A fun and simple project, you can make little figures of people out of sugar paste. This is a simple and tasty decorating tip to top your next cake or confection. All you need is a little food coloring and a few dabs of water.
Hair removal is never what one would call a pleasant experience, but for women who desire silky, unbushy legs, it's a way of life, and a constant one at that. But typical waxing can strip your skin of moisture as well as cause ingrown hairs.
You know the brown sugar facial scrub from Fresh? Well, this DIY facial scrub is pretty much the same thing, minus the cancer-causing parabens. Exfoliate and nourish your complexion without putting yourself at risk for some nasty side effects by making this brown sugar and olive oil facial scrub.
This episode of Food Mob goes Mexican and adds a spicy flair to your dinner table. These chicken fajitas are cooked to perfection in true Mexican style. After cooking your fajitas, learn how to make delicious lemon vanilla sugar for your desserts. Enjoy!
Got some strawberries and want to cook something special with them? Then read on and watch this video!
If you love coffee cake then this is the recipe for you! Put a spin on the classic coffee cake recipe by watching this video.
In order to prepare Rhea‚Äôs Cherry Pie, you will need the following ingredients: 1 ¬O cups of flour, 1 tsp of salt, ¬O vegetable shortening (chilled), water, 3 tsp of sugar, pitted cherries, 1 T. butter, and ¬O cup of half and half.
This video teaches you how to make a whiskey sour drink from scratch. You first put 1 jigger of whiskey for each drink into a cocktail shaker. Next you add about ¾ of an ounce of lemon juice per drink. Then you add 1 tablespoon of sugar syrup. You make this by heating water and dissolving sugar in it, about 2x as much sugar as water. Next you add crushed ice, and shake until the drink is ice cold. You can tell when the drink is ice cold when the shaker begins to condensate and feels cold to t...
Cooking Light food editors show you what to do -- and what not to do -- to create the perfect caramel. There are certain do's and don'ts to making caramel. It involves sensitive heat and making sure not to burn the sugar.
No coffeehouse or cappuccino maker in sight? Whip up a tasty instant version with a little ingenuity and some common ingredients. You will need:
Simple Syrup is used in many drinks as a sweetner and is incredibly easy to make. Ingredients: 1 glass sugar
Mixologist Chris McMillian walks us through the history and preparation of the Irish Coffee. This is a classic after dinner drink and was created in Ireland and introduced in the US in the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco.
Want to crack a bottle over your friends head, but you don't really want to hurt him? Okay, well, you won't learn that here, but you will learn how to make breakable glass to knock him over the head with a pasta dish. Sugar glass, yeah!
A fire snake, also referred to as a black snake or sugar snake, is a classic science experiment you can do right in your own kitchen using a baking soda and sugar mixture and a fuel to ignite the reaction.
One lump or two? That was the age-old question with sugar cubes, which used to be a staple of any tea salon or dignified household this side of Downton Abbey. These days sugar isn't really used in cubes much except in bars and restaurants, and that's a shame. Cubes are a lot less messy than granulated sugar, and you can measure the exact amount you put in your drink no matter what.
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This video is about making homemade pumpkin puree. You will want to make sure to use a sugar pie pumpkin. One sugar pie pumpkin will produce around 16 oz of pumpkin puree. Begin by carefully sawing your pumpkin in half and remove the seeds. Place the pumpkin halves face down on a piece of well oiled parchment paper. Bake at 425 degrees for an hour, or until the flesh is very soft. When the pumpkin has cooled remove the flesh with a spoon. Place the flesh in a bowl and mash it up with a fork o...
Check out this video for an elegant solution to the problem of sugar cane harvesting. Streamline your harvesting with this clever, effective, machine. Watch the video to learn how to replicate this design and build your own sugar cane harvesting machine in Minecraft.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn about nutrition that will help lose fat and gain muscle. Users learn about the meal they should consume after a workout session. The meal should be predigested to help recover muscles rapidly after a workout. The meal advised to digest is whey protein and a banana. The amount of protein consumption depends on the weight of the user. Users can choose to simply consume the protein with just water or by blending it with other nutritional sources such as the ...
In this video, Yuri Elkaim will teach you how to get six pack abs using cardio and strength training. He breaks down the discussion of cardio vs. strength training for burning fat and building muscle. In the video, Elkaim stresses high-intensity interval training (HIIT), in which he says you will burn more calories, and therefore lose more fat if that is your aim. Furthermore, working at a higher intensity for longer periods of time increases your cardiovascular strength to an even higher deg...
Good Housekeeping reports that despite many people believe the new drinking energy shots is healthy as it contains B vitamin, caffeine, and few calories, it might not be the case. Samantha Cassetty from Good Housekeeping Institute suggests that there is no added benefit by taking B vitamin since people are talking them from daily diet. Health experts also suggest 300 mg/day is the optimal caffeine consumption level but not all energy drinks reveal their caffeine amount on the labels. Natural ...
The goal of this video tutorial is to teach you how to perform the "coin through sugar packet" magic trick. This instructional is to help anyone wanting to be a magician, helping you understand technique and presentation of simple but effective illusions. These tricks are pretty easy, but with time, practice and patience you will be able to amaze your friends and your family. Learn the coin through a sugar packet magic prop trick.
Monitoring and tightly controlling your blood sugar level can significantly reduce the risk of complications due to diabetes and provide you with a higher quality of life. This video helps explain how to monitor your blood sugar levels for the best quality of life.
