Cookies and Cream Cake Filling

Cookies and Cream is one of my FAVORITE fillings.  I get many many compliments on it everytime I make it.  I usually put it in between a devils food cake mix and a vanilla cake mix.  If I am doing a 3 layer cake, then most of the time I do two vanilla with one chocolate in between.  If its a four layer then I stack one vanilla, one chocolate, one vanilla, then the last layer chocolate.  I suggest you make extras because it is addicting and I usually have to do several extra taste tests ;).

32 Tablespoons of unsalted butter at room temperature
8 cups of sifted powdered sugar
2 teaspoons of whole milk
2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract
Dash of salt
2/3 bag of crushed double stuffed Oreos

Add the first 5 ingredients into your mixer bowl.  Put your mixer on low until the powdered sugar starts to mix, unless you liked to be covered in it.  Gradually move to medium until it is all mixed.  Then put it on the highest power for a minute and a half.  Next add the oreos and put your mixer on high for another 30 seconds.  I used two thirds of the bag of oreos because I accidently ate a whole sleeve of it.  When I say accidently it's because it was definitely not my intent.  I will being trying hard to not do it again because my stomach hurt until I went to bed that night.  Feel free to add as many as you would like, I am an oreo lover so I really don't think you can go wrong with to many!

Summer Lovin.. some clothes

Hola!
  This week I am in the process of making a 50th birthday cake for my mom.  I have already started on the icing which I will be sure to post the recipes to.  For the top tier I am doing a strawberry cake with a cream cheese filling.  For the bottom layer I am doing a vanilla and chocolate mix with an oreo cream filling, I am craving sweets as the time goes on.  I always like to do my icings before hand to take the pressure off of those 2 days before cake delivery but I wont even pretend I havent been snacking on it.  I may have to make an extra batch in the future.  I'm really excited about this cake for two reasons. 1) Because it's been awhile since I ahve done a cake, I have mostly been getting cupcake orders.  2) Because her colors are pink, lime green, and zebra (Keeping it young lol).  I love using bright colors because it always makes the cake pop and look so fun!    Until that's finished I thought I would celebrate my LOVE OF SUMMMER with some of my favorite summer outfits I have worn lately.

This is a summer dress I wore to a friends wedding.  I got the dress and necklace from Francescas and the gladiator heels from Forever 21.  I love these heels because they are just the right size for work and go with everything.  My little Becksy is wearing a collar from Pet's Mart and is trying to get the attention as always.  PS Becks is the dog not the husband ;).

I wore this Leopard tank top with a black sweater to work and I paired it with some red heels I bought from Forever 21 and  red necklace I borrowed/stole from my mom

 These pants are some of my favorite cheap finds.  I got them at ross for $14.  I paired them with a baby pink tanktop from Francesca's and a floral necklace from Dustee's.

 I love love love this outfit- The top, belt, and skirt are all from Francesca's and the shoes are from Forever 21.  I felt so put together but once I got to work a member asked me if I was going to a fashion show (he was dead serious btw).  That's when I realized it may have been a tad dressy for my line of work.

I live in OKC so we don't have an H&M or an urban outfitters.  This is a good and bad thing.  My bank account tells me it's a good thing but my love of fashion says BOOO.  I got this top at an  H&M in D.C when we were their a few weeks ago for vacation.  The shoes and necklace are from forever 21.

 This is a vest I bought from Urban Outfitters while in DC.  It is definitely my favorite clothing piece at the moment. I tried to pair it with a girly dress the first time I wore it..

The second time I wore it I paired it with some skinny black pants from H&M, a gold necklace and some black wedges.  I love this look a lot more because it really gave my vest a pop.