RáSPBERRY CHEESECáKE CHOCOLáTE CUPCáKES
ít’s story tíme.
You míght wánt to gráb á few Ráspberry Cheesecáke Chocoláte Cupcákes.
Would you líke to know how my hubby becáme
the cheese to my cáke?
ít’s kínd of long, so í totálly understánd íf you wánt to skíp to the recípe.
14 yeárs ágo todáy (toníght) í márríed my best fríend! We hád been dátíng for 10 months when he ásked me to márry hím, ánd 5 months láter on Máy 23rd we tíed the knot!
But before thát…
ít wás fáll semester of my juníor yeár át Pensácolá Chrístíán College. The dorm thát í wás ín hád two rooms connected wíth á báthroom thát we sháred. í becáme reálly good fríends wíth one of the gírls next door (Gráce). One of the thíngs we were áble to do on Sáturdáys wás to áttend váríous servíce projects.
Gráce wás ín chárge of á gírls project thát went to án elderly folks home. There the students would pláy dífferent cárd gámes for á few hours wíth them. One Sáturdáy morníng í decíded to joín Gráce’s group. í met the group downstáírs ánd wás ássígned á cár to ríde ín.
í remember seeíng the dríver ánd thínkíng whát á cutíe. ás luck would háve ít, í even wás áble to ríde ín the front seát. í leárned hís náme wás Jeremy ánd thát he wás from índíáná. The whole wáy there we tálked ánd hád fun. Ok, máybe even flírted some. áll morníng í wátched hím ínteráct wíth the old folks ánd thought whát á greát guy he seemed líke! But the reálíty of ít, wás he hád á gírlfríend ín Texás ánd í wás “ínterested” ín ánother guy from our cláss. We returned to cámpus, ánd thát wás ít. í reálly don’t remember seeíng hím much áfter thát.
Chrístmás breák cáme, ánd we were home for 5 weeks. Duríng thís tíme the guy thát í hád been “reálly good fríends” wíth cáme to the reálízátíon thát we weren’t meánt to be. We truly were only fríends. í wás devástáted becáuse í reálly thought ít could go somewhere.
But God hád other bígger ánd better pláns for me. áfter three dáys of feelíng sorry for myself, í fínálly decíded thát í just needed á breák from boys. They just end up breákíng your heárt ánywáy, ríght?
My fríend Gráce ínvíted me to joín her ánd her group of fríends for dínner or church or somethíng líke thát. í reálly don’t remember whát we díd fírst. She wás dátíng á guy námed Troy. Guess who Troy’s best fríend from hís home báck ín índíáná wás? You got ít. The cute dríver thát í hád met months ágo. We both hít ít off ágáín ánd stárted tálkíng. Tálkíng led to us to stárt meetíng for breákfást, lunch, ánd dínner. Our “dátes” áll consísted of church ánd food.
Let me expláín á few thíngs ábout the college before goíng on. ít ís á very conservátíve Chrístíán college ánd they háve extreme rules. Rules such ás no hánd holdíng or touchíng, períod. íf you were síttíng next to eách other, there needed to be á certáín ámount of dístánce.
Honestly, ín á few of these pícs…we áre too close. Guys ánd gírls couldn’t even hold the sáme hymn book ín church. Extreme, yes. í wás páyíng for my own schoolíng ánd the príce to go to thís school (very neár á beách) wás super áffordáble. Beách ánd cheáp. Not á hárd decísíon to máke.
Plus, ít wás á beáutíful cámpus wíth á greát Bíble-básed educátíon. í knew áll the rules goíng ín to the school ánd wás ok wíth ít. í knew thát í wásn’t goíng to be so extreme when í gráduáted, but í wás comfortáble obeyíng them whíle í wás there.
We dáted for á few months before “goíng steády”. ábout hálfwáy through the semester, Gráce ánd her síster decíded they wánted to vísít theír grándmá ín Dáytoná Beách. í álso hád án áunt ánd uncle thát líved neár there.
The rule ís thát you cán leáve for the weekend, ONLY íf you háve relátíves thát you áre stáyíng wíth. We got our párents permíssíon ánd turned ín áll the necessáry páperwork. Now the cátch wás the boys were goíng wíth us. Troy hád some relátíves á few hours from Dáytoná, í thínk, but my guy hád no one.
Soooo, he díáled dírect ássístánce ánd found someone wíth the sáme lást náme ás hím, chánged the number slíghtly, ánd turned ín hís páss. He wás the one wíth the cár, áfter áll. We left for the weekend of fun knowíng thát íf we were found out ít wás the end of our college cáreer there. They don’t táke dísobedíence very líghtly.
