Apple Pie Smoothie & Graeter’s Ice Cream
Posted: July 14, 2011 Filed under: Dessert, Review Leave a commentAs I was eating my awesome lunch of toasted bread with honey and peanut butter, I was rummaging though the fridge for something more substantial (such as the crab cakes from last night). I happened upon left over apple pie. I remembered a post on How Sweet Eats of how to make an Apple Pie Smoothie so I thought it would taste good to make it from just ordinary apple pie with ice cream. Ala mode, if you will.
Cupcakes: Vanilla and Chocolate
Posted: July 9, 2011 Filed under: Dessert 2 CommentsOh how I love anything baked in the cupcake/muffin tin. It is honestly almost a past-time of mine (a recent one, but eating muffins and cupcakes will always be on the favorite activities list).
These recipes come from two different, but both very good, blogs: Love & Olive Oil and How Sweet It Is. Read the rest of this entry »
Fourth of July
Posted: July 4, 2011 Filed under: Dessert, Entree Leave a commentJust a photo post for now. Hope you had a good holiday weekend!
Root Beer Float Cupcakes
Posted: June 20, 2011 Filed under: Dessert | Tags: cupcake, dessert, recipe, root beer, root beer float Leave a commentSame friend as the meatball subs, different weekend. Deb has done it again with these recipes. I know I have an almost sick obsession with Smitten Kitchen, but honestly, those recipes are good and it’s updated pretty regularly so I have a seemingly endless supply of those good recipes.
Anywho, cupcakes. One major tip – make sure you have the coco powder clear of clumps. While the cupcakes still tasted phenomenal, there were periodic clumps of coco powder within the cake. Also, the batter is liquid and they turn out fine with said liquid batter. Now I know my piping skills aren’t quite so fantastic, but that was part of the fun of eating them! We didn’t wait for the cupcakes to cool entirely so the ice cream was melting within them and the whipped cream was all over our noses. Read the rest of this entry »