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Recipe: Hungarian Nut Cookies

Ah and here is our famous recipe. Everyone asks us for these cookies every holiday season, and it has come to be that time again! We have made them tonight to take to our friend's house tomorrow for Thanksgiving. Hopefully you can make your own cookies sometime and get just as much love and praise as we have in the past! The cookies have even won multiple baking awards! 

Follow the photos at the bottom to complete the cookies once the dough and filling are made.

Hungarian Nut Cookies

Dough:

4 cups sifted flour

1 teaspoon salt

½ pound cream cheese, softened

½ pound butter, softened

Work all ingredients well with hands to form dough.

Add 6 egg yolks and ½ cup milk

Mix well; roll dough into 2-inch balls

Refrigerate balls to chill

Filling:

2 pounds walnuts

6 beaten egg whites

½ teaspoon vanilla

½ cup sugar

1 pound white/golden raisins (seedless)

Grind walnuts and raisins together with food processor.

Add beaten egg whites, vanilla, and sugar. Mix well.

To prepare cookies:

Place sugar on rolling surface. (1)

Roll dough balls to form a circle. (2 & 3)

Cut circles into triangle using pizza cutter. (4)

Fill each triangle with ½ teaspoon filling. (5 & 6)

Roll triangle to form a crescent. (7 & 8)

Place on a greased cookie sheet (9)

Bake at 350 degrees until lightly golden

 

Hello!!!

Hello my lovely Crocheted Cupcakers! Sorry for this long hiatus that I have been on. While I have not been baking so much, I have been crocheting up a storm! My friends & family will be getting some great Christmas gifts this year :)

Anyway, I hope all of you haven't lost faith in me as I will continue on with this Crocheted Cupcake venture in the future, as I have done in the past!

A few life updates: I went to England in July to meet my pen pal, Jess. It was fabulous! All of you should go to England at some point as the northern region is just beautiful. Then, for the past few months I have been busy busy with school (I'm a senior in college and will be graduating with my BA in Business Administration in the Spring 2013) and dealing with all these NJ natural disasters! Who would have thought that we would ever see gas rationing again? But anyway!

Here are some photos of my most recent crochet scarves. They include: Granny square with scallop edging, lacy, ruffle and zig-zag patterns. If you are interested in purchasing a custom scarf in one of these patterns, feel free to check out The Crocheted Cupcake Facebook page and message me! :)

Happy crocheting my lovelies! 

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This is really a whole bunch of cupcakes (55 to be exact). Then you pull them apart and eat away!

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Zucchini Bread Recipe

Mom got some zucchini this past weekend at a flea market and we decided to make some somewhat (not really!) healthy bread out of it. The recipe is originally from AllRecipes.com. It’s very moist and you can’t even taste the zucchini. Besides all the sugar, it’s a good bread recipe to hide some veggies in it for picky kids. (Try substituting some sugar-free applesauce or carrots in it instead of all that sugar—what I’m doing with another bread recipe.) It's also super good the next day, gets better with age (but not too long, then it'll get moldy!).

Ingredients:

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2 1/4 cups white sugar
• 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups grated zucchini
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

1. Grease and flour two 8 x 4 inch pans. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
2. Sift flour, salt, baking powder, soda, and cinnamon together in a bowl.
3. Beat eggs, oil, vanilla, and sugar together in a large bowl. Add sifted ingredients to the creamed mixture, and beat well. Stir in zucchini and nuts until well combined. Pour batter into prepared pans.
4. Bake for 40 to 60 minutes, or until tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on rack for 20 minutes. Remove bread from pan, and completely cool.

Klutz Crochet Hat

Here are some directions to make a quick and easy crochet hat, thanks to Klutz! I find that the Klutz crochet and knitting books are hard to come by, but they are so helpful in teaching you a basis. This hat is so easy that I made on my way to the airport before my trip to Vietnam! And then realized I was doing something wrong and had to take it out and start over. Nonetheless, it still worked and my friend had a semi-weird shaped hat by the time we said goodbye. When I have used this pattern other times, it has come out perfect and looks great. Adorn it with some embellishments or flowers and you have yourself a super cute, stylish hat! 

Hat:

1. Start by making a chain of 4 stitches. Join the ends by making a slip stitch in the first stitch
2. Chain 3
3. Make 9 double crochets right into the center of the ring while weaving the end of the yarn into the ring (so you won’t have to sew it in later).
4. Use a stitch marker to mark the stitch that is currently on your hook (9^th dc)
5. Make 2 double crochets right into the space between the first string of chains and the first double crochet
6. Now make 2 double crochets in the next stitch and every stitch around. Stop when you get to the stitch marker
7. Move your marker to the loop on your hook and then repeat these stitches all the way around: *1 dc in the next stitch, 2 dc in the following stitch** There should be 30 stitches
8. Move marker to the loop on the hook and start the 4^th round. Follow this pattern: *1 dc in the next 2 stitches, 2 dc in the following stitch** There should be 40 stitches total
9. Move marker to the loop on your hook and start the 5^th round: *1 dc in next 3 stitches, 2 dc in following stitch** Total of 50 stitches
10. Move marker to the loop on your hook and start the last round (last round of increases, yippee!): *1 dc in next 4 stitches, 2 dc in the following stitch** Total of 60 stitches
11. Move your marker down a row so it is out of the way bit still marks the end of a round. DC in every stitch around now until you get to the right length. You can stop a ½ inch before and end the hat with a girly scallop edging.

Scalloped Edge:

1. If you want the trim to be a different color, then add the new yarn now. Make a SC in the next stitch
2. Skip a stitch then make 5 dc in the next one
3. Repeat this sequence all the way around: *skip a stitch, make a sc in the next one, skip a stitch, make 5 dc in the next one**
4. When you get to the beginning again, skip a stitch and make a slip stitch in the next one.
5. Cut yarn and weave into hat