Angelique and Aven La Fon-Cox
This Cook Book is the proud work of both Angelique and Aven La Fon-Cox. The idea to create this book came from Angelique's four year old daughter Aven Salei, also known as "Saboo". Aven tells people that when she grows up she wants to be like Rachel Ray or the "Pretty White Haired Lady" Paula Dean, her two favorite cooking show hosts. Aven pretends to do her cooking show at home and instructs her audiences on how to make, as she says, her "restipees" such as "Green Fish Cake" and "Corm Cheese Pie" among others. She told her mother that they needed to make a "Cooking With Kooshla and Saboo Cook Book" --so here it is!
The mother and daughter team choose the family recipes, gave the dishes fun forest names, cooked the food and did the photography together. Of course the rest of family participated too by helping to eat the meals!
This book is full of Huggabear favorite family receipes that your family will be sure to enjoy as well!
Angelique La Fon-Cox and her four year old daughter Aven together created this cook book. It is Aven's current desire to grow up and have her own cooking show like Martha Stewart, Paula Dean and her favorite: Rachel Ray. This is a different kind of "Kooshla and Saboo" book in the way that there is no story line, only tasty recipes that are some of the family favorites for the members of the Huggabear and La Bear families. However, you will find, as in all "Kooshla and Saboo" stroy books, scriptures from the Bible.
Angelique just released her fourth story introducing many new characters to the "Kooshla and Saboo" stories including the new baby boy cub Tanuushka Huggabear--or Tanuuk for short. Be sure to watch out for all the new "Tales of Kooshla and Saboo" stories to come including two new books this Spring and Summer 2008. If you haven't read the first three make sure you get those too!
Green Fish Cake
A Recipe by Saboo Huggabear
From Mommy Huggabear:
“The green fish cake is an idea that Saboo came up with during one of her “cooking show” play times. It sounds just awful! But we promise it is deee-licious! The blue cake is to represent the river of
Bearford Falls, the dark fudge icing with cinnamon is to represent the muddy riverbank sprinkled with dirt, the pecans are to be the logs of the forest and the walnuts are large rocks. We used the broccoli to create the bushes around the river! Think of the broccoli like birthday candles, they are used for decorations but you don’t see anyone munchin’ on them!”
Cake Ingredients
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter
3 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup milk
blue food coloring
Decorating Ingredients
3 cans dark chocolate fudge frosting
1 tbsp. cinnamon
1 green gummy fish
1 cup pecans
1 cup walnuts
1 stalk broccoli
Saboo tells you what to do:
“Hey cubs! You need a grown up to help you with this recipe! Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two round cakes pans. In a medium bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to the other ingredients and mix well. Next stir in the milk until batter is smooth. Finally, add blue food coloring and beat until mixture is a nice rich blue color. Pour or spoon batter into the prepared pans.
Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven. The cakes are done when a toothpick comes out clean. When the cakes are cooled, place them on a cake serving dish. In one of the cakes, poke a little hole and place the green gummy fish in it.
Frost bottom cake with icing then stack second cake and frost that one leaving a strip across the top about 1 ½ to 2 inches wide. If the color does not show through, cake top may need to be cut out a little bit to give the good blue color of the river. Blend the icing all around both cakes until smooth. Next, sprinkle cinnamon all over the top. Place pecan halves all around bottom edge and in various places on top of cake, do the same with the walnuts and broccoli to create the look of a river bank. Whoever gets the green fish can win a prize—another piece of cake!”
