Love Everything about Red Velvet!

I got this recipe and photos from http://www.lickthebowlgood.blogspot.com/Please check out her blog, pretty amazing recipes!

This cake is made with sour cream, which is unlike any red velvet cake I've ever made, but it worked. They rose and domed perfectly and the cream cheese filling accented them nicely. Since they have cream cheese in them they need to be refrigerated but their flavor tastes best with the chill taken off of them. So allow them to sit at room temp for a bit before serving or heat them ever so slightly. The only thing I would change next time is to add more filling and up the cream cheesiness. That's never a bad thing. Another good thing about these cupcakes is that this recipe has already been cut down to make 8-9 cupcakes so you don't end up with so many leftover.

I got this recipe and pictures from:
http://lickthebowlgood.blogspot.com/2010/02/red-velvet-love-for-you.html
Red Velvet Cream Cheese Cupcakes from Cookie Madness via My Baking Adventures

Filling:

4 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 ½ tablespoons lightly beaten egg (break egg, mix with fork, measure)
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Batter:

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
2 teaspoons unsweetened natural cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 plus 1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 large egg
1 tablespoon red food coloring
3/4 teaspoons vanilla
3 tablespoons sour cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 8 (I needed 9) muffin cups with paper liners.

Prepare filling first. With a mixing spoon, beat together softened cream cheese and sugar. Add egg and vanilla and stir until smooth. Set aside.

In a mixing bowl, thoroughly stir together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.

In a second mixing bowl, stir together oil, sugar, vinegar, egg, red food coloring, vanilla and sour cream. Mix very well, then add the flour mixture and stir just until blended.

Measure out approximately 1/3 cup red mixture and set aside. Divide remaining red mixture among the 8 muffin cups – each cup should be a little over 1/3 of the way full. Spoon cream cheese mixture over red mixture, dividing evenly between all cups. Drop small spoonfuls of reserved red batter on top of cream cheese mixture, making a bulls-eye pattern.

Bake for 20-23 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack. Carefully remove lift muffins from cups.

Best served slightly chilled. – Makes 8-9

Cake Mix Waffles!

I had the pleasure of hanging out with some great friends today! Well, I had way too much caffeine and now I can't sleep and it's after 3 am! Sooooo, I am blog surfing :) Wow, I am finding so many wonderful things! I had to post the link to this great recipe because I will be making this oh, so soon! After you look at this recipe for waffles you need to look at the recipe for the ice cream sandwiches they made out of these! oooooh yumm! Ok, on to more, I know I am going to get tired very soon! XOXO

http://cometogetherkids.blogspot.com/2011/07/cake-mix-waffles.html

(and when I figure how to make this link able to work I will fix it! seriously, why can't I remember? I know you should be able to click on it and go right to it... I think it's because I need some sleep)

I figured it out! Thanks Connie!!! You're a lifesaver!

Reese is crazy!!! (becca post)

Okay... since we didn't have a doggie bed when we first brought him home, we had to let him sleep in my bed with me. It's fine with me,but he just lost it this morning. Every morning, Daddy takes Reese outside for a potty break so he doesn't even have a chance to have an accident. He runs out on the grass and chews on it, which wears the lazy thing out. Daddy brings him back in and he normally passes out within a few minutes.
Today he did the opposite.
He started doing Oober Dive Bombs on my face. Then he started trying to bite my nose. Then he started charging at my forehead.
So guess what Becca did?
Let's just say, he ended up in Gramma's (Gramma being my mother)bed while Becca napped on the couch while listening to I love Lucy reruns.
He woke me up at 6:00. I don't even wake up that early on school days, let alone a WEDNESDAY in the SUMMER!!!
I slept on till 11:40.
So ha.
And ha.
And ha.

Pictures of Reese!

Reese just loves to sleep, as we found out today:)

Earlier today, we took Reese out for a potty break. He loves laying down in the grass. Too cute:)


Don't you just love that adorable face? And that awesome collar?

The secret is out...

