Big Red Cupcakes recipie

Big Red cupcake recipie 

You will need

1 cup butter (room temp)

11/2 cups sugar

4 eggs

3 cups flour

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup Big Red (room temp)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

Preheat your oven to 350° 

Beat butter, sugar on high until it's light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time mix well after each egg.

Mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Then add part of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until well mixed. Add part of the Big Red and mix well.

Keep adding flour mixture and Big Red alternating them. End with flour mixture. 

Once fully mixed scoop the mix into cupcake papers about 3/4 full. (Ice cream scoop works well for this.) 

Bake for 18-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Allow about 5 mins to cool then remove from cupcake pan to completely cool.

Once completely cooled you can frost them.

Big Red frosting

1 cup butter (softened)

3-4 cups powder sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 tablespoons Big Red

Cream butter and powder sugar together. Add the Big Red one tablespoon at a time. Once you have reached a good consistency you can stop mixing and adding Big Red. Then scoop into a bag to decorate your cupcakes.

Enjoy

Kitchen is coming together

I have a little "love hate" with the kitchen. Don't get me wrong it's nice and we like it. But it's not my "dream kitchen" and not layed out how I would have done it. 

Doesn't mean all hope is lost though. Just means I get to be creative with how the kitchen is and make it how I like until down the road when I get to do a layout and design I love! I'm all about rustic mixed with stainless. But in the mean time here's how it's coming. 

First! Painted gave it a nice barn red paint job. (Side note we needed a fridge, dishwasher and range. Well our friends gave us the dishwasher and range. And we found a fridge. But the range would not have matched. It was this crazy tan color. So my husband went out and got some high temp paint made for grills and more and gave the old range a new paint job. Now it not only matches but it looks new and nice!)

Did a little decorating and setting up (at which point I'm still changing around and adding to. 

So basically the biggest change in the kitchen was the paint. Then we just did some decor items to which I'll post them and what I used on another post. 

But what I am most proud of in the change in out kitchens would be the Light fixtures I made myself. 

Starting with my bar light over the island. 

It's for mason jars for the globes and I made the boxes for the wiring and to fix it to the ceiling. I made this whole light 1 piece at at time and I'm loving them! (There will not be a how to with these. If interested in them feel free to let.)

I then made a smaller one to match to go over the sinks. 

In this view you can see both lights! They are what has made the biggest change in out kitchen aside from fresh paint. 

Bought a house

Well my husband and I finally bought a house. I had been looking for around 2 years. Him only the past year. Well once I finally got him out to look at his first house that was it. I showed him some others online but the house we saw was it. It's has 23 acres.

6 of which is cleared and the rest wooded as well as a river in the back. The house itself was built in 2006.

 So even at that it's very new house for what we are used to. The owners before finished the attic so it's got 6 bedrooms, 3 baths and a nice kitchen and dinning room, living room, den and reck room. Although they didn't put heating in upstairs when it was being sold they couldn't counted as "liveable sqft". But still even at that we got a amazing deal on the place!

But we have been in our new house almost 2 months and I've been very busy making it into what we want it to look like.