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What desserts can I make with what I have?

I feel like baking something sweet, but SIMPLE! I have:
- flour
- eggs
- baking powder
- baking soda
- salt
- chocolate cocoa
- vanilla extract
- some milk chocolate chips
- dark brown sugar
- 3/4 C. light brown sugar
- white granulated sugar
- powdered sugar
- 1(14 ounce can) Condensed Milk
- vegetable oil
- butter
- cinnamon
- peanut butter
- light white corn syrup(Karo)
- colored sprinkles
- root beer
- homemade vanilla icecream
- whole milk
- cornstarch
- yeast
- lemons

Supplies I have:
- grater
- Ice Cream machine
- thermometer
- whisk
- Electric Stand Mixer
- muffin tins
- 13 by 9 baking pan
- spatula
- juicer

Chocolate Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly butter, or line 16 muffin cups with paper liners.

In a small bowl stir until smooth the boiling hot water and the cocoa powder. Let cool to room temperature.

In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.

Then in the bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating until smooth. Beat in the vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture and beat only until incorporated. Then add the cooled cocoa mixture and stir until smooth.

Fill each muffin cup two-thirds full with batter and bake for about 16-20 minutes or until risen, springy to the touch, and a toothpick inserted into a cupcake comes out clean. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool. Once the cupcakes have completely cooled, frost with icing. You can either spread the frosting on the cupcakes with a small spatula or if piping, using a large Wilton 1M open star tip to make lovely swirls.

Chocolate Frosting: Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl placed over a saucepan of simmering water. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.

In the bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the butter until smooth and creamy (about 1 minute). Add the sugar and beat until it is light and fluffy (about 2 minutes). Beat in the vanilla extract. Add the chocolate and beat on low speed until incorporated. Increase the speed to medium-high and beat until frosting is smooth and glossy (about 2 -3 minutes).

Makes about 16 cupcakes

Source:

Bell, Annie. ‘Gorgeous Cakes’. Kyle Books. Distributed by National Book Network. Lanham, MD: 2005.

Lewis, Matt & Nelson, Alison. ‘Chocolate Bar’. Stonesong Press. New York: 2004.

Chocolate Cupcakes:

1/2 cup (50 grams) Dutch-processed cocoa powder

1 cup (240 ml) boiling hot water

1 1/3 cups (175 grams) All Purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup (200 grams) granulated white sugar

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Chocolate Fudge Frosting:

4 ounces (12 grams) unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped

2/3 cup (150 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature

1 1/3 cups (1600 grams) confectioners (powdered or icing) sugar, sifted

1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

1/2 cup
1/2 cup
2 level Tbsp
pinch
1/4 cup
1/2 cup
1
a little Self-raising flour
Superfine Sugar
Cocoa
Salt
Melted butter
Milk
Egg
Vanilla
Oven Temp ~ 350° Baking Time ~ 35 – 40 Min.
Pan Type ~ 7 inch cake pan

Preheat Oven, Grease and flour pan.

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Place all ingredients into a mixing bowl in the above order. Beat well for 2 minutes. Pour into a prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven until cake test done, when using a toothpick.

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How to refinish hardwood floors?

How to refinish hardwood floors?

If you have done small sanding projects, a little bit of carpentry it is time for next step and refinishing hardwood floor. I recommend to start with one small bedroom, don’t start in the hallway or whole house. Sanding wood floors is a time consuming project and it is better to learn on the small bedroom.
Tools you will need:
1.Good dust masks. Rent a good tools that have dustless refinishing system.
1.Main sander , this can be a drum sander or belt sander.
2.Edger which is to refinish the edges, close to the wall.
3.Buffer for the final smooth sanding of you hardwood floors.
4.Sand paper for each machine. For a small bedroom buy 40 grit 60 grit 80 grit 100 grit for the main sander, buy just one of each grit, for the edger the same grits but you will need 5 discs of each grit. If the supplier is close you can always buy  more if you need it, the use of the sandpaper depends on the finish that has been used on the hardwood floors. Some hardwood floors have been painted. If you would like to refinish painted hardwood floor make sure you buy a lot of paper. It is not recommended to sand paint since most of the paints will cause respiratory problems when sanded.
5.One 150 buffer screen and one 180 buffer screen.
5.vacume
6.Sealer, finish, brush and finish applicator.

You can rent those tools and the local rental tools place. In Hawaii especially on Oahu you can find couple places in yellow pages.

1.Vacumme the room first.
2.You will use the main sander first using 40 grit, make sure to sand wood floors with the grain(run the sanding machine the same direction that boards run)
3.Make sure you are sanding steady, don’t stop with the sander working.
4.Main sander will not get close to the walls, this is where you have to use edger. Use the same grit which is 40.You can take of the baseboards and install them back after the relishing is done. If you don’t want to install baseboards you will have to be very careful not to touch baseboards with the edger and then will have to manually scrape the unhanded area close to the baseboards.
5.Sand with main sander with 60 grit after that edger again with 60 grit.
6 Repeat the process using the 80 grit.
7. Reset the nails
8.Vacuume the floor very well.
8. Apply the wood filler with a large spatula.
9  Wait an until wood filler is dry. Drying time will be different depending where you are , of course in hot climate such as Hawaii, Texas, California at the hot sunny day after one hour filler is dry and wood floors ready to sand again.
10.Sand off the filler with 100 grit. If the filler did not came off completely after one cut, sand floors one more time.
11. Sand with edger close to the wall using 100grit.
12.Vacume sanded hardwood floor well. Make sure at this point to keep the floor dry and clean.
13.Using buffer sand with 150 grit.
14 Vacuum again and sand with 180 grit.
15 Vacuum again very well.
16 Apply hardwood floor sealer wait until dry.
17 Apply two coats of finish, follow manufacturer directions .

This is a simple way of refinishing hardwood floors.
Here are couple more things you should know. White oak and red oak floor are easy to refinish. Cheery and Brazilian cherry is easy too but is it a harder wood might need more paper. Maple is rather difficult to refinish and extremely hard to stain. Staining is a little bit more complicated then refinishing, the wood has to be sanded perfectly before you can apply stain. Bamboo floor can be sanded as well , it is better to use water based finishes on bamboo. Very popular environmentally friendly floor cork can not be sanded.

About the Author

Rafal Maleszyk has been providing hardwood floor services in California and Hawaii , he builds wooden furniture as well.