Tomorrow we are picking up our little "secret"... He is the cutest and snuggliest little Yorkie pup! We are so ecstatic for him to join our family! After many hours of deliberation, we were finally able to agree on his name... Reese. He has the sweetest and calmest personality and already knows his name! Mr. Smartypants! Becca has let me know that she is his "Momma" and I am his "Grandma"... alrighty :) I will get some photos up soon of our little snookums...so exciting!

I have a secret!!! A very fantastic secret!

Okay...... For starters, if you want to comment (please do), please write the number you are to post (i.e. if you posted fifth, you would write "#5 ......" and then go on with what you were saying). If you dont do this you won't be entered to be told!

Anyways, since we are moving, we decide to get a little treasure along the way! here are some hints:
1. It is super lazy.
2. It looks kinda like a milky way except the hard stuff. ( The soft stuff being chocolate and caramel)
3.it has huge ears!

Guess away, fellow bloggers!
(post by becca)

Don't these look delish? I am thinking I need to get my booty to the store and get to work! Good Morning!

CINNAMON ROLL WAFFLES

WAFFLES:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 Tablespoons granulated white sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

CINNAMON TOPPING:
1/2 cup butter, melted
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon

CREAM CHEESE TOPPING:
4 Tablespoons butter
2 ounces cream cheese
3/4 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Prepare waffles: In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Make a well in the center of the mixture; set aside.

2. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk, oil and vanilla. Pour into the bowl with the dry ingredients. Stir just until moistened; batter will be slightly lumpy.

3. Preheat a waffle iron and spray with nonstick spray. Pour batter into waffle iron grid and close the lid. Bake until waffles are completely done- follow your waffle iron’s instructions. Use a fork to remove finished waffles. Repeat with remaining batter. Keep waffles warm until ready to serve (a 200 degree oven is perfect).

4. Prepare cinnamon topping: In a medium bowl, mix butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Scoop the filling into a small zip baggie and set aside.

5. Prepare cream cheese topping: In a medium, microwave-safe bowl- heat butter and cream cheese for 30 to 60 seconds; just until melted. Stir together until smooth; whisk in powdered sugar and vanilla extract.

6. When ready to serve, place waffle on plate, drizzle cinnamon topping, then drizzle cream cheese topping. Use as much or as little as you’d like. Serve immediately.

Yield: About 12 (4-inch) waffles

Source: RecipeGirl.com

I got a chuckle over this

Knowledge, Understanding

When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul, Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you…


Funny Rules of Grammar
Here are some great examples of grammar (or not!?). These are taken from Fumblerules of Writing by William Safire of the New York Times.


1. Always avoid alliteration.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague–they're old hat.
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas.
8. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
9. Contractions aren't necessary.
10. Do not use a foreign word when there is an adequate English quid pro quo.
11. One should never generalize.
12. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
14. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
15. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
16. It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions.
17. Avoid archaeic spellings too.
18. Understatement is always best.
19. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
20. One-word sentences? Eliminate. Always!
21. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
22. The passive voice should not be used.
23. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
24. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
25. Who needs rhetorical questions?
26. Don't use commas, that, are not, necessary.
27. Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can do it effectively.
28. Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative would suffice.
28. Subject and verb always has to agree.
29. Be more or less specific.
30. Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
31. Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispeling and to catch typograhpical errers.
32. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
33. Don't be redundant.
34. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
35. Don't never use no double negatives.
36. Poofread carefully to see if you any words out.
37. Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
38. Eschew obfuscation.
39. No sentence fragments.
40. Don't indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
41. A writer must not shift your point of view.
42. Don't overuse exclamation marks!!
43. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
44. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
45. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
46. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
47. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
48. Always pick on the correct idiom.
49. The adverb always follows the verb.
50. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
51. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be by rereading and editing.
52. And always be sure to finish what

Starbucks Cake PoPs!!!

A friend of mine brought me some of these delicious morsels of Heaven today... absolutely YUMMY! I never go through starbucks, now I think it will be a daily treat :)