Weekly Darth

Basically, I am back-dating all these blogs (SCANDAL) and in an effort to get some on here, I am just kind of marking moments, not getting too much on here, in the interest of time. So, here's more baby pics, and when I get on top of school work and life, I will do better blogs. Onto baby!

 After I got sent this picture, I was laughing, and asked what his smile was trying to be. My sister responded with, 'his best human smile' and I was dying at it.

 This has got to be one of the cutest pictures I've ever seen.

Look how happy this joker is. This looks like a posed picture for school or something.

Cupcakes for a Shower

I seem to have a side business of cupcakes now. After doing my brother-in-law's wedding, I've been hired to do a wedding in June, and this weekend, I was hired to do a bridal shower. I was hired Thursday night for a Saturday shower, and that's SUPER short notice, but I was like, hey I can do this. So I made the standard vanilla, and my go-to Kit-Kat. Luckily it wasn't too stressful, and they looked pretty good, I thought.

Well, can't get the kit-kat picture to turn, but that's ok. Maybe this is a new thing I'll have, cupcake business in addition to whatever I do. I feel pretty good about this, I think I would love doing this. 

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This baby is just getting cuter every day! I wish they lived closer so I could obsess over him in person.

 What a nerd with this hair parted down the middle!

 He loves himself some bath time. I thought this was ok because his bits are covered.

I don't even know what's happening here.

Snickers Brownie Cups

Ok, before, I have made these Chocolate Treasures many a time, blogging about them many a time. I decided they would be a delicious thing to make right now, and so as I got started, I realized I didn't have any Rolos. So I improvised. I had mini Snickers baking bits, and decided, those could go very well in the recipe. So I made a regular ol' brownie mix, and scooped them into mini cupcake tins. I baked at 350 for 13 minutes and as soon as I pulled them out of the oven, I put a mini snickers into the middle. After they cooled, I frosted them.

I tried a new frosting today, and I gotta tell you, I think I have a winner. Here's what I did:

1 cup of butter, softened. Mine were maybe too softened, and I think that's ok.
4-5 cups powdered sugar
3 Tbs heavy cream
1 tsp Vanilla extract

So, take the butter. Cream it. Cream it nice and good until its nearly clear in color. Then, add the vanilla, and mix a bit longer until its all creamed together. Add the powdered sugar, a cup at a time, scraping the sides as needed. Then, I added 2 TB of cream, saw how it looked, and then added another almost cup (see, 4-5 is what I said) of powdered sugar. Then I saw how that was, and added another TB of cream. So basically, add at your discretion. It ends up being a super delicious frosting with a great consistency. These were really good, y'all.

Foto Friday

I got home from school today, and I came upstairs, and saw that Husband had done this to himself:

He took my tiny ponytail holders, and put nine of them into his beard. What a looney bin, now I feel like I need to hide my hair products ha ha!

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Basically, this baby is a straight up weirdo.

He's trying to say cheese here, obvs, but he got too excited.

This was just supposed to be a throw-away snapchat that my sister sent me, but his face here is way too cute for me to throw it away. I don't think anyone else thinks it's funny, but I can't stop laughing at it.

Mulit-Colored Frosting

My sister-in-law needed some help recently frosting some cupcakes. She wanted the effect of two different colors of frosting, mixed together onto one cupcake. I made some regular vanilla buttercream frosting, and then separated the bowl into two. I kept one vanilla, and made the other red. Well...tried to make it red. Despite using about 100 (slight exaggeration) drops of red food coloring, I couldn't make it go red, just pink. Then, I put some white frosting into a bag, and the reddish pink frosting in a bag. I then combined those two into another bag, fitted with a frosting tip. It was really hard to do, and hard to work with, but finally I got it going, and created:

Now, it mostly worked, and that's pretty dang cool. It's not exactly what I was thinking would happen, but I'm pretty pleased with the results. Would I do this again. Maybe. If I can figure out a better way of doing it, I absolutely will. I just think it looks really cool, how it turned out!

Super Bowl 2016

Today was the Super Bowl, as everyone knows, and as it turns out, the teams this year are ones that I actually don't really care about. Good job Broncos for winning, everyone is really jazzed for you. Let's talk about what I made. So I made some mini chocolate cupcakes, (just a regular cake-box chocolate recipe) and then a coconut buttercream frosting. Here's that recipe:

1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4+ cups powdered sugar
5 tablespoons coconut milk

Cream the butter until nice and smooth. Add the vanilla and beat a few more minutes, until combined and creamy. Add the powdered sugar, a cup at a time (many whiskings in the meantime) until creamy. It was a little more than 4 cups of sugar for me. And I don't know if this was just me, but as I was frosting, the frosting seemed to...melt as I was going. It was weird. I put it in the fridge after I frosted them, to keep them nice and chill.

Then, we made bacon-wrapped tater tots. I took a package of bacon, and with all the bacon still together, I cut each piece of bacon into 3 pieces. I wrapped each piece around a frozen tater tot.

Then I threw them (gently placed) in the oven at 400 degrees 20 minutes. Take them out, flip the tater tots, and bake for 10 minutes longer. Delicious! Hopefully you and yours enjoyed the game, or enjoyed your Sunday otherwise.

Scootch and a Haircut...Two Bits

This morning, I was just chilling in bed, reading a bit before I got up, and snuggling with Cookie. All of a sudden, I'm like, holy cow dog, you stink. So I called her groomer, praying that there happened to be an opening. Good news, there was! Someone had cancelled, I was so glad. I quickly got her into the car, and this is how she looked at me during the drive:

 Such pathetic-ness in that picture! Then I dropped her off, with her whining the whole time. A few hours left, she was all done, and looking dapper:

Although she may have been mad, I still think it's all worth it, even if she doesn't.

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I don't get many baby pics lately. But what I get, I share!

 Looks like he's about to say a bad word here, right?

 He got his hair cut today. Of course, it's a debacle of epic proportions, since he flips right out about it. But I got this snap in the middle of it, I like the caption added.

Another pic taken right at a time when he does his weird lip thing.