Potato spud cake balls

Very simple dessert that you and your kids will love!

Potato Spud Cake balls

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Sponge cake that's made from a 12 egg Simple Sponge

Buttercream

3-4 sticks of unsalted butter
1- 1 1/2, 14oz can of sweetened condensed milk or dolce de leche
2-3Tbsp coco powder
2 Tbsp rum

Break up the sponge cake in to small pieces.
Put the butter in a mixer bowl, whisk on high speed until light and fluffy.
Add sweetened condensed milk and when you add most of the milk taste and see if it's set enough of not then add more and taste after every addition.
At this point of you plan to decorate the spuds then take about 3 Tbsp of cream to the side.
Start adding the coco powder, blend very well.

Start adding the cream to the cake crumbs until everything cooked together. Don't add too much cream or the spuds won't hold together.
Now roll them in to potato shapes and roll in coco powder.
At this point you can leave them as is or you can add a little decoration on top.

Simple Sponge

You can use this cake base for a lot of different cakes by just changing the icing.

For the perfect sponge you will need to take however many eggs you want to use, separate egg whites from egg yolks. Measure the egg whites in a cup, and that is how much sugar and flour you'll need.

This recipe is just how i make this cake with my measurements.

12 eggs (room temp)

1 1/2 cup sugar

1 1/2  cup flour

1tsp Vanilla 

preheat over to 350F

Whisk your eggs until light and fluffy. 

Add sugar slowly.

Turn mixer to the lowest speed and slowly add flour. You can do this step by hand just fold in the flour.

Pour the batter in to your cake pans, you need either 2, 8in -10in pans whichever you prefer.

Bake 25-40 mins test the cake by touching the top of the cake. When taking the cake out of the oven be careful not to tap or hit the cake too hard on anything or your cake will deflate.

This is the step by step tutorial 

Stuffed Cabbage (golubci)

These stuffed cabbages are a very popular Russian dish. They are served with sour cream. I always mix my regular sour cream with a little milk to make it a little thinner and it tastes better like that too.

Recipe.
1 head of cabbage
1 LB ground beef
1 LB ground pork
1 cup rice
1 egg
1 Tbsp mayonnaise
1  small piece of bread or dinner roll
little bit of milk (to soak the bread in)
1/2-1 onion
salt and pepper to taste
tomato paste (optional)

Preparation.
1. Cut the stem out of the cabbage, Put the cabbage in a big pot fill with water and boil until the cabbage is nice and soft but don't overcook or the leaves will fall apart.

2. When the cabbage is cooked strain it and let it cool. Take all the leaves apart and cut the veins either off or just shave them off so that they're not so thick and the cabbage leaf is flexible.

3. Take the soaked bread squeeze out extra milk and put the bread through the meat grinder with the onions, or put both in a blender and blend.

4. Ground meat, rice, egg, mayonnaise, bread and onions, salt and pepper plus the optional tomato paste. Mix everything together very well.

5. Take one cabbage leaf and lay it flat put some meat mixture at the top and roll.

6. Boil some water, put a couple small cabbage leafs at the bottom of a pot add a little bit of sour cream and tomato paste or ketchup and now pour a little bit of water on top just to melt the sour cream and the tomato paste.

7. Start layering the cabbage rolls now, stuff them as tight as you can. now pour boiling water on top to cover.

8. Put the pot on the stove on high heat, when it starts boiling lower the temperature to medium or med-low (this will depend on your stove) and let everything shimmer for about 45mins.

9. Serve topped with sour cream

If you have left over stuffing roll it in to meatballs and cook the same as the regular stuffed cabbage.

Glow Bug Cloth diaper review and giveaway

Today we're looking at the beautiful Glow Bug Cloth diaper.

This is a sleeve style diaper, which means it had opening in the front and the back this will make your inserts agitate in the wash.

Diapers are made of waterproof PUL, the inside lining is SlimDry fabric.

One of the unique features of this diaper is the 360 gusset which keeps everything in and prevents blow outs.

The other unique feature of this diaper is the back pul panel which will prevent leaking in the back of the diaper, great for back sleepers.

This diaper has a front pul panel which prevents leaking, especially for boys and tummy sleepers.

These diapers have a 3 by 4 rise setting, will fit your baby from birth to potty training.

There's 3 choices for inserts you, microfiber, bamboo blended and mr. Clock.

