Happy Happy Birthday Baby |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 20 Minutes |
Ready In: 20 Minutes Servings: 10 |
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~ 41 Candles...I'm going to die!...Big Smile...seems like yesterday when it was only....One ~ Ingredients:
1 tablespoon pure butter |
2/3 cup whole milk |
1 teaspoon saffron threads |
1 1/2 cup cake flour |
1 cup raw sugar |
1 teaspoon baking powder |
1/2 teaspoon baking soda |
1 good egg |
2 tablespoons rose water |
1 teaspoon madagascar vanilla |
1/2 cup chopped apricots and quince (that has been bathed in 3/4 cup henri iv(will i wish...but,only a very nice cognac will do) for 2 weeks...after draining apricots and quince,if any of this succulent,sensual nectar is remaining...pour into one flawless crystal glass and indulge) |
Directions:
1. Place saffon with 2 Tablespoon milk in pan,simmer,stir,cool.
2. Whisk together flour,sugar,baking powder,baking soda,set a by.
3. Into another bowl,combine the saffron-milk,the remaining moo juice,good egg,rose water,and that exquisite vanilla.
4. Pour wet mixture into flour mixture,stir with fork,mixing only until lightly combined,fold in the apricot and quince,gently.
5. Pour into one 9 prepared cake receptacle.
6. Bake at 375 degrees for about 15 minutes,or,until when pricked with wooden pick inserted into center,comes out clean.
7. Allow to cool 5 minutes.
8. ~Meanwhile~
9. Place:
10. 3/4 Cup Raw Sugar
11. 1/2 Cup Distilled Water
12. 1/4 Cup Henri IV (one major wish...but,a very good cognac that you can come by)
13. In pan,simmer for about 5 minutes,stir in, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.
14. Pierce cake gently several times with wooden skewer.
15. Spoon this sweet syrup over top.
16. Allowing it to seep deep into.
17. Let cool down to room temperture.
18. Then cover with rich frosting.
19. ~ Rich Frosting~
20. 6 Tablespoons Real Butter
21. 3 Cups Powdered Sugar
22. 1 1/2 teaspoons Vanilla (as before)
23. 3/4 Tablespoon Cognac (as before)
24. Thick Cream,as needed
25. Melt butter,cook,stirring,watching very astutely,as not to burn,but to become golden in color,remove from heat,cool.
26. Combine this golden sunrise type of butter,powder it with sugar,vanilla,the best DNA of Cognac,and beat gently,as not to bruise,but to come together nicely,adding enough thick cream,as needed, to allow for just the right spreading consistnecy.
27. Sprinkle with 24-Carat edible gold flakes.
28. My husband was stationed in Viet Nam,when our first child was born.We flew to Hawaii to met him on his R&R. He was excited,but,I knew secretively he wished for a boy.When I raised the blanket for him to see this breath from heaven for the first time,I said, See..PINK BOOTIES! You would have had to remove that smile surgically from his face as he gazed down into his future...She has been ' Daddy's Little Girl' ever since.
29. ~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISTER! ~
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