Sold for $45

(Recipe to follow)
This cake sold for $45 tonight in a cake auction to raise money for the young men and women in our area. I never tasted it but was told it was the best cake ever. ( that's what I was going for)
I did taste the components and they were DANG good!

CAKE INARDS:

½ cup Butter, melted

8oz. Cream Cheese, softened

1 tsp. Vanilla

2 cups powdered sugar

1 cup sweetened coconut (shredded)

CAKE:

Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge cake mix

1 cup Semi –Sweet Chocolate chips

Preheat Oven to 350 F

Prepare the innards by beating the soft cream cheese, melted butter, powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth and creamy. Toss in the coconut and mix until blended. Set aside.

Prepare cake as directed on box.

Pour batter evenly into 2 9” round pans (or 9x13 if you want) then spoon in the innards divided evenly and using a knife stir around so it is nicely distributed but not homogenous. Sprinkle the cake tops with chocolate chips.

Bake about 30 minutes or until done. Cool on a wire rack until completely cool.

Mix up a half batch of the Cake Innards minus the coconut, while cake is cooling. For between the layers.

Chocolate Praline Glaze

Glaze:

¾ cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate chips

3 Tbs Butter

1 ½ cups Powdered Sugar

1 tsp vanilla

¼ cup Milk

Melt Chocolate and butter together, beat In sugar, add vanilla and milk beating to a smooth consistency

Pralines:

2 cups pecans chopped small

¾ cups sugar

3 Tbs. Butter

1 tsp vanilla

Melt sugar in a heavy bottomed pan, stir in pecans, butter and vanilla, making sure to coat all pecans evenly. Spread in a wax papered bottomed cookie sheet and let cool. Break into very small pieces and toss into the chocolate glaze.

Enjoy Mg

2009

Hello All, It is sad to see that I haven't written anything at all for a year. And yet it has been an eventful year. In May I started Dating. Mom told me to wait till I was 30 years old but I did one better and waited until I was 31. JB is his name. He hails from Los Angeles. but most recently from Cedar City, UT and Las Vegas, NV. Our Dating relationship was short lived and quite bumpy. He being already engaged to another woman when we met! Well, we met on April 13th 2008 and were Married on August 8, 2008 in the Logan Temple. It was delightful to have my Family present including my brother and sister-in-law from Vermont. We have now been married for almost 10 months and we are expecting our first child. December 14th is the scheduled due date. We are both very much looking forward to having an addition to our family!

Although we have our disagreements we are very happy together though we both worry about JB's daily headache pain and his inablity to find a job. We are hoping that he will be able to find employment before the baby comes so that it won't be so critical for me to go back to work as a new mother. Being a wife and mother are the two things that I have wanted the most in my life, for as long as I can remember, that they have happened/are happening is so delightful. I know I have been blessed in having these desires fulfilled!

I don't believe that I mentioned that in November of 2008 I became the receptionist where I work. This has been a great shift, as I have been able to do many things with my husband in the evening (among them we are taking a Ham Radio class currently to license me as Technician) and having predetermined hours M-F. It really is lovely!

My Birthday

So My birthday this year, started really early in the morning, I decided that I wanted to go watch the sunrise over Bear Lake. Sunrise was at 6:20 am, I arrived at the look out at 6:15 am. The trip to Bear Lake is about a 50 minute drive. I left the house at just after 5:15 am and was treated to a delightful moon rise over the mountains. The clear midnight blue sky was the perfect backdrop for the bright white sliver of the rising moon. I tried to get a picture of it, but was unsuccessful.
As I drove up the canyon, it was a treat to watch the sky transform from the dark of night to the light of day. On May 2, there was still snow on the ground, the farther up the canyon I went, the more there was. When I arrived at the scenic view I was not adequately dressed for the weather, it was 17 degrees F, and the wind was blowing, even with my hat, mittens, and fleece jacket, the cold was biting! I wanted to take a picture of myself there, so I did, this is it:


I didn't say it was pretty. Anyway after about 20 minutes hanging around and watching the sky change colors I decided that I had had enough, and returned peacefully to my apartment. I had intentions to go to the temple as well, but having arose early and went to bed late, I decided the time spent in the temple might be ill used. So I took a nap instead, and was refreshed for the visit of my friends. I attempted to go to work, when I got there I found I had not put on the correct footwear for work. I was not interested in work, and still being somewhat tired, I begged off work, where I was going to be doing some training. They allowed me to go home. What a happy birthday it turned out to be. I got to visit with some of my family members by phone. and spend time with friends and I didn't have to work. It was delightful. Around 7:27 pm I took the following picture:



The evening was warm and sunny, and my toes were calling for a picture.

Water

Hello everyone, There was water today on the Wind Caves trail! I haven't seen it for a couple years. Hooray for water!