This Girl Is Back In Town




One of my photos of St. Basils

       After a three year hiatus I am back and ready to blog! The past three years have I have accomplished quite a few things. I achieved my dream of going to Moscow, Russia, where I spent two of the best weeks of my life and I will be making a blog post about this in the days to come. I found out I am petrified of planes and got a terrific job as a receptionist. You will be seeing these posts within the next few days, mostly about Russia not about being a receptionist though ;) I must say my typing skills are vastly improving though.

          I will be posting on cute things I do from day to day such as yesterday was Muffin Monday and everyone enjoyed my homemade blueberry muffins and homemade chocolate scones! Tomorrow I will be getting ready for Easter which is already this Sunday, can you believe that because I for one sure cannot! I will be making vanilla cake inside of an egg, a real egg. From the chicken and all! Talk about walking on eggshells. Trying to empty these darn eggs without breaking the shell has to be the most difficult thing I have every tried to achieve, it roughly takes me about three minutes per egg to empty them out and I can't just waste egg you know? I happened upon an 18pk carton of eggs at my local Kroger for $1.99 which I went crazy and just had to buy a few cartons and now I have so many eggs that I don't know what to do with so I'm coming up with all sorts of ways to use these eggs, mainly with the baking of sinful sweets of course!

       So what I'm doing currently is using a nail and very gently poking a hold in each end of the egg and placing paper towel over one end and blowing into it to get the egg to blow out into a bowl. I do this with however many eggs I need to bake whatever I'm baking and then I lay the empty eggs onto a paper and place them in a hot soapy bowl of water and let them soak about and hour, dry and repeat. After this has been done you can use vinegar and food coloring and just paint the eggs very gently whatever color you choose and then let it dry for roughly 6 hours. After drying, place the eggs in a cupcake pan with parchment paper in the bottom of each cup to the hold the egg upright while baking, I used small cupcake holders. Make either a box or I prefer homemade vanilla, chocolate, strawberry etc. cake mix and pour very gently into one of the holes on the egg (For a fun surprise try to add Easter oriented sprinkles or dye your cake mix!). Fill up to whatever your directions say (I.E. 1/2 full, 2/3 full, the cake will rise) and after baking let cool and TA-DA sweet sweet cake inside of its own little holder! I would make a remark about the egg making it harder for me to eat a million of them, but lets face it. Nothing can keep me away from cake. Personally I will be filling my cake with lemon custard but you can fill yours with a bit of frosting, custard or whatever you like!

I'm proud and very excited to announce that my travel buddy and I will be backpacking across Europe throughout June and July of 2016!