Carrot Cake

Pinterest made me do it again. I baked carrot cake cupcakes and carrot cake. I had a bag of carrots that needed to be used so what better way than to put them in a cake.

I followed the recipe from this pin HERE.(which will take you to the website for the full directions)

As follows is my pictures. There's not much since I was more occupied on tasting my cream cheese icing and waiting very patiently for the cakes to cool so I can taste them. OOPS. So enjoy what I have. :)

Ingredients:

Cake:
2 cups shredded carrots
 4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup canola oil
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup chopped walnuts

Frosting:
2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

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Enjoy!

Lush: Curly Wurly

Cutting my intro short, I have natural curly hair which means it tends to be on the more dry and frizzy side. So I decided to give Lush's Curly Wurly a try.

First off, It smells like coconut, which is nice, however, it does have tiny bits of coconut flakes in it.

How you apply it? scoop out a little, I noticed little goes a long away, and you can always scoop a bit more. Then latter it up in your hands. I have to work it a bit to latter, but it does latter nicely.

This product is suppose to moisturize your hair and it does add some weight to it, so I have to make sure I rinse it well from my scalp. However, for me, I like the added weight since my hair is light and frizz without it.

After rinsing out the shampoo, my hair has a dry/tough feeling, but once I conditioner, Aussie 3 min miracle, everything is nice.- As you can tell, I'm not much of a diva when it comes to how my hair is after I wash it, but I'm a diva how my hair is once it's dried.

NOTE: I still add my John Frieda Frizz Ease after I get out of the shower. (my post here)

After my hair is dried, I noticed that it drys differently, and smells of coconut. Once my hair is straightened, it acts differently, in a good way. I noticed it's day 2 hair, instead of "clean" hair, where for me, it's puffy and light weight. I still don't wash my hair everyday, more like every 4th day, it doesn't greasy up until day 4/5 so this shampoo in addition to the Anti Frizz Serum is a great combo for me.

Obviously this combo might not suite you if your hair greases up easily, plus, curly wurly is targeted to curly hair types., but honestly, if you have frizzy dry hair, give this a try.

Well that was my little blurb about the shampoo I've been trying out. If your pron to dry hair, and want to add a bit of  "weight" to it, I would defiantly recommend Lush's Curly Wurly.

WARNING! you might want to like the smell of coconut, and don't mind to deal with bits of it in your hair.

:)

Have a question, let me know!

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Peanut Butter Cookies

Every weekend that I've been back in Finland, I've been baking something. Banana nut bread, zucchini bread and now peanut butter cookies. Yes old fashion peanut butter cookies. My recipe yields 32, but since I make them different sizes, I stretch to about 35-40. 

You can find the website I found years ago when I first made these. HERE

What you will need:

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup crunchy peanut butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Mixing together butter, peanut butter and sugars then beat in eggs. Then mix together the dry ingredients and lastly combining all together.

After I mix everything together, I wrap plastic wrap and stick it in the frig to chill until my oven is ready. If your dough seems crumbly, which mine ends up being, I add about 1/4 cup extra peanut butter so that in the next step, they don't fall apart.

So once your oven is set, I roll out about an ice cream scoop worth of dough and take a fork, dip it in my plate of sugar, and then make hash marks. This gives the old fashion look and adds a bit of sugar on top.

I bake them for 10 mins. I will bake first 5 mins, then flip my baking sheet so that the cookies from the back are now at the front, I do this because the back of my oven tends to be hotter, and my cookies at the back would get darker than the ones at the front. --- make sense? I hope :) 

Lastly I let them cool on a cooling rack and gabble them up :) 

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