Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns, Hot Cross Buns
One a penny, two a penny
Hot Cross Buns!
The girls have been listening to nursery rhymes on Starfall and I thought it would be fun to make hot cross buns. Apparently Hot Cross Buns are a spiced English bun traditionally served at Easter time. The recipe we used is from this site. I'm just going to put down what we did
Dough
2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
3/4 cup warm milk
3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup plus 1 teaspoon granulated white sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
4 Tbsp butter, softened
2 eggs, room temperature (if taking right out of the fridge, let sit in warm water for a few minutes to take the chill off before using)
3/4 cup dried cranberries (you're supposed to use currants and maybe chopped candied citrus peel but having neither of these on hand we just used dried cranberries)
Egg Wash
1 egg
1 Tbsp milk
Frosting
1 teaspoon milk
3 to 4 Tbsp powdered sugar
Mix together the dough and let it rise. Shape into little rolls. You can cut crosses in the top but I found that very hard to do for some reason. Brush with egg wash (this makes them nice and shiny!) and let rise again. Bake at 400. The other recipe said to bake 10-12 minutes but we ended up baking them closer to 20. I'm not sure if its just my oven or what. Take out and let cool.
Put frosting ingredients in a ziplock bag. Mush them together to make the frosting, adding powder sugar until it's a nice thick consistency. Cut off one corner of the ziplock bag and squeeze out frosting crosses on the rolls.
We thought these were pretty good, though the girls were reluctant to eat the cranberries. Also, they were a bit dense because my dough wasn't rising for some reason.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Ring Around the Rosies
It's fun that there are more of us now and we can get a decent sized ring.
Vivian loves Ring Around the Rosies so much, she plays it by herself.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Princess Hairstyles
We've been trying out some princess hairstyles at this site my sister recommended: http://www.princesshairstyles.com/
This is my favorite: simple, easy and pretty.
They do make for some awesome post-do styles too:
Cardboard Playhouse
With all the cardboard we had on hand, the girls begged me to make a playhouse. So here is our attempt.
Once put together, we painted it!
Sadly, it wasn't very sturdy and it eventually collapsed.
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