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 ;)

Hi my first video blog!!!! Yay!!! lol

My Epiphany

Hey everyone ok so I have come to the realization that I am at a immensely interesting part of in my life right know. I am a 22 and working on my Graduates degree (that is pretty scary when everyone around you is like 100 and experienced and so serious!) I guess I feel like I am between a rock and a hard place right know in my life. I am still young but very mature for my age! I am a very sarcastic person that loves to have fun and go to 80s parties lol. My friends are btwn the ages of 23 and 36 and I wonder where exactly do I fight in. Most undergrad's are my age but I am not an  undergrad and I feel like it is in some way inappropriate to go to the undergrad events. There is that and then lets through in the fact that there is this whole situation where basically mom is a co-parent to this two month old baby that is know my baby sister. Today I, for the first time, saw what single mothers really had to go through.  My graduate classes are at night and seeing as how I am currently unemployed when my mother goes to work I watch the baby. Well never have I ever felt so overwhelmed (including when I took 7 classes in one semester). I was trying to clean, do school work, and take care of this child. IT was difficult trying to take a shower, get dressed, and ready to leave with this little baby crying for everything. My goodness it was def a domestic experience! But I must say I enjoyed it! But honestly I could not have a child and still be living in my mother's house, that def would not work! I have no problem with my mom baby-sitting but to raise a child under her roof lol that is a negative! I think that is why God has not yet blessed with any children.  But I do feel quite lucky that I can focus on my school work with a peace of mind knowing that when I do have a child (hopefully) I will be financially equipt to take care of it; and that I will hopefully be married and in love lol. Well that is all for now! I think this blog thing is just going to be my escape, my place to let my creative juices flow whether it is baking, crafting, writing, drawing, whatever!! I think I will really like this blog thing ;)

She's My Sister!!

"So Samantha tell me what is it that you would like to do after graduation?" K.C. looked on with great pride and admiration as his girlfriend Samantha, of 2 years, and his mother, Michelle, and aunt, Phylis, talked over lunch.  Though they were only 16 K.C. knew that Samantha was the one for him.  They had been best friends since 6th grade. Samantha was not just his girlfriend she was his best friend, she was his female counter part.  Samantha called K.C. out on all of his crap, went to everyone of his games, was his own personal cheerleader she was everything that K.C. loved about her.  "Well I was thinking of applying to UCLA for Forensic Science.""Wow that is some serious work" says K.C. aunt Phylis. "Well Sammie is a bright girl" K.C. beamed.  Samantha was a tomboy but a girlie girl at the same time. She was taugh a no nonsense kind of girl, but when she was around K.C. her heart just melt.  Samantha found herself staring at K.C. remembering how they first met.
Flash back to 6th grade 2005
Samantha was walking down the hall of North Hollywood Middle School, not really paying attention she was looking in her notebook then suddenly she found all of her stuff on the floor. Annonyingly, " Goodness could you watch where you are going you could have...." Samnatha looks up and sees the cutest boy she had ever seen  in her life.  He had the most gorgeous blue eyes she had ever seen. "I'm sorry" said K.C.  "I'm running a little late for football tryouts. I'm K.C." Samantha is still in uhh at how hot he is and is kind of embarrassed about being upset with him.  But she shakes all thoughts out of her head and plays it cool. " Its ok I'm Sammie. I was actually heading to the field as well, softball tryouts." "Cool your an athelet too? What position do you play?" K.C. had helped Samantha pick up her books and know they were heading towards the feild. " Play shot stop." K.C. released a little giggle and Samantha shot a kind of dirty look at him "What's so funny?" Samantha snapped. "Nothing!" "No tell me!" "Well its just that I thought you would be trying out for cheerleading." It was at this point that they had reached their point of seperation and right before K.C. ran off he looked at her and turned a light shade of pink and said "Because you really pretty!" with that he ran off in the opposite direction leaving Samantha a little red in the face herself. Before she had a chance to turn and head to her tryout he yelled out "Good luck" Samantha smiled and yelled "Same to you K.J." "K.C.!!!!!" "Ops sorry!" With that Samantha smiled shaked her head a little and turned to run the oppoiste direction.
Flashback ends
That was the beginning of their relationship.  They would become best friends, watching games together, have countless arguments over which baseball team was better the Yankees or the Dodgers.  They would go to games together and talk on the phone till all hours talking about every and anything. There was nothing that they did not know about each other.  But something caught Samantha's eye that may change their relationship forever. Samantha saw a little girl that looked like she could be around 12. Samantha's whole face had dropped like she had seen a ghost.
"Sammie?" K.C. called "Sammie?" K.C. called again "Samantha?!?!?!" K.C. was now worried, he had never seen his girlfriend like this before. She looked as though she were about to cry. Samantha stands up and watches this little girl walking towards her she calls to the girl "Nika!" the little girls continues to walk, as she gets closer to Samantha she calls out again "Nika?" The little girl turns, looks at hera little startled and shock and replies "My name is Alyssa" with that reply she turns and continues to walk towards the exit. "Honey your scaring that little girl!" K.C. tries to calm Samantha down but it was late she was already far gone. "K.C. please I know her!" Samantha turns and shots "Nika Juanita Isabella Oritz" K.C., Michelle, and Phylis are mortified to see Samantha acting like this. But little Alyssa was stopped in her tracks. "Samantha what has gotten into? You are scaring that little girl and who is Nika?" Just then Alyssa turns and asks in a shakey voice, "What did you call me?" Alyssa begins to walk towards Samantha who is still looking at her in completely and utter shock. "I called you in Nika!" "Samantha this is crazy" K.C. begins but Samantha whips around and they begin to argue with her boyfriend.  "K.C. I know who this is." " Babe it is clear that she doesn't know who you are and all your doing is scaring this little girl to death" in the middle of their arguing Alyssa is walking towards them in complete shock but at the same time great realization. "How do you know this girl?" K.C. asks Samantha with great irritation in his voice, but before Samantha can answer Alyssa surprises everyone with her response "Because she's my sister!" Samantha turns around with tears in her eyes and she meets Alyssa's eyes which were equally full with tears. "You remember me?" Samantha says shockingly. Alyssa's face lights up and she runs and gives her the world's biggest hug "Sammie!!!!" The girls embrace with tears flowing like Niagra Falls while everyone else at the table is 100% confused.............

