Monica's Seniors

Breakfast Interrupted

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Inside-out carrot cake

I found an online recipe for inside-out carrot cake muffins right before Easter. I though the idea was genius! Since I love this pumpkin recipe so much, I was sure that the recipe would become a favorite. However, after following the poorly written recipe (which yielded dry not-worth-the-calories muffins) I decided to combine two loved recipes into my own version. Below is the tasty result.

Carrot Cake:

2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
3 cups grated carrot

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix dry ingredients. Cream oil, eggs, sugar together, combine with dry mixture. Stir in grated carrots.

Filling:

1 package (8 ounce) cream cheese, at room temperature

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 Tbs all-purpose flour

1 large egg

Mix together filling ingredients. Grease tart pans or muffin tins. Fill pans 1/4 way with cake mixture, layer another 1/4 filling on top, finish with 1/4 more carrot cake on top of filling. Bake 25-35 minutes.

P.S. Jeanelle thanks for the recipes! :) The filling is from your pumpkin bread. I am not sure on the carrot cake portion, but Anna thought it was yours as well.

More Chicks

Could not resist posting this photo from the Easter shoot. Love his facial expression. Chicks are exciting!

Happy Easter!

Anna's Best Day Ever

Many of you may know that after months of saving, I finally got my new camera. It's such a step up from my old one and in short, IT'S AMAZING!! To celebrate, I recruited Anna to help me test it out. Those of you who know Anna will probably remember that whenever something good happens to her (even if it's just finding a dirty penny face down on the sidewalk) she proclaims that it is, "the best day ever!" I thought this would make a fun theme and so we spent the day doing all of Anna's favorite things...or really, I just tried spiffy camera settings and bought the kid a cupcake.

After choosing a pair of shoes from her collection and giving Zach a squeeze goodbye, we were off to The Sweet Tooth Fairy for a treat.

Next was shopping.

(Whoops only Zach was suppose to see that...)

And lastly we met up with Zach at the Laundromat.

Thanks again Annabelle!

You are what you eat...so eat something cute!

 Photos from "Anna's best day ever" coming soon.