Sunday, July 3, 2011

Chocolate Cake shake

Today with my left over Portillo's Chocolate cake, I made a chocolate cake shake!

I took one slice of the cake and then added a few scoops of vanilla ice cream and some milk in a blender and then blended it till it was shake consistency!

I don't have a picture, but it is a good idea to eat up the rest of you cake :) and it tastes delicious!

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Portillo's Chocolate Cake.

So today I was really craving some Portillo's Chocolate cake, so I looked online and found a very easy recipe. It turned out delicious! It tasted exactly like the one from Portillo's.

Preheat the oven to 350.

In a large bowl combine:
Betty Crocker devil's food cake mix
3 eggs
1 cup ice cold water
1 cup mayonnaise

Stir that together for at least two minutes or until there are no lumps. Grease and flour two 9 in. pans and divide the batter into the two. Bake them for 30 minutes or until you can pull a toothpick out clean. let them cool for at least one hour before putting the frosting on. For the frosting you use two cans of the Betty Crocker chocolate frosting. Spread that in between  and all around the cakes. You can eat it just by itself, or you can add some ice cream, whatever you want!




It might not look super pretty, but it is really good :)

PANCAKES!

So it is Saturday today so I decided to give you guys the recipe for my dad's famous Buttermilk Pancakes. They're pretty easy and they are made completely by scratch. He has made these every Saturday for at least 19 years now and I never get tired of them. Instead of syrup, i like to put strawberry freezer jam on top of them, but sometimes i like just eating them with butter and syrup :).

In a large bowl stir together:
4 1/4 cups flour
4 tsp. suger
4 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. salt

In another bowl, whisk together:
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking soda
4 cups buttermilk

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ones and mix till most of the clumps are out, then add 1/4 cup  canola oil. heat up a pan and melt some butter on it so that the pancakes won't stick to the pan. Two spoonfuls is enough for one pancake so put as many as you can on the pan and enjoy! It will make a lot, so unless you have a big family, you will most likely have leftovers. In my family we just refrigerate the batter till the next day and then make more!



These are the pancakes with strawberry freezer jam on :) yum!