Recipe: Gluten Free & Dairy free Chocolate Cake

              Hey everyone! We are less than one week away from Christmas! I can't believe it. I am so excited to get home to see all of the family for the holiday! With all of the delicious holiday treats and sweets that will be happening, I wanted to share a great gluten-free dessert for anyone who is gluten-free. Gluten-free recipes like this one, let you feel like you aren't missing out this season with all of the good treats around. I found this recipe on Pinterest and really enjoyed this and wanted to share. Reed actually liked this a lot as well.

            I hope you all are having a great week and enjoy your holiday prepping before Christmas. We are heading out of town to Indiana for several days and then on to Memphis. It's the best time of year and I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am. Enjoy this recipe! More gluten free ideas to come over the next couple of weeks not only for the Holiday's but everyday cooking and baking. Enjoy and thank you as always for stopping by xoxo

Recipe: 

Ingredients: 

-3 c gluten free baking powder

-2 c sugar or coconut sugar

-1/2 c of cocoa powder 

-1 tbsp baking powder

-1 pinch of salt 

-1/2 c of coconut oil

-1/2 cup of maple syrup

-1 1/2 cup of coconut milk 

details:

-mix all ingredients together in a medium bowl

-use coconut oil to grease your baking pan or place parchment paper down in pan

-pour mixture into the pan 

-bake at 375 for 28-30 min

-check the center of the cake with a toothpick to make sure the batter doesn't come off on the toothpick

-let cool before slicing and serving 

-you can also make a frosting with this but I chose not to for this recipe

enjoy!

Hosting: Christmas Cookie & Cocoa Party

                 Hi Everyone! I am just now getting around to sharing our Christmas Cookie & Cocoa party from last weekend! We had such a good time with friends and good eats! I love this time of year and love gathering friends or family at our home for the Holidays. We had appetizers and dessert with hot cocoa and enjoyed time with our friends and Paw of course :)

Menu

Appetizers:

-buffalo chicken dip

-bacon tator tots

-okra

-sausage biscuits

Dessert:

-homemade hot cocoa 

-sugar cookies

-oreo balls

-gluten free chocolate chip cookies for myself

Here are a few images of the night! Enjoy and I hope this inspires you to create your own hot cocoa & cookie night! If anyone is interested in any of the recipes in this post, just let me know and I will post them, thank you and as always thank you for stopping by!

Home Decor: Holiday Home Tour 2017

               Happy December, Merry Christmas, Happy the best time of year to YOU! Can you tell I am a little excited Christmas is finally here? As you all know from many blog posts, the Holidays are my favorite. I thought it would be fun to share our home decor with you by pictures on my blog and also by video! I am by no means a video blogger or I think they call it a "Vlogger" but I thought this would be fun! Tune into the live video version on my social media accounts on (Instagram and Facebook) and here below I am showing all of the pictures of our home decor!

I hope you enjoy our Home Decor for the Holiday's and I hope this inspires you to create your own happy places :) Merry Christmas and as always thank you for stopping by!

Click this link for the Home Tour video: Home Decor Video

Front Porch Decor 

Entry Way Decor 

Living Room Decor 

Kitchen Decor 

Event: Vintage Market Day Nashville

     Hi Everyone! Happy Monday! I wanted to share several photos with you of my experience at the Vintage Market Days of Nashville over the weekend! If you haven't been, you definitely need to pencil this in for the next time. Actually, their next market in Nashville is in March and I would definitely make a trip if I were you. This was my first year attending and I was so happy to enjoy this market and take pictures for my blog to help promote this event. 

Vintage Market Days consisted of antiques, farmhouse decor, gifts, furniture, food vendors, and so much more. There were a lot of great vendors with a lot of great merchandise and ideas. I always enjoy events like this because it definitely inspires me to create my own masterpieces at home (haha at least I try anyways). This would be such a fun event with a big group of ladies or just strolling through by yourself is also fun. 

I enjoyed meeting several of the vendors and seeing  a lot of new booths I hadn't seen before at other local markets. There was definitely a good variety here as well. I hope you enjoy all of these ideas, just as much as I did. I hope you will consider attending this event next year around the Holidays but   also on March 16th-19th Vintage Market Days is coming back to Nashville at the same location at the Fairgrounds and I can't wait to see all of the Spring decor as well. Grab your friends and come down to Nashville for another great event! Thank you for the Vintage Market Days for having me!

Enjoy all of the displays, merchandise, and goods below :)