-- New Puppies and New Cake!

 -- I just got a new puppy! Her name is Penny Lou. She is adorable! - See below.

I got her last night from my sister. Her two dogs, Olivia and Bama had six puppies! They were all adorable and I wanted to keep every single one. Luckily, four were spoken for, Mine, Tan Puppy, Lily (sister kept one) and Little Girl. My sister sold one to a nice family and there was one left over...and my mom said she would HATE for them to have to go to the pet store to be sold. So....Introducing.... Mr. Winston Alvarez.

 YAY two new puppies!!! I LOVE them and want to kiss them all day long.

We celebrated Labor Day today at my parents house and I said I would make dessert. I thought long and hard...and that produced S'mores brownies, to which I got some hesitant looks. So I grabbed my computer and googled "blog; desserts" then dad said Coconut Cake (his kryptonite) so then I googled "blog; coconut cake" and after a few posts I found this recipe first of all Miss Patsy is the cutest name so it had me sold. 

Yes she had me at Miss Patsy.

Well my <3 and I decided to venture to the store and get the ingredients. He decided he wanted the to use White Cake instead, so we did that. OMG. HEAVEN.

Recipe:  White Cake Mix (which you will prepare according to package directions), Cream of Coconut, sweetened flaked coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and some whipped topping*. See recipe here

Ingredients:

 

 

Make cake as usual:

In separate bowl combine Cream of Coconut and Sweetened Condensed Milk, refrigerate while the cake is cooking.

RIGHT after your cake is out of the over start poking the cake with a fork. Get your Coconut&Milk mixture and pour over cake. (yes while the cake is still hot)

** Also grab a cookie sheet and your coconut and sprinkle the coconut evenly on your sheet, bake for 10-15 minutes **

Let the mixture soak into your cake until you cake is cool. 

Your cake will "poof" up a little!

When your cake is done, grab your Cool Whip and ice your cake.

Sprinkle your toasted coconut on your cake!

                I only toasted a little bit, so in this part I mixed toasted and non-toasted coconut on top

 Seriously. This is what I think heavens clouds are made of.

 Yes the Cream of Coconut and Sweetened Milk added SO much flavor to the white cake, it makes this amazing sweet, coconut gooey cake..and the blend of toasted and non-toasted coconut adds the perfect crunchy.

Happy Labor Day All

lovelovelove

M

-- Easy Peasy

--Well I am off!

Off to the Bay Area! I will be traveling by bus visiting Universities and enjoying the bay area with 40+ high school students. I am beyond excited for this trip as it will be a great opportunity to meet the students I work with, have a great time learning about other Universities, and of course!!*** spending time with my co-workers whom I adore!

This past weekend I was trying to sleep a little more as next week I might lose my precious beauty sleep hours. (Poor kids! yikes) In doing so we felt a little more lazy than usual so of course you start craving all the bad eats right?

Well we were and we have been eating pretty healthy so we decided to go a little crazy and make cobbler.

Now we could have bought organic healthy apples and peeled and cored until our fingers hurt.

We also could have measured the cinnamon and sugar and flour evenly.

And we also could have used a butter alternative

Instead we used this

Real Butter, the real deal. Not margarine, not I can't believe its not butter.. B-U-T-T-E-R.

Milk.

Louisana Fish Fry - Cobbler Mix $1.22

And... ta da. $2-3

Directions:
Melt 4tbsp butter and pour into 9x9 baking dish

In bowl mix cobbler mix, 3/4 cup milk until smooth, pour over butter.

Add fruit filling, and mix around a little

Bake 375* for 40-45 minutes.

Enjoy!

*We served this ala mode*

Was it the healthiest?

Nope

Was is AMAZING?

Yeppers

Lovelovelove

The Traveling M