Yummy Bread

While making our bread we reviewed the ingredients needed to produce carbon dioxide gas, which causes our bread to rise.

My little chefs preparing to make some fabulous bread
1 cup warm water

2 tbs white sugar

2-1/4 tsp yeast



let the yeast dissolve and foam for 10 mins

1/4 cup vegetable oil

3 cups bread flour and 1 tsp salt

Whola!! It was beautiful and Everyone loved it. Daddy said, "Best bread to come out of our machine yet."

This bread is so yummy! It is mother tested and mother approved! Crust was flaky and the bread was oh so soft. I give my kids 5 stars.

Special thanks to Diggetydog on Allrecipes.com

Micah and Lauren Helping in the Kitchen

These two love being in the kitchen with me and I really enjoy it. This evening they helped make biscuits from scratch. Afterwards they played with the leftover dough.

Ladybug Cake

Micah mashing the bananas
Lauren and Hannah making the icing

Lauren testing it to make sure it is edible

Lauren icing

Hannah icing

Their masterpiece

While decorating the cake we talked about:

1)How we identify an insect

2)What a ladybug uses its antennas for

3)How ladybugs are benefecial in our garden

Then we reviewed other facts we learned about the ladybugs.

Pumpkin Bread IV

This is an absolutely wondeful recipe. The recipe is from Cheryl Riccioli.

Makes three full size loaves.
Ingredients
3 cups canned pumpkin puree
1-1/2 cups vegetable oil
4 cups white sugar
6 eggs
4 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

optional: add in chocolate chips, or when bread is cooked and has cooled you can add cream cheese and make little sandwiches.

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour three 9x5 loaf pans.
2. In a large bowl, mix together the pumpkin, oil, sugar, and eggs. Combine all other ingredients in another bowl and mix together. Add dry mixture to pumpkin puree. Mix well. Divide evenly into three loaf pans.
3. Bake in preheated oven 45 - 60 mins. The top of the loaf should spring back when lightly pressed.

Yummy, Yummy! Hope you enjoy.