Sweets: Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies

Baking, Cookies, Recipes, Red Velvet Cookies, Sweets

About a month ago I had a red velvet cake box sitting in the pantry but I wasn't really craving cake or cupcakes.  After doing a quick google search I found this recipe from the lovely Paula Deen and since I had everything on hand away I went.

Instead of using chocolate cake mix like Paula did I used the red velvet cake mix I had at hand.   Let me just tell you that my co-workers and neighbors loved them and keep requesting them.

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Life: Honeymooning it in style

Honeymoon, Life, Vacation

Last New Year’s Eve as the hubby and I were siting around not doing much we decided that this year  we were going to do something spectacular to bring in the New Year since we haven’t had a memorable one yet.  We thought about spending New Years in Paris after finding this tour on Contiki.  I mean imagine your husband coming up to you and asking you, “If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go?” I screamed out, “Paris!”  Well he didn’t really need to ask since he knows how obsessed I am with EVERYTHING Parisian.  Fast forward to September and we still don’t have any plans for New Years.  So, why am I bringing this up?  I’m bringing it up because as a result of that talk we had nine months ago we are finally going on our honeymoon.  We took the idea of going to Paris and ran with it and decided that if we were going to invest so much money on the trip we better make it worth while.  Our New Years idea turned into our 10 day honeymoon trip to London and Paris.

When we got married the hubby was working on so many projects that I didn’t want him to be stressed out because he had to leave them to go on our honeymoon.  Let me just say that he didn’t take any time off for our wedding unlike most of his coworkers.  Last year I was still in school and our schedules didn’t line up so we couldn’t make it happen either but this years everything worked out.  The hubby now has a new job where he works less and I finally graduated.  Things are great and I can’t imagine why people go on their honeymoon right after the wedding.  I have been planning every aspect of our honeymoon and I am ecstatic about it.  I can’t wait to share with all of you the many photos I’m planning on taking and all the bakeries we are going to visit.

If you could go any where in the world where would you go?

Baking Inspiration: Disney/Pixar Toy Story Cakes

Baking Inspiration, cake, Disney, Pixar, Sweets, Toy Story

The hubby and I were watching The Pixar Story on Netflix the other night and I began to thinker with the idea of making another Pixar inspired cake like the one I did here.  One of my favorite movies from the Disney/Pixar collaboration is Toy Story. Just in case you were wondering I love all of three movies equally.  I don't have plans on making a cake any time soon since its so hot right now but how cool would it be to make one for a little boy or girl.

Here's the list I came up with so far…

Please click {Source} to see where they originally came from!

                                                                                                         …Jessie…

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