Coconut frosting

Ingredients:

8 oz full fat cream cheese

3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup powder sugar

3/4 sweetened cream of coconut

1 tsp vanilla

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Place the cream cheese in a bowl, add powder sugar and mix it well with wooden spoon. Add the coconut cream vanilla and the butter, with hand blender whisk it it is creamy and fluffy.

It works great with coconut cupcakes, you can use roasted coconut flakes to decorate as well.

German Cake ( Alman Pastasi)

For the cake :

Part 1.

1/2 cup custard sugar

1 1/2 cups cake flour ( I used self-raising sponge cake flour)

1/2 tsp bi carbonated powder

1/4 tsp salt

Part 2.

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup plain yogurt

1/2 cup vegetable oil

Part 3.

3 Eggs Whites

1/2 tsp cream of tartar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

For the custard:

2 egg yolk

2 1/2 cups whole milk

4 Tbsp granulated sugar

1 Tbsp plain flour

1 Tbsp cornflour

1Tbsp rice flour

50 gr unsalted butter

2 Tbsp confectionery powder

1 fresh banana, mushed

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Pre heat your oven to 180*C/ 160*C fan forced. Line a 10'' or 25cm round baking tin with parchment paper.

Mix and sift twice Part 1 ingredients and set at a side.

Mix Part 2 ingredients and whisk it till well combined, and pale in color & fluffy.

For Part 3 ingredients, use standing mixer, place the egg whites in the bowl first, turn on the mixer, start from low to medium speed, when it is frothy add cream of tartar, increase the speed higher. When the whites getting to soft peek add the sugar gradually . And keep the mixer on till it is almost a firm peek.

Meanwhile make a well in part 1, add part 2 in a 3 batch and mix it with wooden spoon.

When part 3 is ready to use, fold in with that mix, again at lease 1/3 at the time.

When the batter is ready pour in the tin and bake immediately about 25 - 35 min. Should be light golden brown , and the knife comes out clean.

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While your cake is baking, start the custard. Mix all the ingredients except last 3, in a medium size saucepan, and whisk well, turn the heat on and cook it while stirring, till it becomes a thick pudding.

Pour in a bowl and add butter, banana & powder sugar, use a hand blander, whisk till it is cool down completely.

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After your cake is cooled off, slice horizontally in half, and spread your custard, place the top part of the cake, and decorate with confectionery sugar.

Spa -Themed Sleepover Birthday Party

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Get your own

We got the idea from Martha Stewart's Kids Magazine.
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/spa-themed-sleepover-birthday-party

My mother was staying over with us, so she did lots of sewing for us.

We used felt and glue gun for the eye masks, http://images.marthastewart.com/images/content/web/pdfs/pdf3/sleep_masks.pdf
and send them over along with gift certificates a week before the party.
My mother made favor bags, out of pastel fabrics and monogramed each with guest's initials.
We filled tham, hair bands, make up, small toiletries from Hermes (thanks to my husband who got them during his stay in Hyatt Hotel).

We made personalized labels for water bottles. Avocado face mask," For one girl's face mask, mash a quarter of an avocado in a bowl, then stir in one tablespoon of yogurt. Spread the mixture all over face with a sponge, avoiding eyes, and wash off mask after 15 minutes. " marthastewart.com and prepared a nail station for manicures.



They picked our attic to sleep over, so I asked the girls to bring along their sleeping bags and pillows.
Beside pizza and birthday cake, we made vanilla milk and Zzz cookies as Martha suggested.
Party was such a success and talk of the week, even though few girls burst in tears by midnight and wanted to go home, my hubby end up doing few home drops after mid night.

Next morning they had pancakes and played with make up.