Lonesome Snow Globe

Lately I've been feeling a bit sad and lonely. Well many may say it's the way I always am; non senes! Some days with no reason and many other days with enough reasons, am like this. :-(

This is my second snow globe-ish illustration; the first one won Monday Artday's weekly challenge, "Glass". Anyways...it shows how am feeling at the moment.

Hopefully I'll be cheerful once more!

My Hearty Apple Cake

Here’s my favorite “Apple Cake” recipe that I’m going to share with you all! I’ve been baking and re-baking it; replacing ingredients, different measurements. It’s the best one so far, at least for me and my family! Recently I made one for my dearest dad to take it with him on his vacation.
Attention: Try to “imagine” what the lil’ girl is sitting on is an apple! It’s supposed to be but I don’t know why it looks like a rotten one!
And now the recipe itself:

~Apple Cake~

2 medium apples, peeled, cored and chopped
1 Tbs brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon powder
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup brown sugar
¼ cup margarine or butter, softened
1 egg
¼ cup low-fat milk
1 cup chopped walnut (optional)

Direction: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Mix apples, 1 Tbs brown sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon powder in a bowl and set aside. Now sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon powder. Add chopped walnuts to the flour mixture. Mix together sugar, margarine and egg. Now add the wet ingredients to the dry ones (or the other way around!). Gradually add milk to this mixture so the dough would loosen up a bit. Finally mix in the apple mixture with a wooden spoon or a spatula. Pour the batter into a prepared 9x5 inch loaf pan.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 45 minutes.

*You can serve it hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and some home-made caramel sauce! Yummmm!

Cheers :-)

Hanging In There

Well...I've done this for a friend of mine who's feeling a bit awkward these days and wants to be left alone for a while. Since I've had the same moments in my life (who hasn't?!) when you feel like you're in the middle of no where and trying to find your way back...I sprinkle it over with the innocence of a baby so to paint a smile on his face...even if it's a bitter one!

Cheers :-)

Birthday Report

Today was one of those days you can hardly forget; my dad's 54th birthday! I woke up at 6 a.m., worked on the "Cute Chick" birthday card for 2 hours and then got on with baking a cake! By the end of it all, I was exhausted but yet excited. My dearest brother and sister in law joined us with some ice-cream and the celebration had officially started!

The greatest thing was that HUGE smile on my dad's face! It was all worthed, I thought to myself.

Cheers :-)

IF: Baby

Here's what I've done for this week's IF, 'Baby'. It's all I could think of...an expecting mom. I believe being pregnant is the most beautiful thing that can happen to a woman. I mean what is more exciting than bearing an innocent child inside you? Hmmmm...am feeling sentimental!

Cheers :-)