Little Sister Sweets

My Aunty turned 55 last week. 55 years of life deserves something special. So I was hired, to make a carrot cake, with cream cheese frosting. However it couldn’t have coconut. That was the one request. I was pumped up. Birthday celebrations are my favorite, and carrot cake, one of my specialties. Here is a recipe that is moist, fluffy yet perfectly dense, and thoroughly mouth watering!

Weapons of Choice (Aka ingredients) 🙂
2 1/2 cups carrots
1 cup raisins
Zest of 1 tangerine
8 oz pineapple crushed and drained
1cup chopped walnuts (optional)
1 cup coconut (optional I didn’t use it.. But is sure is yummy!)
3 eggs
1 cup oil canola, or coconut
1 tbsp vanilla extract
2 cup flour
4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg (don’t omit this, it is an important ingredient!)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda

For full step by step instructions.. Check out…. Fancy Carrot Cake!

Let’s see how it turned out…. 😉

Wanna see my “flower backdrop” holder? That’s my sister!

Uh oh my cake has been photo bombed!!

For an easy tutorial on how to make a birthday cake banner, check out my guide! How to make a Birthday Cake Banner!

Happy baking!! 🙂
Try out the cake recipe, and let us know how it goes!

Rikki
LittleSisterSweets

Facebook is dangerous. Not only for obvious addiction reasons, but because just the other day, there I am innocently scrolling a long and all of a sudden I see a picture of flaky, extremely moist looking biscuits. Titled “7-up Biscuits”. How this came into my feed I do not know, but boy was I thankful it did! The biscuits had almost a million “likes” on Facebook, and a cajillion (if that’s even a word) comments from people raving about them. I was intrigued! They called for 4 ingredients:
Bisquick
7-Up
Sour cream
Butter

I was like what? How does this work? But boy the picture made me believe it. So of course, the next available opportunity I had, I picked up the ingredients at the store. I’m big on inputting healthier options at any turn, I can lower the fat and sugar in recipes with easy substitutions, so for this recipe, I did. Here goes:

Hands on time – 5 min (no joke!)
Baking time – 20-25 min
Total time – 30 min (so great right!)

Lightened Up Biscuit Ingredients:
4 cups Bisquick (or homemade Bisquick”)
1 cup light sour cream (I used Tillamock)
1 cup diet 7-Up
1/4 cup (approx) butter for greasing the pan

For step by step instructions check out my snapguide … Easy 3 Ingredient Biscuits!

I popped these babies in the oven the other night, and bam! 20 minutes later I couldn’t stop “tasting” them. So delicious! I highly recommend them, and the health changes, although totally minor, did not make a difference in over all taste. These would go great with any dinner, maybe even topped with jam or fried eggs for breakfast.

What do you think? 🙂