Ice cream Sandwich cake

So I think maybe I have decided not to do A Cupcake for a Rainy Day. I think I may just post my stuff on this blog. I don't have a lot of spare time lately. Did I mention we've moved??? Yes... We now live in Milburn with Tyler's parents. I love living with them, it really is so much fun. I don't miss our apartment in Springville at all. Our bedroom is huge, plus we have our own bathroom, and another little room attached on as well. It's great. Tyler is going to school at Snow College full time. I am still commuting up to Provo for work.

I made an amazing cake this week. I loved it. I was a little tired of traditional cake for my birthday, so I did something a little different.

An Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

Recipe

Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

adapted from Schwanns.com but altered

Ingredients:

16 1/2 Ice cream sandwiches

Hot Fudge

Whipped Topping, (whipped cream or aerosol whipped cream)

Chopped Reese's Peanut butter cups

Directions:

1. Arrange 5 1/2 ice cream sandwiches in a square, touching on a flat serving plate. Spread an even layer of whipped cream over to.

2. Drizzle fudge over whipped cream.

3. Sprinkle 1/3 cup chopped candy pieces on whipped cream and fudge.

4. Repeat layers twice. Garnish top as desired.

5. Freeze 6 hours or until firm. Cut with serated knife.

This cake was really good. I think next time I will make sure it has a little bit more whipped topping in between layers. The whipped topping tastes so good with the fudge and Reese's. This

recipe is definitely a keeper. Especially if you are an ice cream lover.

A Rainy Day...

I've decide to start a new blog! After months of thinking, I've finally came up with a name.

Drum roll please...

http://arainydaycupcake.blogspot.com/

It's still under construction, but hopefully it will be great. I'm going to post my cooking experiences on it. I think mostly tutorials. I love sweets and cooking. So my blog will primarily be about desserts. However, I did get some new Toms shoes, and it the box comes a Toms Flag. I made a shirt out of the Toms flag. It wasn't perfect, but for a first try, I though I did pretty good with the help with my mom and her handy dandy Bernina. I'll probably post my tutorial for my Toms shirt. May I just say how much I love my Toms. I have been debating on getting some since Christmas. I am so glad I did. I love them. I have to get the silver glittery ones. They are so cute.

And don't forget. Rusty is home! His homecoming was so great! He gave the best talk and the luncheon was great. Great food, and it was so great to see all of the family. I made a trifle, homemade oreos, and an amazing 7 layer dip for it. I will posting the trifle and oreos on my new blog. I can't believe I didn't take any pictures of all the amazing food that was there.

Notice: I'm wearing my Toms shirt, and Toms shoes.

Don't miss The Beehive Bazaar

The Beehive Bazaar is this weekend at Thanksgiving Point! I am so so excited! I look forward to it year around. It comes every six months. This will be my forth time going and I find great things every time. It's a giant boutique full of clothes, jewelry, hair accessories, and other nick nacks.

Last year I got this shirt :

It's one of my favorite shirts to wear. I can't wait to get more things from Autumn Dame. I also got a fabric flower barrette, like the ones I made myself. It's an amazing boutique. I could spend all my money at it. Do not miss it.

Clint's Birthday+ Hamburger cake

So yesterday was my brother Clint's Birthday. We all went to Fred and Laura's house for a barbecue. The weather has been so nice. I wore shorts all weekend. I surprised him with a super awesome cake. It would have been even better if we would have had a hamburger and french fries for dinner. See for yourself.

Bun: Vanilla Cake

Beef Patty: Brownie

French Fries: Sugar cookies sprinkled with sugar

Cheese: Fondant

Lettuce, Mustard, Ketchup: Frosting

Ketchup: Frosting

Happy Birthday Clinty.

Fabric Flowers

I have had a new obsession lately. Ever since I went to Nordstrom and they were doing a felt fabric brooch workshop (it was more like a table and you just made one) I have been obsessed with Fabric Flowers. I actually bought one at the Beehive Bazaar. But they are so easy and inexpensive to make. Here are some of the ones I've made this week.

Here is the tutorial. It's so easy. All you need is a glue gun and one-inch strips of fabric about 3-4 feet long. I'm thinking I am going to get feathers and glue on one side of the rosette.

Oh, and I made the zebra skirt. My Mom had to hold my hand basically for every stitching, but it got finished.

New Years Eve

Tyler and I went down to his parents house on New Years Eve. When we got there we got in our snow clothes and tied the tube to the back of the snowmobile. Tyler's parents live out in fields so there is plenty of room to for tubing. It was so fun.


Tyler and Marty had to help me put on put on this head gear so the spindrift didn't splash into my face. It made it a whole lot warmer.

Here is Marty pulling Tyler.

Tyler's Dad made Katsu Curry and Tempura shrimp and vegetables. It was so good. Marty went to Japan on his mission so he makes excellent Japanese food. After dinner we played catch phrase. Catch Phrase is the best game. It was boys against girls. They boys won almost every game. Right before it turned midnight we went outside and lit fireworks.

We lit sparklers right before we went back in the house.


We went in, drank some Martinelli's and ate Marie Callendar's turtle pie. Then Ronda,
Alyssa and I played Yahtzee. It was definitely one of the best New Years. 2010 sure
started out great.