Say tuned for what happens next

A Great Love Story

"Excuse me sir but there is not enough tables and I was wondering if it was ok we place these two lovely ladies with you?" the waiter asked Darryl Benson.  Darryl peered up from his to see a waiter and two stricking women, obviously sisters, looking at him awaiting a response. "Yea sure of course please make yourself comfortable" Darryl said with a grin.  The ladies took there seats opposite of Darryl. " Thank you very much, this was very nice of you" said the older woman. "I'm Alyssa and this is my sister Mika." They shooks hands and said hello. " Honestly it was no big deal I'm actually just meeting my girlfriend here and then we are probably going to head out." "Oh really?" said Mika, "You look very nervouse!" Darryl began to feel his face get hot with embarrasement as he played with the box in his pocket. "I am kinda nervous but with good reason" he begins to pull the box out of his pocket.  He was so excited and dying to tell someone the great news. "See I'm going to ask my girlfriend to marry me tonight and I'm really nervous!"  Both girls faces light up with excitment "Congrats .... um??" "Darryl. Sorry I'm Darryl Benson." "Congrats Darryl Benson I'm sure the lucky lady will say yes!!!" confirmed Alyssa with great excitment.  Just then Darryl saw the most beautiful sight he had ever laid his eyes on.  His heart skipped a beat while this precious angle made eye contact at him and gave a grin and a bit of wave and started to walk towards him. "WOW" was the only words Darryl could mutter. A beautiful young woman dressed in a forfitting mini black dress with black 3 inch pumps and a distinctive charmbracelet around her wrist ran up to him and gave him the biggest hug, neither realizing that Alyssa and Mika where still sitting on the opposite side of the table. "Happy Birthday babe! You look great!"Darryl just stood there staring at this gorgeous creature that had just greeted him. "Babe? Are you ok?" asked the young woman. Darryl shaking his head a little to come back to reality finally replied "Natalia! You look AMAZING!" Natalia looked down and smiled her cheeks a little rosie from the complete and tone of which her boyfriend of 4 years had just given her. "Even after four years of us being together everytime I see you this feeling never seems to get old!" Natalia looks at him adoringly and gives him a quiet peck on the cheek and whispers "Let's go we have reservations." As Natalia turns to leave Darryl grabs her "Wait" Natalia turns with a confused look on her face "Yes?" "Sit here with me for a minute. I need to talk to you about something important." Natalia furrows her brow but follows Darryl and takes a set next to him. As they sit Darryl notices the charm bracelet on her right wrist. "I see you found the charm bracelet!" Natalia looking down and smiling "Yea I did it was in my dresser, I guess it slipped off my wrist when I was getting out clothes." Natalia loved her Tiffany Charm bracelet, Darryl had gotten it for her for their one year anniversary.  Every charm represents a memory they have shared together.  Natalia looking nervously down at her hands started "So what did you want to talk about?" "About our move back to New York. I was wondering how you would feel about maybe..." Darryl looks away and Natalia grows nervous. "Maybe what?" she hesitantly asks. "Maybe we could move in together?" Natalia breathes the biggest sigh of relief and a little nervous giggle. "Is that what you wanted to talk about?" Darryl nods his head yes still unsure of if it was something she wanted or not. "Babe!!! I would love for use to live together in NYC it will make it official, as appose to our unofficial living together her in LA!" Natalia laughs as she says that last line because truth be told she and Darryl had been flip flopping between living at each others apartments for a little over a year know."But seriously babe we could have totally had this convo in the car on the way to the restaurant!" Natalia gets up to leave but Darryl gentle grabs her arm for her to stay. " What is it know babe" Natalia says playfully.Darryl grabs her hand "Do you remember the first we meet?" Natalia gives a smile and thinks back to the first time they met. "Yes it was on a Monday, in my forensic Psychology class. I had gotten there early to try and study for my criminalistics exam that I had after that class.  