Well, here it is... the 100th post!! YAY!! Thanks to everyone who reads my blog for making it a success.So here is a dessert that is very decadent but can be made lightning fast and no one has to know that it is a cake mix cake rather than from scratch. It is that good! If you do not have time to make a great dessert, consider this one. Here it is:Lightning Fast Black Forest Cake1 devils food
Ingredients:6 oz Fresh brewed coffee2 tb Chocolate syrup1 tb Maraschino cherry juiceWhipped creamShaved chocolate/chipsMaraschino cherriesHow To:Combine coffee, chocolate syrup, and cherry juice in a cup; mix well. Top with whippedcream, chocolate shavings and a cherry.
The beautiful Black Forest area on the northern edge of Colorado Springs was named by a German immigrant who noticed a striking resemblance with the many Ponderosa Pines found here and Germany's own famous Black Forest. 200,000 acres make up the large area in Black Forest, Colorado Springs. Homes in Black Forest can be found in a number of different styles and price ranges. Cathedral Pin
The economic and intellectual center of southwest Germany not only lies at the foot of the Black Forest, 278 meters above sea level and surrounded by a fertile mountainous landscape, but it is also situated in the "three country corner" where Germany, Austria and Switzerland touch.Around 28 million overnight stays per year in 138,000 beds in hotels and guest houses and a further 60,000 private roo
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Sweet, red cherries and rich chocolate. What more invitation do you need to whip up this delectable creamy delight?
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1 cup chocolate wafer crumbs
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Ingredients:16 oz sour cherries; pitted 8 oz no-sugar chocolate cake mix 2 tablespoon sugar replacement Procedure:Drain cherries very well.Combine cake mix, cherries and sugar replacement in mixing bowl.Stir to blend thoroughtly. Spread batter in well-greased 9-inch pan.Bake at 375 degrees for 20-25 minutes.Cut into 1 X 1 1/2 bars.
This smoothie is based on the classic gateau from the 80's. Traditionally flavoured with lots of cream, chocolate and forest fruits - black cherries, blackberries, and blackcurrants are the main ingredients. It originates from the Black Forest in Germany, hence the name schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (black forest cherry cake). Usually, Kirsch liqueur is added into the cake as well for extra cherry flavour.Unfortunately this gateau seems to have got itself a pretty poor reputation, I think this is attributable to the flooding of supermarket freezers with poor quality black forest gateaux. Sara Lee has a lot to answer for.Anyway, my smoothie is loosely inspired by this cake! No pictures for this one as I drank it straight away! Whoops.Here it is...IngredientsBlack cherries ~10Blackberri
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CHICAGO – A team of golden goddesses seemingly are traveling through space. What is their obsession? It’s a flaming eyeball.
Black Forest Theater’s latest production, “The Flaming Eyeball,” is a distillation of three year’s development through many prisms. Writer and director James Moeller began the piece as an exploration of Hollywood movie pitches and then it became the movie itself.
Co-directed by and featuring Black Forest artistic director Carla Hayden as one of the eyeball pursuers, the play flows through the final frontier of space with fellow travelers Masha Kore and Heather Svoboda.
While these seekers philosophize on their optically essenced nirvana, dancer Natalia Naranovich alights the scene as the object of their desire.
The small black box of the gallery theater i
The economic and intellectual center of southwest Germany not only lies at the foot of the Black Forest, 278 meters above sea level and surrounded by a fertile mountainous landscape, but it is also situated in the "three country corner" where Germany, Austria and Switzerland touch.Around 28 million overnight stays per year in 138,000 beds in hotels and guest houses and a further 60,000 private rooms underline the importance of tourism for the Black Forest, and the wine regions of the south west.The Black Forest enjoys the highest density of restaurants with top chefs, and even in the small village restaurants the entire selection of the hearty regional cuisine can be enjoyed in many of its delicious variations.Thermal baths like Baden-Baden, Badenweiler, Bad Wildbad have a long tradition.
