Quarantine Comfort

I have heard people say that stress can cause one to experience bouts of baking...

This was kind of one of those times and a first for myself.

Since the Corona Quarantine I've been cooking so many more meals and one night I decided I was going to give myself a break and bake the blues away.

Luckily My Love and I have had plenty of things to keep us busy so we've been very blessed through out the whole process.

I’ve made cake a couple of times and always from a box but after watching many seasons of BBC/Netflix The Great British Bake Off I thought, well I’ve got the time, let's try from scratch.

After checking out a few recipes I found the one I wanted to attempt and boy am I glad that I did!!!

Since the recipe is not my own I'll provide the exact recipe I followed.

 tastesbetterfromscratch.com

It’s the Hershey's chocolate double layer cake and if you love chocolate this is the cake for you!

Since I don’t bake too often I didn’t have two round baking pans so I decided to do one round and one square. I’ve since made sure I have multiple pans just for this recipe!

If you try out the recipe let me know in the comments what you thought! 

I used organic cane sugar in place of granulated sugar, organic eggs and butter, I used white lily flour(my mom insists it's the best) and organic non GMO raw cane powdered sugar.

 I also didn't have any buttermilk so I used the milk and vinegar trick that the recipe recommended.

This beautiful dress is available from chicwish and I will provide an affiliate link if you would like to shop it. 

https://rstyle.me/cz-n/d8vp3jceyuf

xoxo

Piper Arielle

Tis the Season

 Lemon pound cake? 

Yes PLEASE!!!

 The nightmare before Christmas on Christmas eve!

#Classic

 McKy, Colton and Chase enjoying the spring rocking horse! 

  Look at that face!

He didn't want me to take his picture.

 We have always used gram crackers for our "Gingerbread" houses.  

 Homemade icing for the mortar.

 Kaylor using his pretend shaving set like a pro! ;) 

 Jaizy riding side saddle while holding her American Girl doll.

 And now for Christmas dinner.

This is a bacon wrapped chicken breast stuffed with spinach and goodness!!!

 Seriously this was a feast for champions!

 We even had Barbie cabbage!

 I think it's safe to say that we enjoyed our Christmas eve and Christmas day with most all of our Family and the best food EVER!

We each took a turn with the ab roller after eating and let us just say... I don't know if my aching "Abs" are from the workout or from the hilarity of watching everyone trying it!

Unfortunately people laughed at me the most so I probably need to be practicing!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and remembered the reason for the season!

xoxo

Piper Arielle  

Photos by:Piper (moi)

My Birthday Suit... Sort of.

 Breakfast in bed.

 Wearing one of the things from that box you saw earlier.

These Earrings, I'm obsessed!

What I wore to church!

 I love the gold beading on this vintage cardigan my sister gave me!

Closeup of these stunners!!!

 The sun was so bright we hid behind this pine tree!

There's a photography tip for you!

Not that i'm a professional! ;) 

 My cake was strawberry with cream cheese icing and yes it tasted even better than it looked if that's possible!  

 We didn't really put the right amount of candles on... I got a little candle happy!

The long thin ones were sparkler candles, the more the merrier right?!

 TA-DA! I had two cakes!

This one was the same flavor as the other but with a nice layer of ice cream in the middle!!!

 We ended the night by sipping Mom's hot chocolate (topped off with home made whipped cream) around the fire with family and friends!!!

 The earrings are by Sorrelli a fabulous jewelry brand with a great reputation!

The link to their online store is Here!

I had a very happy birthday and I didn't have to beg Colton to take these outfit pictures because, "But it's my Birthday." works almost every time! ;)

In case you are confused I would like to clarify that my birthday was on Sunday and I'm just getting around to posting this!

Hence the church reference and Sunday dress!

I'm glad my birthday fell on a Sunday this year because I got to put on my "Birthday suit" and wear one of my presents!

That reminds me, I will include the other trinkets in that box on a later blog!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful birthday this year and if your's hasn't come yet be patient, it will come and go before you know it!

xoxo

Piper Arielle

Photos by: Colton and Piper(Me)