Girl's Night

Last weekend, we had a D&B at my friend Carrie's house. We had a lot of fun sitting around eating lots of yummy food and wine. I made my now famous soft pretzels and Chocolate Merlot cupcakes...they we both so good! I will be making both again soon!


We also celebrated my friend, Christa's birthday! It was a great evening and it was nice to get out and relax. Plus, Arabella and Jay had a fun night before he left to go out of town for the week.
As a special treat, I made a cake for Arabella and Jay before I left for the night - they could hardly wait to try it! And I even brought home a plate of leftover treats, that they both enjoyed so much. It had rice crispy treats, shortbread cookies, sugar pie, and Toblorone cheesecake. I think they might be pushing me to go out the door to the next D&B real soon, just so I bring them home treats!
Yummy cake!

Very excited to have treats the next day!
Toblorone cheesecake...to die for!

Too Much Time On My Hands???

About once a month, the Hot Hudson Housewives get together for a D&B (a/k/a Ditch & Bitch). The D&B is an evening where we ditch the husbands and kids and get together for a girls night of wince, snacks and bitching/girl talk. We rotate houses and everyone brings something to drink or snack on. So when we had our D&B last week and I went to the store to pick up something to bring the strawberries caught my attention. Maybe it had to do with wanting summer and warm weather and they looked to good to be passed up. Plus they were on sale 2 packages for $5...even better since they are usually about $5 a package. So when we got home and Arabella was down for her nap, I was bored and decided to make the strawberries into a special treat for D&B. What do you think?

From this:

To this:

To the final outcome:
I think the came out great. And they tasted even better. So yes, last Tuesday, I had too much time on my hands, but no one at the D&B was complaining. Having too much time on my hands is not the norm, so I can't promise these at every D&B but you never know...