Pumpkin

I'm BLACK I grew up in a BLACK house where my mom did not make ANYTHING pumpkin as I was growing up, holiday time meant sweet potatoes black peoples version of pumpkin but as I got older I started exploring the pumpkin realm and I like it! But I always buy it out, well being the Domestic Diva that I am I think it's time to create my own pumpkin recipe in my own home. I'm gonna start with the following recipe that I got from www.food.com BUT of course I will be tweaking it. I'll be baking it in layers not a fluted tube pan, I'll be omiting the pecans and I'll be topping it with cream cheese frosting.


Ingredients:

1.      3/4 cup butter, softened
2.      1 1/2 cups sugar
3.      1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
4.       2 large eggs
5.      1 teaspoon vanilla extract
6.        2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
7.       1 teaspoon baking powder
8.        1 teaspoon baking soda
9.        1 teaspoon cinnamon
10.        1 (15 ounce) can solid-pack pumpkin
11.      1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
12.      3/4 cup pecans, finely chopped, divided

Directions

In a large mixing bowl cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon; add to the creamed mixture alternately with pumpkin. Fold in chocolate chips.

Divide batter in half. Stir melted to chocolate inot one portion. In a well greased 10" fluted tube pan, sprinkle 1/2 cup pecans. Spoon chocolate batter over pecans; top with pumpkin batter. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup pecans.

Bake at 325 for 65-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack.

I love to smell good! Perfume, scented body wash, scented lotion ahh I love it, but I hate "body splash" something about it just screams junior high school to me so I stay far away. As I was flipping through the latest cosmo there were samples for Taylor Swift's new perfume Wonder Struck and Donna Karan's Cashmere Mist, they both smell amazing in my opinion ; let me just say I am not a T. Swift fan AT ALL! But she will be making a profit off of me because Wonder Struck smells great! It reminds me of Britney Spears' Fantasy which I also love #donteffingjudgeme 

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$62.00-$95.00 donnakaranbeauty.com

I have a pair of patch work UGG's I got them YEARS ago way before they were over saturated, I love them in the WINTER ; now that they've become so popular people tend to wear them all year round which is totally ridiculous to me but anyway.......I've always said I would never buy another pair simply because the ones I have are so unique and vintage-ish (they don't make them anymore) BUT I saw these shiny babies and fell in lust not total love but I'm a sucker for sparkle, some people aren't into sequins and sparkle but I definitely am ;-)

UGG Australia Sequined Sparkles Bailey Boot $350
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Every once in a while a pair of sneakers will catch my eye, it's not often but it does happen. I was flipping through a magazine and I saw these dolled up Miu Miu kicks and fell in l-o-v-e! They come in black, silver, gold, and blush - they are adorned with glitter, patent leather, velvet, lamé, studs and crystals  ^_^ they run between  $450 & $585 :-/

I love them all....I can't pic my favorite, which is yours?
 

Purple Kisses

This Thursday 9/29 MAC will launch their Fall Colour Collection, the only new limited edition lipstick is "Plum Bright" (above) it's $14.50 & she's wearing it with Lip Erase which is $18.50 I love it.. . . . . . .

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