Tuesday Tutorial~ Crock Pot Hot Fudge Spoon Cake

     When Christmas Day was canceled for me with family, I decided to up my sugar level and treat myself to something sweet. I'd been admiring a recipe I had found in a Christmas book my sister had given me a few years ago.

 

So I got out my small crock pot I had found that was the perfect size for just me.  Turns out, it was actually really the perfect size for this recipe.

 

I hope you enJOY it like I did.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From the book: Gooseberry Patch Christmas, Book 12

 

 I wondered why the word patience was on this page.

After waiting 2 hours for this cake like I did,

you will understand as well.

1 C all purpose flour

1 C brown sugar

3 T  baking cocoa

2 t baking powder

1/4 t salt

1/2 C milk

2 T melted butter

1/2 t vanilla extract

 

MIX

Place above mixture in bottom of crock pot

Combine

3/4 C brown sugar

1/4 C baking cocoa

Sprinkle above powder mixture

over the batter in the crock pot.

Do NOT mix.

SLOWLY pour 1 and 3/4 C HOT water

over the powdered mixture

so as to keep the powdered mixture

evenly spread over the batter.

DO NOT STIR

Cover 

Cook on high setting 2 hours.

Toothpick inserted one inch deep

comes out clean. 

Oh how I wished for some vanilla ice cream 

or whipped cream

for this warm 

hot fudge spoon cake.

It did taste great with my 

well creamed coffee.

Happy cozy Merry Christmas 

Me

on a -31° day.

Absolutely yummy.

 

Tip: Use the best quality baking chocolate powder

for that is the success of the best taste of course.
 




 

 

 

Fun Fri~ Mending Quilt BooBoo

    

         Call me crazy, but yes taking on the challenge of repairing a booboo on a QOV quilt is something I like to do.  You have permission to call me a geek on so many things: weather predictions, computers or rather electronics in general and tearing things apart made from fabrics and finding out how they are made. 

 

         In this repair I was able to use my knowledge I had acquired recently when learning how to hand stitch hexies. The corner of the quilt was accidentally cut while taking it off the long arm quilting frame. The quilter tried to make repairs.

         So, here is a montage of shots taken during my process.

Batting hand stitched back together

Tues Tutorial~ 2022 Christmas Cards

       Every year I have made the Christmas cards to hand out at church.  Here is this year's card and the process I used to create them.  

 

       You could say it is an upcycled project because a piece of a shear curtain was used to make these cards. enJOY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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To start designing the card,

  pieces of paper the size of the card

were used

 for designing space.

 

 The size of the star was determined 

and drawn 

as well as determining the size of fabric needed.

 

I spent far more time than I imagined

just drawing a simple star that would be stitched.

I poked holes at the intersections,

so they could be marked on the card

with a heat sensitive pen.

As my sketched design above determined,

a larger than 3 inch wide blue strip

 and a larger than 2 inch wide white (shear curtain) strip were

cut, overlapped and stitched.

The stitching was rough to imitate 

a snow scenery.

 Pieces were roughly cut larger than the 

folded card stock

that was cut from half sheet of card stock.

The star imagine was laid on top of the card

and the heat sensitive pen

marked in the holes.
 

 

Then I was able to stitch from one hole to another

without drawn lines.

A gold top thread and white bobbin thread were used.

My spools of gold thread were bought way back

several years ago.

I hear the thread is better quality these days.

I had it to shred a few times.

I quickly learned not to let my thread cutter

cut the thread, and instead

pull the thread away from machine and cut.

This enabled the machine to start with longer threads

which it liked doing better.

When the thread shread and broke,

it was better to do a total rethread.

Yes, it was a bit fussy,

but the job was done patiently.

The card was then trimmed of excess fabric.

The free Open Office Word processor

was used

creating 3 columns

to make the following

Bible verse to sew on the card.

 

The piece of paper with the Bible verse was stitched 

across the top and bottom in white thread.

After the black dots were ironed away,

then the card was closed and stitched

around all four edges in white thread

making the card become like a post card that

would not need an envelope.

 Do you know how hard it is to 

photography sheer fabric

without it looking blurred?