Mr.clock insert

The diapers are sold in packs of 12 and you choose the one of 3 collections.

They now have sample packs for $28 you get one diaper, you choose a collection and they'll send you a diaper randomly from that collection, you will also receive 1 microfiber insert, 1 bamboo insert, 1 mr.clock insert, 1 wipe and 10 disposable liners.

I'm doing a giveaway on my channel which will end June 11th and winner will be announced on my 30th Birthday June 13th! so head over to youtube and enter!

Fluff Mail, Earth day, real nappy week Haul

Hey everyone i just wanted to share my fluff mail with you!!

I recieved these over the last 2-3 weeks. I bought most of these for regular price even tho it was earth day, but I did get a few things on sale.

Lets start with these diapers they came from babipur.com it's in UK these were on sale the diapers are pop in diapers and the beach ball was a real nappy week gift.

                                          

2 Nuggles diapers came from clothdiaperkids which is in Canada and these were regular price. I have never tried this brand before but they look awesome and these are their new prints

Tush mate diapers. This print came out on Earth day and I fell in love with the print and also wanted to try their AI2 diapers.

This Pop in was a gift.

These 2 diapers lalabye baby and a blueberry simplex these were on sale the lalabye baby was only about $12 and the simplex was around $25

This package came from diaper junction i really wanted to try the new tots bots and I love the new Funky fluff print. These were regular price.

These 2 came from Foxgroo. I've never tried these so we'll see how they work. 

I hope you enjoyed seeing all the new Fluff mail.

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here's a video on the fluff mail

RePlay infant spoon Review

Baby spoon.

 

These spoons are made from recycled milk jugs. The spoon is very smooth which makes clean-up a breeze, and contour edges won't hurt your babies skin.

These spoons are PVC, BPA and phthalate free

Ergonomic comfort grip. Long handle keeps mommies hands clean and helps baby learn to feed himself. Depth of the spoon is great for first bites and growing appetites. The travel case is great to have on the go, keeps your babies spoon clean.

Spoons are sold in packs of 4

Retail price is $5.99

You can get 15% off you first RePlay order  Here

Cute as a Button! Buttons AI2 cloth diapers review.

These adorable cloth diapers are an AI2 system. This is a very affordable cloth diaper system. The covers cost $11 for solid colors and $12.50 for prints. The inserts you can choose either microfiber 3 pack for $10.50 nighttime doublers 2 for $10, or hemp/organic cotton daytime Inserts 3 for $23.25 and nighttime doublers 2 for $19.50. Inserts are in 2 sizes small and large.

The covers are made of 2 layers of PUL, very soft, they have double gusset and tummy elastic great for tummy sleepers. The trim on these diapers is very soft and won't dig in to babies skin.

Inside of the cover 

Tummy Elastic

Double gusset 

These diaper covers are one size they fit from from birth to potty training,  9-35 pounds, they're very generously cut great for chubby babies, but when you snap then down to newborn they're very small and can definitely fit a newborn.  Diapers are very well made and will last though more then one baby.

Newborn setting

Toddler Setting

These covers have the cutest little buttons embroidery on the back which is too cute!

They have 2 sizes for inserts small and a large. Inserts are either microfiber topped with  stay dry fleece, or hemp/organic cotton typed with stay dry fleece. There's also night boosters which are also either microfiber or  hemp/organic cotton.

I tested the hemp organic cotton inserts and the hemp organic cotton night booster. The daytime hemp inserts are made of 4 layers of hemp /organic cotton plus the stay dry fleece. Night booster is 5 layers of hemp/organic cotton. The night booster snaps right under the daytime insert which gives you 9 layers of absorbent material at night, and snaps in to the cover. The diaper is still very trim even with both inserts, of your baby doesn't like bulky diapers this would be a great solution for you.

With both a daytime insert and the night doubler 

You can also reuse the diaper cover up to 3 times by just taking the insert put wiping the cover and snapping a new insert in. You can also use any other insert even a small prefold If you like, Just make sure you never put microfiber against babies skin! If there's poop I the cover then it needs to be washed already.

Here you can watch the whole review on YouTube

You can buy these diapers from Buttons Diapers

Or on Amazon Buttons covers

daytime inserts

Nighttime doublers

Thank you Buttons Diapers for sending me this diaper to review!