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Young & HungryIf you can't take the heat, get outta the kitchen! |
| 18 September |
The last wedding weekend of the year has finally arrived! I think there has been much anticipation all around. It has been almost two years since the bride and groom first came together and it has been obvious for all of those two years that they were made for each other. So cheers to you both, you know who you are! And hopefully you are not currently coupled to you computers reading my toast to you.
My second toast goes to the Maid of Honor, who did a fabulous job planning and baking for the many events that tradition persists should herald a marriage. It is no easy feat planning bachelorette parties and showers amidst busy everyday life and a move, just as it is no easy feat to mask a cake resembling the bride’s “double Ds” on a 5 hour caravan to Tybee island. Yet another masterpiece of design from your oven to my tummy! Which was not quite prepared to eat an entire D cup and then dawn a bikini…
| 17 May |
A dear friend is turned the ripe old age of 24 this weekend and while sad I could not be there to give her a birthday hug and glass of her favorite vino in person, we planned a little preliminary birthday bash in her honor. Since no birthday outing is complete without some sort of dessert I was left questioning what the dessert could possibly be as sweet as she. She’s a traditionalist; her favorites being brownies & cookies yet those just don’t seem special enough for the occasion. But what if we were to combine the two? What if I made cookie dough cupcakes!
Now I’ve been known to be a semi-homemade baker in the past, but I’m feeling inspired by the occasion and the original recipe which, of course, I will stray from at some points or many throughout my baking expedition. Additionally, I have a past experience with cookie dough cheesecake bars that were delicious enough to inspire decades of future cookie dough recipe experimentation! That said, this is still an experiment that will have to take place after a long day’s work, so compromise might still be in order. Either way, here’s to you Kimberly! I’m so glad to have met you and thanks for always reading!
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