Tag: thanksgiving

After Dinner Spritzer: Thanksgiving Edition

I hope everyone is having a fantastic Thanksgiving. Ours is on the downswing. Dinner is over, cleanup is 90% complete, and it’s nearly time to relax, watch football, and eventually, polish off the rest of the cookies

I hope everyone is having a fantastic Thanksgiving. Ours is on the downswing. Dinner is over, cleanup is 90% complete, and it’s nearly time to relax, watch football, and eventually, polish off the rest of the cookies that my mother was kind enough to bring over. This year we had a very low key event, just my parents, my kids, hubby, and I. We chose a very traditional menu, which is not my go to, but my parents appreciate it. As much as I love to create a varied and interesting menu for holidays, it was a nice break to go with simple, traditional choices this year. It was very simple to pull together, and left me some time to decorate a bit, arrange a few flowers and set a colorful, festive table for our meal.

Plus, left me a little time for these red wine spritzers, which I have been sipping slowly, throughout the day. These appealing cocktails are 2 simple ingredients, plus fruit and herb swizzles. What it takes to create: a sweet red wine, and a club, or lemon-lime soda, your fruit and herbs of choice.

I used what I had on hand, which was: Barefoot Sweet Red, 7-Up, cherries, cranberry sauce, cut into cubes, fresh thyme, and fresh sage. It’s as simple as it looks, pour the red wine, add soda, and assemble swizzle with your chosen fruit and herbs, attach to rim, and enjoy!

Now, I am going to congratulate myself for pulling off one more fantastic Thanksgiving, and enjoy this spritzer, and a book,in front of the fire, while the boys watch football. I hope you all enjoy your wonderful families, and holiday weekend. Feel free to share your Thanksgiving pics on insta @canigetaramen. Find us on FB, and pinterest @ canigetaramen.food.blog. Thanks for reading!

Five Days of Cupcakes|Day 2: Mucho Maple Cupcakes

“They say that blood is thicker than water, but maple syrup is thicker than blood. Therefore my loyalties lie with pancakes.”

Abigail Pamela Taylor

I’m inclined to agree with Abigail, though maple syrup also makes great cupcake batter AND frosting!

Here’s what you’ll need for the cupcakes:

  • 6 tbsp of butter, softened
  • 1/12 cup of flour
  • 3/4 cup of sugar
  • 2 eggs, separated
  • 1/4 cup of sour cream
  • 1/2 + 2 tbsp of milk
  • 2 tsp of maple extract
  • 1 tsp of baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp of salt

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Separate your egg whites from your yolks and mix the yolks with sugar and butter in a stand mixer. (Hand mixing not recommended.) Add milk, sour cream, baking soda and salt to the mixing bowl all at once and mix at medium speed. Add flour slowly in as you mix and fold the egg whites after most of the flour has been mixed in. With a spoon, scoop the cupcake mix into your tin or a silicone cupcake mold and bake for between 12-15 minutes.

While those maple joys are baking, why not get to work on the better part of the cupcake duo, the frosting?

Here’s what you’ll need:

  • 4 cups of Powdered Sugar
  • 2 tsp of maple extract
  • 2 sticks of butter
  • 1-2 milk

Combine all the ingredients into a the stand mixer and churn at low speed until smooth.

From here, it’s all what you want to make of it with frosting the cupcakes.

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