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Christmas Tower Cake – Groovin Moms Style
Christmas Tower Cake – Panettone
2 cups cold heavy cream
3 Tb sugar
1 cup each – blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries (Total 4 cups fruit)
3 oz grappa or rum or whatever you like
1 Panettone Cake
Whisk the heavy cream with 2 tb sugar in a large bowl until firm.
In another large bowl, add all the fruit, 1 tb sugar and grappa or rum. Stir and let stand for a few minutes until sugar melts.
Cut the cake into 1 -1 1/2 in thick slices. Reconstruct the Panettone cake by layers, spreading the whipping cream and mixed fruit and juices equally between the layered pieces. Repeat until all the cake is put back together. Top the cake with remaining whipped cream and fruit. If you have more, you can put around the bottom of the cake.
12 servings
Honestly, I lost control of the situation from the start (too many cans of whipped cream going on) but Merci said go on with the show, so we went with it. We used frozen fruit (had lots of juice), left out the sugar and rum/grappa and used canned whipped cream. The kids just loved the reddi whipp cans and went to town, really had a great time and we made a big mess. Fun stuff . P.S. Now I know how OIive Oyl felt around Popeyes’ nephews 🙂
source: Cooking Channel
Sophie, Bailey and The Present
It is funny how children can just find any item in the home and decide that this will be a great gift for someone. Yes, funny, especially when the item that they find is an item that you have in your home…LOL! Now not only did this item come from my house, but, I was the person that had to wrap it and bring the present to Sophie’s home to place under her Christmas tree. The gift was for her mom and she was so excited about this special present. How could I not indulge this sweet act of love.
However, Sophie did run into a minor problem. The problem was her dog, Bailey. When Baily saw the present he just assumed the gift was for him. Bailey don’t you know what happens when you ASS U ME!
And so the Bailey and Sophie dance had begun.
I was truly surprised to see how Bailey persisted in his attempt to grab this special gift. I am sure that my granddaughter did not even think that this gift, that she acquired at no cost to her, would bring such attention , or that she would have to fight off her terrier, who just seemed to insist that he, bailey, should open the gift.
So funny and so innocent as the dance of Sophie, Bailey and the present continued to play out.
In the end Sophie managed to keep Bailey at bay, and mommy opened up the gift.
Wordless Wednesday
Ratuki Card Game – Family Fun
I try to visit my daughter and her family every Sunday. My daughter is on maternity bed rest until February and with 2 kids in the house, it can be a lot of stress. After I go to the supermarket and do her extreme couponing thing, I usually play with the kids. Sometimes we color or watch a movie, read a story or they try to teach me a game on the iPad. I grew up playing cards for hours in the park with Merci and our sisters and friends, We like cards games. Ratuki is a fun card game. Easy and fast moving. 
You have to match cards and the part I like is that you can steal the other guys bundle. You gotta be fast. My daughter and my granddaughter and I played for about a hour. Liam was not interested, he wanted to play his electronic games. After I won the first couple of games, my daughter gave me the look and so I let Natalie win the last couple of games.
Natalie kept wanting me to shuffle again and again. Love to fancy shuffle. Promised I would show her how to shuffle cards next week. 🙂