21 GF Chocolate Cake

EASY!!!

21 ounces pie filling (I like cherry or blueberry)
21 ounce Pamela's GF Chocolate Cake Mix (pink package)
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cup water

Mix all together. Bake in 375 degree oven for an hour or until toothpick comes out clean!

Frost with your favorite frosting (or not) after cooled.

Note On Tattoos

Lots of people coming to me wanting tattoos! Yay! I've just been slacking. To those peoples, I apologize. I REALLY want to do them, just finding the focus has been difficult. Keep bugging me. Keep bugging me. Keep bugging me!

Apple, INC. Won't Let Me Choose!

I recently got an iPhone, if you don't know. I love it. It's great. I'm the kind of person who frequently likes to check little bits of information and therefore love to have the internet literally in the palm of my hand. (It works pretty well as a phone too. *smiley*)

As an internet user AND web designer, I'm am more than frustrated that Apple has blocked flash scripting. My current site redesign to accompany my new music CD (release date TBA) features a flash menu bar. Here is the sister site (for my artwork) with flash menu, but WILL be changed in the future:

MY ARTWORK WEBSITE

In the interest of usability, I am FORCED to reconsider this design choice. I am FORCED to change my site design. This crushes the artist in me. No more cute, pulsing menu roll-overs. :(

GF Apple-Spice Cake with Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting sprinkled with Pecans

Cake:
1 1/2 cups butter (3 sticks) room temp
3 cups sugar
2 Tablespoons molasses
6 eggs
24 ounces white rice flour (one small bag) or about 3 cups flour
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
2 Tablespoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 cup rice milk (or regular)
6 small apples, peeled and shredded
1 Tablespoon GF vanilla extract

Frosting:
14 ounce bag caramels
1 pint (reserve 5 Tablespoons) heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon GF vanilla extract
8 ounces cream cheese, room temp
1 cup pecan pieces

Prepare cake:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, then molasses, sour cream, vanilla and rice milk until combined. Slowly add half of the rice flour until combined. Add spices, baking soda, salt, and xanthan gum. Add remaining rice flour until combined. Add shredded apple. Pour in greased 9X11 pan or greased rounds for layers. Bake for an hour or until tooth pick in center comes out clean. Let cool.

Prepare frosting:
Combine unwrapped caramels and reserved 5 Tablespoons of whipping cream in a saucepan over low. Stir over low heat until caramels have melted. Add in cream cheese and whisk until combined. let cool.

Beat the remaining whipping cream in a seperate bowl until stiff peaks form. With mixer on high, slowly add caramel mixture to whipped cream. Whip until combined and thick (up to 15 minutes, depending on how cool your caramel is.) Frost the cake. Sprinkle with pecan pieces. Serve with spiced pumpkin ice cream or vanilla ice cream if desired.

Too darn cute

Brings out the Grandma in me.

Worth Mentioning

My dream kitchen. A little french country? Fantasizing about off-the-grid living and picture a wood cookstove off to the right there. I can almost hear the rooster calling from outside that window.

Darklord

In the stale air of the castle
Melted by the muted sun
I see you shadow against the bony wall.
You walk listlessly,
As if just awoke from sleeping.
You watch the town from your high steeple.
They scurry to their destinations with no time for pleasures.
Laughing at them you think it must be tiresome.
You absentmindedly direct yourself to your room.
It is dark and unconnected.
Your bed next to you,
You forget it.
Wanting never to remind yourself of sleep
While it is such a beautiful night.
You settle on your chair and wait for nothing.
Vials of red ponder on the tattered shelf.
Shadows fall upon your face
As I open the door.
The moonlight sneaks in.
Your face pale.
Blood rushing to my head.
My face flushed.
Something only you could appreciate.
I float to you and shiver.
Your lips reek of death.
I look to your eyes,
But you say nothing for the time is not right.
When will it ever me?
I walk back to your bed
And position myself ideally.
Here you come.
Your silhouette casts upon me
I will not remember.
There's no other choice.
Breath moistens my neck and touches make me tingle.
You raise your head.
Then I see your face.
Gentle.
Blameless, voiceless and generous.
Pointy teeth gleam toward me
Dripping something.