Unexpected cake baking!!

My sissy had to make two cakes for her husband's work tomorrow.  We made a chocolate sheet cake, Texas style with a creamy, candy like chocolate frosting made with sweetened condensed milk....total YUM (okay, yeah, I admit it....I liked the pan CLEAN!!).

The second cake was a peanut butter cake with my very own homemade peanut butter buttercream! Oh how I love buttercream!  I had the TOTAL fat factor going on tonight!

My sissy made both cakes from scratch, she doesn't use box mixes.  They are quite yummy.  She is an EXCELLENT baker! I wish I had pictures but my phone is dead and charging!!

Cornish Hens!

I am so spoiled! My sissy made cornish hens!  I have never had them before...she stuffed them with yummy stuffing and they were just divine!  She also made mash-a-taters and corn.  I am one lucky girl.

Then for dessert, I had a slice of her homemade banana bread! Now I am getting ready to get my jammies on and crawly under my new electric blanket! Just call me spoiled!

Maybe one day I will brave enough to try to make cornish hens....I would not even know what to look for to buy them! My sissy is a GREAT cook!

Cake finished!

Here are the cakes right out of the oven and then the finished product! I can't wait for her to get home!  I hope she will love it!

Coconut Cake for my sissy

So, my sissy's birthday was November 25th.  We could not be together! She didn't get a birthday cake, so I am taking advantage of the fact that she is not home tonight and making it for her as a surprise. 

As you can see, I start with a regular white cake mix.  In place of the water the directions call for, I use coconut water! It just adds a tiny extra boost of coconut flavor.  I have it all mixed up and it is in the oven.  When the cake comes out of the oven I flip them out of the cake pans (wait about 10 minutes and then they flip out real good, just like a crazy teenager! LOL).

After they have rested for a little bit, I poke the bottom layer full of holes with a fork.  Then I open the can of Cream of Coconut and pour it over the cake.  Add frosting and some coconut and then add the second layer.  This cake gets poked too! More Cream of Coconut! Then frosting then a butt-ton of Baker's Sweet Coconut is put ALL over the cake!

She loves coconut cake and has never had one of mine! I hope she likes it! 

Lunchtime

I am back to work this week in Northern Virginia.  I brought my Tomato Cabbage soup with me as well as my apple cranberry casserole.  I had the casserole for breakfast and just finished two bowls of the soup for lunch!  Low-calorie....yes.....exciting....NO.

I will be heading to my big sissy's house tonight.  I am not sure what is on the menu for dinner.  What I would really like is a juicy Sonic Hamburger....but that is a big fat NO!  I cannot believe how many calories are in one of those suckers! It must be why they taste sooooo good!  Thank goodness the slushies are not too bad! I cannot live without my grape Sonic slushie!

I won't say that I am officially on a "diet".  I mean, afterall, who wants to be on a DIEt....its so "death" sounding.  I prefer to do what my friend Sharon G. calls a "live-it".  I wish I could attend the classes for this at my church but they happen during the week while I am stuck up here at my job.  :(

I think I will peruse my sister's collection of cookbooks and see what I can come up with! I must try something new this week while I am up here with her! She can be my guinea pig <evil grin> HA HA HA!!