Baking Flub...or Not?

Today I felt confident in my abilities so I decided to make Pioneer Woman's (PW's) Tres Leches Cake.  It seemed really easy and I'm a pretty decent baker, so off I embarked on my journey.  I measured all of my ingredients:
1 cup flour
1-1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
5 whole eggs
1 cup sugar, divided
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cups milk
1 can evaporated milk
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup heavy cream

I made the cake as directed and poured it into the pan.  I was reading the next step and realized I had forgotten to add the evaporated milk.  (Here's where this gets crazy, pay attention.)  I panic, start washing all the dishes, only having an hour and a half to make a cake that takes 1 hour and 45 minutes to make, I call my husband to come help me measure all the stuff again and to dump the cake batter out of the cake pan so that I can remake the cake.  I go through all of the steps again, adding all the dry ingredients together.  Separate all 5 eggs, beating the egg yolks, 3/4 cup sugar and vanilla, then the egg whites until soft peaks form, then adding the sugar to the egg whites until stiff, but not dry, peaks form.  It is then that I realized I in fact, DID NOT mess up the cake.  You see, I added the 1/3 cup of milk, but I didn't need to add the evaporated milk like I thought I did.  The evaporated milk, the sweetened condensed milk and the heavy cream was for the mixture that I was supposed to pour OVER the cake once it was baked.  REALLY?!?!  I really just dumped out a cake that was NOT MESSED UP!??  UGH!  All is right in my world though, I continued making the cake, sort of let it cool, poked the cake, dumped the mixture over, had my husband beat the cream and sugar for frosting, so that I could come and blog about my wonderful, messed up-not-really-messed up baking excursion.  :)  Happens to the best of us!  :)

Now I'm off to frost the cake and take it to our friends house and am going to enjoy every yummy bite of that Messed Up-Not-Really-Messed Up Tres Leches Cake!!  :)

Here is the recipe from the Pioneer Woman's website!  Enjoy!

Recipe: Tres Leches Cake

Prep Time: 45 Minutes  |  Cook Time: 1 Hour  |  Difficulty: Easy  |  Servings: 12

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Ingredients

• 1 cup All-purpose Flour
• 1-½ teaspoon Baking Powder
• ¼ teaspoons Salt
• 5 whole Eggs
• 1 cup Sugar, Divided
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• ⅓ cups Milk
• 1 can Evaporated Milk
• 1 can Sweetened, Condensed Milk
• ¼ cups Heavy Cream
• _____
• FOR THE ICING:
• 1 pint Heavy Cream, For Whipping
• 3 Tablespoons Sugar

Preparation Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9 x 13 inch pan liberally until coated.
Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Separate eggs.
Beat egg yolks with 3/4 cup sugar on high speed until yolks are pale yellow. Stir in milk and vanilla. Pour egg yolk mixture over the flour mixture and stir very gently until combined.
Beat egg whites on high speed until soft peaks form. With the mixer on, pour in remaining 1/4 cup sugar and beat until egg whites are stiff but not dry.
Fold egg white mixture into the batter very gently until just combined. Pour into prepared pan and spread to even out the surface.
Bake for 35 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Turn cake out onto a rimmed platter and allow to cool.
Combine condensed milk, evaporated milk, and heavy cream in a small pitcher. When cake is cool, pierce the surface with a fork several times. Slowly drizzle all but about 1 cup of the milk mixture—try to get as much around the edges of the cake as you can.
Allow the cake to absorb the milk mixture for 30 minutes. To ice the cake, whip 1 pint heavy cream with 3 tablespoons of sugar until thick and spreadable.
Spread over the surface of the cake. Decorate cake with whole or chopped maraschino cherries. Cut into squares and serve.

Until next time....

New Year, New Goals, New Dreams and a New Vision for Life

I have decided to set some goals for this year.  I've always called them "resolutions" but I heard in Sunday School that we really don't follow through on "resolutions".  That's obvious for me.  I don't think that I have EVER completed a whole year and followed through on one, SO this year it's GOALS! 

One of my goals is to lose weight and get healthy.  I don't think of myself as morbidly obese, but I am around 50 pounds overweight and it bothers me.  I think what bothers me even more is that I am not healthy.  I appear healthy, no major health problems, but my cholesterol is high, my blood pressure tends to run high, and my HDL is high.  After looking at all of these things my husband told me that I was in the risk category for a stroke!!  That was my reality check!  I am not even 40 years old, I have 3 children, I can't have a stroke!  It took a new year and a program at our church "The 90 Day Fitness Challenge" written by Phil and Amy Parham from the show "The Biggest Loser".  I'm past the point of just losing the weight.  It's a lifestyle change, a change in eating habits and watching what I eat, when I eat and how much I eat. 

I'm a nervous eater.  I'm a social eater.  I'm a boredom eater.  I can eat no matter what mood I'm in so I have to learn to tame that inner beast and calm her down!  SO...as I embark on this journey, I will share with you my progress.  Of course, now that this is out in CyberLand, I HAVE to follow through, because everyone is watching!  YIKES!

Here we go ...
I went grocery shopping yesterday and bought a BUNCH of food.  You see, here in Mississippi, snow isn't common and if it's comin' you better prepare!  So I did!  I also took this opportunity to buy some healthy foods.

I read in my "90-Day Fitness Challenge" that foods should be natural and it mentioned in there blue corn tortilla chips.  (To save my life I can't find it now in that book.) Well, I knew I liked those...I've had them before.  So I bought them, along with some baked tortilla scoops!  I LOVE pita chips with sea salt but the store I was at was completely sold out!  GASP!

Bread - I love white bread.  Wheat bread disgusts me.  I think it is because as a child I was forced to eat wheat, all my friends had white bread for their sandwiches in their lunches, but NOOOOO, I had wheat bread.  Some of those wheat breads may as well just have had grain stalks in a bag and been sold that way because it tasted like they did anyway.  YUCK!  But, I found some bread that I'm going to try.

Snacks - I'm a snacker.  I love breads, pastries, desserts, anything sweet and fattening.  Since all of that has gone straight to my tummy and hips, I need to cut those things out...or at least find healthier options.  But let's face it, a girl's gotta have some "I'm having a bad day" foods so she can splurge and not feel guilty about it.
This is what I chose:

Ice Cream - Frozen Yogurt all the way!!  I bought these delicious Weight Watchers frozen treats and they are yummy!!!

So yesterday, I made homemade guacamole from my Weight Watchers cookbook.  I used to hate guacamole, but this is delicious!!!  It was so amazingly delicious, I decided to share the recipe.
Guacamole
1 ripe avocado
1 plum tomato (I used some of a Roma tomato)
2 scallions, only the white and light green parts (I used pre-chopped onions that you could get from your grocer's salad bar or fresh vegetable section)
1 small jalapeno pepper (Use gloves to prevent irritation) (I skipped it)
1 Tbsp fresh lime juice
1/2 tsp salt (I used sea salt)

Cut the avocado in half, dig out pit.  Spoon out the inside of the avocado into a small mixing bowl.  Mash with fork to desired consistancy.  Dice your tomato, scallions and jalapenos and then add them to avocado.  Add fresh lime juice and salt.  Mix together all ingredients with fork and serve!  Delicious on the blue corn tortilla chips!!  YUM!!

P.S. I took some pictures of my food options, but I will have to post them later.  :)