Beets?

 The weather has been so pretty that I haven't been here in a few days.  Sorry, but I love being outside.  However, I am finding that my poor ol' body just doesn't move like it used to and I long for a bit smaller yard sometimes.  Last week I was watching a cooking show and the subject was a healthier method of making red velvet cupcakes with beets!  Having a freezer full of beets from last years' harvest, I was intrigued.  I did not get the recipe, but searched later and found a fairly simple recipe on the net and tweaked it a bit.  As you can see, the beets which were cooked really didn't look too appetizing, but after using the little hand held blender, they pureed quite nicely and using the beets rather than a bottle of red food coloring, appealed to me.   They were delicious!  I will probably be using this recipe exclusively from now on!  After they were frosted, I had exactly 12 cupcakes and it would have produced one 8 inch layer cake. 

3/4 c pureed cooked beets
1/2 c oil
1/3 c milk
1/2 tsp vinegar (into milk to sour)
2 eggs
2/3 c sugar
3/4 c flour
1/2 c cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
Mix as any cake batter and bake at 350 for 25 min.
At our quilt guild, we have been having mini-classes and this is the pattern I chose for the cathedral window application which is nothing like the traditional pattern.  For me, it has been very time consuming and when this piece is finished, and I am in the quilting stage right now, I probably won't make another one.

More kitty pictures to follow, as she is quite a little clown.