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LEMON SUPREME CAKE BITES

Christmas Dessert Recipe

Delicious Cake Bites

Makes 40-50

Cake Bites

Recipe by Kathy Oaks and adapted by ME into LEMON SUPREME CAKE BITES

1 devil's food cake mix (substitute Lemon Supreme Cake Mix)

3 eggs

1 1/4 cups water

1/2 cup oil

1/4 cup butter(softened)

6 ounces cream cheese (softened)

2 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

Milk, enough to make a good frosting (Substitute with a little bit of Lemon Juice and milk)

Dipping Chocolate

6 Cups Semi Sweet Chips

3T Shortening.

Melt together in a double boiler then remove from heat but keep the melted chocolate over the warm water to keep it warm while dipping.

Once dipped put the Chocolate cake balls on wax paper and let harden over night. They are DELISH! They taste like Hostess Chocolate doughnuts but more moist!

Make cake according to directions on box and bake as directed. While baking mix together butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk to make a frosting. When cake is done dump immediately into a large bowl with the cream cheese frosting (or store bought frosting) and mix it all together while still hot (it will be a little mushy). Refrigerate overnight. Roll into balls and dip in melted dipping chocolate. If balls are sticky I put them in freezer bags and flash freeze them until I'm ready to dip. They will freeze beautifully for months before they are dipped, just let them thaw for about 5 minutes before dipping to prevent cracking. Once cake bites are dipped do not refrigerate or freeze, just eat them!

*You can also use cream cheese frosting that you buy at the store.

**German chocolate cake mix mixed with German chocolate frosting and dipped in milk chocolate is also very tasty.

I didn't dip the lemon cake bites in chocolate ( but I'm betting that they would be crazy good dipped in White Chocolate)....as you may have noticed in the picture above. I made a glaze and put it into a ziplock bag and cut a tiny hole in the corner of the bag and piped the glaze over the cake bites.

GLAZE

powdered sugar

teeny tiny amount of milk

teeny tiny amount of lemon juice

keep adding the powdered sugar and the teeny amounts of milk and lemon juice until you get the desired consistency. It needs to be really thick or it will run down the sides and not be firm enough to set up and be pretty.

Also another hint to shaping the balls.... wash your hands numerous times through out the process because I found that clean hands made better balls.

ENJOY!

SIlly Angie

Angie decided to get into one of Miss D's presents... Silly Angie. Truth is I actually wanted to get this game open and play it. I didn't beat it the 1st time but I had it the second time by 1 second. We I mean Miss D should have fun with this game.



Here is the next part of the story of Jesus…
The wise men kept following the star and at last they stopped over Bethlehem. The wise men found Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus. They knelt down in front of Jesus and gave him presents that they had brought him.

Naughty Miss D

.........and yes I scolded her for dissappearing on me. This is how I found her in the backyard.

and grab.

The New Smash

Snow in the SOUTH!

Maybe we brought it with us?

Awe yeah....

Check this one out...!!!

Check it out here too!

Fantabulous GIVEAWAY!

Angie Day 6

Thank you for teaching me how to play Candyland! Can you believe that I won! You are a really good teacher. I be you are wondering what kind of fun we are going to have today? Well I know that you are going over to a friends house to play today right? Why don’t you bring me along and introduce me to your friends. I think that you are going to make Cinnamon Dough Ornaments and I would love if I could come and we could make one together. I’m so excited!

Ok I am going to tell you a little bit more of the story of baby Jesus…..

After baby Jesus was born there was some shepherds looking after their sheep on the hills near Bethlehem. Suddenly the sky shone bright with light. Don’t be scared, said an angel, “Go to Bethlehem, there you will a baby who is Christ the Lord.”

Angelcapades day 5

Good Morning Miss D,

I loved the painting that you did last night! It was also neat that your daddy helped with one of the ornaments. You did such a great job! I think we should hang them on the tree today? Don’t you? Will you teach me how to play candy land today? I saw it in your closet yesterday while we were napping and I think that I would like to learn how to play it. After breakfast can we play? I also heard that you may be going to the post office today to send a package…..can I come with you? Thank you for taking me to BSF with you today. I had fun! I want to tell you some more of our story about Jesus… are you getting excited for Christmas?

Remember where we left off….

That night Mary's baby was born. She washed him and put him in the clothes she had brought. Joseph made a bed for him in a manger, full of hay. Mary laid him gently in it. He was a beautiful perfect baby boy and she named him Jesus. Just like the angel had told her to.

Angie day 4

Good Morning Miss D, I have a special craft planned for us today! I’m hidden somewhere so you have to come and find me. I’ve got all of the supplies ready! Let’s hear some more of our story and then after BSF and your nap we will do our craft!

Let’s continue on with the story. Of the birth of Jesus...

Mary and Joseph are in Bethlehem and it is very crowded. All the rooms were taken. At last they found a stable and Joseph made a bed out of hay for Mary. There was animals all around them. I bet it was stinky in there. Mary and Joseph started preparing for baby Jesus to be born.

Christmas Tour of Homes

( hey Nester... recognize those Callas...? I got them at your garage sale.)

Angelcapades day 3

I'm backing up my pictures right now and I think that I would screw it up if I tried loading pictures at the same time so pictures of our "Angelcapades" will have to wait... but here is the letter that Angie wrote to Miss D for tomorrow.

Good Morning Miss D,

I sure slept good last night. You were so cute when you got all sad cause you wanted to snuggle with me instead of put me to bed in my red box. But I'm glad you let me sleep in my box. I needed my sleep and since you were going to have a slumber party with your Grammy I would have woke up and maybe I would have been a grumpy angel....? Do you think Angel's are ever grumpy? Naw... we are always happy. That reminds me of a song that you sing...

I'm....

In right

Out right

Up right

Down right

Happy all the time.

Since Jesus Christ came in and cleansed my heart from sin...

I'm....

In right

Out right

Up right

Down right

Happy all the time.

I love to hear you sing. Now on to our fun for today. Do you like pink? I thought you did. Well I got you special present for your room that is pink. They usually hang on people's front door or on the window's outside for decoration at Christmas time. I dropped it off at the doorstep... run and see if you can find it.

But wait. Before you find me. I have to tell you more of the story...Do you remember what part of the story we left off at from yesterday?

So Mary and Joseph became husband and wife. They had to go register for their taxes. Back then they did not have cars. So Mary and Joseph loaded all their stuff up and rode a donkey into town. They took food with them and clothes for the baby. The long journey lasted days and they walked most of the way. When they reached Bethlehem it was full of people and Mary and Joseph could not find anywhere to sleep.