Keeping Up With Kimberly

May 12, 2014

Derby Pie Cupcakes

Louisville, Kentucky is THE place to be on the first Saturday in May. There is nothing like Derby Day in Kentucky. I’ve only ever actually been to the Derby once – every other year has been spent with family and friends at Derby parties. This year, we went to a party hosted by our friends (who also moved to Pittsburgh from Louisville) to watch the big race. I had planned to take a Derby Pie, but when I found a recipe for Derby Pie cupcakes on Pinterest, I had to make them. If you’re not familiar with Derby pie, you can read about it HERE. I did use pecans instead of walnuts…personal preference. They turned out AMAZING. I found the original recipe HERE.

Here’s What You Need:

1 box butter cake mix

1 cup of water

1/3 cup melted butter

3 eggs

1 cup of mini chocolate chips

2/3 cup of pecans, finely chopped

2 cans of buttercream frosting

Here’s What You Do:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Line 24 muffin cups with paper muffin liners.

Beat cake mix, water, melted butter, and eggs until smooth.

Stir in chopped mini chocolate chips and pecans.

Spoon batter into muffin cups, using an ice cream scoop.

Bake 18 – 20 minutes.

Allow your cupcakes to cool completely before frosting (I let mine sit overnight)

Pipe buttercream icing onto the cupcakes

Garnish with mini chocolate chips and pecan pieces

As the official cupcake tasters, we encourage you to stop whatever you are doing and go make these cupcake RIGHT NOW!

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May 9, 2014

4 Down, 2 To Go

April was as busy, stressful month for us…especially the last two weeks.

For the girl à It was the end of the hardest semester of the MBA program yet. This semester was rough. I think part of it was that I really didn’t enjoy any of my classes. So far, I’ve had interesting classes with excellent professors. I think I picked the three worst classes and took them all in the same semester. Two of the classes were required and one was an elective. The fact that I wasn’t interested in the material left me with zero motivation when it came to studying on the weekends. I had one final project and two final exams and I was a happy girl when I walked out of that last exam last Tuesday.

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Speaking of the boy à Justin defended his dissertation proposal on the 23^rd. This is a crazy important step in his dissertation process. I’m not going to pretend to completely understand it, but basically he had two hours to get in front of his dissertation committee and explain what he is studying. He had to explain all three of his papers, why his research questions are significant, and how he plans to answer those questions. He spent a lot of late nights in the office working on it and even had to pull a few all-nighters. He presented for two hours…and he passed! He is now officially, officially ABD :)

With everything going on, we stayed in our separate worlds for the entire month of April (except for Easter Weekend). Justin made the trek to Pittsburgh after my last final and we celebrated with a run, pizza, and beer…three of my favorite things! We did a 5 mile loop of downtown right after work and then headed straight to Gennaros for a deep dish pizza.