Tori Spelling's Red Velvet Cupcake Recipe

RED VELVET CUPCAKE RECIPE

ENJOY!

CUPCAKES:
2 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 1/2 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 ounces red food coloring
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon white vinegar

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:
1 (8oz) package cream cheese
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

MAKE CUPCAKES:
-pre-heat oven to 350-
-grease 12 cupcake cups or line with paper liners-
-cream softened butter and sugar together till fluffy-
-add eggs and blend well-
-in separate small bowl combine cocoa and food coloring and stir-
-once you have thick paste then add to mixture-
-sift salt and flour together into mixture-
-add vanilla, buttermilk, and water to mixture-
-in separate small bowl combine vinegar and baking soda-
-fold into cake mixture-
-pour mixture into cupcake cups-
-bake 15 to 20 minutes or until a wood toothpick inserted into middle of cupcake comes out clean-
-let cool for 10 minutes-
-turn out onto rack and let finish cooling-

MAKE FROSTING:
-blend together cream cheese softened and butter softened-
-add powder sugar and vanilla extract-
-blend till smooth-

FROST CUPCAKES!

Mommy Makeup

I got this neat email from the dailystroll this morning, with a company that makes Make-up for Mommies. And they ship to Canada which is even cooler! Oddly enough it's called Mommy Make-up.

Here's the set I like! $87 bucks plus another $6 for shipping, not totally outrageous for a whole set of makeup, but still not drugstore cheap either. The editor of the Daily Stroll said she tried it and loved it so I think it's probably worth the cash.

Birthday Parties....

Okay,


It's time to start really planning Emily's Birthday Party. We've got the location booked and I need to talk to them to figure out what stuff I need to bring. Goodie bags for sure. Emily wants a princess cake too. I went to Michaels and found a Cinderella plan so I'm going to have to figure out how to actually make the cake look like Cinderella. I'm sure I can get it done. Looking forward to it!! Now I just need to get the princess icing colours.




















I think I might make these surprise balls I found over on the HGTV site. Here's the instructions I found for them.


Materials:
yards and yards of colorful crepe papergifts to wrap such as rubber stamps, stickers, framed photos, bracelets, charms, jewelry, wrapped candies, etc.

Note: The ball of gifts can be as small as an orange or as large as a beach ball, depending upon how many items you want to include.


Steps:
Starting at one end of the crepe paper, roll the paper around one gift item at a time, enclosing each item inside the paper until you've formed ball with gifts enclosed inside. Tape or glue the end of the crepe paper to the ball to secure.

Decorate the completed ball--be creative! Use buttons, flower petals, ribbons, or try a smiley face.

Tooth # 5

Well Owen seems to be cutting tooth number 5 right now. This one has been the most painful for him, he has been crying and has had a little fever with it. I feel so badly for him, it also looks like it's coming in behind the front tooth, but the further it seems to move down the better position it's looking like its going to be in.

Right now his two front teeth remind me of Mater from the movie Cars. I feel like a bad mom for thinking that but one day he will laugh too I hope. I think I'm going to pick him up a Mater toy from the toystore sometime soon, I think it's kind of funny in a really mean way.

He seems to be sleeping a little bit better after this last weekend. He was up at 10 something, just past midnight and then not again until 5:30 which was pretty good!

Here's the thing....

Well I don't know why I'm so pissed off but truly I'm angry!! It's Easter morning and the kids and I have been up for 3 hours now and Adam is just getting out of the shower, he's not dressed and ready or anything and we have to be out the door in 20 minutes. This means that so far this morning, I have done the Easter Egg hunt, breakfast for both kids, getting both kids dressed, brushing teeth for both kids, hair for both kids and packing the bag for both kids!

Adam has gotten up and got some tylenol for Owen as he's running a little fever and made me feel like I was asking him to move the world when I asked him to do it!! Sucks!!

I'm trying to be the nice supportive wife while he is supposed to be helping Owen learn how to sleep. So far in the three days this has been going on I think I'm short more sleep than him and all he does is complain! I'm so sick of it I want to scream!! Last night Owen was up for 10 minutes around midnight and then about 10 minutes around 3. When he woke back up at 3:30 instead of ferberizing him like he's supposed to he goes and gets me to nurse him back to sleep. Okay so now I'm up for 30 minutes. If you're counting that's now more minutes than Adam. Then Owen gets up at 6:30 for the day and Adam sleeps in until after 9:00. If you're still counting I'm out almost 3 hours over him!

I'm pissed!!

Now this is exactly what we need...

The Lullabub Cot Rocker!! Wow, Adam and I need this so badly. Don't know if we can get it in Canada, but we could get it shipped to a friend in the US and then get it sent North from there.

Too Cool!!!

$199 US, I'd pay that much for a good night's sleep!

Crew Cuts

I wish we had J.Crew in Canada. I love their crewcuts line for kids and although you can have it shipped here when you order online it is so expensive when you've paid all of the duty and taxes and shipping it's just not worth it. I'll have to do a run south of the line sometime soon and see if they carry it it any of their outlet stores. I just got an email today with the cutesest summer dress ever. I can just see Emily in it and she is obsessed with dresses. Check out the J.Crew site for ordering info.

So it made me look around...

My favourite band of all time is Barenaked Ladies... I try to see them everytime they are in town. I have such a good time at all of their concerts and they make me laugh. So I guess I just need to figure out who my favourite male singer is and I'll have it all figured out. Anyways so I was just poking around YouTube after finding the Alanis video and I found this whole series of Bathroom Recordings by the BNL so for your listening pleasure!!



There are a tonne more on the YouTube site just look for Barenaked Ladies - (The Bathroom Sessions).

Alanis singing "My Humps"

Man this is hi-lar-i-ous!! I only think I've heard the Black Eyed Peas version once, but Adam sings this song all the time. He is going to die! Alanis has to be my favourite female singer of them all. Love that she doesn't take herself to seriously!!