Fix-up a gluten free vanilla cake mix

I have been craving a light cake. 
Not chocolate or birthday cake with frosting, but a nice, bunt cake, or pound cake. 
I had a Bob's Red mill vanilla cake mix, so I thought I would dress it up.
Lemon sour cream cake

Ingredients:
1 Package Bob's red mill vanilla cake mix
4 oz butter, soft
8 oz sour cream
1/3 c Milk
4 eggs
3Tb lemon Juice
2 tsp lemon zest

Grease two loaf pans. 

Beat eggs, butter, cream, milk, juice. 
Slowly add Mix
Beat on low, 60 seconds

Bake at 325 for 40 min

Baby Tie shirt

Here I turned a bodysuit undershirt into a Sress shirt, compleat with tie.

I drew it on with fabric paint.

Cloth diapering. Part 5. Assembeling Stuffer style

With the elastic on the leggs, you next you the Braded elastic to sinc up the back.
About 5 inches, stretched accros the back, and sewn down with the stretch/zigzag stich.

At this point pin the wing reinfoucements on, and basting stich arround the edge. Leavin as tinny a seam allowance as you can.
Pin the liner fabric on, right sides together and sew then together, leaving the back opened just big enough to get your hand in.

Right side out them.

Cloth diapering. Part 5. Assembeling Covers

With the legs done, Start at the back, and pin, folded over, your fold over elastic. Folow arround the outside of the diaper.
IN the frount tummy section, place the piece of linner just under the edge of the elastck so that as you sw arround you will catch it.
When you get tot he back again, cut off the extra, overlaping a little.
Sew the elastic down, using a zigzag or stretch stich.

Now you are ready for your closures.

Cloth diaper. Part 4 . Start Asembeling

First you want to lay out your diaper shaped PUL, fabric side down.
Pin your Wing reinforcing fabric, just arround the edges.
Keep in mind any place you pin the frabric is a place that moisture can get thru.

First elastic:
4 inches per leg of the clear elastic. Pin it down, Just at the ends, of the leg section.
It is best to sew thease down at this point.
Using a zigzage or stretch stich, sew the elastic down, along the curv, while you stretch it out.
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Now from here the style's branch out.

Cloth Diaper. Part 3. "soakers"

The soaker's are the part that does the work of soaking up the pee or poo.
 Cotton, Hemp. This is the absorbent stuff.

1. For the Covers style

1. Prefold.
1. Several layers of lightweight fabric, sewn together into a rectangle.
1. You can get them almost any baby supply place, for $1 each
2. Standard in the 60-80s
2. flat fold. Just a flat piece of  fabric, hemmed on the edges, that you fold around the baby's bum. 
2. Stuffer style

1. The Stuffer or Insert  is several layers of absorbent fabric sewn tightly down,into a single piece.
2. Sized needs to be slightly less wide and slightly shorter then the core of the finished diaper. Approximately 11 X 4 inches.
3. I have made then out of all t-shirts, towels, washcloths. Size is not too important as long as they don't stick out of the diaper. But they do need to lay flat.
3. All in one style
1. Several layers of absorbent fabric sewn into several leafs
2. Sized needs to be slightly smaller then the core of the finished diaper. Approximately 11 X 4 inches.

Cloth diapers Part 2. Cutting out the "diaper"

Lay ut you PUL and cut out your chosen diaper shape.
I like to lay my pattern out like so for cuting the PUL fabric. It makes it easer to fit the pattern four times.
And the piece that is left over. from between the diapers, can be cut up to use for reinforcing the wings on the diaper. I end up with very little waste fabric.
Green Bonus.

And cut a small piece of liner going across the tummy.

If you our doing the Cover style, then you are ready for the next step.

If your doing Stuffer style or All in one style: Cut out you Diaper pattern on the PUL as well as the Liner fabric.

 

Cloth Diapers. part 1. Supplies

1. 1/2 yard of Waterproof PUL fabric.
1. Polyurethane Laminate fabric is used to make the outer shell.
2. This is the same regardles of the style or option
2. The diaper pattern. You can find then online, or just sketch out our own.
3. Liner. Microfiber, Microflease or microswade.
1. For the Cover style, you just need a 1/8th of a yard.
2. For the Stuffer or All in one style you need 1/2 yard.
4. Elastic
1. For the Cover Style
1.  fold over elastic. 
2.  Clear elastic. 1/4 inch wide, 48 inches long
2. For the Stuffer or All-in-one style 
1. Polly brade elastic. 1/4 inch wide 24 inches long.
2. Clear elastic.1/4 inch wide, 48 inches long
5. Closures Option
1. Hook and loop, or Velcro. one ince wide, 24 inches long.
2. snaps. 48 sockets, 16 studs, 64 caps.
3. Ribon & S hooks, 8 of them.

This will get you all set to make 4 diapers. For me, this came to about $12 a diaper.

You can get this stuff at most fabric stores, or online at specilty baby diaper places
Like: verybaby.com  or find your own.

Stuffed Shells, Microwaveable

I have had Conte's and Caesar's frozen/microwavable pasta dishes before, but never side by side.

So, for science, and future purchases:

First off, they never looks like the package.
The filling was about the same, a smooth white center, lightly seasoned.
The texture of the pasta in either is wonderful, not chewy or crunchy, or mushy.
Conte's marinara had more flavors to it.
Ceasar's had more cheesiness.

My personal preference is to the Cheesiness.
SO I might lean towards the Ceasar's. But if the Conte's shells are on sale, I will not pass them by.

Gluten free Hot dog Buns

As summer draws to a chose, I have finished my hunt for a gluten free hot dog bun.

I was looking for something sturdy enough to hold up until hot dog was finished, not crumble apart, and with a flavor that did not detract.

Tied for First place: 

Schar, sub sandwich roll 

Undi, classic hot dog buns

Second choice:

Rudis

Kinnikinnick

And in the not worth the price category:

Jensen. tasted stale and crumbled apart.

Ever-G. Dry, and crumbly.

Katz. Was like eating a sponge.

Jovial Chocolate cream filled cookies review

Jovial makes a few kinds of cookies. I recently gave them a try.

Our first try was the Chocolate cream filled.

These are crispy crunchy, crumbly cookie shells, filled with a dollop of chocolate frosting. Not very rich, or filling. 

They reminded me of when my mom would take the leftover chocolate frosting from a cake, and put in between gram crackers....

My sister liked them a lot. She is not GF. 

Each cookie is fairly small, about half an oz. 80 calories each.

The cookies come in packs of two, good for tossing into a lunch bag or purse.