FABBY: Tea Time and Cake Recipe

Hello sweet friends !

I baked and baked for presents and I this cake you see here is one of the goodies I gave away to my friends, but also I kept one for us, my DD Alex, Alejandro, mother and me.

I fixed a small table for this occasion.

I hope you like it.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, we did, although we had some not happy news as our DD Sofia miscarried just C'mas Eve, as she was one month pregnant. She's doing fine and is healthy, so we are happy for this reason and have so much to thank our Lord.

I used this check tablecloth red with green.

I did three cakes like this one for gifts and at the end it's the recipe. It's delicious and I got it from Pinterest.

I displayed it under a glass cloche.

Thank you wonderful friends for your sweet and kind comments, you always make my day.

Thanking the lovely hostesses for having me at their great parties.

A special thanks to the generous and supportive hostesses for featuring me at their wonderful parties.

Kathy for A RETURN TO LOVELINESS

Merry Christmas and a very happy, prosperous, and healthy new year 2015.

LOVE,
FABBY

CRANBERRY-CITRUS AND COCONUT CAKE

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup sweetened shredded coconut
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/3cup sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons orange zest
• ¾ cup vegetable oil
• 1/3 cup cream of coconut
• 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
• 1/2  cup finely chopped  cranberries

Glaze

• 2 cups confectioner sugar
• 3-4 tablespoons fresh orange juice

Garnishing (optional)

• Sugared Cranberries (recipe here)

Directions:

Preparation

Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly butter and flour pan

To make cake

1. Place flour, coconut, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and whisk to blend; set aside. Transfer mixture to a food processor or blender and process until coconut is  coarsely crumbed.
2. Place cranberries in a food processor or blender and process  until coarsely crumbed. Transfer to a bowl; set aside.
3. Using an electric mixer or a food processor beat the sugar, eggs, and zest in a large bowl until pale and fluffy. Keep the mixer or food processor running and gradually add in oil and beat for about two minutes. With the  mixer or food processor still running, add in coconut cream then orange juice and continue to beat until combined. Turn off mixer or food processor.
4. Add flour mixture into wet ingredients and using a sturdy wooden spoon or spatula, fold and mix until combined. Add in cranberries and fold until combined.
5. Pour batter into prepared cake pan and bake until a tester inserted into the center of the cake comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 45-55 minutes. Transfer to a rack and cool completely before glazing.

To make the citrus glaze

1. Add powdered sugar and orange juice in a bowl and mix to combine. Pour finished glaze over cooled cake and set aside for 30 minutes for glaze to set. Optional: garnish with sugared cranberries.

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FABBY: MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE CRESPO'S

Hello sweet friends!

From the Crespo family to each everyone of you and your dear families, we wish you a very merry Christmas.

"Please pray for my DD Sofia who is pregnant but is bleeding a little, so she doesn't lose the baby. Thank you so much."
We just found out that our DD Sofie lost the baby. She's doing fine... and right now that is the most important thing. Thank you Lord.

May our Baby Jesus bring you all of you much blessings today and always, because HE is coming tonight.

Love always.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

FELIZ NAVIDAD

                                  

Daughter Alexandra sends you her best Christmas wishes.

 

Grand Victoria sends her Christmas wishes.

Sil Giancarlo sends lots of greeting too.

(doesn't he look like Clark Kent, Superman?...people in Flo. thought so, lol)

Daughter Sofia and Cayetana sends you their Christmas wishes and hugs.
 

Grands Victoria, Cayetana and DD Sofia Crespo-Patino, sends their best wishes too.

Ok, here we went to a family parade we had with the members of the family and some of us were in custom from Biblical times, as me, and others like the Indigenous people of Ecuador... and hubby is a South American Landowner, cause it was easy as he didn't really want to go in a typical custom, lol..

LOVE YOU ALWAYS and have a wonderful Christmas 2014, my friends.

FELIZ NAVIDAD 2014!
FABBY

FABBY: CHRISTMAS Kitchen Tour 4

Hello sweet friends!

Here is my Kitchen Tour, which now I am having my daughter, mother hubby and me for tea, ice-cream and brownies... We are starting the sugar fix these days for the holidays.

I am baking away for 'food gifts' too...of course, we try everything before I take them to their destination, lol!

Ok, here is the kitchen all ready for guests and for the most beautiful time of the year...

"!MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL.! "
 

I always have to have tea in my red transferware for the holidays.

The Christmas sherbets for ice cream were made at our Former Ceramic. Co.

The friends that follow me have seen our sky light stain glass in the kitchen before with red roses, so it's perfect for the holidays.

This station is for the lovers of coffee, like my daughter...actually, I love it too, but I do like my teas as well.

I love the silly little Santa clock with skinny legs, lol (at your upper right) and it's one of the things that make me smile the most when I'm around the kitchen.

Some of you might remember that I explained that I have kept this old rustic wooden table for our kitchen nook and was from our farm, some 35 years old.
Alejandro wants to replace it, but I'm not sure.



My centerpiece along with the brownies and strawberries and cherries at left.

In the window sill some of my huge collection of Christmas mugs...I love mugs!
I have old mugs in a carton box cause really, taking much more out?!

 

Thank you so much for your wonderful visits, I love you all my friends and that's why you have made my day, days, weeks, months and this year that's almost over.

Thanking the lovely hostesses for having me at their great parties.
Specially to the wonderful hostesses that honor me by featuring me at their wonderful parties.

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Merry Christmas to all of you.

