Your Favorite Cake Recipes.

If you eat fast food every day for lunch, try replacing that even half of the time by having it just every other day. When you start by taking small steps, it does not seem like you are cutting out all of the foods you love and you can take your time to learn about healthy foods which, believe it or not, you can love equally as well.Keep junk foods and beverages out of your house so that you will not be tempted to snack during the day.With healthy eating, you can manager your life better. Who would not agree to that old adage – health is wealth. You can enjoy life when you are disease-free and you are able to lead an active life. Proper diet and adding good exercise can keep many diseases at bay. If the body gets what it requires, the immune system gets revitalized and is stronger in fighting off infections and free radicals in the body. With a healthy immune system, your body recovers faster if you get ill for some reasons.

Feeling like they’re caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to quick and easy cooking, many people turn to highly processed and frozen meals to feed themselves and their families. Despite more takeaways and instant foods today more than ever, we are also witnessing today the era of healthy living through the rise of cooking shows featuring healthy recipes and cooking for your kitchen. What makes these shows truly amazing is the fact that it brings back something very important that was lost in our modern society and that is cooking our own foods at our very own kitchen.

Cook at home.Home cooking provides a better control of food and noticeably reduces consumption of trans fat, sugar, salt, and numerous food additives. Commercially prepared foods like hamburgers, hot dogs, fried potatoes, chips, cakes, and crackers are probably the biggest source of trans fats in our diet. Make your own pizzas, burgers, cakes and other things you like. It takes more time, but your own health is worth it, isn’t it?

Cooking at home also provides a more relaxed,laid back,slower

atmosphere for the meal.Joy is a wonderful anti-aging remedy, so enjoy and savor your food! When you eat slowly, you taste the food more and you are satisfied with less. Eating slowly gradually reduces your appetite right from the time you start to eat. And recently Japanese researches confirmed this. They found that eating fast is strongly associated with obesity and increased body mass index (BMI).

Going out to McDonalds or to Burger King can be an expensive business, especially if you have a few kids with you.

There is an alternative though. You can make your favourite dishes yourself. You will be surprised how easy it is to cook great meals in your own kitchen, after you learn the secrets.

Once you master some of the secrets you can save yourself time and money by cooking your own restaurant meals at home.The positive thing to cooking at home is that it’s made with all KNOWN ingredients and your not surprised by what ends up in your dish or what ends up on your waistline.

The hard part about cooking at home is that you sometimes find yourself at a loss for what to make. So you scramble through the cupboards trying to please the whole family with something interesting but everyone responds with “no I don’t like that” or “no thats boring” or “no we had that 2 days ago”. Well,now can we start creating those famous restaurant recipes and prepare a nice meal out of it?

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Any quick, simple and original cake/biscuit recipes that I can use for the MacMillan Coffee morning on Friday?

you did say quick and easy…..add 2 cups sugar…2 cups all purpose flour …2 tsp baking soda…2 eggs 1 tbsp vanilla 1 can (20 oz ) crushed pineapple…1 cup chopped pecans…pour into a 9 by 13 pan ungreased…bake 350 for 40 to 45 mins cool completely ..frost with cream cheese frosting……this is quick and easy and delicous,,,, PINEAPPLE PECAN CAKE

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That day you’ve secretly feared since you started decorating cakes is quickly approaching. You’ve been asked to make a wedding cake – a five tiered, stacked wedding cake! And it’s for your sister’s wedding!

As you go over designs with your sister by day, you dream about the cake at night. The cake in your dreams is taller than any cake you’ve even seen. As bride and groom pose for the cake cutting ceremony pictures, you look on as each tier slowly sinks into the one beneath it, and just as your sister and her new husband smile and begin to slice their first piece of cake, the force of gravity and the domino effect take hold and the cake implodes.

All four top tiers sink into the bottom tier, turning a once majestic beauty into a giant pile of fondant covered cake rubble! (And then you wake up, covered in sweat, only to realize that this dream could actually become reality.)

But wait! This nightmare does not have to become reality. And no, you won’t have to add therapist bills to your cake budget to get through your big project. These sorts of nightmares are normal for first time wedding cake makers. Beyond a healthy amount of butterflies, you have absolutely nothing to fear if you follow these tips.

Stacked Wedding Cake Construction 101

Unlike wedding cakes with tiers that are separated by plates and pillars, the tiers on a stacked wedding cake appear to rest directly on top of one another. This is just an illusion since the cakes actually rest on a system of hidden pillars and plates. To stack a multi-tiered cake without plates and pillars is a very risky proposition with the weight of each cake.

Stacked cakes of more than 4 layers need some sort of support in the form of plates, spikes and/or dowels to keep the upper layers from sinking into the lower layers.

So whether your wedding cake will be stacked Victorian style (graduating round tiers) or à la chic with fondant covered gift-box style tiers, here are the basics:

To create a perfectly constructed tower rather than an experiment on the effects of gravity on cake and icing, you can either use a purchased set of cake plates and spikes, or you can build your own system using cardboard cake plates and dowels.

To build your own system, pick up some 1/4-3/8-inch round cake dowels (or other food safe wooden dowels) and a hammer (yes, even if you flunked high school Woodshop) and follow these tips:

1. Plan the dowels’ placement by centering a cake plate the size of the next cake to be placed on top of the bottom cake, and then marking the spot by pressing down gently on the plate.

2. Within the boundaries of these markings, insert four evenly spaced dowels. Insert the first dowel straight down through to the bottom of the cake and mark the dowel even with the top of the cake. Pull out the dowel and, using wire cutters, cut off at the mark. Cut three more the same height. Then push the dowels straight down into the cake in the places you marked so that they form a square inside the circle. (Be sure the dowels are perfectly even with the top of the cake for the best support.)

3. Place your next smaller tier on a round cake board of the same size, and then place it on top of the bottom tier. The dowels will prevent the top tier from sinking into the bottom tier.

4. Measure the next set of dowels from the bottom of the bottom cake to the top of the top cake. Cut the dowel at an angle to taper the end and cut it so that it is just slightly shorter than the height of the two bottom cakes. Insert the dowels tapered end first straight down through the cake. When the dowel stops at the first cake board, give it a firm tap with the hammer to break through the board down to the bottom of the cake. To prevent the hammer from landing in the icing, place another small section of dowel end to end with the measured dowel to hammer it into position.

5. Finally, ice over the little blemish to hide the tip of the dowel, and your tower construction is finished! You can rest easy knowing that your wedding cake is stable enough to withstand the forces of gravity. No more nightmares!

These stress relieving tips are courtesy of “Cake Decorating Made Easy!” Volume 2, which is available at http://www.CakesMadeEasy.com.

Finally, here’s one more tip:

Not all cakes have the buoyancy and mass needed to support the weight of multiple cake tiers stacked one on top of the other, even with the support of cake plates and dowels. So for the wedding cake of your dreams (not nightmares), use a tried and true wedding cake recipe such as a fruit cake, butter cake, dense carrot cake or any of the wedding cake recipes in “Cake Decorating Made Easy!“

Samantha Mitchell, Co-Author Cake Decorating Made Easy! Vol. 1 & 2 The World’s First Cake Decorating Video Books For more stress relieving cake decorating tips along with step by step videos, sign up for our free newsletter at http://www.CakeAnswers.com

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