The Allison Show

1.  What is your earliest memory? I was 5 and my sister was born 2.  What hair style did you wear when you about 10 years old?  Straight with bangs 3.  What was one of your favorite recess activities?  Being with friends.  Every couple weeks we would change what was cool.  One week it was dodgeball, next it was double dutch,  then it was handball.. 4.  Who was your favorite teacher?  My favorite teacher was my AP Environmental Science teacher.  She was young and great with us high school girls. 5.  What was one of the funniest styles or outfits you sported as a kid?  leggings and sweater. 

Author: Cheryl Douglas Book: Shameless, Book One in the Nashville Nights Series   For me, the most exciting part of being a writer is watching the characters come to life. My current series, Nashville Nights, was inspired by my love of country music. I enjoy all types of music but the romance writer in me is drawn to country music when I’m looking for inspiration. Every song tells a story and many of those stories revolve around lost love or people who’ve triumphed over adversity to experience love. Sounds like a romance novel, doesn’t it? The first book in this series, Shameless, delves into the life a country singer who’s finally ready to face his demons. He hopes his journey of self-discovery will help him re-kindle a relationship with the woman who left him a broken man, his ex-wife. When I first started to write this book, I already had a clear picture in my head of who the hero, Trey Turner, would be. What I didn’t expect was to fall in love with each of the secondary c...

1.  What/where was your first job?  Burger King 2.  How old were you?  16 and 1/2 3.  How did you get there?  Parents drove me or I took the bus 4.  How long did you work there?  Almost a year. 5.  What did you like/dislike about it?  Loved it because SD BFF worked there too.  Hated it cause I did the work of 3 people and most of the other employees spoke Spanish.   And it was fast food.  EWWW  dirty and greasy.

1.  What is your favorite drink?  (How often do you drink it?) Dr Pepper is my fave but I'm not supposed to drink soda. I have started juicing and I love my "pink" juice which is apples, pineapple, pears,a nd strawberries. 2.  Who is your favorite team?  San Diego Chargers 3.  How do you like your steak?  Medium 4.  What is your favorite toothpaste?  Colgate Optic White 5.  Where is your favorite place to shop?  Target

1.  Do you like to cook?   Yes I do now.  Except when I am tired from working all day. 2. What is your favorite dish to make?  Love to make lasagna from scratch 3. Do you like cooking for others?  I have 5 kids and a bakery.  I have to cook for others 4. Are you a baker-or mainly just a taster?  I have loved to bake since I was little. Cooking not til I was an adult: like 22+ years old. 5. What food will you NOT cook under any circumstances?  I don't cook red meat.  Hubby is the one grilling the steaks. LOL

1.  Where is your favorite repeated vacation place?  San Diego 2.  How long do you like to go on vacation? As long as possible. 3.  Where did you go on your favorite vacation?  Vegas for my 30th Birthday 4.  Where was your most recent vacation?  Vegas for my 30th birthday 5.  If money were no object, where would you like to go?  Fiji

As you know I own a cupcake bakery, but you may not know that I LOVE Girl Scout cookies.  I would eat boxes and boxes except Hubby doesn't let me.  LOL  So I decided to combine my loves into Girl Scout cupcakes.  I picked 5 variety of cookies: Thin Mints, Savannah Smiles, Tagalong, Do-Si-Do, and Samoas.  I also think that the first step to cooking or baking is he Semi-Homemade approach.  Take a box cake mix or dinner kit and spice it up and make it your own!  So instead of posting a bunch of recipes, I decided to instead post a way to take either box mix or your fave cake recipe and make it Girl Scout cookie flavor. Thin Mints!!  Start with chocolate cake batter that is ready to be scooped.  Using a standard ice cream scoop, fill it about 3/4 full with batter and place in cupcake tin.  Then crush some Thin Mint cookies {KID job!!}and sprinkle on top of the batter.  Bake as directed.  For the frosting take a plain vanil...