You came and sat next me and started quoting scientific lines from CSI Miami" they both are laughing as they think back. "You thought that I would not catch on but I did" "Yes you did" Darryl said staring lovingly at his future wife to be. Natalia looked down at her bracelet. "But then you had to blow up my spot and say that you heard that same line of CSI MIAMI last night" They both hysterically laugh "Well had to let you know that you were not slick and that I was not some dumb chick that would hang on your every word" Natalia gave him a little nudge as she continued to laugh. Darryl then asked "Do you remember out first date?" Natalia grabs her charm bracelet and goes for the charm of a can of hairspray. "Yes I do.  It was back in 2007.  You took me to the Americana in Glendale where we ate at this authentic Argentinian restaurant where you tried your hardest to order for the both of us in Spanish. Then you took me to go see Hairspray, which I can not believe you sat through that whole chick flick musical" they both laughed and Darryl just nodded in agreement. "THEN" Natalia continued "You took me to Marina Del Ray to the most breath taking view of the marina I had ever seen!" Natalia's eyes grew water as she reminisced on the being of what had been the most amazing relationship of her life.  Darryl noticed and gentle wrapped his arm around her waist and just held her.  Natalia continued to look through her charms when she came across the horse charm, she smiled adoringly first at the charm and then at Darryl. "Do you remember this one?" Darryl nodded with a big grin and great pride in his mind. Natalia continued "You woke me up at 4:30 in the morning so we could leave for Norco by 5. I thought you were crazy but then when we rode the horses to the top of the mountain and watched the sun rise I just kept thinking "god I'm the luckiest girl in the world"" Darryl was quite proud of himself for he really did come up with some off the charts romantic ideas.  He was the ideal guy that every girl wanted. He was faithful, loving, and endless romantic, and set to work for the NYPD as soon as he and Natalia moved back to New York.  He did have some help Natalia's father, Nathaniel, gave a good verbal review to the department.  Darryl was everything Natalia could ever want.  He loved her and always made a point to both show it and tell her. Natalia was also the ideal girl.  As Natalia looked through her charms Darryl could not help but think how did he land such a gorgeous and intelligent woman.  Natalia was set to work for the Forensic Labs back in New York once they graduated in June.  She was sweet loving and kind very tender.  Darryl loved her most when she is playing with her 11 year old baby sister Anya and her 5 year old baby brother Andrious.  I loved to see the look in her eyes she had real hear to heart talks with her 20 year old baby sister Nika.  He just knew that she was the only one for him.  Natalia was not aware that Darryl was staring at her she was took busy looking through her charms and remembering every memory, good and bad, they had created together.  But one charm stood out, one that Natalia had never seen before.  Darryl noticed that look and positioned him self on the ground bending on one knee with the ring in his hand. "Babe I don't remember this charm! Why is there.." Natalia, while still looking at the charm begins to turn towards Darryl."a ring on here??" Just then Natalia sees Darryl with the ring in his hand.  Water begins to flood her eyes. "Natalia i have loved you from the first time I met you. You are everything and more than what any man could every ask her in a girlfriend.  I love how tender and gentle you are with you little brother and two sisters. How you are always there and take up any responsibilities that your parents need for you to take and never complain! So when we go back to New York lets go back with our relationship on a new level. Natalia Maria Ismene Cortez will you marry me?" With tears staining every inch of her face Natalia nods her frantically before whispering yes and hugging ad kissing Darryl to death!! "YAY!!!!" shouted Alyssa and Mika, a startled Natalia jumps a little "Congratulations" "Thank you" Natalia cries " Thank you" grins Darryl with a wink to the two of them. Turning back towards Natalia "I guess we better go before we loose our reservations" laughing and whipping away stray tears Natalia replies "Babe they called 4 times and our reservations where for 45 minutes ago I'm pretty sure we lost them already" "oh" grinning and giving him a kiss "But it was well worth it! Lets go home so I can all of New York and tell them the great news!" 

Welcome

Hey everyone my name is Gigi! I'm knew to blog spot and still learning my way around! I created a welcome video but for someone reason can not post it. If I can I will edit this and post it lol. Hope you all enjoy!!!