Marble Cake A Cheaters Version!

                                                                         

This is a delicious Marble Cake! So moist, full of flavor & passes as a you made it from scratch cake!

1 Betty Crocker Super Moist Yellow Cake Mix

1, 3.4 oz. Jello Instant Pudding Mix

1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil

3 Eggs

1 Cup Yogurt Plain

2 TBS Cocoa Powder I use Hershey's Extra Dark

Preheat oven to 350 degrees & grease & flour 2, 9 inch cake rounds. Mix cake according to package but instead of water use the yogurt, spoon batter into pans evenly, reserving 1&1/2 cups of batter in the bowl. In the reserved batter whisk in the cocoa powder. Mix well, then dollop tablespoon full on top of your batter in the cake pans. Use a butter knife to swirl the batter for the marbling effect. Do not touch the bottom of the pans as you do this! Bake for 25 minutes or until cake test done! Let cool in the pans for 10 minutes & then dump out on a clean flat surface. Let cool completely before you frost. 

FROSTING:

8 Tablespoons Butter Softened

6 Cups Powdered Sugar

Dash of Salt

2 TSP Vanilla

Milk enough for the consistency you desire, I used about  1/2 Cup a little at time stop when you get the right spread-ability!

Frost the cake. Then I melted 1 & 1/2 Cups of Chocolate Chips with 1 Tsp Shortening over a double boiler, once melted & spooned & drizzled the chocolate over the top of the cake & down the sides. Shake sprinkles over everything if desired. A GREAT CAKE!

Homemade Dog Food Judy's Foodies Style!

                                                                       

Homemade with good healthy ingredients so your dog may live a healthy & longer life. I started making dog food when my Golden Retriever became allergic to corn. He lived to be 2 weeks short from his 14th birthday. I then took in a rescued German Shepherd. She kept getting crystals in her urine. After 6 months of vet bills & a sick dog I started making her food too. She was severely abused her first year of life . I got her in her 3rd year. She was 70 lbs & small. One year later after being on this food she grew tall, never had crystals again & weighed a very healthy 110 lbs. The vet could not get over the difference in her. I have two rescued dogs now & they love this food.

3 LBS of Meat I use ground beef, ground turkey, or chicken. I switch it up so they do not get bored

3 LBS Raw Brown Rice

4 Cups Groats

1 Cup Ground Flax

1 LB Pearled Barley

3 LBS Vegetables, I do 1 pound of each using different vegetables. I use mixed vegetables, green beans, peas, peas & carrots, chopped spinach, shredded zucchini sometimes broccoli, sweet potato, pumpkin, & parsley.

32 Ounces of Broth be sure it does not have any celery or onion just a plain meat broth.

4 to 6 Cups Rolled Oats

Water

In my big deep electric roaster I brown the meat using coconut oil about 1 tablespoon of the oil. Now add the broth, the rice, groats, barley & if using sweet potatoes or yams add those cut into chunks,& enough water to cover about 2 inches over the mixture. Cover & cook on highest temperature for about 2 hours stirring now & then & checking on cooking process.  Once the rice, barley & groats are tender & plump and potatoes are soft, add the oatmeal & frozen vegetables. Add more water if needed. Cover & cook until mixture is nice & thick like the picture above. Divide into storage containers or gallon freezer bags. I keep enough for four days in my frig & freeze the rest. This feed my two fifty pound dogs for seven days. I feed them each about 2 & 1/2 Cups. This batch actually had steak for the meat, mixed vegetables, shredded zucchini, & pumpkin in it.