I Want To Make This..

Reese's Cup Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Ingredients:
For the cake:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
2 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup buttermilk
For the icing:
2 cups confectioners sugar
2 cups creamy peanut butter
10 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2/3 cup heavy cream
miniature Reese's cups, halved and/or chopped

Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350º.
-Butter two 9x2 round cake pans. Sprinkle flour on the inside, tap out excess and line bottom with parchment paper.
-Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
-Using a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter on medium speed until smooth and creamy.
-Add sugar and continue beating for about 2 minutes, until it is thoroughly blended into the butter.
-Add eggs and yolks one at a time, beating for 1 minute after each addition. If needed, scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl.
-Beat in vanilla.
-Reduce speed to low and alternately add dry ingredients and buttermilk, with the dry ingredients in 3 portion and the buttermilk in 2, starting and ending with the dry ingredients.
-Mix only until just blended into the batter. Scrape down bottom and sides of bowl.
-Divide batter evenly between two pans and bake for 26 to 30 minutes, until the cakes feel springy to the touch.
-Allow cakes to cool in pans on rack for about 5 minutes, then remove from pans and allow to cool to room temperature. At this point, cake layers can be wrapped airtight and left at room temperature overnight or frozen up to 2 months.
-While cake is cooling, make icing by combining confectioner's sugar, peanut butter, butter, vanilla and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
-Beat on medium-low speed until creamy, scraping down sides and bottom of bowl as needed.
-Add cream and beat on high speed until the icing is light and smooth.
-Freeze the Reese's Cups while filling and frosting the cake, then chop/halve them as desired.

Christmas window shopping..

I am already in the Christmas mode.. for real. This year we can't afford much.. because we already know that everyone in this side of the family is getting one gift per person.. 


My dad; He is a total San Francisco Giants fan.. Complete and utter Giants fan.. he likes the Eagles but pretty much has every Eagles cd there is! So I was talking with my husband and we have decided to get him a pretty awesome present. This year they brought this new guy named Madison Bumgarner onto the team. Bumgarner is my maiden name!! So wouldn't it be cool if we got him the Bumgarner Jersey?!! I think so!


My grandpa; Uhmm.. I am thinking we are going to get him an authentic Hawaiian shirt!! Because that is something he likes. He likes the Giants too and old western movies!! But I think he would like a shirt!


My brother; His birthday is the day after Christmas. So its usually pretty hard choosing which one present he gets for his birthday and Christmas! Sooo we might be getting him Modern Warfare 2 for his new PS3 that my sister in law just bought him.. and than the other gift will probably be a shirt.. he has been getting into that MMA UFC fights on tv.. so thats a pretty good idea.


My nephew.. is pretty much easy!; Anything Thomas the Train.. 


My mom and my sister in law are two of the HARDEST people to shop for!!


My mother in law she would like an album of all of our pictures from our wedding!! Thats like 400 pictures!! haha so we are probably going to do that! Same with his grandparents.


So this shouldn't be hard. I wish I had a job so I could help but times are tough!! But I have to fill out an application for a job sometime tomorrow.

Time for a catch up..

It has been an amazing twenty nine days since we said 'I Do'!! I know right crazy how time is now flying someone please hit the rewind button!!

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Yepp the rewind button was pressed! haha So you want the details I suppose. Lets see hmmm.. Carlos purposed to me a few days before his twenty fourth birthday, I don't really remember the date lol I was kinda in shock and forgot to write down the date. My mom would call me a dummy like usual! So we wanted to do it on our year anniversary but my family couldn't make it on a Friday so we opted for the eleventh not thinking.. the eleventh of September.. 9-11! So we obviously had the people say oh my goodness why the eleventh you should be mourning that day!! Not really it was some years ago. And we wanted to celebrate and make that day a happy one at that. So we did!

 

 The above is me! That was the day I recieved my dress and trying it on for the first time. I thought it was beautiful. And yea I am a bigger girl but that did not stop me from having my own wedding dress. So we scoured online first to see what type I would want.. and than decided to go into a wedding dress store in Carson City, Nv because at the time my vehicle wasn't running to the best to make a drive up to Reno, Nv to Davids Bridal. So I ended up going into the store and the only carried a size 24 and it was the most ugliest dresses it was like a tan color and it had red flowers come up from the bottom and go down from the top.. My first wedding I wanted a white dress and I am young no doubt 24 years old I dont want something that I am not going to be happy in. So we went home after trying to get out of this dress and I think I ripped it a little haha.. but when I got home I found my dress on Ebay for only $100 dollars!! Yepp and ladies they dont just make one size you give them your size every little inch they make to fit you from China.. but my dress was beautiful. All I needed was a big pouffy skirt underneath to seal the deal and it was awesome!!

On the tenth of September our family members started gathering at our house but me my mom my now Husband and my brother went to pick up my wedding cake and had to make the drive to Reno to drop off the cake and all of our decorations. Halfway through Washoe Valley our car broke down luckily we had family coming fifteen minutes behind us to help pick up the cake and the decorations. My mom and aunt ended up staying with the car waiting for a tow truck and my Hubby drove with my brother and sister in law to take the cake to our reception and I drove with my cousins to the hotel to start getting our hair done by my Aunt Dixie who I thank so much. So we had my wedding dress and all of the jewelry and the shoes and veil at my Aunt Dixies motel room just so it would be easier for me to get changed at the hotel since she was doing my hair the next morning as well.

Off Subject: There was a big ole paragraph that went here.. but I am not allowed to talk about this because I have family that stalks my page and it always gets back to my father.. dude I am an adult and I write how I feel its not like the WHOLE world can read it.. but whatever!!

Anyways everything else besides his grandparents and mom not being able to make it to our ceremony went well. And than being late to our own reception.. that was a buzz kill for sure!! We had an amazing reception besides some family not being kind towards others and making them feel unwanted. I love my Aunt Kathy and wish I was able to spend more time with her I felt like she was only there for an hour and I only got to talk with her for fifteen minutes.. and the food was amazing!! Louis Basque Corner has amazing food!! Hmm ohh and my best friend, Michale. His wife Tabitha was in labor at our wedding and reception with their second daughter. They had her at 2am the next morning!! And here are some pictures of our ceremony. 

 

Me and my dad