Disney's Hollywood Studios Grapefruit Cake

This is one of the desserts that we ate on our trip to Disney World at the Hollywood Brown Derby Restaurant. 

I followed this recipe exactly, except I used 1 1/3 cups regular flour and sifted the dry ingredients together four times.

The only problem making it was that our oven cooked it unevenly..... half the cake was perfect and the other half was left in a pudding state of underdone cake-y goodness. Ah well! At least it looks and tastes yummy. 

photo found here

Busy Bee!

Recipe #1: Chelsea (aka sticky) Buns....

{recipe from my Cook's Companion book}

Final Product: These may not look amazing, but they taste sooooooo good, even after they've cooled. They're flakey, soft, sweet, and delish.

Recipe #2: Buttermilk Pound Cake
{recipe from 17 and baking here}

We haven't tried this cake yet (though the batter was AH-MAZING). The key to the recipe is letting it sit for a couple days, so I made it in advance for a trip this weekend. We'll try it there!

Recipe #3: Macaroni and Cheese Cauliflower Bake
{Recipe from Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Cookbook}
The directions on this recipe were hard to figure out, but we managed, and after spending a good 10-15 dollars on cheese, this actually turned out!

NUM NUM.

Pop pop pop pop CAKE!

I slipped up! Eek!! While watching curling we had some organic popcorn (this is not the slip up) that I got in my care package- it was delicious! Three of us ate the whole bag, but that's only about 120 kcal a person. And it was soo tasty.

Then trouble came in the form of cake! A girl from our hall was making cakes for tonight's event, and she would cut the tops off of the cakes to flatten it, and four of us definitely chowed down. It was really yumi and so hard to resist!

I was planning to have a rest day today, but after cake I had to get my butt to the rec! Especially since I'll be sitting in a classroom ALL DAY TOMORROW. And I have to miss Zumba! So I went to a class this morning. It wasn't particularly heart-pumping, but it got me out of bed at a decent hour and was some form of exercise at least.

I had pumpkin/banana/oatmeal/peanut butter/raisin/cinnamon goodness again today- I'm addicted, and the pumpkin is almost gone :(

los ingredientes:

Breakfast:

Nom nom nom..

My new Zumba shoes!

I'm off to a basketball game and a Scotty Co. Block Party! Should be fun, and I'll definitely be planning fewer calories this afternoon so I can have some goodies tonight.