Did someone say PLAID...??

Hello, Everyone..

Gosh, I am already loving this new year.

...looking forward to all the new things that will influence our lives.

a new president, for one.

...wonder who it will be ?

(and that's all I'm gonna say about that !)

New fashions for the home...

2014/15 seemed to bring in
 THE WHITE SOFA...

EVERYone wanted it.

When it came time for us to purchase a new sofa,

I thought long and hard about THE WHITE ONE...

and fully intended to choose it...

but chose a light gray hide- a-bed, in the end.
I use a lot of white in pillows and other accessories and
like the gray with it.

 I love my gray so much, I changed my vintage hutch from the original maple color......

 

to
FRENCH GRAY

just to keep my pretty new gray sofa
company.... 


and i LOVE it.

and late in 2015, a revival of PLAID entered the scene...

all plaids are good right now but especially the 

BLACK and RED PLAIDS.

Plaids have been around for a long, long time and are the
epitome of CLASSIC....

Now, I've really...REALLY fallen into PLAIDS.

remember the tiny little plaid pillow with the white deer head...?

In the bins at TARGET (it was $3)

and see the little burlap basket with red and black PLAID..?

The cutest thing ever and Stacy found it (one for her..one for her mama)

in the same bins at Target.
"Thanks, Stacy...I just love it.."

I have this little starter plant sitting in the basket...
no idea what this plant is...
a friend has a large plant of it that belonged to her grandmother...
my friend gave me a starter and it has grown quite a bit out in the greenhouse.

All this cuteness made me want to use my little 

red and black dessert plates I found at Target a few weeks ago...

Some of you remember these....
so....

I made my favorite cake on the planet...
just exactly like my mama used to make...
 and she made it for me
for birthdays and Christmas and Easter and....for "JUST BECAUSE."

A white cake, fluffy and moist...
a FUDGE CANDY icing with Pecans...

and served on my little plaid dessert plates.

I don't care for thick icing on my cake...
nor powdered sugar icings...
.......just not my favorite.

The fudge icing I love is very thin...
very chocolaty...
perfect...for me...

1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup milk
SOOO SIMPLE
Mix the cocoa and sugar really well...
add milk and butter...

Cook on medium heat 6 to 7 minutes...
remove from heat, add a bit of vanilla,
and beat until it begins to thicken...it will thicken pretty fast and don't let it get
 TOO thick as it will become fudge candy.
...just beat to the thicken stage that will still POUR from your pan
onto the cake. (it's a little tricky). 
it will get thicker as it cools on the cake.
pour it over the warm cake, sprinkle with chopped pecans
and prepare to FALL IN LUV.    
***NOTE****
if you are covering a 2 layer cake or a 13x15 sheet cake,
DOUBLE THIS RECIPE..  

 
 and, HEY...guess what ?
it tastes just as good on a BLACK and WHITE plate !

XOXOXO, bj


 I still can't believe I am 78....
but I sure am glad to be here...:)


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