My sweet baby girl is now 9 months old! 

Happy Birthday, Darling!

 My oldest daughter turned 8 this week!!

  

For her birthday, she wanted cake pops instead of cake. 

She also wanted cupcakes... 

So, I made both! 

There is no such thing as too much cake at a little girl's party!

I made both chocolate and vanilla cake pops. The recipe is a mix of a few recipes that I found on Pinterest plus a few things that I learned along the way. 

I am posting this since so many are asking for the recipe!

Here is my version:

I sprinkled the vanilla with pink sugar :)

Cake Pop Recipe

1. Bake your favorite chocolate or white cake (or both!!) and let cool
2. Make your favorite frosting (I cheated and used Pilsbury)
3. Crumble cake into a bowl.
4. Gradually add frosting so it it sticky, but not too sticky. If it is too sticky, it won't form balls
5. Make balls by rolling mixture of cake and frosting and set in a 9" x 12" casserole dish
6. Stick balls vertically with candy making lollipop sticks (I used Wilton)
7. Freeze overnight (Finish the rest the next morning)
8. I melted chocolate in a glass measuring cup (white chocolate for vanilla pops)
9. Dip balls into melted chocolate and sprinkle with sprinkles, sugar or topping of choice
10. Let chocolate harden

These were delicious and a huge hit! They are very similar to the ones at Starbucks!!

(I think these would be wonderful at Christmas to dip chocolate cake with chocolate frosting into white chocolate and roll in crushed peppermint!!)

For the cupcakes, I made chocolate and white cake. I used

Meri Meri Eat More Cake Cupcake Kit

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Hello!

Yes, It's been a while since I have blogged... sorry, folks! Where have I been? Let's see... working part time, art school part time, taking care of the new little baby (now 6 months!!), breastfeeding exclusively (still!!), taking care of the other 2 wild children, being a wife and knitting, spinning wool, sewing, painting, drawing, cooking and baking... you know, typical mom stuff! I am back to send a shout-out to the

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Bananna Blueberry Muffins

These muffins are amazing!! 

I got the recipe from my dear friend, Maryann. You can find the recipe over at the ICU

I made a few changes to the recipe, since I didn't have buttermilk or vanilla/plain yogurt. So I added milk instead of buttermilk and I added a banana. I also used half whole wheat pastry flour and half all-purpose flour. For the topping, I used organic cane sugar (turninado raw sugar). These came out absolutely delicious!!! They are super easy to make, too!

bonjour, mon beau bébé!!

Welcome!

Arabella Violet 

 was born on April 21st, at 2:58 pm, weighing 7 lbs, and was 18.5" long!!

5 weeks old

 I love her tiny little feet!

Psalm 127:3

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: 

and the fruit of the womb is his reward.