Southern Livin'

Hey Ya'll! Shortly after finishing the spring semester I went on a week long vacation to North Carolina to visit my best friend and fellow blogger Melania from LUSH-ous Baking. Since she moved down to the south I've truly missed our girl-time together where we would craft, eat good food (and bad-for-you food lol) and watch movies together. So that's what our vacation was mainly about, just doing things like in the good ole days where we were just a 15 minute walk from each other.

On one of the days during the vacation we were inspired by the southern cooking queen herself; Paula Dean. And here are the results:

Southern Red Velvet cake recipe from Boozy Baker

 First we decided it was only appropriate to make something "Southern" so we chose to do Southern Comfort Red Velvet cake from the new baking book The Boozy Baker that I gave to Melania for her birthday. (I love that the author's name is Lucy Baker!)

Preping

 We had to make a run to the ABC Store. For us Yankees who don't know that's what the liquor stores are called in the South. They can't buy hard liquor in grocery stores like we do! I don't know how a Wisconsin girl could live that way...lol.

If you've ever watched Paula Dean in action you know no matter how messy she never takes off her rings!

Don't forget your BLING ladies!

Always tell your Kitchen Aide mixer how much you appreciate it!

Bunny Shaped cake forms; cause why wouldn't you?

I shocked Melania with my speedy decorating skills!

I felt it needed more cream cheese frosting...and got a delicious ghost bunny out of it.

RAWR! Bunny taste GOOD!

Also if you're curious to know what we did with the rest of the Southern Comfort bottle we made a grand discovery that it is amazing with another Southern treat: Cheer Wine! Try it now! Remember it's 5 o'clock somewhere!