Every Little Girl needs some pink in her life!

Friends of ours have a little girl soon to be 5 years old. She is all girl--pink all over!! I think I could find a years worth of posts just in her room alone! Of all the pink she has, I think this share is my favorite.

Happy Pink Saturday Everyone!

The Pioneer Woman Cooks

Today was a great day-I got my copy of The Pioneer Woman Cooks in the mail!!!! Thank AMAZON.DE!!! What a great book-I am going to toss my menue plan for the next week and make a new one-taking all the recipes of out her book. :) Stay tuned for updates.......

Spring in the garden

Finally, our outdoor living space is becoming livable again!  The trees and bushes are growing, the hostas are coming up everywhere!!! I am so ready to sit outside and enjoy our little piece of paradise. Can´t wait to get the lawn mower out and cut the grass.  Crazy, I know, but I love the smell of freshly cut grass!

Happy Birthday Husband of Mine

06 May 2010-marks my husbands 55th Birthday! Tradition has it, that the birthday boy brings cake to work. My husband is an officer in the German airforce and has 70 people in is department! That is a lot of cake! So, I made a Zitronenblechkuchen(Lemon Sheet Cake), 2 different batches of brownies and of course a decorated 11X15 chocolate cake! As I am writing this post, the cakes are being enjoyed by my husband and his department!

Here the recipes!

  Zitronenblechkuchen                                                          

250 gr Butter, schaumig rühren

6 Eier, eins nach dem andern gut unterrühren

2 Zitronen, Saft und Schale beigeben. unterrühren

350 g Mehl

300 g Zucker

1 Päckli Backpulver

1 Päckli Vanillezucker

vermischen und auf ein grosses Kuchenblech verteilen.

Backen: Im vorgehiezten Ofen bei 180 grad ca. 20 Minuten.

Guss:

250 g Puderzucker

1-2 Zitronen, Saft

Den Kuchen noch heiss damit bestreichen

Cyn´s Brownies

Recipe can be found in her book: Cynthia Barcomi´s Backbuch

Hershey´s Best Brownies

1 cup butter or margine

2 cups sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

4 eggs

3/4 cup cocoa

1 cup flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup chopped nuts(optional

Heat oven to 350 F. Grease 13x9x2 baking pan. Microwave butter 2 to 21/2 min or until melted. Stir in sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well with wooden spoon after each addition. Add cocoa; beat until well blended. Add flour, baking powder and salt; beat well. Stir in nuts, if desired. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until brownies just begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool in pan on wire rack. Cut into bars.

Devils Food Chocolate Cake with Buttercream Frosting

Please drop me a mail at huey-mikey@t-online.de, should you like the Lemon Cake Recipe in English!!

A dark and daring Tablescape Thursday

Looking through old photos, I came across the pictures of my son´s 13th Birthday. We planned a Murder Mystery Dinner. Unfortunately this group of 13 year olds were not quite ready for such a party. The tablescape on the other hand was a success, if I do say so myself! I had fun doing this one. I was amazed what I all found in the stores here in Germany.  The black bulbs hanging from the ceiling were found at IKEA the year before at Christmas time, if you can believe that. I, the crazy decorating lady of course was very happy! I was dreaming up lots of ideas, but certainly not Christmas! Any ways, I trust everyone is enjoying a happy Thursday? The weather here is not so great-rainy and cold-hopefully the weekend will be better! 

bright colors on this tablescape thursday!

Greetings Everyone! I hope this Thursday Tablescape reaches you on a good note. We here in Germany are enjoying a few days of beautiful weather-hoping it will last for awhile!

The orange plates come from Ikea. I had originally bought them for Halloween, but am finding myself using them more and more. The wine glasses were a gift-they are from Rosenthal. 

The vases as well as the tea light votives are of course IKEA! One of my favorite stores!

Now about that Centerpiece! I was basically done with the table and on my way to get the camera, when I walked by this item--one of the many cat toys for Will and Grace-it matched perfectly, so on the table it went-threw in some silk flowers and called it perfect!

The basket I also got from my mom. I still remember her using it when I was a kid.

The silverware was a wedding gift from my parents, way back in 1989(Crate & Barrel)

Flowers always make me smile

I know it is a little early to be buying flowers, it is after all only the end of April we still could get frost. These flowers caught my eye and were a good price so I bought them and will pray now that the weather holds. !

Happy Pink Saturday Everyone!