Easy and Delicious Tres Leches Cake

Tomorrow is a good friend's birthday.  She and her kiddos came over tonight to bring over their items for the garage sale we are having this coming weekend, so I made dinner and cake to have a little celebration.  Since we had enchiladas for dinner, I opted for a complimenting dessert...hens... Tres Leches.  This is such an easy recipe and sooooo yummy. 

Cake:
  8 egg whites
  2 cup sugar
  2 cup flour
  1 tsp vanilla
  2 tsp baking powder
  1/2 cup milk

Milk Mixture:
   2 cans evaporated milk
   2 cans condensed milk
   1/2 cup sour cream
   1/2 cup milk

Makes 8 Servings
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 1 hour
Chill time: 2 hours

For the cake:

 Whisk egg whites and sugar together until somewhat firm. Add flour, vanilla, baking powder and milk and mix well.  Pour into greased dish/pan. Cook at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

 

Milk Mixture:

 While waiting for the cake to bake, whisk all milk mixture ingredients together.  Chill until cake is ready.

Once the cake is done, check the middle with a toothpick to make sure no cake sticks to the stick.  If it is ready, take it out and let the cake cool.  

Once the cake is cool, using a toothpick, make holes all over the cake that go all the way to the bottom of the pan

Poor milk mixture over the cake.  It may seem like there is a lot of liquid, but that's ok.  It will soak in.

Chill for 2 hours to allow the milk mixture to soak into the cake.  Serve and enjoy!

A Few of My Favorite Things...Candles

I LOVE candles!  Here are my two favorites that I have in my house now.  These candles are great!  I love that they are strong enough to smell through several rooms, but they aren't an overpowering smell that gives you headaches. Be sure to stop and sniff them next time you are near an Anthropologie!

Anthropologie's Voluspa Japonica Candle in Mokara

Anthropologie's Capri Blue Candle in Volcano

The New Playroom: Part One - Happy Colored Chairs

Our house has a formal dining room between the living room and kitchen.  However, we are not exactly 'formal' people, so we have repurposed it as Grayson's playroom.  Because of where it's located, it's really nice because I can see him play from pretty much anywhere I would usually be downstairs.  However, that means anyone that comes over will see the unpleasant mess that comes with the typical playroom.  So, seeing as this is Part One of the new playroom, I guess I should show you what I'm working with...so here it is...

Pretty neat huh?  Ok, maybe not...

Well, I decided to start with the wood table and chairs that I got at a children's resale shop for $20. I knew I wanted to paint the table white, but I was torn with the chairs.  I wanted to keep them bright and happy and I had an idea of the main colors I wanted for the room, so here is how they turned out:

The main colors for the room are going to be lime green, teal, orange, and brown.  I used Lowe's Valspar brand in an interior semigloss to make them easy to keep clean.  Here are the paint colors I used:

Green - CI235 - Twist of Lime

Teal - CI250 - Sprinkler

Stay tuned for more upgrades to the playroom!

Drawing Turned Color Matching...Who New?

A few weeks ago we went to the cabin for the weekend.  At the time we didn't have many toys out there for Gray to play with so I brought a few activities to help keep him busy.  This was one of them.  Nothing special, just a poster board and some washable markers. 

We started on the table, but he was nervous standing on the chair so we moved to the floor. He had fun for about 10 minutes then he was ready to move on.  

 

So I got out the caps to put the markers away and he realized their colors matched the color of the pens.  So, Gray being the most organized child ever, decided that he wanted to try to match the colors to the pens and put the caps on himself. He loved it!  He would put them all on, then look at them and find the ones that didn't match and take them off and start over. 

Attention Span: 20 min (just for the color matching of the caps)

Fun Meter: B

Bobblehead Birthday

So my dad is one of those people that are incredibly hard to buy for because he has just about everything already.  So this year for his birthday I decided to do something a little different. 

Introducing my dad...as a bobble head!

I ordered this from Head Bobble.  It was really easy.  First I got to customize it by picking the body style, hair, skin and eye color.  Then I uploaded a couple photos of him from different angles.  

So if you're looking for a gift to make someone chuckle, this just might be the gift for you.  Just be sure to plan ahead!  It takes 4-6 weeks for delivery.

This is what he actually looks like.  Pretty close huh?

Cheap and Easy Upgrade to a Builder Grade Mirror

I got the idea for this project on Pinterest from a post on Full of Great Ideas blog. I really liked that it was a cheap and easy way to make a pretty drastic improvement to the look of our bathroom.  Following her design tips, my amazing hubby put this together.  

Next step is to install the new light above the mirror and paint the cabinets white.  I'll post pics when I'm done.

                                            Before                                                  After

 

 

For detailed instructions click here:

Pool Noodle Sewing

And yet another Dollar Store find - pool noodle sewing.  This one was interesting.  It didn't quite turn out like I thought.  But it did keep him busy for a little bit.

Attention Span: 30 min (with assistance)

Fun Score: C

Pool noodle - $1.  

Yarn - I already had on hand

Straw - I already had on hand

Cut the noodle into pieces as shown.

Cut a hole in one end of the straw and tie one end of the yarn through it.

 

I showed him how to put the straw through the hole.

 

Once he got them all on, he took them all off and started to eat and/or break each individual ring. So, needless to say, it worked for a while, but probably isn't something we will try again.