs and then watching the children hunt for them and to see their excited faces when they find one, especially if it’s the Golden Egg,cause then they know they’re gonna get some money. It’s all fun and light but we do remember why this holiday became renowned and we just keep it at that.

Food, every holiday is something that we enjoy planning, making, and setting out on the table and then last but not least…eating! Our family, like probably most families, really enjoy dessert and sometimes we end up eating dessert before the main meal just so’s we make sure we have room in our tummy’s!

One year my children and I made a funfetti cake and it turned out so cute that no one wanted to eat it and ruin the cake! My children were the ones that decorated it…it was sweeeet!

A recipe I really think goes well with almost all holidays but especially Christmas and Easter is the jello cake. It’s fairly easy to make. Just get a box of cake mix and prepare as directed. After the cake is baked let it cool down and then poke holes in the cake. Mix the jello as directed and pour over the top of the cake then put in the refrigerator to set the jello. When the jello is set you can add frosting. For the frosting you can use whipped cream (add food coloring to the whipped cream if you like) or you can use this recipe which I just found this morning:

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That’s the best frosting I’ve ever tasted!

* 1 cup Milk
* 5 Tablespoons Flour
* 1 teaspoon Vanilla
* 1 cup Butter
* 1 cup Granulated Sugar (not Powdered Sugar!)

Preparation Instructions

Bake your favorite chocolate cake and let it cool.

In a small saucepan, whisk flour into milk and heat, stirring constantly, until it thickens. Remove from heat and let it cool to room temperature. (If I’m in a hurry, I place the saucepan over ice in the sink for about 10 minutes or so until the mixture cools.) Stir in vanilla.

While the mixture is cooling, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Then add the cooled milk/flour/vanilla mixture and beat until it all combines and resembles whipped cream.

Grab a spoon and taste this wonderful goodness. If there is any left after your taste test, spread it on a cooled chocolate cake. Cut yourself a piece and put it on a pretty plate. Grab a fork and prepare to experience the most divine pairing you can imagine. This frosting on chocolate cake is to die for. Sure, the recipe sounds strange — it has flour in it — but it’s sublime. Try it, you’ll see. You’ll love it so much you won’t go back.

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Oh k here’s the recipe card. To use it just right click on the photo and save it to your desktop, documents, or on a USB.

If you want to print the recipe directly on the recipe card open it up in Paint.net and use the Text to write any recipe on the card before printing (that is if you don’t want to print the recipe manually).

Blue Hawaii, Elvis Presley, and Aloha Shirts

I just recently added a Natural Maui aStore to my Natural Maui site/blog because I wanted to offer my viewers books, movies, and other things they can use to further their research on any of the products I have to offer at Natural Maui.

An astore is a store hosted by Amazon.com and is free to use after you sign up. It’s awesome because if you have a niche, such as I have, you can do this, offer your viewers books, movies, audio cd’s, apparel, the list is endless as to what you can offer your viewers. Then, on top of that…Amazon.com will pay you a commission and that’s really another main reason I joined. It is another way to make some extra money for all of us stay at home, work at home moms.

There are loads and loads of items you can add to your aStore with different categories and sub-categories you can add to your pages.

I’ve added these categories:

Sea Glass

Hawaiian Print Aloha Shirts

and

Hawaii
with the islands as subcategories.

Of particular interest to me is the movie “Blue Hawaii” filmed in 1961 starring the King!…Elvis Presley. I remember watching this movie when I was little and being so in Love with Elvis Presley and Ann Margaret and Annette Funicello.

This among many other factors, but this is one I’m sure was a major factor in helping along the popularity of the Hawaiian print Aloha shirt. His popularity was unsurpassed in those days. I don’t only give him the credit, there were many many more before him, good looking guys, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, all those heavy hitters that gave the Hawaiian print Aloha shirt it’s popularity so enjoyed today by many of the artists who create prints for material and many of the many makers of Hawaiian print Aloha shirts.

The offshoots of all of this popularity are us little guys, the stay at home moms and work at home moms that take these specialty items and resell, used or new condition, on places like eBay or on places like a wordpress.com site/blog using PayPal as the only way to pay.

For this I am very grateful and am sure to express this gratefulness in humble prayer to Ke Akua for allowing me many different ways to make a living while staying home to raise my children instead of working my butt off for a company making just enough to pay for child care anyway!