{"id":3045,"date":"2011-01-16T11:02:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T16:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2011-01-16T11:02:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T16:02:08","slug":"miss-america-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soverydomestic.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/miss-america-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss America 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

I adore pageants, their extreme cheesy factor doesn’t bother me at all. The bigger the hair and the more glitter on the evening gowns, the better! I eat it right up. So, naturally, I love, love, love the mother of all pageants, Miss America<\/a>. For the last few years, I’ve gathered my girlfriends to wear plastic crowns and cute dresses and drink champagne and watch the show. This is my first year in the woods – and just my wonderful luck – its also the first year Wee One #2 is interested and oh boy is she interested.<\/p>\n

The celebrations around here started early. I was wearing my rhinestone tiara and my biggest Urban Decay lashes<\/a> at breakfast (just for the record, these<\/a> are my dailies). Here is Wee One #2 all set for the show about an hour before it started, the one of me was taken in the morning and then I shoveled and cleaned like this. I adore these lashes, they’re so fun.<\/p>\n

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We baked up some girlie treats last night and watched Miss America together. She was rooting for Miss Oklahoma<\/a> (she was the 4th runner up), and I was rooting for Miss Nevada<\/a>, who unfortunately didn’t even make the semi-finals. Our second choices were Miss Hawaii<\/a> (my choice, she got 3rd runner up), and Wee One #2’s second choice, Miss Nebraska<\/a> WON! She’s just 17 and carried herself really well through the whole competition.<\/p>\n

I have baked all of these creations before, I just decorated them differently for our girlie evening.<\/p>\n

These cookies are Martha’s Snickerdoodles (posted about here<\/a>), minus the cinnamon and sandwiched with leftover ganache from a treat I made for my amazing husband that I’ll post about tomorrow in Marriage Monday. The ganache is the typical combo of 12 oz of good chocolate pieces, 3\/4 cup heavy cream and 6 tablespoons butter (heat the cream and the butter until it’s almost boiling, then pour it over the chocolate and mix).<\/p>\n

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These little babies, of course are just mini chocolate cupcakes with buttercream frosting and multicoloured coarse sugar. I used the Stir and Bake Chocolate Cake recipe I posted about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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More chocolate cupcakes, more buttercream frosting. Here I tinted half pink and half purple. I filled the pastry bag half and half so when I piped it, the colours would swirl together. Cute!!<\/p>\n

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So she now wants to be a beauty queen. So adorable it almost hurts. Here’s some So Very Domestic trivia for you. I was in a beauty pageant when I was 8. I won Miss Sunburst and Miss Photogenic. True story – I still have the trophies to prove it! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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