Triple Layer Irish Breakfast Tea Cake

makes 1 Delicious triple layer 9' cake!

Prep Time: approx.1 hour
Serving Size: 8-12

Ingredients
Irish Breakfast Cake

4 Cups sifted flour
3 Teaspoons baking powder
1 Teaspoon salt
1 Cup unsalted butter, softened (2 sticks)
2 Cups Sugar
4 Eggs
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
1/3 Cup Milk, room temp
1 Cup Irish Breakfast brewed Tea, room temp
green food coloring (optional)

Irish Breakfast Butter Icing

3 Tablespoons Milk
3 Tablespoons Irish Breakfast brewed tea,room temp
3 Cups sifted Confectioners sugar
6 Tablespoons Butter
Dash Salt
1 Tablespoon Vanilla

Directions
In small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside for now.,

In large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating it in well inbetween each egg added. Add vanilla.
Add milk & flour to butter mixture, alternating a little at a time of each until batter is very smooth. Beat well. (if using a mixer beat med/high)
Optional step - divide batter in 1/3-1/2 to separate bowl add food coloring, drops to color desired, mix well in-between drops added.
Pour batter into 3 9' round cake pans (greased lightly or sprayed)(for a triple layer cake) only 1/2 full do NOT overfill pans. (Optional with green batter pour or drop across top of batter already poured take a batter knife and make swirls with the green into the batter already poured into the pans. Bake in 325 degree preheated oven approx. 25-30 mintues turn pans about half way through baking time.
Allow cakes to cool in pans for about 10 mintues. loosen with a spatula or knife remove from pans and cool completely
While cakes are cooling you can prepare the icing add food coloring if desired.
Once cakes are cool, you can stakc or if desired add a bit of icing between each layer
Spread icing at once..
Enjoy!

Steak Marinade

for beef, chicken or seafood marinade. great for BBQs

Prep Time: 5 mins.
Serving Size: 2 or more

Ingredients
1 TBL Green Pekoe Blues
1 TBL Oriental Spice
1 TBL Blood Orange
1/4 C Olive Oil
1/4 C Balsmic Vinegar
dash of sugar, onion powder, seasoned salt & pepper

add more or less depending on how much you want to marinade

Directions
mix well and pour over steak, tips, roast chicken or seafood. place in refrigerator for 30 mintues to 2 hours before cooking. cook as desired.

Serve with rice or potatoes, veggies, etc.
Enjoy!

Want Salt, Sweet & Crunchy!

Break Away Bars



Ingredients needed:

1 sleeve Saltine crackers
2 sticks of butter or margerine
1 cup sugar
1 PKG Chocolate Chips (you can try different varieties)

Line cookie sheet with foil

line the foil with the crackers , salt side up

Mix
butter & sugar in saucepan over med heat exactly 5 mins from start of boil then pour over crackers as evenly as possible

bake in oven at 400 degrees for about 4-5 mins until lightly brown

while on cooling rack or counter top spread bag of chocolate chip as evenly as possible let stand for about 5 mins if that using a spatula spread melted chocolate more evenly
place in refrigerator until firm

Break into pieces

NOTE: like coconut spinkle on the melted chocolate before placing in the fridge, nuts sure, toffee bits, why not??? anythign you want the possibilities are endless and totally up to you, milk chocolate, dark? peanut butter? hmmmm mint? oh yeah!

You may want to keep stored in the fridge (if theres any left of course)
Enjoy!!

Happy Knitting!

Roll Top Socks

cast on 112 stitches

join together
knit 2 tog around
knit length of leg
work 1/2 stitches for heel back and forth
row 1 slip 1, k1
row 2 slip 1 purl across
repeat for 2o rows or 1 1/2
turn heel
knit 1/2 stitches +2, k2 tog, k1 turn
slip 1 purl 6 purl 2 tog, purl one turn
continue and knit 2 tog at each gap
continue until all stitches have been used or use heel techinique desired

knit across row,
knit 1/2 stitches and pick up along heel flap for gusset, knit the next 2 needles
forth needle pick up along heel flap and oather 1/2 stitches in 1st needle

row 1 knit across 1st needle to last 2 sts knit 2 tog, k1
needles 2 & 3 knit
needle 4 k1, k2 tog knit remainer
contiue until equal amount on needles
continuing knitting each row until 1 1/2 inches for length of foot for toe decreasing
row 1 knit to last 2 k2 tog k1, needles 2 & 3 knit
needle 4 k1, k2 tog, knit remainder
row 2 knit all sts
continue these 2 rows until 8 stitches left on each needle or until you desire for toe
graft toe

make sock 2