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Mardi Gras Pancakes

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March 3, 2014 By Jennifer Lambert 4 Comments

Are you having Mardi Gras pancakes? Many churches do a big dinner or fundraiser. Some restaurants offer them for free!

Who doesn’t love pancakes? Add fun and you have really amazing pancakes. Then let the kids make them! Here are some delectable and fun Mardi Gras pancakes that will impress family and guests!

Mardi Gras Pancakes

Of course, you need sprinkles: yellow, green, and purple!

Mardi Gras Sprinkles

And real whipped cream is a must! I added come real vanilla, but for adults, it would be yummy to add a tablespoon of bourbon or brandy.

Real Whipped Cream

Tori and Alex love to help in the kitchen. Tori mixed the pancake batter.

Stirring the batter

Tori and Alex both took turns at the griddle.

Flipping pancakes
My Pancake Boy

They’re not the prettiest, but it’s fun for the kids!

Pancakes

Serve with crispy bacon and sausage!

Platters of Breakfast

Laissez les bon temps roulez!

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Best Pancakes

Course Breakfast

Ingredients

  • 2 large eggs room temperature
  • 1-1 1/4 c milk depends on humidity
  • 3 T oil or melted butter
  • 1 1/2 c AP flour
  • 3/4 t kosher or sea salt
  • 2 t baking powder
  • 1/4 c malted milk powder

Instructions

  1. Beat the eggs and milk until light and foamy, about 3 minutes at high speed.
  2. Stir in the melted butter or oil.
  3. Whisk dry ingredient together in a separate bowl.
  4. Gently but quickly fold the dry ingredients into the egg and milk mixture. Let the batter rest for at least 15 minutes to thicken.
  5. Heat a pan or griddle to 375* Use the water drop test to make sure it’s ready.
  6. Drop 1/4 cupfuls of batter onto the lightly greased griddle. Bake on one side until bubbles begin to form and break, about 2 minutes. Turn and cook the other side, about 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Turn over only once. Serve immediately.

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Mardi Gras King Cake

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March 2, 2014 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

I thought it’d be fun to make King Cake for me the kids.

Personal Mardi Gras King Cakes

In the bread machine because that’s easier.

Wet ingredients, then dry, then turn on dough cycle:

Making dough

A couple hours later, beautiful soft dough!

First Rise

I cut the dough in half.

Cutting the Dough

1st ball. Flatten dough. Cut into wedges.

Cutting the Dough into Wedges

Then sprinkle that with cinnamon and sugar

More Cinnamon and Sugar

Roll into pretty crescent shapes. Place seam down on the baking pan or they’ll pop open during baking.

Crescent Shaped Rolls

2nd ball. Flatten dough. Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar

Cinnamon and Sugar

Choose a baby to fit into the cake. We found these at Hobby Lobby in the baby shower décor section.

Babies!

Roll dough into a snake, with cinnamon and sugar on the inside, and form into a wreath. Let rise and bake!

King Cake Rising

Then it comes out looking like this:

Not Quite What I Was Going For

Yeah, I know what it looks like. Too much yeast, ya think?

Receive compliments from daughters that it still looks and smells delicious!

Accept compliments with grace.

Decorate with cream cheese icing and sprinkles!

King Cake

And of course, the kids come out of the woodwork to lick the bowl and beaters.

Licking the Bowl

These were a big hit!

Individual Mardi Gras King Cakes

Of course, Alex wouldn’t really touch it with the cream cheese frosting. But the girls loved it!

Happy Kids

Options: This dough is very versatile.

The crescents are yummy plain or with ham and cheese or chocolate chunks inside. The crescents freeze beautifully too! To bake, set frozen rolls out on baking sheet with parchment or Silpat and let thaw and rise until size doubles.

Add pecans with the brown sugar and cinnamon, roll into a snake, and slice into chunks to make them great cinnamon rolls! Place them in a high-sided baking pan to contain the goodness of the cinnamon rolls.

You can cool on wire racks so the bottoms don’t get soggy. But we seldom wait that long! (You should let them cool a bit if you frost them or the frosting melts!)

Do you like King Cake? Do you have a favorite recipe?

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Easy Bread

Ingredients

  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 4 cups AP flour
  • 1 t salt
  • 1 T yeast

Instructions

  1. Place the ingredients in order into the bread machine.

    Set on dough cycle. Go read a book!

    You can also do this manually in a mixer and the kneading and the letting it rise.

    375° for 12-15 minutes

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Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients

  • 1 package cream cheese
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1 t vanilla

Instructions

  1. Mix together until smooth and creamy

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Grapevine Bible Studies Resurrection Lesson

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February 7, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 4 Comments

I’m teaching our Wednesday night class at church on the Resurrection. I have students ages 2.5 to 12 and it’s a challenge to keep them all engaged.

I recently taught a lesson about Passover and Mardi Gras.

We’re using Grapevine Studies as our core Bible lesson. Here’s my board for the second page of the lesson. Jesus explains about being a servant leader, accuses Judas, and talks about Communion.

I’m loving these new Traceables for the little kids. My son, Alex, is a huge fan!

The second part of the lesson was a Mardi Gras story. I love the lesson in The Greentail Mouse by Leo Lionni. I focused on how God looks at our hearts and we shouldn’t fear. Judas and the Jewish leaders feared Jesus like the mice in our story feared truth.

We listened to track 12 of Songs for Saplings.

Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7b

Then the students made masks with feathers, sequins, and tissue paper.

Here are our our ferocious masks:

How are you preparing your heart for Lent?

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