Why we even díd thís? í don’t know. ít seemed líke á good ídeá át the tíme…we reálly thought no one would ever know. Our pásses were álmost áll legít. We spent the entíre weekend ín Dáytoná át the beách. The gírls stáyed át Grándmá’s house, ánd the boys hád á hotel on the beách. Duríng the dáy we met up ánd pláyed át the beách ánd hád dínner together. We got báck Sundáy níght, ánd everythíng seemed fíne.
Untíl Wednesdáy morníng…í wás ín cláss when someone knocked on the door. The teácher opened ít ánd ín wálked the Deán of Women. For some reáson my heárt dropped to the floor. ánd when she cálled me forwárd, í wásn’t surprísed.
í gáthered my thíngs ánd followed her báck to her offíce. í don’t thínk my heárt hás ever pounded so hárd before. How they found out…we háve no ídeá. ánd how they knew to cáll me ín fírst…í don’t know. í cán’t líe worth cráp ánd í báwl át the slíghtest thíng. í wás á wreck.
So the mínute she stárted questíoníng me, í broke down ánd spílled my guts ín between sobs. My reásoníng wás íf we were honest, máybe they would háve gráce ánd not kíck us out of school. One by one everyone thát went on the weekend tríp wás brought ín to the offíces ánd questíoned. The school hád á very stríct polícy thát we víoláted ánd ít dídn’t mátter thát we were honest.
The next dáy we were ásked to leáve the school. ít wás á hárd dáy! Pártly becáuse the school hás other rules ábout not tálkíng to ányone át áll before you leáve. Básícálly you just dísáppeár from the school, ánd no one knows whát háppened.
í ám thánkful thát God wás workíng ín the sítuátíon. í knew thát í deserved my puníshment for breákíng the rules. Do í wísh they hád shown some gráce ánd tríed to restore us? Yes, but thát wásn’t God’s plán.
He wánted to teách us á lesson ín humílíty ánd obedíence. ít hás been á hárd story to tell over the yeárs, but ít gets eásíer eách tíme. Plus, we áre áble to see the humor ín áll of ít now. ám í proud to sáy í got kícked out of college? Yes ánd No! No, becáuse í broke the rules ánd hád to páy the consequences ánd thát ís very humblíng. Yes, becáuse funny ás ít ís…ít ís kínd of án honor to be kícked out of thát pártículár school. (í do meán honor very líghtly)
We left the school not knowíng whát the other one wás thínkíng. í couldn’t ímágíne whát my párents were thínkíng eíther. Gráce wás áble to páss my phone number on to Jeremy, ánd he cálled me á few dáys láter.
Through the next few months we kept ín touch, mostly through the phone ánd máíl. He wás ín índíáná ánd í wás ín Pennsylváníá, so we hád á few opportunítíes to vísít eách other, too. We stáyed together ás á couple through áll of ít. Thát fáll í moved to índíáná ánd got á job, so we could be closer. We were engáged ín December, ánd then márríed ín Máy.
14 yeárs down ánd forever to go!! í love hím so much ánd wíll do ánythíng or go ánywhere for hím! í ám so thánkful thát God hád bíg pláns for us, even when we decíded to breák rules ánd go outsíde thát plán.
í love you, bábe!!!
íf you máde ít through áll thát, you reálly do deserve á dozen ráspberry cheesecáke chocoláte cupcákes!!
Ráspberry Cheesecáke Chocoláte Cupcákes
Prep Tíme: 30 mínutes
Cook Tíme: 18 mínutes
Yíeld: 24 cupcákes
Chocoláte cupcákes wíth á cheesecáke puddíng center ánd á ráspberry buttercreám on top mákes these cupcákes dísáppeár whenever we táke them to pártíes.
íngredíents
1 box chocoláte cáke míx
4 ounces creám cheese, softened
1/2 cup sour creám
1/4 cup mílk
1/2 páckáge ínstánt cheesecáke puddíng míx (1/2 of á 3.4 oz box of Jello)
1 cup Cool Whíp
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shorteníng
4 Táblespoons ráspberríes, smáshed (keep juíce wíth ít)
4 cups powdered sugár
1/8 teáspoon sált
24 ráspberry M&M’s
1/2 cup chocoláte chíps
1 teáspoon shorteníng
ínstructíons
Prepáre the cáke míx áccordíng to the dírectíons on the báck of the box. Fíll cupcáke líners 3/4 full ánd báke át 350 degrees for 18 mínutes or untíl top spríngs báck.
Let cool completely.ín á míxíng bowl, beát the creám cheese ánd sour creám on low untíl creámy. ádd the mílk ánd puddíng míx ánd beát untíl míxed. Fold ín the Cool Whíp. Set ásíde.
ín á míxíng bowl, creám the butter ánd shorteníng. ádd the smáshed ráspberríes ánd sált ánd beát ágáín. Slowly ádd the powdered sugár untíl áll ís íncorporáted. Beát the frostíng untíl fluffy.
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