cakesSeptember 16, 2009 8:10 pm
making a cake…actually making anything for one of the most important days in someone’s life might be a little more stress than I’m prepared to handle.
cakesMay 11, 2009 8:53 pm
For Mother’s Day my mom wanted red velvet cupcakes. I’ve tried ten million different recipes and they all end up being pretty dry. I’ve added more oil and that helps, but then after about a day they taste…oily. What to do? What to do?
Although, I’m sure it would make my southern ancestors roll over in their graves, I’ve adopted a somewhat nontraditional red velvet recipe. Thought I’d pass it along….
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
2 cups granulated sugar
4 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup milk
1 bottle (1 ounce) Red Food Color
2 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
Here’s where I found the recipe. I do, however, make a few changes. I don’t usually use that much cocoa and I don’t think it’s necessary to use that much red food coloring. The recipe comes with a cream cheese icing recipe, but I use the same one that I use for everything.
2 8oz. packages of cream cheese, softened
2 sticks of butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
Cream the cream cheese, butter and vanilla until smooth. Add the powdered sugar one cup at a time.
Ice those puppies and enjoy! I personally think you could put this cream cheese icing on a turd and it would taste good, but that’s probably not the picture you want right before you go bake a cake so forget I said that:)
We celebrated Tanner’s birthday this past Sunday. All was well until she nearly choked to death on the cake I made for her. If it didn’t scar her for life it scarred me. But she recovered quickly and we all had fun watching her play:)
Tinkerbell cake. 
Opening presents. 
Diggin’ in. 
I think this was about 5 seconds before she choked. Awesome. 
Whew…she’s ok:)
oh my! This past weekend was a little busy to say the least. Here’s how it went down.
Worked on cake 1 and cake 2 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon (I ran out of fondant on Friday so I had to drive to Tucker to get more…I’m a genius in case you were wondering).
Got the text early Friday morning that Kel and Bob were at the hospital and Baby Walker was on her way!
KT and Amanda got to my house about 5 on Friday. We were supposed to be having a girls slumber party, but Josie got sick so KQ couldn’t come and Kel was…well she was a little busy:)
So we all piled in the car and drove to Athens to see Kel, Bob and Amelie Joy Walker! Precious!
After we left the hospital we came back to my house and Amanda and KT got the pleasure of staying up ridiculously late helping me with cake 2. But we had fun and laughed a lot:)
Saturday morning we got up bright and early and got ready for Seleta’s shower. I drove to meet KQ and deliver cake 1.
Then I hauled a back to my house and grabbed cake 2 and headed to Seleta’s shower.
It was so good to see people that I hadn’t seen in a long time. And I can’t wait for Chloe Mae Collins to get here!
I crashed the rest of the weekend and then last night we had a small shower for Kary. Can I just say that I love shower food…good thing cause I go to a few:)
So to sum up…everyone and their brother is having a kid:)
By the way the highlight of last night was when Merrit looked at me and said she had to go to the bathroom. So I grabbed her hand and we ran to the bathroom as fast as we could. And just as soon as I got her pants down I here "ploop". #2…right on the floor. So close…yet so very far away. I let Dad take care of that one…Aunt Morgan isn’t quite ready for that:)
cakesNovember 23, 2008 6:30 pm
I’m ready to play…today
look at me
I can be
centerfield.
I would never divulge a woman’s age, but in this case it’s unavoidable:) McCall has been bustin’ her butt for the past month (probably longer) planning a surprise 50th birthday party for her mom. I had the privilege of making the cake.
McCall wanted to incorporate different things that her mom likes to do. For instance…spending time with her granddaughter and getting ready for the new baby that’s on the way!
And working in her garden.
And loving on her dogs.
Happy Birthday Lisa! Hope you had an awesome one! You don’t look a day over 30!
