Heidi’s Baking Fun Challenge – Puddings and Desserts

Puddings and desserts is the theme for this fortnight’s challenge at Heidi’s Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge!  I decided to make my famous ‘Lemon Sponge Puddings’!  I am mad about lemon...the smell and taste is delicious - add it to a dessert and it is absolutely wonderful!

Here is my recipe:

Lemon Sponge Puddings

Makes 8

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time: 30 Minutes

2 Lemons, 1 sliced and 1 zested and juiced

100g butter

100g castor sugar

2 eggs

150g self-raising flour

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Grease 8 timbale moulds or ramekins. Put a slice of lemon at the bottom of each. 2. Cream together butter and sugar, add the eggs one at a time, beating in between, then add flour with the lemon juice and zest. Mix and divide between the prepared moulds, filling each only halfway. 3. Turn out and serve with custard.

If I happen to make it into the top three recipes, then please would you hop over to Heidi’s blog and vote for me to win! Voting starts on Tuesday next week.

Blessings,

Kelly-Anne

Heidi’s Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge – Butterfly Cupcakes

Hello everyone!  This fortnight, Heidi’s baking challenge is ‘cupcakes’!  This is more my kind of thing as you can leave off the icing or use something else instead to make it not as sweet.  My sisters and my mom love sweet things, unlike dad and I, who love savoury food!

I decorated my Mom’s cupcake with extra cream on the wings as she loves it so much! I love to do extra special things for my dear mother, especially now, when she is mainly on her bed, feeling pretty lousy (Baby is due in 8 weeks time!!!)!

Beth made Princess Cupcakes the other day so she could also enter the baking challenge, and I decided to make Butterfly Fairy Cupcakes today.

Butterfly Cakes

Makes 24 small or 12 large cupcakes
 

125g butter

150g sugar

3 large free range eggs

5ml vanilla extract

210g cake flour

8ml baking powder

50ml rice milk

250ml cream, whipped

125ml strawberry jam

Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add vanilla extract.

Sift the cake flour and baking powder together. Add the dry ingredients alternatively with the milk. Mix together until smooth.

Fill cupcake liners until ¾ full. Bake in a preheated oven (180 degrees Celsius) for 10 – 15 minutes. Allow the cakes to cool.

Cut off the tops of the cupcakes to level them. Then cut out and remove a small hole in the centres of the cupcakes. Fill with strawberry jam and cover cupcake with a thick layer of cream. Cut the tops of the cupcakes in half and place the pieces upside down on the top of the filled cupcake to look like wings.

Using a piping bag to make the butterfly’s body, squeeze a long tube of strawberry jam between the two wings. Finish by sprinkling a bit of rainbow sugar crystals or some fairy glitter on the cake and you’re done!

These are special cakes decorated with strawberry jam and cream...I do confess that my one small weakness is strawberry jam and cream:D

Look what a yummy surprise is inside...

I just know you are going to love these cupcakes, Rebekah certainly did!

Please hop over to Heidi-Mari’s blog and see if you can enter her baking challenge – it is lots of fun and can be enjoyed by those with or without a blog, as you can enter via email!

Blessings,

Kelly-Anne

Heidi’s Fortnightly Fun Baking Challenge – Princess Cupcakes by Beth

My younger sister, Beth, age seven and I made ‘Princess Cupcakes’ this afternoon. She also wanted to enter Heidi’s baking challenge and I suggested she make cupcakes using a recipe from her beautiful book: ‘Cupcakes for Princesses’ which she got for Christmas last year. I’m entering on her behalf as I am going to make my own cupcakes tomorrow!

Vanilla Topped Cupcakes

Makes 12 large or 24 small cupcakes

For the cupcakes

100g butter, softened

100g castor sugar

2 eggs, lightly beaten

100g self raising flour, sifted

1 tbsp rice milk

For the topping

175g butter, softened

1 tsp vanilla extract

280g icing sugar

Pink food colouring, optional

Pink glitter or rainbow sugar crystals to decorate, optional

Turn on the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Put 12/24 paper cupcake cases in a muffin tin or put 12/24 double-layer paper cases on a baking tray.

Put the butter and sugar into a mixing bowl and beat together until light and fluffy. 

Gradually beat in the eggs.  

Sift in the flour and, using a metal spoon, fold into the mixture with the milk. 

Spoon the mixture into paper cases.

Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown and firm to the touch.  Remove from the oven and leave to cool for 5 minutes in the tin, then move to a wire rack to cool completely.

To make the icing, put the butter and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl and beat until pale and soft.

Gradually sift the icing sugar, beating well after each addition.

Spoon the icing into a piping bag and squeeze swirls onto the top of each cupcake.

