Cake Pop Plans

Ok being the lover of baking and cooking that I am, I have to ask myself something. Looking at cake pops and their prices I can't help but ask, "can I do better?"...answer YES!
There are many stores out there.
One I follow on facebook is cakepoppery
Cake Poppery.com is one of the best places there is for cake pops.

If you want something super fancy and artsy. They're the place to go. Granted in my personal oppinion you pay out the wazoo to get a dozen cake pops. Granted for works of art they're worth it. I wish I could do what they do.
Well why am I talking about this? Well.....

I'm planning my Christmas sweets for the blog and guess what!

I'm going to be doing some recipes on cake pops.

Now I'm not going to say I'm as cool as cakepoppery....I'm NOT, not even close!

But I can tell you from personal experience people tell me that my cake pops are good. Coworkers ate every single one I ever brought in and have kept hinting over the months for more

Granted I think they're ugly when I coat them in chocolate but I personally say it's the taste that matters.
So if you decide to make some for your family trust me they'll joke about the looks but rave about the taste.

Please expect this to come out around Christmas. Along with some other tastey goodies.
I get a whole week of vacation in December. And I'll get to bombard all of you with recipes and videos. You'll be so sick of me ^.^

Also fuzzy zelda video will be aired on youtube tonight (Sunday, November 6, 11)

 There's no actual footage just pictures. Fuzzy Link was just not cooperating. What can I say she wanted to pass out candy instead of film. I did manage like a minute of footage but it's mostly of her butt because when I started filming a trick or treater came to the door and all you hear is Gypsy barking while Sasha runs to the door and my mom telling me to pass out the candy. Which in playing it on my tv was hilarious because the girls didn't recognize their own barking and ran to the tv barking and howling.

Sadly I didn't make Sasha her hat. I finally gave up on it after coming to terms with the fact she wouldn't wear it anyway. So it will be a hatless link...poor hatless link.

Also airing tonight will be my long promised video of bife milanesa : ) I know I promised that ages ago.

Bife Milanesa

So continuing on with the Birthday celebrations for my mom I made her favorite foods. All Brazilian of course. I made black beans, white rice, couve, sliced tomatoes with olive oil drizzled on top of them, and her favorite Bife Milanesa. Which is basically fried beef steak.

So this is what you'll need to make it:

4 Thin steaks
2 eggs
flour
breadcrumbs
oil for frying (I use vegetable oil, sometimes vegtable and olive oil mixed together)
pepper and salt

Take out the steaks and put them on your cutting board. Using a tenderizing mallet beat them senseless....ya I know that sentence made no sense at all, the steaks are dead I know, but I liked typing it.

Then take the steaks and sprinkle salt and pepper and coat them in the flour.

Take your two eggs, crack them open and beat them with a fork. Dip your steak into the egg mixture then coat it with the bread crumbs.

In a small frying pan, put in the oil and heat it up. When it's ready cook one steak at a time.
To test the readiness of the oil you can drop some breadcrumbs into it. If they float up it's ready to go : )

The steaks will cook really fast, seriously I'd say under 4 minutes, so don't take your eyes off them and turn it once. They'll look nice and golden brown.

Also a note on the breading. My mom is a personal fan of using american style breadcrumbs with italian seasoning. It is really tastey. My personal preference though is using panko. But that's up to you.

Here's the finished plate for my mom's birthday dinner : )

Instructional Youtube video to come soon! I took so many pictures while making this.
Also recipes to come with youtube videos:
1) Bife com cebola, beef with onion
2) Couve, sauteed collard greens, (pictured up top)