P.S. I have to give mad props to this lady. She is everything I wish I was in a cake maker. I get a ton of ideas from her cakes and then do my best to pull off what she does with excellence. I sent McCall to her site when we started talking about what kind of cake she wanted. So the cake I made is pretty much a mix and match of several different cakes that she has made. If you ever move to New Jersey I would highly recommend you go get a cake from her. Her stuff is awesome!
cakesOctober 14, 2008 8:48 am
I’ll let you refer to Katie and Chris’ blog for the rundown, but I just wanted to point out one thing. The massive stem on this cake isn’t just a massive stem…it’s a number one…cause she was turning one…get it?
All the answers to your wonderfully thought out questions. Grab a seat…this could take a minute.
1. On a scale of 1-10 (with 1 being not close at all, and 10 being very close), how close to the rapture are we if a #10 UGA ended up playing against a #9 Vanderbilt next week? -Christian
I’m a little late on this one because we now know that a #10 UGA will be playing a #22 Vanderbilt, but in the same spirit of this question I would say that we are at a 9 on the rapture scale if that #22 team beats us. Or maybe that’s just a 9 on the Morgan’s-gonna-beat-Bobo-if-he-calls-the-same-fade-pass-to-the-endzone-play-again-and-we-end-up-kicking-a-field-goal scale.
2. How would a single guy know if a TSG is planning her wedding with him? -Blake
Well Blake, I’m glad you asked. There is no way. Ideally a TSG would keep her imaginary disease induced weddings to herself. Unless the TSG completely loses her mind and tells Random Cute Boy what’s been going on in her head…which has been known to happen after a long and hard battle with the plague. Contrary to the delusions caused by her plague that lead her to believe that Random Cute Boy is really in love with her too and will embrace her with joy at her confession, Random Cute Boy’s reaction will probably be to run far…far away.
Now, with that being said, there are some precautions that Random Cute Boy’s can take in order to help their TSG sisters. For instance…don’t flirt with me if you don’t really see me like that. Don’t give me that look, or that smile and for pete’s sake don’t raise your hands when you’re worshipping right next to me. Ok, I guess that last one’s ok. I realize that this seems like a lot to do, but if you really want to help this is how. It’s kinda like how TSG’s know that RCB’s have a tendency to be horn-balls….therefore, we don’t dress like sluts (please note that there is a big difference between TSG’s and regular single girl’s…I can’t account for their wardrobe choices). While I will never understand why a guy can’t handle seeing a girl’s cleavage…we’re aware of the problem and we do our best to prevent it.
So now that yall are aware of the problem you can do your best to help. Glad you asked?:)
3. What did you get your degree in? And when are you and Rebecca opening a freakin bakery already? -Kelly
I got my degree in Telecommunications….and no that doesn’t mean I studied how to call people and harass them during supper. It’s basically video production. My dad wanted me to major in Business…based on how much I’ve used my degree in the past 5 years I’m starting to think he may have been onto something. And Rebecca and I will open a freakin bakery when all my friends start paying me $500 for a cake since that’s how much I would have to charge in order to make a living doing it. The truth is I like making cakes for my friends and part of the joy is doing it for them for cheap. I don’t have to have a Business degree to know that isn’t a good recipe for running a business:)
4. Why are blogs called blogs? -Donna
One of my readers already answered this, but I promise I knew:) Web Logs + Southern Person = blogs….kinda like You all + Southern Person = Yall. See how that works?
5. Who is your crush? And what are your kids names? -Joe
Joe don’t play around. The crush was a guy that went to church with one of my friends…and that’s as specific as you’re gonna get from me:) Plus the crush is gone now anyway….I don’t actually know the guy (minor detail when you have the TSG plague) and it’s kinda hard to crush on someone when you never come into contact with them. As far as my kids names go. I have no clue. I’ve always loved the name Jackson, but one of my bff’s has claimed it as her own. And as much as I talk about the plague I really do try my best not to plan out all of my children’s names…or the details of my wedding. I don’t allow myself to look at bridal magazines. Not that you asked about that, but there you go.
