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Carrie Underwood Bakes, Fries, And Shops

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Carrie Underwood has been baking and frying deserts at home while she has some time off from performing this week. Carrie shared her latest cooking creation on Insta Stories, along with a shopping find.

Underwood posted four slides on Insta stories, and in the first one, she shared a photo of freshly baked cinnamon rolls. She wrote over the image, “The house smells good this morning!!! #sourdough #CinnamonRolls.” She posted a photo of an apple pie in a frying pan in the second slide. She wrote, “My favorite pie dish was in use, so I made an apple pie in the skillet… was a pleasant surprise! I may do this all the time!.”

In the third slide, she shared a photo of a recent purchase. She wrote over the picture of an old library card catalog, “Got a new piece for the garden shed from @the_green_scene_antiques !!! She’s going to hold all my seeds, beautiful!!!”

In the final slide, Carrie posted a photo of her backyard shed and wrote, “The shed… (three heart emojis).”

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In other news, Underwood looks forward to hitting the stage at the fourth annual ATLive later this month. The two-day music festival kicks off on Friday, October 20th, with an all-Latin lineup, including Grupo Firme, J Balvin, Farruko, and Yahritza Y Su Esencia, followed by an all-star country lineup on Saturday, October 21st, with George Strait, Carrie, Willie Nelson and Little Big Town.

Carrie says of performing at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, along with some of the country’s biggest stars. “I’m sandwiched between George Strait and Willie Nelson, so that’s not a bad place to be in. I wish I could tell my childhood self that someday that’s gonna happen, but I’m just super excited. I think it’s going to be an awesome show, and I’m, of course, looking forward to watching all the other acts on stage – Little Big Town, Willie, and George. It’s gonna be a good time.”

Five Of Country Music's Biggest Givers

  • Carrie Underwood

    Carrie has always been a giver and offers her name to several charities. Most recently, she made a significant donation to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation of $420,316. The money was  raised by her fans who bought tickets to her 43-city arena tour, “The Denim & Rhinestones Tour.” This contribution will go directly towards supporting America’s heroes and their families. Carrie said, “I’m so proud of the fans that came out to the tour and making this donation possible. They have always shown up to support great organizations like Tunnel To Towers, making the world a better place while coming out to see us.”

    Since early in her career, Underwood has designated a portion of ticket sales from her tours to support worthwhile charities and organizations. In 2009, her C.A.T.S. Foundation was created to help to improve Checotah, Oklahoma, by assisting with causes, fulfilling needs, and providing services to the community and surrounding area.

  • Brad Paisley

    Brad and his wife Kimberly Paisley started The Store in Nashville, a nonprofit free-referral-based grocery store that they co-founded. Brad said when he and his wife broke ground on The Store in 2019, “Our goal is to give dignity to parents. They can go to The Store and shop in a completely normal way, from choosing the food to checking out, but with no money exchanging hands. The kids can even ride a mechanical pony out in front of The Store – no charge. Kids do not need the stress of wondering how their parents are going to feed them. In Nashville, we have the power of the benevolence of the residents to support The Store.”

  • Miranda Lambert

    Miranda’s love of animals is legendary in Music City. Lambert’s MuttNation Foundation and Tractor Supply Company teamed up for the third consecutive year in June to donate more than $250,000 to animal shelters nationwide. Through MuttNation’s Mutts Across America program, one outstanding shelter or foster-based rescue in every state is being honored with a surprise $5,000 grant.

    Miranda said, “Mutts Across America is MuttNation’s cornerstone – it was our first signature program. These grants give us the chance to show our appreciation and spotlight shelters across the country for their hard work, year-round, to improve the lives of shelter pets. We’re so proud to partner with Tractor Supply on this and other programs, allowing us to elevate our goals and increase the number of animals’ lives we can change.”

    Since the initiative’s origin nine years ago, MuttNation’s Mutts Across America has supported more than 450 shelters with over $1.75 million in grants.

  • Darius Rucker

    Fifteen years ago, Darius first visited St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The organization moved him, and he was immediately inspired to pledge his support. Rucker continues to do so via his annual benefit concert, “Darius & Friends.”  The shows have surpassed the $3.6 million mark with this year’s 14th annual “Darius and Friends” benefit concert in June (6/5). The event is paired with a corresponding golf tournament and silent auction. This year’s event raised an all-time high of $560,000 for the cause.

    The decade-plus history of “Darius & Friends.” Prior guests have included Lauren Alaina, Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Brothers Osborne, Kane Brown, Luke Bryan, Luke Combs, Sheryl Crow, Charles Kelley of Lady A, Ashley McBryde, A.J. McLean of the Backstreet Boys, Brad Paisley, Kenny Rogers and Tommy Thayer of KISS, among many others.

  • Dolly Parton

    Dolly’s kindness knows no bounds, and she’s been giving back since she began receiving early in her carer. Dolly started the Imagination Library in 1995, and since that time has expanded to give books monthly to children all over the world. In 2023, the program has gifted over 213 million books to children.

    Then there is the million-dollar donation to Vanderbilt and Moderna for research on the COVID-19 vaccine in 2020. In November of 2022, Parton received the Bezos Courage and Civility Award, which comes with $100 million to distribute to the charities of her choice. Jeff Bezos told CNN, “Look at what she’s done, and the way she’s led her life and the way she’s done is bold things and always with civility and kindness. She’s a unifier. You know we have big problems in the world, and the way you get big problems done is you have to work together.” He added, “We have too many examples of conflict and people using attacks on social media and so and so. You won’t find Dolly Parton doing that.”

    Bezos’ partner Lauren Sanchez added, “And when you think of Dolly, look, everyone smiles, right? And all she wants to do is bring light into other people’s worlds, that’s all. And so we couldn’t have thought of someone better than to give this award to Dolly.”

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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