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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cupcakes (and smiles)
Here are some pictures of those cupcakes from my last post. Before baking. After baking. And cut in half, you can see the yummy peanut butter middle. I need to make these again.
And for some reason I let the boys buy these at the corner store. Basically a ring pop (giant sucker) except instead of being on a ring it was on Mater teeth (from the movie Cars). Ridiculous and sticky. Please don't buy these ever.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Now What?
So I've been pretty busy in the kitchen this week. I don't know if it is because this baby is coming soon or what but wow have we eaten some tasty stuff lately. Nothing too new, so I will just link up to a few recipes I have made.
I wanted to make these lime cookies. But it turns out I had no lime juice. So I made lemon ones instead! I even mixed a capful of lemon juice with the sugar (and spread out to dry a little) for rolling the cookies in. The lemon sugar definitely made the difference! Yum.
I also made cupcakes. I really wanted to try some "healthy" cupcakes that used banana and yogurt but somebody ate my old banana I was saving. So I used this basic chocolate cupcake recipe instead. This is my total go-to recipe. But for a twist... Before you bake them: Melt 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter. Spoon about a teaspoon ontop of each cupcake. Swirl with a toothpick. Sprinkle a few chocolate chips on top. (Peanut butter chips would probably be amazing, but I didn't have any.) Delicious.
Then I made these apple muffins. They are just so good and almost healthy. I'm eating one now.
Then I just had to make Rhuberry Crumble again! It just came out of the oven and smells so good. The only problem... No icing sugar left over to sprinkle on top. How about whipped cream instead?
And one new recipe... I will just give you the link HERE.. Sugar cookie bars! Way easier. Jacob found a container in the cupboard of green sugar crystals and wanted to make "sprinkle cookies"... I said yes without really thinking about how much I HATE rolling out, cutting, icing, and decorating cookies... But how else do you make "sprinkle cookies?" The only changes I made to the original recipe were to half the icing (I'm not an icing lover and this was perfect), I used 2% milk instead of half-and-half, and I used vanilla Greek yogurt instead of sour cream. The boys picked blue for the icing and, of course, lots of green sprinkles. These are delicious.
I wanted to make these lime cookies. But it turns out I had no lime juice. So I made lemon ones instead! I even mixed a capful of lemon juice with the sugar (and spread out to dry a little) for rolling the cookies in. The lemon sugar definitely made the difference! Yum.
I also made cupcakes. I really wanted to try some "healthy" cupcakes that used banana and yogurt but somebody ate my old banana I was saving. So I used this basic chocolate cupcake recipe instead. This is my total go-to recipe. But for a twist... Before you bake them: Melt 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter. Spoon about a teaspoon ontop of each cupcake. Swirl with a toothpick. Sprinkle a few chocolate chips on top. (Peanut butter chips would probably be amazing, but I didn't have any.) Delicious.
Then I made these apple muffins. They are just so good and almost healthy. I'm eating one now.
Then I just had to make Rhuberry Crumble again! It just came out of the oven and smells so good. The only problem... No icing sugar left over to sprinkle on top. How about whipped cream instead?
And one new recipe... I will just give you the link HERE.. Sugar cookie bars! Way easier. Jacob found a container in the cupboard of green sugar crystals and wanted to make "sprinkle cookies"... I said yes without really thinking about how much I HATE rolling out, cutting, icing, and decorating cookies... But how else do you make "sprinkle cookies?" The only changes I made to the original recipe were to half the icing (I'm not an icing lover and this was perfect), I used 2% milk instead of half-and-half, and I used vanilla Greek yogurt instead of sour cream. The boys picked blue for the icing and, of course, lots of green sprinkles. These are delicious.