Thriller from Vanilla and Carrot Cake for Pepper's party ;D

Pepper's party was great !

We all made it a wonderful evening together :) Am sure Pepper, Cinnamon and Ginger will write a bit more about the party and foods and cocktails they prepared to make our evening together special ;D . Every one of us made a cocktail , so we had 4 different ones. Pepper did the first one. It was very colorful ,  yum :) and impressive ! I designed my own Cocktail for the party ;) and I named it 

Thriller from Vanilla ;D. Come back to see it...I will put recipe here ;).

I baked this Carrot Cake for the party also. I actually surprised myself, how good that recipe worked out. I made it for the first time ever ! It is one of these I am going to do again and will put it in my cookery book. It is definitely one to keep ! Girls really loved it ! and so did I ;)
Happy Birthday to Ginger ! Eventually ;)
Carrot Cake recipe will be posted here ;) so come back and check it out....

I apologize, I will not do it today, as it is very late here ;) and we also had change of time, that made day to go by even quicker ;(...
Take care for now....

Vanilla xx

Hello again. Here is the recipe , I found it on internet...And am feeling a bit jealous that it is not my own recipe, as I think it's amazing ! Tastes great !  It is moist and so easy to make, which is the best thing ;) Here it comes :
Carrot Cake : 2 cups - all purpous flour
                       2 cups - sugar
                       2 Ts baking soda
                       2 Ts cinnamon
                       1 Ts salt
                       4 eggs
                       1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
                       3 cups grated carrots
                       1 1/2 cups chopped pecans ( I used walnuts )
                     
For the topping :
                     
                       2 packages of cream cheese
                       1 butter ( room temperature )
                       1 box - powder sugar

Method :

In the large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
Add eggs and oil, Use hand mixer , Blend until combined.
Pour into 2 pans. Bake for 40 minutes on 350 F
Allow to completely cool down before frosting.
Frosting : combine all the ingredients. Butter and sugar first , than add cream cheese.
Decorate ;) I used violets that I found in the garden....
Now I have confession to make :(
The cake would be so much taller, but the other half that I made in the heart pan unfortunately was bigger than the round shape, it didn't look good, so I didn't use it :( Still it was a quite a big cake, but if  I used the other half too, it would be even taller. Anyway, I was giving the heart half away to friends and family to try and I enjoyed it after work with my cuppa :)
Next time I need to use the same shape pans ;)

                     Try it, and enjoy it :)

7.4.2015

Hi again. I am so ready to add Thriller from Vanilla today. I am just enjoying it now,so I thought, I can't leave you waiting for this Delightful Delish cocktail any longer.
Thriller from Vanilla - cocktail

You need : 3 1/2 ounces of vodka
                    1 1/2 ounces of triple sec
                    Kopparberg - pear cider
                    1 can of pear helves in light syrup
                    1/2 of vanilla bean pod
                    1 ts  Natural Madagascan vanilla extract
                    1/2 of lemon
                    vanilla sugar for decorating the glass
                    pear to decorate the glass
                    ice - 4 handfuls

Prepare your glasses, rub the lemon around the top of the glass. Put vanilla sugar in the saucer and rub glass into the vanilla sugar to make it pretty ;).

Next : Can of pear helves with the light syrup goes into the processor with the ice. Crush it all together.
Measure vodka and triple sec in your shaker. Add iced pear mixture ,you made in processor to the shaker. Open vanilla bean pod and with the back of the knife scrape the both sides and add to the shaker also,squeeze the lemon and add vanilla extract and shake vigorously.
Pour cocktail into the glasses and top it up with pear cider.It will fizz and give it a bit of special Champagne moment ;)
Decorate with the pear cut into different shapes. It is really up to you. I put bit of vanilla bean pod, that I used for cocktail on the top for the special effect ;) Get creative. You are probably more artistic than me :p
 Sorry to be late with updating this post.
Now Thriller from Vanilla is here :) don't hesitate and try it. Weekend will be here soon.Treat yourself to this drinking desert.


Vanilla xx