Super Sized Giveaway!

I am excited to tell you about the new BIG giveaway! This time we have 3 items!

First, we have a cute honey jar just like mine. Please click here to learn more about it.

Second, we have the practical vegetable slicer with a guard that will make your live easier. It works well for slicing firm vegetables like cucumbers, carrots and small potatoes. This gadget will allow you to obtain even slices every time. The winner will receive an ORANGE color slicer. 

These first two giveaways are a courtesy of  MSC International. I have several of their stylish and functional products and I hope you will like them as much as I do. If you want to see their current catalog, please go to www.joieshop.com .

 

Lastly, a good friend of mine is donating a great Cake Mix booklet filled with superb and easy recipes. You will find a total of 50 great recipes for any occasion including layer cakes, muffins, cookies, cupcakes, etc. Easter and Mother’s Day are just around the corner and these simple cake mix recipes can be a live saver.

The Cake Mix recipe booklet is distributed by the Entertaining at Home Company and it is a courtesy of Viviane Arnold.

Giveaway Details:

March 12^th -28^th

To enter this giveaway, you must:

·        Leave a comment on this post.

For additional entries, you can:

·        Leave one comment on another post as well

·        Blog about my giveaway and post the link here in a separate comment

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Please send your e-mail address to anaschronicles@aol.com. I will use this information to contact the winner. I will NOT use your personal information for any commercial purposes. I will never share your email with a third party (I promise!). To protect your own personal information, please do not post your e-mail here.

Contest ends March 28, 2010 at 12:00 PM central time. I will announce the winner here and on my Facebook page on March 29^th. There will be only one winner who will be picked via a Random Number Generator service. The winner will be contacted through e-mail and must respond within 72 hours of contact, otherwise a second winner will be selected.

***Contest open to USA and Canada Only – No PO Boxes***

Good Luck to Everyone!!!

Thank you for your support!

Easy and Delicious Black Forest Torte

Today I am posting the last recipe to celebrate National Cherry Month and I would like to share with you one of my favorite desserts: Black Forest Cake. It can be time consuming to make certain desserts from scratch but when you use the help of a cake mix, you can pull it off quickly. I selected a delicious version of the traditional Black Forest cake that you will love!

 

Black Forest Torte:

Ingredients:
1 pkg of dark chocolate fudge cake mix
2 1/2 cups whipping cream
2 1/2 tbsp confectioners' sugar
1 (21 oz) can cherry pie filling

Preheat oven to 375ºF. Grease and flour two 8-inch round cake pans.

Prepare, bake and cool cake according to package directions.

Beat whipping cream in a large bowl until soft peaks form. Add sugar gradually.

To assemble, place one cake layer on serving plate. Spread two-thirds cherry pie filling on cake to within 1/2-inch of edge. Spread 1.5 cups whipped cream mixture over cherry pie filling. Top with second cake layer. Frost sides and top with remaining whipped cream mixture. Spread remaining cherry pie filling on top to within 1-inch of edge. Refrigerate until ready to serve.



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Tres Leches Cake: a Crowd-Pleaser!

This delightful cake is very popular throughout Latin America and the cake batter can be prepared in different ways. A Tres Leches cake (three milk cake in Spanish) in some countries is a butter cake, in others it is a traditional sponge cake. Despite the cake recipe used, it is always soaked in a glaze of three kinds of milk (evaporated milk, condensed milk and heavy cream).  In opinion, it is the glaze that makes this cake just divine!

There is a lot of controversy regarding the origin of the Tres Leches cake. Despite of where it was created, it is a delicious dessert! Every time I serve this moist cake, it is a show stopper! My husband asked me to prepare one for his birthday and it was a big hit!

Tres Leches Cake:

Ingredients:

For the cake:

1 ½ tablespoons of vegetable oil

1 cup of cake flour

2/3 cup of sugar

1 teaspoon of baking powder

1/4 teaspoon of salt

5 tablespoon of unsalted butter (at room temperature)

6 large eggs

½  teaspoon of vanilla extract

For the glaze:

1 (12 oz) can evaporated milk

1 (14oz) can sweetened condensed milk

1 cup half-and-half

Topping:

1 ½ cups of cool whip

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly oil and flour a 13 by 9-inch metal pan and set aside.

In a bowl, sift flour, stir in salt and baking powder and set aside. 

Beat the butter on medium speed until fluffy. Slowly add the sugar. If necessary, stop the mixer and scrape down the sides of the bowl.

Add the eggs, one at a time, and mix until combined. Add the vanilla extract and the flour mixture to the batter in 3 or 4 batches and mix just until combined. Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and spread evenly. Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted.

Allow cake pan to cool for 30 minutes. Poke the top of the cake all over with a skewer or fork.

For the glaze:               

Whisk together the evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk and the half-and-half until combined. Pour the glaze over the cake. Refrigerate the cake overnight.

Top the cake with cool whip before serving.

Enjoy it!