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Whole Wheat Dates Cake Ingredients and Procedures. Appliances used: Kitchen Machine Cake mixer, Blender & Cooking Range Oven Ingredients: Dates – 30 Milk – 2 cup Brown Sugar – ¾ cup Vanilla essence – ½ tsp Wheat flour – 2 cup Baking soda – ¾ tsp Salt - ¼ tsp Vegetable oil – ½ cup Nuts (chopped) – ½ cup Dates (chopped) – ¼ cup  Method:  Grease a cake tin with butter, dust it with flour and keep it ready. Sift together wheat flour, baking soda and salt for 3 – 4 times. Keep it aside. Remove the seeds from the dates add 1 cup milk to it. Microwave it for 2 minutes to make the dates soft (you can also keep the dates soaked for about an hour instead of microwaving). Add the remaining milk, sugar and vanilla essence to the heated dates and blend it well in a grinder. Move this to a bowl and add the flour mixture to this little by little and combine evenly. Add the vegetable oil and mix well. Now add the chopped nuts (reserve 2 tbsp nuts to sprinkle on top) and dates to

Chocolate Brownies-Whipped Cream-Almond Barks Parfait Ingredients and Procedure. Ingredients: 1 tray of brownies, store bought 2 cups whipped cream, whipped to double 8 pcs almond barks, roughly chopped Ingredients for Almond Barks:  1 ½ cup almond slivers 1 cup unsalted butter, cubed 1 cup white sugar ½ tsp vanilla extract ¼ tsp salt Procedure:  https://goo.gl/qW9MVG

Here's a Birthday cake for iPhones 4th year birthday. The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007,[1] and released on June 29, 2007. The 5th generation iPhone, the iPhone 4S, was announced on October 4, 2011, and released 10 days later. An iPhone can function as a video camera (video recording was not a standard feature until the iPhone 3GS was released), a camera phone, a portable media player, and an Internet client with email and web browsing capabilities, can send texts and receive visual voicemail, and has both Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard rather than a physical one. wikipedia image credit:surfpk

Here's a Halloween Recipe from myrecipe.com - Chocolate Ghost Cakes. Ingredients 1/2 (12-oz.) container ready-to-spread white frosting 1 (11-oz.) package cream-filled chocolate cake squares 1 (0.68-oz.) tube black decorating gel Preparation 1. Microwave frosting in a microwave-safe bowl at HIGH 30 seconds to 1 minute or until melted; stir until smooth. Let stand 2 minutes. 2. Place 1 cup melted frosting in a gallon-size zip-top plastic bag. (Do not seal.) Snip 1 corner of bag to make a small hole. Pipe frosting onto each cake square in the shape of a ghost, adding remaining frosting to bag as needed. Pipe 2 dots on each cake using black gel to form eyes.

I saw this Halloween cupcake recipe in Yahoo Philippines, which is a good "merienda baon" during Halloween.  Chocolate Cupcake 1 pack butter (225 grams) 2 ½ cups white sugar (460 grams) 4 eggs 1 cup cocoa (100 grams) 1 2/3 cup water (368 grams) 1 tsp vanilla 2 ½ cups flour (284 grams) 1½ teaspoon baking powder (10 gms) 1 teaspoon baking soda (4 grams) ¾ teaspoon salt (4.5 grams) Marshmallow Fondant (for the topping) 16 ounces white mini marshmallows 2 to 5 tablespoons water 32 ounces powdered sugar, sifted (peotraco or penco are good) ½ cup shortening image and recipe credit:yahoo.com.ph Prep work: (1) Melt marshmallows and 2 tablespoons of water in a microwave for 2 minutes. Mix until everything is soft and melted. (2) Put the powdered sugar on the table and make a well in the center, where you will put the marshmallow. (3) Spread shortening on your hands, and start mixing the powdered sugar and melted marshmallows together. Keep mixing till fully incorp

In celebration of the National Cheesecake Day on July 30, Peteet’s Famous Cheesecakes will offer free slices to the first 100 customers and 20% off any purchase throughout the day. In 2010, the Peteet Family took a beloved family cheesecake recipe and transformed it into a delicious new business. Every cheesecake - they make 90 varieties - is made from scratch daily with fresh, premium ingredients. The result is a rich and creamy, flavorful, signature two-layer cheesecake. Peteet’s signature flavors include sweet potato cheesecake, peach cobblercheesecake, Reese’s peanut butter cheesecake and red velvet cheesecake. Peteet’s Famous Cheesecakes, located at 13835 Nine Mile Road in Oak Park, is open 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. For more information, visit peteetscheesecakes.com .

Cake designer Fiona Cairns has been chosen to make the cake for the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Decorated using the Joseph Lambeth technique, the cake will be a traditional fruit cake of many tiers. CLICK HERE! TO SEE ALL OUR ROYAL WEDDING FEATURED CONTENT Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton have chosen Leicestershire-based cake designer Fiona Cairns to create their wedding cake. In addition, the couple have also asked McVitie's Cake Company to create a chocolate biscuit cake for the reception at Buckingham Palace. The chocolate biscuit cake will be made from a Royal Family recipe and was specially requested by Prince William. The other wedding cake is a chocolate biscuit cake made by McVities to a Royal Family recipe and is Prince William’s favourite. McVities have a long tradition of making Royal wedding cakes. The company made one for The Queen Mother’s wedding in 1923 which was nine-foot high and weighed 800 pounds. text and video credi

The Royal Wedding Cake Cake designer Fiona Cairns has been chosen to make the cake for the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Decorated using the Joseph Lambeth technique, the cake will be a traditional fruit cake of many tiers. text and video credit: The Royal Wedding Channel