I have the kiddo trained...

mrs.conn23

He perfectly bagged my groceries at the store.  I had two bottles of wine and he even knew to place one of the bottles in its own bag before putting them in a bag together. 

I think I'll keep him.  

Now I'm baking a yellow cake and I'm going to put chocolate frosting on it.  No flaxseed flour here. 

katorigasuki

mmmm frosting.

baconsmom

<drooling at my fave cake> Though come to think of it, I have a yellow cake mix. If only I knew how to make decent frosting.

Butter Cookie

baconsmom:

<drooling at my fave cake> Though come to think of it, I have a yellow cake mix. If only I knew how to make decent frosting.

Make ganache? It's the easiest thing in the world. 

 

mrsconn aren't you afraid you've turned your son into an alcoholic 4lyfe now that he's touched wine?!?!?!?!?!11?//?

 

Or, he has a promising career as a bag boy when he turns 15;-)

mrs.conn23

Butter Cookie:

 

mrsconn aren't you afraid you've turned your son into an alcoholic 4lyfe now that he's touched wine?!?!?!?!?!11?//?

 

Or, he has a promising career as a bag boy when he turns 15;-)

Yep, we're saving for his rehab fund now. 

I told DH if he keeps this up (the bagging) he won't need any training when he goes to work at Kroger.  

**O-Face**

What, no splenda?

baconsmom

Ganache isn't the same. Maybe it's like gravy - I just have to keep doing it until I figure out the problem. And hope it's not like pie crust, where the problem is my cold, dry hands.

*Candi*

baconsmom:

<drooling at my fave cake> Though come to think of it, I have a yellow cake mix. If only I knew how to make decent frosting.

 

I use this recipe except I use Ghirardelli cocoa powder.

 

"PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE" CHOCOLATE FROSTING

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
2/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. About 2 cups frosting.

baconsmom

TY, I will try that!

Butter Cookie

Very true, Bmom.

 In a quest to find an icing recipe for you I stumbled across a recipe for black walnut cake and now I'm drooling. 

*Candi*

Use a hand mixer, don't attempt to do it by hand.

GBCK

decent frosting isn't really hard, IMO.  Not onc eyou get the hang of it.  I just do buttercream 99.9% of the time and flavor it as I want...

1/4 c of cocoa powder and, wallah, chocolate buttercream.