Simple Woman's Daybook

For Today

Linking to Peggy for the Daybook, October edition.

Looking out my window

The day is bright and sunny. It is 73 F and the sky is vivid blue.

Barnegat Bay is blue and calm.  

I am thinking

How thankful I am that our friends in Puerto Rico are safe and sound!
The US Coat Guard is delivering food every couple of days. It will be a long road to recovery.

I am thankful
For family and friends who care.

One of my favorite things

HomemadeTacos!

I am creating

A new painting of surf on jetty. It is not finished yet.

click to see larger size

 

I am  listening to

Haydn's Symphony No. 3 in D Major

In my kitchen

Coconut Cream Cake
350F and about 30 minutes for the layers.

1/2 cup butter softened
2 1/'4 cups sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
mix
6 large eggs beat into mixture and make sure sugar is well dissolved
and mixture is fluffy
2 or 3 minutes

3 cups flour sifted before measuring
add to it 4 tsp of baking powder
resift flour and powder
1 1/2 cups of heavy whipping cream

add in thirds to the mixture
add 1/3 flour
then half the  cream..
use mixer again and beat for a few minutes

prepare cake pans You need 3 of them
grease with crisco. add wax paper grease that and dust with flour
1/3 mix into each 9" cake pan

Egg White Icing
birds eye frozen flaked coconut
 1 cup sugar
4 T water or 1.3 cup
1/2 cup light corn syrup
into pan and medium heat with lid on
take off lid on rapid boil to 242f or use cold water test .. ball will hold its shape


beat 4 egg whites in glass bowl
soft peaks form

Pour the hot syrup into the egg whites in a fine stream
using your beater on high. This cooks the egg whites.

add pure vanilla 1 tsp and mix in with spoon well

Ice each layer and add coconu on each layer

cake must be refrigerated and only lasts about 3 days
 

In my garden

 

 

Board room

click here to see Cool Winter Coloring  on my Pinterest

 

Shared Quote

A moment from my day

The Little in the living Room watching Sponge Bob..

Closing Notes

From the Little, age 9   re: boys
"They don't know how hard it is. They want you to always do what they want to do.  They don't listen and they don't care what girls want to do."

Yeah, pretty much the truth even when you grow up.