Easter and a Recipe

I have failed to keep up with A Pretty How Town the past week due to "dead week" and finals. I heard someone talking about "dead week" and they said "there is nothing dead about dead week except the way you feel". I agree!! So anyways, the following is a recap of our Easter.

We spent the day at my beautiful Grandmother Mildred's house. We had sandwiches, fruit, potato salad, and yummy desserts. "Don't forget the mixed up beans!" :D They were very good beans Mama!

The boys hid eggs and the girls and Elijah hunted. My poor baby was so sleepy all day long but he was so wonderful. He let everyone pass him around and didn't cry even once.

I made a dessert called Malted Mousse Cake which is a lot like a cheese cake.
Here is the recipe: (www.recipegirl.com)

- 3 cups shortbread cookies (about half the box of keeblers)
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 5 Tbs butter, melted
- 2 ounces white chocolate
- 1 1/4 cups whipping cream, divided
- 1 envelope unflavored gelatin
- 1/3 cup milk
- 2 8-ounce packages of cream cheese, softened
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3 Tbs plain malted milk powder (mine was from sonic ;))
- 1/4 tsp salt
- pastel malted-milk candy eggs or malted milk balls

Directions:

- preheat oven to 350 degrees. For crust, in food processor bowl combine cookies and nuts; process to fine crumbs. Add butter, process just until combined. Pat in bottom of 9 inch pie pan. Bake 10 minutes or until golden brown.
- in small saucepan melt white chocolate with 1/4 cup of whipping cream; set aside
- in small microwavable bowl, sprinkle gelatin over milk; let stand until gelatin is softened, about 3 minutes. microwave gelatin mixture for 15 seconds. stir into white chocolate mixture. refrigerate, stirring often, until chocolate-gelatin mixture is chilled and thickens.
- in extra-large mixing bowl beat cream cheese, sugar, malted milk powder, and salt on medium until light and fluffy. gradually add thickened gelatin mixture; beat until just combined. in medium mixing bowl beat remaining 1 cup whipping cream until it thickens. fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture until blended. spoon into cooled crust. refrigerate until firm.
- decorate with malted eggs.

Finished product:

Comments: eh it was ok, not my favorite but people liked it. I probably won't make it again because it is pretty time consuming. I will probably make the same crust for other desserts though!

Thanks for reading!

Love,
Jessica

Spring

Spring is my favorite time of year for many reasons. Some of these reasons include: my favorite holidays occur, my birthday, and the flowers. Not to mention the warmer weather!

The spring holidays I look forward to every year are Earth Day and Easter. I love Earth Day because it reminds me of my buying and throwing away habits and makes me re-evaluate how I do things. It also inspires me to do things that would benefit my neighborhood. Such as planting flowers and cleaning up parks.( Look for more on this later;) ).

Easter is one of my favorite holidays for many reasons. One reason is the cuteness! Frilly, spring, colorful little girly dresses with bows and fluff give me all kinds of feel goods! My parents always gave me gloves and an Easter hat to complete the Easter ensemble. Easter felt like Christmas morning at times. I always anticipated getting all dressed up with the lace and fancy buckle shoes.

Another reason, and the most important one, is the reason for Easter. The amazing gift of salvation that Jesus Christ gave to us when he awesomely died for our sins on the cross and miraculously conquered death and entered into heaven to be with our Father three days later. Amen!

With spring also comes new life. The hatching of little robins, the blooming of colorful flowers, and the birth of...me! The sun seems to get brighter and the air smells sweeter. When I was younger I always knew my birthday was near when the flowers started popping up everywhere. One flower in particular, tulips, was what I always looked for. This is probably the reason that tulips are my favorite flower! To me they symbolize spring, beauty, and my birthday!

Hey that's me!! ^^^^^^^^

Hoppity-hop little Robin
Up the stairs to say hello.

Scurry along little Robin
See you next year, after the snow.

What is your favorite season and why?

love,
Jessica