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).
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