'Man cannot live on chocolate alone, but woman sure can.'Author Unknown Black Forest Gateau...The Black Forest region ('Schwarzwald') in Germany is essentially known for three distinctive features: its highlands, scenery and woods, the traditional cuckoo-clock, & the typical southern German dessert- 'Black Forest Gateau' or 'Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte' ( literally "Black Forest cherry cake") . Hmmmm...a peek into the insides!!The Black Forest gateau consists of several layers of chocolate cake, with whipped cream and cherries between each layer. Then the cake is decorated with additional whipped cream, maraschino cherries, and chocolate shavings. Here's the one I baked for my mother's birthday over the weekend. We don't get maraschino cherries here, so I used regular canned cherries. The gateau was a delicious, light cake...& it disappeared in next to no time!! It was finger licking good. Chill it well for the flavours to mature!YUM! YUM!!Ingredients:SpongeEggs - 6
Yield: 6 servings 3 oz Neufchatel cream cheese; 1/3 c Cherry juice; 2 c Skim milk; cold 1 cn Red sour pitted cherries; 3 oz Pkg. Jell-o sugar-free; -1 lb., water packed -instant chocolate pudding; 6 pk Equal sweetener; 1 tb Cornstarch; Blend cream cheese with 1/4 cup skim milk on low speed of electric mixer, until smooth. Add remaining milk and pudding mix. Mix 1 or 2 minutes or until smooth. Mix cornstarch in cherry juice until dissolved. Add to cherries and cook until it boils for 1 minute. Remove from heat and stir in Equal. Alternately spoon pudding ... more »
If you love nature, you will absolutely adore the Black Forest in Germany. The land and villages look relatively unchanged, as if you've stepped back in time, and when you walk through the forest, you can get an insight into what ancient Germany might have been like. Some of the houses you'll find in the villages are over *three hundred years old.Black Forest Germany is perhaps the best location for cross-country skiing. Discover over 600 miles of snowy trails through the woods and hills. There are even lit trails for those night owls that want to get in a run.The most central town in the Black Forest is *Freudenstadt, which is the starting point for hundreds of miles of hiking and ski-trails through the nearby hills. Most visitors, however, prefer to find accommodation in guest lodges in the small villages sprinkled throughout the region, exploring by car, on foot or bicycle. See *German Resources Freudenstadt.If you want a challenge, look for *Neustadt which boasts a great 60 mile
The economic and intellectual center of southwest Germany not only lies at the foot of the Black Forest, 278 meters above sea level and surrounded by a fertile mountainous landscape, but it is also situated in the "three country corner" where Germany, France and Switzerland touch.Around 28 million overnight stays per year in 138,000 beds in hotels and guest houses and a further 60,000 private rooms underline the importance of tourism for the Black Forest, and the wine regions of the south west.The Black Forest enjoys the highest density of restaurants with top chefs, and even in the small village restaurants the entire selection of the hearty regional cuisine can be enjoyed in many of its delicious variations.Thermal baths like Baden-Baden, Badenweiler, Bad Wildbad have a long tradition. Such a wealth of thermal springs can be found nowhere else in such close proximity.The countryside to the south is well known for its hot springs at Badenweiler and for the many frescoes in the churche
Westweg (Western Trail)The 285km "Westweg" was created in 1900 to establish and mark the first long-distance hiking route from Pforzheim, Germany (northern Black Forest) to Basel Switzerland(southern Black Forest.) It has been managed and cared for by the Black Forest Society (90,000 members) for over 100 years.The Westweg is the oldest of the high level walking routes in the Black Forest. The walk can be completed in 11 days with daily distances ranging from 20 up to 35 km.Pforzheim is the door to the Black Forest, and is known as the Golden city where gold has been mined and jewelry handcrafted for over 200 years. It sits at the junction of three rivers (the Würm, the Enz, and the Nagold) and is one of the Black Forest's largest settlements. (120,000)Tourist Info PforzheimPforzheim Jewelry Museum - the world's only jewelry museum. The major focus of the museum's collection is on jewelry from Greek and Etruscan-Roman antiquity, the Renaissance and the Baroque as well as a unique r
Ferdinand Zeppelin was born on July 8, 1838 on the German shores of Lake Constance (Konstanz on der Bodensee, bordered by Austria, Switzerland and Germany).Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (center) Photo 1863,serving for the Union in the American Civil WarHe entered the Prussian army in 1858 and went to the United States in 1863 to work as a military observer for the Union army. Zeppelin served in the Franco-German War of 1870-1871; he retired in 1891 with the rank of brigadier general.The First ZeppellinZeppelin took keen interest in balloon flight and devoted himself to the design and construction of airships. Graf (Count) von Zeppelin would invent the rigid-frame airship (Luftschiff) in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The LZ1 made her maiden voyage on July 2, 1900. This ship had a rigid frame and served as the prototype of many subsequent models.The first zeppelin airship consisted of a row of 17 gas cells individually covered in rubberized cloth; the whole was confined in a cylindrical frame
So begins the saga of the Teddy Bear, a phenomenal soft toy named after a President of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt.
