Roost 59

So the family and I did our normal day out and found this place in Lake Villa, IL. I think the best thing about the place is the fried apples. Which I think I am going to try and recreate. I had the philly steak, my kids had a hot dog, (  which is almost impossible to screw up) and chicken fingers and my husband had 2 thighs and leg (which is not what he ordered). They made their own honey mustard, not so great. I thought there was too much mustard and it was tart. I found my beef was a little on the salty side. My husband said his chicken tasted like fish. Over all it just was not impressive. The decor was nice and bright. They post that anything that is not simple like hot dogs takes 15-20 minutes to get. I think the only item I will be ordering is the apples.

Facebook Page

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I created a facebook  page for my sweet treats. So if you like what your reading, you can find me now on Face book. Look up Mama Z's Sweet Kitchen Treats and like me. I m hoping it will take off and I will be a busy person, but anything can happen. Thanks for everyone who has been reading me.

No Bake Cheese cake

After looking at many recipes for no bake cheese cakes. I combine a couple of them to come up with this. It is very rich, but it works . I chose to do it in mini cups. It is dense. I added a little vanilla. Here is the cake recipe. You can buy  a pre made crust or you can make your own. If I want a little different crust, I will crush pretzels and use those as the crust.

Cake:
1 bag of white chocolate chips. I use Ghiradelli
1 pint of heavy whipping cream or you can use 1 8oz frozen whipped topping , thawed
2 8oz bricks of cream cheese. Cube it for easy melting

Melt the chips until smooth, reduce the heat to low and mix in the cream cheese. Stir  until smooth. Remove from heat. then slowly fold /stir in the the whipped topping or heavy cream. Make sure the mixture is smooth.
Then pour into pie crust. Refriderate until firm.  Serve.  I had done the two in  the picture, one with a Carmel topping the other with a chocolate sauce topping.

Sugar Cookies

So I have found a great recipe that works and I have a couple pictures to show. I need work on my frosting technique but its getting there. they seem to go like pringles.

Birthday cake attempt

So my daughter turned 1 this past weekend. Yea! and  I made her a cake. It was ok. Not how I would have liked it to come out. The cake was a little dry and pressed for time with the unexpected early arrival of my in laws, I used frosting in a can. I will not do that again. I never realized how yucky it tastes. How can they sell something that tastes that bad. So its suppose to be a lady bug although the little monster at the party called it a balloon.