Adventures in the Kitchen

Hello everyone so Kimora and I decided that we wanted to open up our own bakery business lol.  So I have been just baking away in the kitchen for a while. Well today I wanted to try and do a cup cake tower starting with that big cupcake from "As Seen on TV" and ending with mini cupcakes! Well you know when things aren't meant to be you get a little red flags before the big crash? Well that was me! First red flag: I had traveled to about 5 stores before I was able to even find this huge cupcake mold. Second red flag: When I found it I did not have a cook sheet to place it on but I decided to try it anyway! Third red flag (you think I would have gotten the hint from the first red flag smh): The top half tips over in the oven!!! Well this leads to the biggest domestic adventure ever because I then had to figure out how to take my oven apart, clean the bottom of it, put it back together all while still baking!! Oh and did I mention that A) all the batter was done and B) the batter that had spilled in the oven was my first ever attempt at making a cake from scratch? Well I figured out how to take the oven apart and I cleaned the oven but it back and I put the oven back together and then I start to preheat the oven again while I wash the dishes! So I finish the dishes and I begin to load the oven, and boy do I mean LOAD!! (1) 12 cupcake pan (1) 6 big cupcake pan and finally the HUGE cupcake mold! I'm starting to feel really good because I'm doing all this domestic activities by myself! So I start to sweep and clean the kitchen, I begin to spell something burning! I check the oven and everything is fine, or so I thought! All of sudden my fire alarm starts whaling!!! I run upstairs, because it could not be on the main floor, and I'm waving it frantically because I do not want to wake my mother, who I know is a light sleeper. Well I open the upstairs terrace door, fan the smoke detector, and when all else failed I ran down stairs got a chair climbed on it and took the smoke detector down and pulled out one of the batteries.  I left the chair up there so I could Put it back together when I was finished! So as I am in this process my cell phone starts to ring and it is my Nana calling to see how the baking adventure was going! MIND YOU MY MOTHER IS SLEEPING THROUGH ALL OF THIS!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?! As I am on the phone I hear my mom wake up to go to the bathroom and that is when she sees the chair and asks what is going on? Lol all i could do was laugh hysterically because he I was being all domestic and independent, being Betty Crocker and Mr. Fix-it all in one, exemplifying her good teachings of how she raised me and it was a need to us the loo that made her wake up and ask what was going on lol. My mother who jumps up to see what is going on when I wake up to use the bathroom slept through all that ruckus!! That meant one thing............... SHE WAS SUPER TIRED lol!!! After having a great laugh at the situation I reassured her that all was well and to go back and get some rest, which she gladly did! So back to baking! I go finish sweeping and finally get to relax! My phone rings again and its my friend and I am talking to him about my crazy adventure of Betty Fix-It (My own creation of the name lol).  I get up and check on my baking! Great everything was finally done! I pull it all out one by one and let it cool! After it was cool I checked my smallest cupcakes, ahh PERFECTO, then I check my big cupcakes, BODECIMO (idk if I spelt that right, 9 times out of 10 I did not lol sorry), finally I check my HUGE cupcake............. diablo que paso? This is the crash! I take the base cake out, the bottom is burnt and the bottom of that mold burnt and ripped away, the top half only one side was burnt but the mold was ok! So here is the half final product of my cupcake tower (needs frosting)

Hopefully frosting can save this lol

I think maybe I am going through a maturity growth spirt because everything with me always has to be perfect and when it is not I get upset! But this time all I could do was laugh and say oh well I will try again next time! 

Well that was my domestic adventure! Hope you got entertainment from struggles lol I only wish I had pics of my with half of my body in the oven trying to unscrew and re-screw the base of the oven lol smh! The only thing missing was a crying child that was scared from the smoke detector lol! Ahhh good times!!!

Loves and likes ya <3

Gigi

Walnut Brownies

Hey so one of my mom's FAVORITE sweet treats are Walnut Browns (especially mine hehe ;) so here is how to make them! What you will need

                                                                     A Bowl

                                                                      1 Egg

                                                                         Mix

                                                                     1/3 cup of Oil

                                                                       1/4 cup of Water

                                                                       Measuring cup

                                                 Walnuts (I eye ball the amount)

                                                         A Wooden Spoon

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees

Combine your 1 egg, 1/3 cup of oil, and 1/4 cup of water and mix

One you have mixed it should look like this and you are know ready to mix in the brownie mix and walnuts and stir

This should be your final product and you are ready to pour in the pan

Before pouring in mixture be sure to coat your pan with a substance so that your brownies will not stick! I use vegetable oil!

Pour into pan and place in oven! It should take about 20 minutes or so to cook!

Once done let cool for about 30 minutes 

Once done cooling enjoy (Milk MAY be preferable over Mascado lol )

Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake

Hey so this is a special cake I make usually only once a month unless I get a special request to make it and since we are having a BBQ today I got the request so lets first start with what you will need.

You can make the cake from scratch if you choose, but warning DO NOT use Oil. The peanut butter subs the oil trust me!!! (I got the wrong cake mix DO NOT use the cake mix with BUTTER!!!!!!)

Peanut Butter it really doesn't make what brand but I use Skippy because Annette Funicello told me too (old 80s commercials )

3 eggs

A wooden spoon

A bowl

1/4 cup of water

Measuring cup

Oil (for the pan)

A pan

Chocolate frosting

Reese's Pieces Cups

A oven
Instructions:

First pre-heat oven to 350 degrees

Next put the eggs, water, and about 2 wooden spoon full of peanut butter in the blow and stir

Once you are done it should look like this and you are then ready to add the cake mix

Once you have add the cake and mixed all the ingredients together your batter should look smooth rich and creamy

Then take some oil and pour it into a pan. With a piece of paper towel spread the oil all through pout the pain

Pour batter into pan

Place in oven

Eat any access batter from the spoon or bowl (lol my uncle enjoying)

Begin to clean

Check the cake after about 10 minutes. It should only take about 15 or 20 minutes to cook.  Take a tooth pick or a small sharp knife and stick it in the cake, if it comes out clean then the cake is good to go!

Take cake out and let cool for about 30 minutes or until it is cool to the touch

While waiting relax and umm.. enjoy ;)

Apply chocolate frosting to the entire cake and sprinkle crushed Reese's on top! Yummmm!!!!!!!!! There goes your delicious Peanut Butter Chocolate cake! Enjoy!!!

Family BBQ ~ Desserts Recipes

OK so the Pastries:

1) Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake aka Reeses Pieces Cake lol

2) Peanut Butter Chocolate Brownies

3 & 4) A very Special Compilation Cake I like to call it the Micheal Jackson Cake lol ;)