If you love red velvet cake than you will love red velvet pancakes, good for breakfast and dinner!!!!

Recipe type: Breakfast / Dinner

Author: Divas Can Cook 

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time:10 mins

Total time: 25 mins

Serves:4

• 2 cup all purpose flour
• 6 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 egg, beaten
• 1 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 4 tablespoon butter, melted
•  15 drops red food coloring
• Cream Cheese Glaze
• 4 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 3 tablespoons milk (may need a few drop more)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• powdered sugar, garnish

Instructions

1. Pancakes
2. ) In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, & cocoa powder.
3. ) Add in egg, buttermilk, butter, vanilla extract, & red food coloring.
4. ) Stir it up gently until combined. The batter should still have a few lumps in it. You don’t want to stir it until it’s completely smooth.
5. ) Let the batter sit for 10-15 minutes, while you make the glaze.
6. Glaze
7. ) In a medium size bowl, add all of the cream cheese glaze ingredients and blend until smooth and silky. Set aside.
8. ) Preheat griddle and grease with butter.
9. ) When hot, add pancakes. I used ¼ cup per pancake.
10. ) Flip with the first few bubbles start to break on the surface of the pancake.
11. ) When the other side is soft and pillowy to the touch, it’s done!
12. ) Stack on a plate.
13. Assemble
14. ) Stack one pancake on a plate and spread on a layer of cream cheese glaze.
15. ) Repeat with another pancake.
16. ) Stack the third pancake and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
17. ) Pipe on the cream cheese glaze. Serve

Survive Domestic Violence Survival Bracelets

We are raising money to help domestic violence victims by donating to shelters and national non profit organizations. If you'd like to help us out you can purchase a  survival bracelet at this link.

My 11yr old daughter decided to do this after we watched a Dr. Phil episode that was very touching and tragic, about a family who's lives had been turned upside down by domestic violence. Here is a link END THE SILENCE with a lot of great information if you or a loved one is silently suffering from domestic violence. Thanks so everyone for any help you'd like to contribute.

survival bracelets for charity

BSU colors!! GO BRONCOS

lots of colors are available

Up-Cycle Calenders into beautiful pieces of art work!

Whether you have last years calender still hanging around or are like me and found some new ones for 75% off at the mall (after Christmas sales woohoo!!) This DIY up-cycle tutorial is such a super cheap and easy idea to add some great artwork to your home fast!

What you'll need:

• frame 
• calender/ artwork
• tape to secure picture 
• scissors to cut artwork out

Vintage Baseball Theme

First pick the calender with a theme you want to use. I got my calender after Christmas at a mall kiosk for 75% off making it only $5 with 12 photos to use! We are going with a vintage baseball theme for the room I'm decorating so I chose accordingly.

Choose which picture you want to display

 

Next choose a frame that will compliment your art as well as be able to hold the desired piece. I got my 11x14 (8x10 window) frame at Micheals Craft store ( and used my 40% off coupon) so my frame ended up being $7.99! You could also probably find some really neat frames at thrift stores for super cheap as well!

When you are all set with your artwork and frame you just need to cut the picture out to fit in your frame nicely, I tape the picture to the frame to make sure it doesn't slip or move out of position when your hanging it. And there you have it, some beautiful artwork for your wall! And best of all the cost could be as low as FREE if you already have a frame and calender that need to be put to work!

Finished Vintage Baseball Frame

Beautiful Vintage Baseball Artwork

iLOVE MP3 Players Valentine Treats

DIY iLove MP3 players Valentine treats.

Things you will need:

• glue dots
• 2 -12" pcs of ribbon
• scrapbook paper
• 2 peanut butter cups
• 2 small pieces of foil to cover peanut butter cups
• printer paper for mp3 template

Step One: Tape each end of one of your pieces of ribbon to a peanut butter cup. Take your other piece of ribbon and tie it to the middle of the peanut butter cup string leaving it long on one side to use as your cord attached to the box. Tape the end to the sweethearts box. Wrap your peanut butter cups in foil to hide the ribbon you just attached. Now you have your headphones. 

Step Two: Take a box of sweethearts and wrap it in any design, color scrapbook paper you want. To wrap the paper we used scrapbook glue dots and just stuck the paper right to the box.  We used pink glitter because we are all about the sparkle!

Step Three : Cut out our template at this link http://funkyletterboutique.com/images/ipodmasterbigger.jpg You can probably copy and paste this template into Word and print more at once. Glue them down. All done!

Easy Domo Valentines

This DIY is super easy!

Stuff you'll need:

• box of sweetheart candies
• pink, brown, red, white construction paper (we used pink glitter scrapbook paper for our girl domo)
• scrapbook glue dots

Get a box of sweetheart candies

Put glue dots on box and wrap the box with either brown or pink paper depending on which domo you're making.





Next cut a red square out for the mouth, cut zig zag pieces of white paper for the teeth and brown circles for the eyes. Glue them on.

RX Bottle Valentines

** Before you make these please be clear with your kids what these are we aren't trying to give the wrong message, just a quirky idea for the older crowd. I wouldn't do this for little ones**

Stuff you'll need:

• bag of conversation hearts
• rx bottles
• packing tape (about 2" wide)
• glitter
• mod podge
• old paint brush
• spray paint (your choice of color/s)
• paper to make labels on (either on the computer or by hand)

Step one: Get your bottles. We went to our local pharmacy and asked for some prescription bottles. They gave them to us no charge. I don't know if that would be the case just anywhere but they can't be to spendy if they do charge.

Step Two: Spray paint your lids any color you want, make sure you let them dry well before you begin crafting with them.

Step Three: Labels, you can either print them on your computer or hand write them. (you can copy and paste our message or make your own, they should be about 1" x 2".

It would take a whole lot of sweethearts to mend my broken heart if you weren't my Valentine RX: #LOVE Take 2 sweethearts every minute as prescribed by Dr. Cupid

Step Four: Tape your labels on, the easiest way we found was to pull out about a 2 1/2" section of tape and lay it face down (not sticky side) on a flat surface. Then lay your label onto the tape facedown. So when you pick it up you can see your label. Attach to the bottle. Hint: it's easiest if you have one person hold the bottle and the other adhere the label to get it straight.

Step Five: Decorate your lids. Get your modpodge or glue out and paint the tops of your lids. After you have a good coat of glue on the lid sprinkle your glitter over the top. (Do this over the garbage can or sink to avoid a big mess) Let them dry.

Step Six: Fill your bottles up with their prescriptions (sweethearts) And you have yourself a super easy valentines day gift for your friends! Overall this was a very inexpensive idea we paid .99 for the sweethearts and that's all we had to buy! If your a crafter chances are you have all that other stuff hangin around!

Funky Pink Monkey's First Post!

First off  getting to know us: I'm Britiani, Brinleigh's & Chaiden's  mom lol. I'm a stay at home mom to my two kiddos, and a children's artist (www.funkyletterboutique.com). My daughter and I always have new little projects we are working on and we thought it might be fun if we blogged some of our ideas!  Brinleigh is my creative little 11 year old. Her mind is always searching for new projects to do!  Hopefully we can bring some new ideas for you to try out on your own. We'd love to see what you come up with too, so share your pics with us! We would love to hear what you have to say about our projects. Leave us a comment. Our hope is to bring mom's and daughters together for some fun quality time ENJOY!