snack saturday

Chocolate Cake Roll

6 squares Semi-Sweet Chocolate, divided
6 Tbsp. butter
1 cup granulated sugar
4 eggs
1 cup flour, divided
1/2 tsp. baking soda
2/3 cup water
125 g (1/2 of 250-g pkg.) Brick Cream Cheese, softened
3/4 cup icing sugar, divided
3 cups thawed Whipped Topping, divided

HEAT oven to 350°F.

SPRAY 15x10x3/4-inch pan with cooking spray. Line with waxed paper; spray with additional cooking spray.

MICROWAVE 3 chocolate squares and butter in medium microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 to 2 min. or until butter is melted. Stir until chocolate is completely melted. Add granulated sugar; mix well. Beat eggs in large bowl with mixer on high speed 3 min. or until thickened. Blend in chocolate mixture. Add 1/4 cup flour and baking soda; beat just until blended. Add remaining flour alternately with water, beating well after each addition. Spread into prepared pan.

BAKE 15 min. or until top of cake springs back when touched; sprinkle with 1/4 cup icing sugar. Immediately invert cake onto clean towel; remove pan. Carefully peel off paper. Starting at one short side, roll up cake and towel together; cool completely on wire rack.

BEAT cream cheese and remaining icing sugar in medium bowl with mixer until well blended. Gently stir in 1-1/2 cups Cool Whip.

UNROLL cake carefully; remove towel. Spread cream cheese mixture onto cake, completely covering top of cake. Roll up cake; place, seam-side down, on platter.

MICROWAVE remaining chocolate and whipped topping in microwaveable bowl 1 to 1-1/2 min. or until chocolate is completely melted and mixture is well blended, stirring after 1 min. Cool slightly; spread onto cake. Refrigerate 1 hour.

it's a wrap!

I've been debating about how to show the last customer quilts I did before Christmas and instead of doing a whole bunch of different post, I thought I would do them all at once.

Sit back and enjoy!

Double Plume


Ribbons and Roses


Halcyon



Close up of the pattern


Twilight


I loved the backing fabric on it


Mimosa


Fay Feathers




Plumage


Daisies and Loops


Angel Wings


Now onto 2010's quilts!

card friday

finish from 2009

This was/is Mom's Christmas present. I only had a few blocks finished on Christmas so I hoofed it to get this finished before the end of the year.

Now it's finished and already hanging at mom's.

Quilted with Fire Flower and Lava 217

wordless wednesday

i got carried away

I'm attempting to make a doll quilt for a special little someone. That is if I would just sit down and DO the quiltie lol. I want to put a wee border on it and thought I had a small piece of flannel in my scrap box. So I went digging.



Now I have an, almost, empty scrap bin and have come to the realization that the piece of flannel I am looking for is at work with my to-be-quilted quilts *sigh*



At least I can close my scrap bin now. And someone is going to be gifted with all the bits/leftovers. And yes, there are some great chunks in there; two charm square packs, about 5 fat quarters. Fun!

i loves it

Inspired by Nesting Place.

I started with all these,



Pulled off the backs, all the nails/clips/staples and got rid of the glass. And in one case, the mirror.



Primed them,



And many, many, MANY coats of paint later,




I laid them out on the floor first, fiddled where I wanted each to go. Than out came the level and with Jim's help, the finished project.



Now if I just need to figure out what color to repaint the red in the dining room.

sock monkeys!

You may have realized that I am a big sock monkey fan. 2 years ago I bought a sock monkey fat quarter pack. It sat in my fabric stash until the fall when I made this quilt using some of the fat quarters.

I have another baby shower this week and figured I should use up more of the fabric. The hardest part on these quilts is finding something to use as the borders since this line is long gone from the fabric stores.



I wasn't too sure of this quilt at first but I'm liking how it has turned out. I'm still not sold on the border so I made it smaller(4inches instead of 6.5)



Now fingers crossed I have enough flannel for the backing and off to work this week to get this one quilted and ready for baby. And my first finish of 2010!