Not just a bakery

I loved Julie and Julia. And for Christmas my uncle gave me Julia Child's cook books and I was so excited! I couldn't wait to make the famous Boeuf Bourguignon! I think I mentally prepared for this meal for 2 weeks. The recipe is so involved that I'm not going to post it on here, unless someone requests it. So here are some pictures from my adventure.





















The cutest baby onions on the planet, right?



OMG!! I'm going to cook the rest of my veggies like this the rest of my life. Using beef bullion, bay leaf and butter. These onions were insane!












We also had potatoes, but I don't eat them so mine had rice.
This meal took me about 5-6 hours, but it was so incredible. And it just continuously got better the more it sat and soaked flavor. We had it for leftovers for the next three days. It was so tasty :)

Every once in a while force yourself to go outside the norm and try something really challenging, you just might surprise yourself.
let me know if you want the recipe and I can post it!

Happy Birthday Cortney

I have been so lucky to work with someone who has become such a good friend. Miss Cortney Kjar is a babe and I knew that for her birthday I'd have to find a truly awesome birthday cake. The search was on.

Cortney told me she was a really big fan of chocolate and peanut butter.

I had a recipe in my Lion House cookbook for a crunchy peanut butter chocolate cake. Perfect, right?

NO. Thank goodness for test runs.

I made this baby a week ago, and it called to be baked for 50-55 minutes. Like I've said before, I always check cakes like 10 minutes early...I'd never cooked a cake near that long, so I check the cake at 35 min and it was ready to get out! The cake ended up dry and with little flavor. I'm not even going to post the recipe. I wouldn't want any of you to make it.





So I kept scouring the internet. Then finally the day before we were going to have the cake I found this beauty here and as soon as I saw it I knew Cortney would love it and that I had to try it!

One problem, the cake says it takes two days to make, and the party at work was the next day. And I never give a cake out that I haven't already done a test run on. What to do...

Make two anyways!
I made one of these in 4 hours!

And it was a freaking mess. It has to freeze over night and I tried to get away without freezing it. My reasoning behind this was I never give out a cake I haven't tried, so I decided I'd rush it and get a good feel for if it was going to be a tasty cake. I ended up with this baby...



YIKES

But good news, it was delicious!

So I got to working on it again. Freezing it really does make all the difference in the world (clearly).



If you make this you a springform pan for the cheesecake. Otherwise you'll be peeling your cheesecake out of the pan!




















It was a hit! And totally worth it the hard work.

From Pinterest to Breakfast

Hello bloggers!
While searching Pinterest for baking ideas, I found this...




-Cake
-Cinnamon
-Breakfast
-Frosting
Yes please!
I knew within seconds of seeing this, that it was up my alley and that I had to make it. You can find the recipe here
















Make sure and add ALL of the cinnamon mix, and thoroughly mix it to the bottom of the cake or it will just sit on the top and the flavor won't go throughout the whole cake.












This was so yummy, and absolutely perfect for breakfast or brunch. I do however have one thing I would change about this recipe...The frosting that comes with the recipe is a little bland. I'd use this cream cheese frosting that I use for my cinnamon roll pancakes (I'll do a post, they're incredible).
1/2 stick butter
2 ounces cream cheese, softened
3/4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 tea vanilla
Cream butter and cream cheese together, then add vanilla and finally the powdered sugar.
Other than that small change this was delish! Thank you pinterest :)

Location:From Pinterest to Breakfast