Margarete Steiff contracted polio at the age of eighteen months, a dreaded and debilitating disease. She was destined to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair for her left foot was totally paralyzed, her right foot was lame, and she had only partial use of her right arm.
Perhaps a lighter spirit would bemoan the slings and arrows that fate had bestowed, but Margarete proved to have strength, courage and a will to become far more than most women of her generation.
Margarete Steiff attended school and was even carried, by stronger children, to some of her classes. She learned to sew on a machine and, though painful, became proficient in hand needlework as well.
With the completion of her education she was employed as a dressmaker and succeeded not only because of her skill, but as a result of her vibrant personality.
In 1880, she made
Black Forest Germany Woodcarvings
Some Samples of Traditional Woodcraft
Woodcarvings are still handmade by skilled masters as they were 200 years ago. Old clocks, original drawings of the first clocks etc. are still used and modified as patterns for new models, but the cuckoo clock in its basic form is 200 years old and has survived until now. The cuckoo clock symbolizes the past, present and the future.
In the 17th century the Black Forest was a hard place. Europe was going through a mini-ice age, and it was so cold during the winters that milk sometimes froze in the pail between the barn and the house.
People began to make clocks in their homes during the long, harsh winters. These clocks soon became an important source of income
The first Black Forest Cuckoo Clock was designed and made in 1738 by Franz Anton Ketterer in the small village of Schönwald near Triberg, Germany, in the depths of the Black Forest. Ketterer managed to reproduce the cuckoo's call by the clever use of bellows producing two different sounds.
Clocks that were made in winter were sold by the clock peddlars in the summer months during long journeys throughout Europe. The clocks were secured on a frame and carried on the back. They were works of art, sought after luxuries that conquered the hearts of people all over the world.
This ancient craft continued to develop, becoming soon a flouri
The beautiful Black Forest area was named by a German immigrant who noticed a striking resemblance with the many Ponderosa Pines found here and Germany's own famous Black Forest. Black Forest covers over 200,000 acres and borders the north end of Colorado Springs. Black Forest is an ideal area for those looking for a rural setting while still remaining close to Colorado Springs. Black Forest is dense with trees while some areas open to beautiful grasslands, especially in southern Black Forest. Many of the subdivisions in Black Forest boast riding trails, parks, golf courses, country clubs, as well as small lakes and streams. Black Forest provides a wonderful topography with elevations ranging between 6500-7800 feet. Great views of Pikes Peak and the Front Range can be seen from some areas within Black Forest. The age of homes in Black Forest varies from the early 1900's to today's beautiful custom homes. Most properties in Black Forest have 2 to 5 acre lots. Much larger par
The big question these days seems to “What’s happening with housing prices in my area”? Well at least in the Black Forest, that doesn’t seem to be a very easy question to answer. The year to date numbers are fairly erratic and don’t seem to show any real trend, as the accompanying graph shows.[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.springsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/bla_oct.swf” [...]
The Black Forest market is generally one of the most desirable areas along the Front Range. Unfortunately, it has consistently showed up in the bottom quarter of our monthly “Absorption Rates” study. Given the natural beauty and desirability of this area we assume the issue is perceived market value a.k.a pricing.
It seems as though Realtors [...]
Black Forest saw prices soften but sales increase for the month of September. This appears to be the result of pent up buyer demand in conjunction with seller motivation. As we have discussed here in the past, there are buyers in the market and the homes they are buying are the ones that are priced [...]
