Softer Feet Tip

Hi all we all have been very busy lately. So here I go. New food post will come soon later this or next week. Hear are a few health tips for now. More beauty tips can be found at our facebook page under discussion.

Try to soak your feet for around 10mins, once a week. Soaking feet helps soften hardened skin and makes removing hard cracked skin easier. You will get a better result removing soaked skin than regular dry skin.

After removing dry crack skin on feet apply a good foot moisturizer (like a body butter) and put some socks over your feet so they bask in deep moisture.

More beauty tips and not the same ones can be found at both facebook page under discussion or myspace blog.

Chocolate Coca Cola Cake

I had never heard of this cake before nor any of my main family members. I found it in my recipe book but found this is a common recipe. Online sometimes referred to as a white trash cake recipe.

I thought, as did my mom & grandma, Coco Cola Cake? Is this like tomato soup cake. With liquid tomato soup out of a can in the center of the cake? Here is what I soon discovered about the infamous Chocolate Coco-Cola Cake. 1st - many version.

I haven't been baking sweets too much since my vow to eat healthier, but today seemed like a dessert day. I made the Coca Cola Cake & I don't drink or like soda, but I loved this cake! It was so moist and delicious. If you love soda you maybe a little disappointed you couldn't taste the Coke in the cake. The cake itself is one of those moist fluffy cakes. If you pressed the back of a fork to it, it would just lift up with the fork.

Chocolate Coca-Cola Cake

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup Coke (Coca-Cola)
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1-1/2 cups miniature marshmallows
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil (optional)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 350, and thoroughly grease a 9×13″-pan.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Bring the butter and Coke to a boil and add to dry ingredients, mixing until well incorporated. Add the buttermilk and eggs, mix well, and then fold in marshmallows. Don’t be alarmed; the batter is very thin and the marshmallows will float on top.
3. Bake for 45 to 60 minutes. Frost when hot.

Add marshmallows right into batter and fold them in.

Chocolate Coke Fudge Icing

• 1/2 cup butter
• 2-3 tbsp cocoa
• 6 tbsp Coke (Coca Cola)
  
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
  
• 16 ounces = 1 box confectioner's sugar or powdered sugar (approx. 3 cups)
• 1 cup chopped, toasted chopped pecans or other nuts (optional)
  
  

Mix butter, cocoa, and cola in a small saucepan, and bring to a boil. Add vanilla and pour over powdered sugar, whisking well. Fold in nuts. Spread over cake while hot. Let the cake cool entirely before serving so that the icing sets.

This is a weird but very common recipe.

The result was very good, but very sweet. The cake itself isn’t too sweet - chocolate, but has a faint caramel-like flavor added from the cola. The icing, on the other hand, is incredibly sweet like sinful fudge, but the two combines meld (mesh) well together. The frosting makes a thin layer that is just the right sweetness for the cake.

Each person unaware of this cake recipe were not up to the taste test. Once I told them you will enjoy trust my baking this cake was enjoyed by all. I was also amazed to watch the way the marshmallows simply baked into the cake, making it extra silky and springy. Note: You could substitute the cola with another brand of soda. Pepsi, I find is sweeter and less caramel-tasting than Coke or RC.

(Photo a piece of Coca-Cola Cake)

I got my recipe from an old cook book but you can also find this recipe online. This particular recipe came from the Coke website. The link connects to a list of Coca Cola related recipes.

• Sift together flour and sugar into large bowl.
  
• Add marshmallows. In a saucepan, mix butter, oil, cocoa and coca-cola.
  
• Bring to a boil. (I make sure to melt the butter a bit by itself first, things seem to go more smoothly that way.)
  
• Pour the mixture over top the sugar, flour& marshmallows and blend well.
  
• Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk just before adding it to the batter along with the eggs and vanilla extract.
• Pour into a greased 9x13 jellyroll pan. Bake for 30-45 minutes.
• While the cake is baking go ahead and prepare the frosting.
• Combine butter, cocoa powder and coca cola in a saucepan. (First melting the butter a little.)
  
• Bring to a boil and pour over confectioners' sugar and blend well. Add vanilla extract and crushed pecans.

Now please pay attention this finale step is important!
Ice the cake WHILE HOT! Directly OUT of the OVEN! You want to shoot for a roughly 50-50 ratio between cake and icing. Enjoy!

What is Your Skin Type

Do you have sensitive or dry skin? Take this quiz to find out and determine your skin type.

1. What is your skin like when you first wake up?
a. Normal – very little change from the night before.
b. Tight and flaky.
c. Oily all over.
d. Red and blotchy.

2. After you wash your face, wait 15-20 minutes. What is your skin like then?
a. Comfortable – not too oily and not too tight.
b. Very tight and dull looking.
c. Oily around the nose, forehead, chin and spreading to the cheek area.
d. Red and itchy.

Still not sure take a piece of a brown paper bag. Tear 3 section apply the paper to your forehead and t-zones. Do not use the same section of paper on the skin.
A. Oily. B. Nothing. A little oily. Where did the oily come from? You may have combination.

3. The pores on your face are ________
a. A little noticeable around the nose.
b. Barely noticeable, if at all.
c. Large and noticeable with blackheads, especially around the nose then spreading to the cheeks.

4. I would describe the condition of my skin as ________
a. Pretty good – sometimes a little oily around the t-zone & sometimes a little dry in the cheek area.
b. Uncomfortable – dull, itchy, flaky.
c. Problematic – tends to breakout often and is flaky at times. d. Challenging – I have bad reactions to products often, gets red and blotchy with certain food & beverages that I consume, etc.

Answers:

* If you answered mainly “a”, then you have normal or combination skin
* If you answered mainly “b”, then you have dry to very dry skin
* If you answered mainly “c”, then you have oily skin
* If you answered mainly “d”, then you have sensitive skin.

Sources: skin savers and fukkard

Tip For Smoother Skin

Smoother Skin Tip for both face and neck - September 17, 2010.

1. Wash skin with water left over from boiled cabbage. (WAIT TIL THE WATER HAS COOLED DOWN FIRST, MIND YOU!)
2. To help the skin feel cleanser and tighter and to reduce open pores, cut a tomato in half, rub
3. on skin and leave for at 15 - 30 minutes.
   
4. Wash the tomato paste off skin.

Eyes -

1. To lighten dark circles under the eyes, wrap grated raw potato in cheesecloth.
   
2. Apply to eyelids 15 to 20 minutes.
   
3. Rinse with warm water.

To Reduce puffiness and bags:

1. Place a thin slice of cucumber or an ice-cold tea bag on each eyelid. Decaf or non either works.

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Basic Makeup Tips for Summer

Did you know?

• That applying blush in a c shape around your cheeks and eyes will give you a more youthful appearance. Yes when applying blush on top of cheeks bones curve it up wards in a C shape around the outer corner of eyes.

Did you know?

• Wiggle the wand left to right at the base of lashes. It's the mascara placed near the roots -- not the tips -- that gives the illusion of length. ;-)

Did you know?

• That applying lip stain is best with a lip brush. This is because you get just enough coverage and stain is applied more evenly.