Just One Cup at a Time

Diet or Bust......

I was randomnly cruising through my google blog reader (that at one point had over 2735 new posts I had yet to read.....) and yesterday came across the fact that it was Chocolate Cake day.  Now you know chocolate cake is my absolute most favorite food in the whole world - I mean it ranks up there with coffee and sushi and is actually ABOVE both of those.  How did I not know this and why can't everyday day be chocolate cake day?

I sighed realizing no chocolate cake for me yesterday, and I cried and pouted too.  A day without chocolate cake just isn't complete without a tear and pout to go with it.

Darn diet schmiet!

Then I got on the scale this morning to have lost another pound...funny though I still want to say diet schmiet and I still want chocolate cake.

Then today as I'm browsing I discover it's Mac 'N Chees Month?  30 days of Mac N Cheese 30 ways??? 

Okay I have a little bean to pick with the people that decide these things.....I mean who on earth would decide that January.....January the month everyone is trying to eat less and waste away their holiday indulges....why this month!

Can't it be asparugus month or something?

Ok agreed that would be dumb.

Now I want some!  Don't you worry your pretty little head.....I'll be making one of these here recipes in a couple weeks.

Cinnamon Yummy-ness

The Pioneer Woman helped me start a new tradition this year....I hope!

I made her cinnamon rolls on New Years Eve and delivered them to some friends early New Years morning (it makes a TON so you gotta spread the goods around)!

They were incredible and she was right....everyone loved them.

Before.....

After

Yummy-ness!!!

P.S.  I didn't make her maple glaze - I used her basic recipe and substituted vanilla extract for the maple, a little more milk instead of the coffee (to the right consistency) and added a little cream cheese just because I was in charge :)! 

Happiness!!!

Note to Self

Note to self:

When you're on a strict 500-calorie per day diet.....don't go to any websites that post pictures like this:

I mean that's just plain dumb Andrea!!!!

I'll be tuning back into this website after June 5th to make one of these goodies for a camping trip the following weekend - oh trust me I am!!

P.S. yes I said 500-calories a day diet.  You may gawk but hey I've lost 19.5 lbs in under 3 weeks :).  It's one of the hardest diets I've done but I've got friends in low places doin' it with me (sorry for the Garth Brooks insert) and it's working so it's worth the hard work and I'm only doing this 500 cal thing for 40 days.....I can't eat like bird for too long!  

What to make, what to eat?

So I'm hungry.  I know what else is new?  It's only because I'm trying to not be hungry that I'm hungry.

But since this weekend is Easter I need to bake.  I mean it's the right, kind and generous thing to do..bake for a holiday.  I mean what would a fabulous holiday be without some yummy treats to share with your loved ones?

See I'm always thinking of others! :)

So last year I made this AMAZING Carrot Cake - I mean it was moist beyond moist!!  Yummy!  And the cream cheese frosting...oh my!!

And for the kiddos in my life I made these:

They were fun and I loved how they turned out. 

But.....and hopefully some of you creative friends can relate....being creative doesn't mean repeating something you already did.  I make my life harder for myself I know, especially in my biz when someone is perfectly happy with a design I did for someone else and they want the exact thing - I'm always wanting to change it up and make it something different.  Why I feel the need to make more work for myself I have no idea.

But back to the sweets I must make this weekend because you know...it's the right thing to do.

I don't know what to make - any ideas?

I thought about these Carrot Cake cupcakes from Joy the Baker because afterall they do have carrots in them

And the thought of dulce-de-leche buttercream?  Uhh Yummm!!!  Duh!

I thought about these by Bakerella but I don't know if I have the energy for bunny ears? 

I'm lazy you know.

And these cakeballs?

Do you know what happens to me when there are cakeballs in my house?

Especially the chocolate fudge ones?

This is precisely why I probably didn't invite you over at Christmastime for fear that we would no longer be friends after you ate one of my cakeballs.

And if I wasn't around to see you eat one......trust me on this:

My BFF would have beat you up if you ate one of her red velvet cake balls.

So I'm just saying.....maybe these aren't such a good idea?

There's always the Booze Cake - now that will get those church ladies talkin'!!!!

Dulce-De-Leche Decadence.....Who can resist anything with the word Decadence in it?

I think I know what I want to make but it's a toss up between something with lemon and something with frosting....you know me and frosting.....it's true love in the most eternal way possible that you can be with frosting....especially when it's chocolate.

Or perhaps I should just step away from the kitchen......

Font cookie cutters

Fonts and baking?

Is there anything better?

Nope, not to this Stationery Crazed Font loving Female!! 

Hey that could be my new Online name...it has a ring to it!

Just call me SCFLF! :)

Helvetica font cookie cutters!!

How can she tease us like this when you can't even get them right now???? 

Ah man - on my wish list it goes.....in the cute little book of dreams I carry everyday.....here's hoping one day I can check it off the list....along with husband, baby, mansion on the beach, retirement....and font cookie cutters.  Perfect!

What's wrong with this picture?

Is something wrong with this picture?

Nah.....what could be wrong with a month's supply of Via and a super cute mug from a super great (and cute) friend??!!

Thanks Ronnie - you're the best!!!