Can you guess what I am announcing today? I just thought coming right and tell you- but I thought that when you have a food blog that is really most Cookies time its best to cook this kind of news in a cupcake. You may remember that last week I told you about all the things I was looking forward to that month discover the sex of our baby being one of them. Well ....
A boy !! The first boy in my family of 5 girls really so exciting. To be honest, I really thought deep down he was a boy. I'm not sure why except that maybe, just maybe, I thought if I convinced myself that I was a small boy, I would not be disappointed if I found out it was not a girl . You see I get girls. I understand what to do, having had three younger sisters and countless small lady expense of childcare. I am so close to my own mom, and I wanted to have that kind of relationship with a girl someday. Remember the dorky letter I wrote to my future children? Well in my car 15 years I think I just always thought they would ... girls like my own family. I wanted a boy too, but I thought if I just had my first daughter, I would never have to worry about not having a later, which to me was like a devastating thought.
So I went in that sonogram I prepared myself, thinking "it will be a boy- a boy! a boy! "Really trying to get jazzed, knowing that if she said girl I secretly instead be exalted. But then I was on the table and began to see the photo of my little baby feet, sweet perfect head, hands and elbows. I even fainted on the ribs and spine were so well developed for such a tiny thing sized banana. I started to well up as she sat there I said my baby was doing somersaults in my stomach, making it difficult to obtain good images. my little baby in my stomach doing flips? I really could not think of anything cuter. and finally at the end she got the money shot, said his sweet little ass and the obvious fact that he was a boy, and I was so damn happy. a son. I'm having a son. a boy Mama, a sweet little man that I already love it.
me being my self I had to get cheesy blue balloons to celebrate!
I continue to hope and pray that I get a girl, but I've spent the last days increasingly happy to have a son, and all that comes with it. I can not have been someone who thought he was with the boys, but now I know I have one it is all I can think of. I feel bad for wanting other than what I have nothing, but believe me when I say that now I would not change it for the world. I fell so in love with these images of small human growing inside me. I like that it's a boy, and I'm so excited.
So there is my honest confession of the day.
Also- this is my new favorite vanilla cake recipe and it is delicious. I share below!
- 3 cups all-purpose flour (12.75 ounces)
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1½ cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract
- 1¼ cup buttermilk
- for Frosting:
- 2 sticks of butter softened
- 2½ in cups powdered sugar
- 1 vanilla bean, split longitudinally
- 2 c. vanilla extract
- 2-6 tablespoons milk or cream
- Preheat oven to 350F
- line cupcake pans with coatings. put aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, stir in vanilla.
- Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately, beginning and ending with flour. Scrape bowl no not mix the dough.
- Divide batter evenly among liners, filling each about three-quarters full. Bake until tops bounce when touched, about 20 minutes. Transfer to a gate; let cool for 5 minutes, then remove from pan. Let the cupcakes cool completely before frosting
- Beat butter and scraped vanilla with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, Add powdered sugar and beat well until the mixture is thick and almost pasty.
- Add extract and 1 tablespoon of milk / cream. Beat well. Slowly add more milk 1 tablespoon at a time if you think your frosting is too thick or too dry. Frost cooled cupcakes as desired.