Finish with some sprinkles of glitter!

There you are! Beautiful cupcakes fit for a princess!

Please hop over to Heidi’s blog and see if you can take part in her Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge – Cupcakes!

Blessings,

Kelly-Anne

Snapshot Saturday - Vintage and Monday Moments - Reflection

I love this photo which I took last year on Fish Hoek beach! (Click to enlarge picture)

   I took this picture the other day and I love the reflection of the clouds and the sky in the water! 

 Blessings,Kelly-Anne

Heidi's Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge - Chocolate!!!

Hello everyone, I have another recipe to show you for Heidi’s baking challenge!  This fortnight’s theme is: Chocolate!  What a wonderful theme for chocolate lovers!  I am not really a chocolate fan myself, but the rest of my family love treats, so I made Cappuccino and Milk Chocolate Chip Muffins – very decadent but so delicious!

Cappuccino and Milk Chocolate Chip Muffins

This recipe makes 12 muffins.

2 eggs

375ml buttermilk

5ml vanilla essence

180g butter, melted

100g milk chocolate, roughly chopped

65ml strong coffee

625ml self-raising flour
125ml castor sugar

45ml brown sugar

Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius. Combine eggs, buttermilk, vanilla essence, 150 melted butter, milk chocolate and strong coffee. Sift together the flour, castor sugar and mix to combine. Spoon into greased oversized muffin tray. Brush the remaining melted butter over top of muffins and sprinkle with brown sugar. Bake until a skewer inserted comes out clean, about 25-30 minutes.

If I should happen to be in the top three favourite recipes, please hop over to Heidi’s blog and vote for me! Hope you enjoy the muffins:)

Blessings,

Kelly-Anne

Click and Capture - Life

This is a very plain and simple picture but I love it!  Life and growth in my vegetable garden!

Blessings,

Kelly-Anne

Jesus Loves Me...

I belong to Jesus! I am His and He is mine – forever!

I know He loves me – He will love me forever!

My heart is His instrument; my life is His song...

All I have to do is take His hand – you can take it too!

I can ask Him anything anytime...

When I need Him, I pray – you can too, I mean it!

I belong to Him, as can you!

Jesus is my Saviour – forever and ever, Amen!

Entering this photo in Monday Moments – Letters/Words (click to enlarge image)

Blessings in Jesus name,

Kelly-Anne

Sensational Sewing Challenge - It's a Girl thing - Bags!!!

Hello everyone! It has been on my mind for quite a long time to start a sewing challenge on Beautiful Girlhood! Since I started sewing and realised just how much fun it actually is, I wanted to encourage more ladies, young and old to try! I ran this by my loving Mother and she thought it an excellent idea!

This will be a monthly challenge, since sewing takes much longer. I will post the month’s theme the first day of every month and then you will have till the last day of the month to enter. 

I will choose the top three entries and the winner will be chosen randomly.  Each finalist will receive a fun button for their blog.  I will post the finalists the next day with the new challenge theme.

The rules are very simple – the aim of this challenge is just to have fun and enjoy creating and sharing things!

Create a post on your blog with at least 1 photo of your finished product. If you have found your pattern on a website or blog, then please give a link to that website or blog.

If you don’t have a blog, you can e-mail your entry to me, that way more people can enjoy playing along!

Please link back to my blog so that others may enter too!

Become a follower if you aren’t already!

You can enter more than once, but with a different project each time!

Leave your link with InLinks – please note that you must leave a direct link to your post so that I can find it easily and leave you some love!!

This challenge is open to anyone of any age, so even if you are a mother, a grandmother or a little girl you can still enter!

But now, on to the first challenge and that challenge is:

It’s a Girl thing – Bags!

You can make any bag of any shape, size or colour! You could even do a search on the internet for bag patterns and tutorials. Don’t feel you have to come up with your own design; there are hundreds of free designs on the web!

Here are my examples:

I made a patchwork handbag for Beth who turned seven years old on Friday the 22nd of July!  She loved her bag so much and went out with it that evening!

Beth looked so cute with her bag! 

I also made a ‘Just like Mommy Purse’ for Rebekah and Gabrielle.  I found the pattern on Gluesticks.

Madam R loved her bag and wore it around her neck the whole afternoon – its cool having a big sister!

I made this bag for Miss Gabrielle. I just love the material!

The inside material is so funky! I also added a felt flower to the front of the bag this time because it was a bit plain!

I hope you can enter my challenge this month and please spread the word to other bloggers and sewers! I can’t wait to see your girly bags!!

Blessings,
Kelly-Anne

Challenge closes on Wednesday, the 31 of August.