A variation on the Rice Krispie treat, make some cookies using Cap'n Crunch cereal! Start with a box of powdered Cap'n Crunch and bread flour, and then add baking powder, baking soda, butter, white sugar, brown sugar and some eggs.
As with all cute and cuddly creatures that you take home as a pet, the actual work part of the equation doesn't sink in until you find your first poop droppings and pee stains on the carpet.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make lemon drizzle cakes. You will need: 120 g butter, 170 g flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 170 g sugar, 60 ml milk, zest of two lemons, and 2 medium eggs. For the drizzle you will need: 100 g icing sugar, juice from 1/2 lemon, and 10 ml gin. Start out by creaming the butter and the sugar together. Then, mix in the rest of the ingredients in with this until you have a batter. When finished, pour these into a baking pan with small loaves and bake until cooked all...
In this video, we learn how to make old fashioned sugar cookies. First, you will need 2 sticks of butter and 1 3/4 c sugar. Mix this together, then add in two eggs to the bowl and mix together again. Now, add in 2 3/4 c flour and mix this up with a spoon. Form into a large bowl, then roll out on a flat surface. After this, you can cut out round shapes or any other shape you would like. Bake the cookies in the oven until they are golden brown, then enjoy and eat with milk or ice cream.
Love orchids? Then you'll love them even more when they're made of sugar and topping your next baked creation. Sugar orchids sound difficult to put together, but really they require nothing more than a little patience and sugarpaste. To learn how to make them, check out this cake decorating tutorial.
Did you know that chapstick dries your lips out? Sounds counterintuitive, given that chapstick claims that it prevents chapped lips, but chapstick actually contains an ingredient in it that parches your skin.
In this tutorial, we learn how to color a sugar crafted lily petal. Insert your paste onto a green wire, then cover the paste with clear edible glue. Then, place the piece into yellow sugar sprinkles. After this, create your petals out of gum paste and push down on the edges to create a petal shape and feeling. Next, apply the glue onto the center of the flower and add this onto the piece that you just made, wrapping it around. After this, wait for it to dry and you will have a beautiful lily...
Rock candy endures as a childhood sweet because it is both taught in science class as a fun (and yummy) experiment and because it's made entirely out of sugar. And you'd have to be just downright weird if you're a kid who doesn't like sugar.
Check out this tutorial for steps on how to perform a very cool slight of hand trick. In this video, learn how to take a solid sugar packet, toss it in the air and catch it - like a ring - around your pointer finger. Your audience will be totally amazed, but you will know the secret.
The Caldesis shows us how to cook Duck with Cherry Sauce, in this video.To get strated,reduce some Gabbiano red wine and sugar in a pan.On a baking tray put in some tinned cherries and pour its juice on the top.To this,add some orange juice and sprinkle some sugar on top.Put this in the oven,for 10-15 minutes,at 180 degrees F and cook until the cherries are browned and the sugar is caramelized. Take four duck breasts and trim off the excess fat on the sides.Sprinkle some salt and pepper on it...
This video from Liaison College demonstrates how to make coconut macaroons. The ingredients needed are egg whites, granulated sugar, salt, vanilla, sifted cake flour and sweetened shredded coconut.
This video shows the method to make buttercream icing. Take a cup of white shortening so that mixing it with the other ingredients will make the color white. If you like the taste of butter, you can use half a cup of butter and half a cup of shortening. Start mixing the mixture. Add one teaspoon of vanilla, lemon, orange or almond extract. Add four cups of confectioner's sugar or powder sugar to the mixture. Add it slowly to the mixture so that there is no smoke which forms by adding the whol...
In this movie Edna shows us how to make gum paste. The recipe is very easy to follow and Edna begins with the materials. Sift the sugar through a regular sifter first. Then you have to carefully separate your eggs so that you can utilize the whites for this. The whites get whisked briefly at high speed and the sugar is added. It takes a while for the sugar and egg white to bind. When it reaches soft peaks you add tylose. The paste can be rolled out and left to rest in the fridge as it dries o...
In this video a recipe of Tomato sauce with basil is demonstrated. For this you need to first heat a pan and add olive oil into the pan. Then add sliced garlic and stir for about a minute. Next, add chopped and mashed tomatoes and salt. Mix it thoroughly and let it cook for about half an hour, stirring occasionally. After half an hour taste the sauce to see if it is right. Some people prefer to use sugar at this point. You may add the sugar, about one tablespoon or to taste, and then continue...
Things You'll Need: 3 cups grated carrot, 1 cup flour, 2 tsp baking powder - 1 t tsp baking soda 1 t salt 2 t ground cinnamon 4 eggs 2 t vanilla extract 1 c brown sugar packed c sugar 1 oil 1 c walnuts finely chopped c raisins For frosting 8 oz. cream cheese 1 stick butter 3 cups powdered sugar 2 tsp. vanilla 1 c. chopped walnuts Step 1 Preheat oven to 350F. Prepare 11 X 8 rectangular baking pan by lining with non-stick parchment and grease. Step 2 Grate carrots and set aside. Step 3 Sift flo...
This video by overthekitchencounter shows you how to prepare cinnamon buns. For this you'll need milk, eggs, flour, salt, butter, fast rise yeast, butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and vanilla. Mix up milk, an egg, flour, sugar, yeast, salt and butter and mix it thoroughly to make the dough. Knead the dough, let it rest and roll it out using a rolling pin as shown. Spread butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, nuts and raisins as shown over the dough. Roll it in, starting from the long end as demonstrate...
Dissolve yeast and 1 1/2 teaspoonful of white sugar in lukewarm water. Mix until bubbly then set aside.
