red velvet wishes

We celebrated  my uncle's birthday last weekend. He requested a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

better late

I know Thanksgiving was a couple of weeks ago now, but I still wanted to share a bit of our awesome day... mostly the awesome food we got to eat.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm the pie maker.

One of my super generous co-workers brought me some pumpkin from her garden to use for my pies. I didn't know how much I needed yet, so she just brought me some in a bag. After I got it all nice and smooth {after using 4 different appliances to try to puree it-- the submersion blender was the victor} I had exactly 3 cups. It was the perfect amount for a pumpkin pie {which needed 2 cups} and pumpkin cheesecake {which needed 1 cup}!

Clearly it was meant to be.

Nice and smooth!

cupcake bites, take one

This weekend was pretty productive... not the kind of productive I was hoping for maybe {my house is still a mess}, but productive nonetheless.

Friday and Saturday I did a test run of Cupcake Bites, inspiration/directions courtesy of Bakerella.

Friday night I made the  cake {Devil's Food}...



Crumbled the baked cakes and added the frosting {milk chocolate}...