Easter Treats: Hot Cross Buns Recipe
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Easter Treats:
Invite the girls round this Easter. Best Hot Cross Buns Recipe Ever!
Or so they tell me… If you’re feeling creative this Easter, why not try your hand at rustling up some home made hot cross buns?
You will need:
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons mixed spice
750g plain flour
2 sachets of dried yeast (x 2 if fresh)
1 cup currants
100g brown sugar
130g butter
300ml milk
3 eggs, beaten
200g marzipan
1 egg, beaten, for glazing
Icing sugar
Put the yeast, flour, salt, mixed spice and currants into a bowl and make a well in the centre.
Melt the butter and add the milk and sugar together. Only melt the butter till warm, don’t let it bubble up!
Beat the eggs. Pour the butter/sugar/milk mixture into the well and add the eggs. Mix until soft. Knead on a floured board or bench for about 15 minutes, until the dough is very stretchy.
Lightly grease a bowl and place dough inside. Cover with a tea towel or glad wrap and leave to rise in a warm place for about 90 minutes. The dough should just about double in size. While you are waiting, roll and form the marzipan into strips for the crosses and beat an egg with a little milk for the glaze. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
Stretch out the dough onto a lightly floured board and beat it down. Knead again for a few minutes. Split the dough into 12 pieces and form each one into the shape of a bun. Place onto a greased tray and leave until they have doubled in size – about 15 minutes. Brush each bun with egg and place the crosses on. Place in oven and cook for about 15 minutes.
Remove from the oven, let them cool… and enjoy!Labels: baby shower tips, buns, cooking, Easter Egg, easter snacks, Easter Treats, food, hot crust buns, recipe, treats
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Baby Shower Games
Thursday, 6 March 2008
Baby Shower Games
If you're looking for something to keep your guests entertained, then here are some fun and free baby shower games for you and your friends.
The Guess the Baby Game
In your invitation ask each guest to bring with them to the shower a picture of themselves as a baby. It may be a good idea to give the guests a reminder before the shower to bring the photo with them as without the photo they can't be involved in the game.
Take the picture from each guest as they arrive and lightly pencil on the back a number, being careful not to damage the photo and make a list so you can tell later which photograph corresponds with each guest.
To play the game itself give each guest a piece of paper and pencil, show all the guests a photograph and tell them the number then tell them to write down whose photograph they think it is.
Then do the same with the next photograph.
If there are a lot of baby shower guests it may be necessary to pass the photographs around as they may not be able to see the photograph clearly.
The guest who identifies the most photographs is the winner.
Guessing The Baby Food Game
Get approximately ten jars of baby food and remove the labels, as you remove each label number the jar and make a list of the contents of that jar number. To play the game each guest has to guess what is in each jar by looking at the jar.
By keeping the jar closed the baby food can be kept and used by the mother at a later date.
A variation on this can be by allowing the guests to open the jar and smell the contents or you can put the contents on paper plates and give them a spoon so they can actually taste the baby food.
This can be great fun as baby food is not usually to the liking of adults and it can be very amusing to see the expressions on the guests faces.
The Price is Right shower game
Get 10 to 20 items relating to babies and list exactly how much each item cost.
Show all of the guests one of these items, and ask them one at a time what they think each item cost and to also write down the cost so that this can be remembered.
Repeat this process with each item. The guest who guesses the most and closest price to the right price wins the game.
Examples of items:
Baby food,
Baby Toy,
Rattle,
Diapers,
Baby's bottle,
Diaper pins,
Bib,
Teether,
and so on.
It would help the guests to figure out the price if you could tell the guests which store each item was bought from.
The Tray Memory Game
Before the game starts Put 15 to 20 small items associated with babies on a tray. These should be items such as a bottle, pacifier, baby sock, safety pin, baby's brush, baby oil etc.
Give each of your guests a piece of paper and a pencil to write down their answers.
To start the game bring the tray into the room and place it where all the guests can see it but tell them not to touch, leave the tray in that position for one minute and tell the guests to memorize the items that are on the tray, then remove the tray from the room and give the guests five minutes to write down on pieces of paper what all the items were. The guest who gets the most items correct is the winner.
The Cotton Ball Game
With this game you will need two large bowls, one of which should be filled with cotton balls plus a large kitchen spoon and a cloth to use as a blindfold.
Each guest in turn competes in this game. Blindfold the guest and give one minute to transfer as many cotton balls from one bowl to the other just using the kitchen spoon.
Make a note of how many of the cotton balls each guest can transfer in exactly one minute. The guest who transfers the most cotton balls is the winner.
Due to the fact that the spoon is quite heavy and the cotton balls are quite light it is very difficult for the guests to tell whilst blindfolded whether they have anything in the spoon, consequently they will spend most of their time transferring an empty spoon. This is very amusing for the other guests to watch.
Find more baby shower games at http://www.babbee.comLabels: babbee, babbee.com, baby, baby games, Baby Shower, Baby shower games, baby shower tips, mother
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Baby Shower Tips
Monday, 3 March 2008
Baby Shower Tips
At a recent baby shower I came across some fantastic gift ideas. One of which was a Nappy Cake. The Nappy cake was made by getting a heap of disposable babies’ nappies and rolling each one up with an elastic band. They were then placed on a round cake plate and tiered up 3 to 4 levels. Inside each tier was a babies bottle and a few babies products such as socks, jumpsuits etc. The top of the nappy cake was decorated with coloured ribbon and a small toy. The nappy cake looked so effective and was such a practical gift idea!
Labels: Baby Shower, baby shower tips, nappy cake, nappy cakes
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