Devil's Mini-Cakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients

Mini-Cakes

Pam's Organic Olive Oil cooking spray (to spray on custard cups)

2 cups cane sugar

1 cup butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

3/4 teaspoon almond extract

2 large eggs

2 1/2 cups Softsilk Cake flour

1 cup cocoa power (unsweetened)

2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 1/4 cups buttermilk

Red food coloring

Frosting

1 8 oz. package of cream cheese

2 cups powdered sugar

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 cup butter

Directions:

Mix sugar, butter, vanilla, almond extract together.

Stiff cake flour and cocoa gradually into mixture.

Stir in butter milk 1 cup at a time..add food coloring

pour into large custard bowls. Bake at 350 degree until toothpick comes out clean.

(about 45 minutes)

Mix all frosting ingredients and frost on cakes once they are cooled.

Strawberry Smoothie

Sandra and I went to an organic strawberry farm and picked out 5 lbs. of berries!  Its important to go organic with strawberries since they are capable of carrying more bacteria than any other fruit. So when do you know when to spend the extra money to buy organic? A friend of mine pointed out once that if it has a protective peel on it--no need to by organic i.e. bananas, oranges, etc. During the next 7 days we made many things: strawberry jam(turned out too sweet..I used Spenda :(, strawberry pancakes, strawberry shortcake, etc. etc.).  So, I only had about 2 cups left of strawberries and I was quite frankly, getting sick of them!  So, Brad decided to make a strawberry banana smoothie which was so tasty!

Ingredients

Organic Strawberries

Banana

Vanilla yogurt

Non-fat milk