LOVE,
FABBY

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FABBY: Christmas Tree in the Den-Tour 3

Hello sweet friends!

I've been so busy lately as you all know, this is a busy time of year for all of us.

We had Alejandro's family reunion, so the family arrived from all over the country and so did my daughters and grandgirls.
 
We had a fabulous time last Saturday with 58 members of the family, along with a bunch of grandchildren from all of us.

Here is my Tour 3, consisting of my decked den with Christmas tree, new tartan chairs and having a little tea by the fireplace. I don't have the fire on cause this is a spring type of weather around here, lol!

Here is our den ready for the Christmas holiday 2014.

The new upholstered French chairs in the tartan plaid are just perfect for this time of year, so I brought them here for the holidays.

A little Christmas setting for tea and cookies for three. The teaset and cups were made back at our former Ceramic Co. The design was done by hand, of course... and I found the pattern on a C'mas fabric I had back then.

The butter dish was a gift from my mom several C'mas' ago.

A close up of the Nativity in the mantel.

The Christmas mantel in the back. We enjoy C'mas Eve and Day, right here in our family room.

One end table with a pic of our DDs when it was Sofia's first C'mas.
She's wearing a little plaid dress I made for her back then and Alexandra a Scottish skirt.

My DD Alexandra when she was not even one.

My DD Sofia when she was one and a half years old.

My dearest grandgirls Victoria and Cayetana.

I came back to add these close ups of our tree cause the little girls wanted me too and 'I obliged right away, lol...'

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree.... Happy holidays my friends!

 

In the mantel at your right is 'St. Patricks Cathedral too.'

Our tree has ornies I have collected since our first C'mas 39 years ago. Many wonderful memories it holds and little picture frames with my own girls when very young as my two grandgirls when babies too.

I've also gave my daughters lots of ornaments and tree figurines and gave away some to a girl that comes to clean my house sometimes and helps me when I have company for dinner.
I've kept my favorite ones, the ones with the more memories and the gifted ones from family that I love and are no longer with us.

This is an English antique curio that belonged to Mr. Living's grandparent's with a three tier German Pyramid Nativity.... and a Virgin Mary under the glass cloche.

The curio is also part of a big dining set and we are happy to have the buffet in the breakfast room, the one in my header with the red transferware too.

The family of Carolers are always at the very entrance of our pent house apartment to welcome you.

The leather trunk is Spanish colonial and was a gift from Alejandro's grandmother.

Thank you for your wonderful visit sweet ladies...please come again... and have a very blessed Christmas holiday along with your dear families.

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LOVE,
FABBY

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FABBY: My Christmas Pinterest Challenge Tablescape

Hello sweet friends!

      Oh boy, I just couldn't decide which to choose to make until I found this lovely tablescape and my inspiration was the gold reindeer the Pinterest table had. That is because I also have a similar reindeer, gold and large.

As some of you know, again our friend and great hostess Kathleen is very enthusiastic about theme challenges at Cuisine Kathleen. The theme for this Wednesday at LET'S DISH blog hop is a copy cat challenge of "A PINTERST CHRISTMAS TABLE CHALLENGE."

I hope you like my version of a pretty setting I found on Pinterest and it was from a blogger who had posted before I started blogging myself and I haven't seen her in a while. Her blog is: "Dining Delight" and the post is called, "An Arrogant Reindeer"...although mine is quite arrogant looking too, lol!

Ok, with that said, here it goes !




Here is the Pinterest original post, called: " Arrogant Reindeer" and here is the link just in case you'd like to go visit...it is lovely!

http://dining-delight.blogspot.com/2009/12/arrogant-reindeer.html



Here is my version.

My reindeer was my inspiration as main element for the green, gold and bronze centerpiece.

The place setting is formed by my crystal gold Turkish chargers, on top a brown charger a bit smaller and 'White Scapes, Noritake dishes.' Topped by a small votive with candle... 'all similar' to the original photo.

A close up of the place setting

She also has a brown runner and I used my crushed velvet brown one from many years ago and name cards standing on a ball ornament, as is.

The original also had some bronze leaves in the centerpiece, which I acquired by placing in my faux greenery some dried leaves from the garden of our condo.

I didn't have a brown tablecloth as the original, so I created my Christmas tablescape on the bare wood-dinner table. I've never seen a brown one I liked, either!

I also added on each end a salt seller like this 'snowlady.'

And here are the cute 'penguin and present' salt and pepper shakers in the other end.

 

I used two crystal flower vases I had with some gold beads and a candle to resemble the original table...as well as the gold beads throughout the centerpiece, plus two blue grape bunches, as the source had ones in bronze.

My gorgeous 'gold reindeer' is my main inspiration for this copy cat challenge, at Cuisine Kathleen's... and along with my white and gold Noritake dishes, it was perfect!
 I knew I could pull this challenge as I had everything right at home too!

I had some votives, each four in different styles, so I decided to use them to meet the eight I needed and as I love to mix and match, I was satisfied with the end result.

The hand etched stemware is 'Italian-Viennese.'

My very own "arrogant reindeer."

Thank you so much my sweet friends for your kind comments, as you always make my day.

Thanking Kathleen for Let's Dish at http://cuisinekathleen.blogspot.com
for this fun and fabulous challenge: "A PINTEREST CHRISTMAS TABLE CHALLENGE." 
I hope to see you there too!
 
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A special Thanks to the generous and supportive hostesses for featuring me at their parties, such as sweet
"Angel, at Wake Up Wednesday Linky Party."

HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON TO YOU ALL

LOVE,
FABBY

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