Craving Brownies

I am not known to be the best baker but this week I have suddenly come down with the strongest desire to bake marble brownies. So, tomorrow I am going to try my hand at this delicious recipe from Smitten Kitchen; which by the way is an AMAZING blog! Wish I could just stay home for a week and try out all these great recipes! Ingredients for this recipe is below and directions and more photos at Smitten Kitchen.

Brownie batter
1 stick (1/2 cup or 4 ounces) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
3 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2/3 cup all-purpose flour

Cheesecake batter
8 ounces cream cheese, well softened
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg yolk
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Plus
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Lorena Alexandria!

Beach Life

Sunday afternoon was spent on the lovely private beach of Little Dume in Malibu with some friends and family. It was a perfect end to a very relaxing weekend. I am so grateful for the friends and family I have here in Los Angeles and very excited to be back! I start my new job tomorrow so today I am enjoying my last day of "free time". Hope everyone else is having a great Tuesday!

Lorena Alexandria

Made it to LA

Photo Credit: Sugar Paper

So, as you have noticed I have not had the opportunity to update my blog very much. I finally made it out to California and am starting to get settled in. Moving furniture and a car cross country was NOT very pleasant at all, but I guess you must take the good with the bad. I am very excited and happy about starting a new chapter of my life, back were it all began.

Los Angeles, California