6. Your favorite vacation? -Katie
Hmmmm….I’ve been on some good vacas, but I’d have to say my favorite was going to Hawaii. I mean it was flippin’ Hawaii! I always thought people were exaggerating when they would talk about how awesome Hawaii was. I mean it can’t be that great right? Wrong. It seriously is the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen. I could’ve stayed there forever. Plus I was with some of my most favorite people in the whole wide world…that makes pretty much any location awesome.
7. What holds you back from chasing the wildest dreams God has planted in your heart? Furthermore, what are they? -Rebecca
Goodness, this is a tough one. I think the number one reason for not chasing my dreams is fear. Fear of a million different things. It paralyzes me.
What are those dreams…this is a hard one too. I don’t have…or if I do I don’t know it…one particular calling in my life that outweighs everything else. I’ve always been one of those people who is ok at a lot of things, but not great at anything. One of those people who doesn’t really know what the heck they’re supposed to be doing with their life. However, there are some things in my heart that I wish I had the gonads to do. Number one on that list would be frontier missions. That’s really just a fancy word for doing mission work among people who have never heard about Jesus. I would love to go and live with an unreached people group and just do life there along side them.
Number two on that list would be to work in an orphanage or start one or adopt 50 million kids. You want an abortion? You don’t want your baby? Give ‘em to me. With no judgment or commentary on your choice…I just want those babies.
I don’t necessarily think I would be good at either of those things…they’re just in my heart. Mostly I just don’t want to waste my life on myself.
So there you go. Thanks everyone for your questions….and for helping me have something to blog about:)
peace out.
not old, like we’re old…old, like I’ve known them for a long time….we are NOT old…ok. Now that we’re clear about that let’s move on. Really, I don’t know why yall are so concerned with my age:)
This weekend I went to a shower for my good friend from high school, Melissa. Well actually I’ve known her since the first grade. It was so good to see everyone and we had lots of fun remembering all the stupid crap we used to do in high school:)
Me, Melissa and Susanna
My mom asked me to make the cake so of course I obliged:)
Thankfully this cake was just a plain ol’ round one…and not in the shape of anything crazy:)
Wednesday morning I got a call from Katie asking if I could make a cake for her uncle’s bday party on Friday night…in the shape of their house. Because I’m nuts I said ok:)
This is the picture I got.
Because I’m anal retentive these are the plans I made.
And this is what I stayed up till 2 a.m. creating.
Of course it didn’t turn out exactly how I planned…they never do…but as the night went on I got less and less picky. I had planned to add a lot more detail, but I just didn’t have the time. And I wish it wasn’t so messy looking, but again…no time. My only hope is that when her uncle sees it he knows that it’s his house and not some yellow and brown box sitting on the table:)
p.s. this is now what my kitchen looks like…anyone wanna come clean it for me:)
Merrit’s bday party was today and she was precious as always. It was a tinker bell party and I made the cake. Here’s a video of most of the process…and yes, I realize that I didn’t frame it up very well…sorry about that:)
Tanaya was very specific about what she wanted. Purple fondant with green fondant stars and glitter all over everything. So that’s what I did…I do what I’m told:)
I’m sure Tanaya would rather I leave this out, but it was funny so I’m not gonna:) While Merrit was blowing her candles out we almost had a disaster….watch and see.
All in all it was lots of fun! Man, I love this kid!
cakesMay 29, 2008 9:10 am
made this one for Kel’s little sister. She graduated from HCA last friday. My writing leaves something to be desired, but all in all I think it turned out ok. It’s hard to tell, but the whole cake and the stars are painted gold.
We had a blast throwing Kristy a shower. Josie got lots of goodies and we can’t wait to meet her! Here’s the standard belly shot.
KQ and her bird cake…birds was the theme for our shower. I meant to take pictures of the cake in stages as I was making it, but of course I forgot…so here’s the finished product.
And one of the top moments of the afternoon…Mrs. McIver reveals a prize she got in high school! Click on the picture to make it bigger…awesome!
not exactly yoda…but good enough for a 6 year old…hopefully:)