Newest Hallmark Ornaments.

How could I forget to post picture of my newest Hallmark Ornaments. Since last year anyways.
I'll have even more next year. I absolutely love Hallmark ornaments. They make me look forward to Christmas even more every year. It's a Hall tradition to get hallmark ornaments for Christmas every year. So we used Tyler's ornaments from since he was a kid for our tree. I love them so much. I want to do that with my kids too.

Only a true Office lover would have an Office ornament. If you push the button on the mouse it says Michael Scott quotes.

Johny Quest- this one is actually Tyler's he got for Christmas this year.

Who wouldn't want Gandalf hanging proudly on his or her Christmas tree?

I had to get the Ariel ornament. Can I tell you how obsessed I was with Beauty and the beast, The little Mermaid and Aladdin when I was a kid. I would watch them over and over and over.

Christmas

Tyler and I didn't have to work on Christmas Eve or Christmas so we had an awesome break. We stayed at Tyler's house on Christmas Eve. We woke up and opened presents. Tyler chose his own gift. He got a Nixon Watch. Unfortunately it didn't come until until the day after Christmas so he didn't have it for Christmas. Tyler was so sweet. I had no idea what he got me. It was Christian Audigier Perfume. I told him I wanted perfume so he went to Dillards and smelled all the perfumes until he found the one he liked. He said he had a headache from smelling them.
When he was trying to pick out a perfume he said the sales girl kept trying to get him to buy this Jessica Simpson perfume. He kept telling her no. She asked why. Tyler said, "First of all, I don't think it smells very good, and second, my wife would never wear something that was Jessica Simpson." The lady said, "Well you need to tell your wife to grow up."
It makes me laugh to know that someone would get offended that I wouldn't wear Jessica Simpson perfume. Jessica Simpson is dumb. It's funny that Tyler knows me so well that he would know what I would or wouldn't wear. I wouldn't wear JLo either. What is up with these celebrities trying to make his or her own clothing line and perfumes? That's totally lame. They're not even real designers.
Tyler also gave me some flats, some boots, and some Uggs. But I knew what those were.

Here is Adam, Tyler's older brother. This picture has kind of a bad glare. Adam got all kinds of cool coats for Christmas, and a really great knitted scarf.

Here is Jess, Alyssa and Spencey.

Here is Tyler. Check out the cool wrapping paper. It's The Christmas Story. By the way, underneath the wrapping paper is a shop vac. Pretty cool if you ask me.

After we opened presents and had breakfast we headed over to my parents house. We got there and Rusty callled about 15 minutes later. I'm so glad we got there when we did. It was great to talk to Rusty. Only 6 months until he is home! Oh how I can't wait. I had my marshmallow gun ready so when my brother Fred came in I could shoot him. It was awesome. After our phone call with Rusty we had a marshmallow fight with the guns. It was so fun! My mom said that they were picking up marshmallows everywhere you could possibly think after Christmas.

Here is Clint and Fred. Clint is in the process of creating the ultimate marshmallow shooter. He has been researching parts. He wants to make one with CO2. If he does, I don't want to be on the opposing team. He is a mechanical engineer so I would expect nothing less.

Here's Ty and Aiden playing with mini remote control cars.


We ate the best Christmas dinner. Potatoes & gravy, Turkey, stuffing, and some other stuff. I LOVE when my mom makes homemade stuffing. Seriously. She is the stuffing queen. It's amazing. I guess it was kind of like Thanksgiving.
The next morning Ronda made German Pancakes. I have never had German pancakes but they are absolutely amazing. I came home and found a recipe for them online so I could make them. I highly suggest. We tried to go snowmobiling, and tubing but something was wrong with the snowmobile. While Marty was trying to fix the snowmobile we entertained ourselves.
Here is Tyler doing a front flip off the propane tank and landing in a tube. He did it like four times. It was so funny.

25 Days of Christmas- The Final Days

Day 4-Dec 21
Snowflake Competition at work, and Ugly Sweater day.
I didn't have an ugly sweater, but I did find a super ugly turtleneck at K-mart. I couldn't find anything at D.I. so I looked at some other stores. I put another sweater over it to tone down the uglieness. I was actually kind of sensitive about how ugly I was.


Here are the entries for the snowflake competition. It was pretty competitive. I'm not going to lie. I even gave a container of truffles away for the prized. It was great.


Day 3- Dec 22
Ronda's big Birthday! Awesome! Also, I spent all night making sweets for friends and family. I made chocolate covered rice crispy treats and cake balls.


And, Tyler and I went and did a little Christmas shopping. I had to stop by the Hallmark store and use a coupon I found in a magazine. Two things I love... The Office (more that anything) and Hallmark ornaments. So...


Day 2-Dec 23
Here are the cake balls I gave to my co-workers.


That night Tyler and I went to The Hall Family Christmas Party at his Grandma and Grandpa's house. Another reason to get together, talk, and eat delicious food.

Day 1-Dec 24 Christmas Eve

Finished up Christmas shopping. I just needed to grab one last thing. We went down to Sanpete to see the family. We went to my parents house later in that night. Clint, Tyler and I built marshmallow shooters. It was so fun.