{cupcake love}

Baking and decorating cupcakes is one of my favorite things to do. Aside from how perfectly delicious they are, an entire afternoon in my kitchen covered in flour and icing is my idea of time well spent. So when I needed a great way to wish my dear dear friend Shannon a happy birthday, cupcakes were the natural choice. And because I love her so much, I decided to make her my personal favorite... dark chocolate cupcakes with buttercream icing and chocolate sprinkles.  

 

Doesn't get any better than that. Happy birthday to Shannon and happy baking to the rest of you!

{why i love spring}

I truly wait all year for that first time in the Spring when I walk past a bunch of flowers and spot peonies for sale. They're such beautiful flowers and seeing them in my home makes my happy from head to toe.

Happy Spring!

{cocoa & hearts}

You may remember a while back when I mentioned how much I love Made by Girl... (pause for you to go back and look). WELL... she recently launched her art site Cocoa and Hearts, and it has certainly surpassed my expectations. She has a truly unique eye and point of view, and I have big dreams for having one of her pieces in the home office I plan to have one day. They're selling out at a staggering pace, so hopefully she will have more up soon.  

 

 

 

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Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

 

{happy easter}

I hope that everyone has a great Easter and that you all have a wonderful time celebrating with your loved ones.  I hope that you will also take the time today to remember what today means and the sweetest love we'll ever know. God bless you all!

{the best thing i ever ate}

Have any of you ever watched that show on the Food Network called "The Best Thing I Ever Ate"?  It brings together famous chefs and Food Network TV personalities, and they recount all of the best dishes they've ever eaten at a restaurant.  Well friends... I have found mine. For those of you who read my old blog, you might remember a post about a place called Fat Sully's Pizza.  I stand firmly by my assertion that it is the best pizza I've ever had.  But this post isn't called "The Best Pizza I Ever Ate"... no... it's the best thing I ever ate.  What a lot of people don't realize about Fat Sully's is that it's 3 places in one.  The bar is called the Atomic Cowboy, the pizza is Fat Sully's... and from 7 am to 2 pm, it is also the Denver Biscuit Company.

We had some lovely friends from San Antonio visit us this past weekend, and naturally we took them out for Fat Sully's, which naturally they loved.  Our waiter made the recommendation that we come back the following day for biscuits.  I believe his exact words were, "Our pizza is good, but our biscuits are (expletive) phenomenal".  So Sunday morning, we went back... and the waiter was right.

Their menu has a unique variety of sandwiches and platters, but they all have one staple... the big, fat, fluffy, southern, buttery biscuits that they make fresh every morning. We ordered a table full of food and ate until we felt delightfully ill. I had the pulled pork biscuit, and I can say confidently and with no hesitation... that it was the best thing I ever ate.

They also have a "Biscuit Bus", and if I were to see it driving around town, I would run like a maniac to catch it. They're that good. If ever you find yourself in Denver, you are doing yourself a real disservice if you don't stop in there. Come for the biscuits, stay for the pizza.