cake pop

my version...
making a popsicle flavor cake...

Creamsicle Cake

okay...confession...

can't believe I haven't shared

just got a call from a friend requesting this recipe, and I searched and searched my blog and soon realized that I have yet to share this recipe with you guys...shame on me!
This is a family favorite...
   it took me a few years to get just the perfect flavor and texture...
so this is my personal recipe 
and YES, mom I know it has a LOT of sugar
but it is a SWEET corn bread 
(no southern corn bread for this family)...
Beau calls it my corn cake...
sweet enough that no honey is needed in the eating of it, just lots of buttah! 
     (unless of course you want it, whipped honey butter recipe follows!) 
Oh, and I always double and put in a 13 x9...but I understand that's a LOT of corn bread for most families! 
I also just made this recently and served it with Whipped Honey Butter...so very yummy! (recipe following)

Sweet Corn Bread
1/4 cup butter
1 cup milk
1 large egg
1 1/4 cup cornmeal
1 cup flour (also good with whole wheat, use it about half the time I make it, when I remember)
2/3 cup sugar
1 Tbs baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt

1. Grease bottom and sides of an 8x8 sq or 9" round pan or muffin tins. Preheat oven to 350.
2. In microwave safe bowl melt butter stir in milk and egg, Stir in remaining ingredients all at once just until it's all moistened; do not over mix, batter SHOULD be lumpy. Bake for 25-35 min until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean.


Whipped Honey Butter
Soften Butter-not melted
Honey
place as much softened butter as you want (at least 2 sticks, 1 cup) into a mixing bowl or kitchen aid mixer and mix using the whipping attachment (looks like a wire whisk) on med-med high slowly start adding honey 1 tsp at a time until butter is as sweet as you want.


this is great to serve with chili, soups, roasts, side dish for Thanksgiving...might make a good cornbread stuffing (but I personally don't like stuffing!).

Change of Plans

I made my weekly menu a mere 5 hours before dinner...how can it change so much in 5 short hours?!

Kids...it's always their fault right?...being on Christmas break the kids are stir crazy so when Madison invited a friend over to spend the night and then I extended the invitation to her friends younger brother so Wilson would have a friend...
how'd that change my dinner menu you might ask...I have a very strict policy with OUR kids, that I'm not a short order cook, that they might not LOVE what I've made for dinner, but I always make sure there is something on the table that they will eat...
Well, 2 new kids at the dinner table changes everything...
When asked, "What's for dinner?" about an hour before dinner time, I stated, "Potato Soup" and heard a chorus of, "NO," "do we have to," "YUCK," you get the idea...so even though I rarely change my dinner plans for my own picky kids, why make an entire meal when only two of the six people present will eat it...so they vetoed my plans...
(bummer too, it was Potato Soup weather today)
And they decided Pancakes for dinner...
well, actually they decided McDonalds for dinner, but when not one of the kids wanted to pay for it, they settled on pancakes...
and then, much to my chagrin, my husband suggest that I run to the store to buy his dad's secret pancake recipe...

(I have a HUGE desire to conquer the homemade pancake...
I have been working on it weekly for almost 5 years, every Saturday (almost) I wake up and prepare pancakes from scratch...
I know I can do it...
I have made some pretty good pancakes in the past 5 years...
I would venture to say, some Darn Good Pancakes...
regular...whole wheat...low fat...buttermilk...
pumpkin...blueberry...oatmeal...apple-butter...
but it never fails...
we visit the in-laws...
and my father-in-law breaks out the good ol' Krusteaz Buttermilk pancake mix...
and my husband reminds me that I just haven't reached Krusteaz perfection yet!)

so because I did need to run to the store anyways...
and because I love my husband...
and yes, because I just can't make a pancake as good as Krusteaz (YET!)...
I brought home a bag of the ChambersMade secret family pancake recipe mix...

But just because I can't leave good enough alone...I did some doctoring of the perfectly good Krusteaz...

ChambersMade Krusteaz Buttermilk Vanilla Pancakes
2 cups Krusteaz Buttermilk Pancake mix
1 1/2 cups water
and 2 tsp vanilla (because vanilla makes almost everything better)

Mix together; batter will be lumpy, and pour onto hot griddle (375) cook 1 1/4 minutes per side....
serve with little smokies sausage and orange juice....