Come from Love

Oh beautiful souls, what a gift we have been given, to be able to love one another.  This opportunity that we have all been given to feel the pure bliss of love in our hearts for another, as well as from one another. A place of love can provide optimism and bring about great relationships in life and who wouldn't want that? A whole new perspective on friendships, families, colleagues, even strangers when we can just love people through whatever it is that they may be going through. It isn't always easy and sometimes we loose sight of this yet when we really give someone our unconditional love, we allow ourselves to an inner peace and even greater, we allow God to work through us being his disciples as he has called us to do. 

We as parents, adults, leaders and inspirations out in the world, we are the examples our children, our next generation is looking up to. Our children should be taught how to think not what to think and that will come through our examples that we are setting. So go out into the world and set the example of compassion and true care for one another :)

James 4:12

"There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?"

"When you pass judgement on another you don't define them, you define yourselves!"

- Wayne Dyer

Ephesians 4:29

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

With a grateful heart,

Danielle

My Dear Sweet Cupcake

It's no secret that I am a girl who LOVES cupcakes and I've never met a cupcake I didn't like. The path straight to my heart is though a cupcake. Now just to add, that the only thing that is slightly better than just a cupcake is the process of baking them, decorating them and then eating them.... Ohh-la-la!

Today was a Cupcake kind of a day, well what day isn't? I made a homemade vanilla cupcake topped with a vanilla icing and dusted with an edible glitter. My  girls helped all the way and the best part was they each got to decorate (4) cupcakes and had a blast. As a mom, I love watching them decorate and get a little messy having fun. Their creativity and focus is so cool to watch. They each picked out a color they wanted their frosting to be and went to town!  After the taste test the conclusion is HEAVEN! As such, I am naming them Angel Soul Cupcakes. Enjoy.

Angel Soul Cupcake ingredients:

1½ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon table salt
8 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick) at room temperature
½ cup sour cream
1 large egg at room temperature
2 large egg yolks at  room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line standard cupcake tin with cupcake liners.

2. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in bowl until mixed well. In a separate bowl, add butter, sour cream, egg, 2 egg yolks, and vanilla; beat with electric mixer at medium speed until smooth and satiny, (about 30 seconds). Slowly add Flour mix, until smooth and no flour pockets remain.

3. Divide batter evenly among cups of prepared tin. Be careful not to fill liners more than half way so you have a flat perfect height cupcake. :)

Bake until cupcake tops are pale gold and toothpick or skewer inserted into center comes out clean, 18-20 minutes. Remove the cupcakes from baking tin and transfer to wire rack. Let cupcakes cool to room temperature before frosting. 

Frosting:

For the frosting although I usually make homemade, I used Pillsbury Vanilla Frosting, I added in my baking colors to each bowl, depending upon the color that the kids chose. I used Edible baking glitter from a cake decorating store. Have fun! 

Bake at 350

Lightly Golden Brown

VOILA!