Our "red velvet" cupcake attempt

My friend Carissa and I decided we wanted to make red velvet cupcakes since they are so incredibly delicious. This is how it went down..

we went to Publix, bought all the ingredients, looked like fools in the grocery store. ( we are not the shyest people when we're together). Got home and got to work. Okay, were in good shape. Everything is moving along nicely until the dreaded food coloring fiasco... NO RED FOOD COLORING! wah wahhh. So us and our bright ideas decided.. hey blue and yellow make red don't they? We are now in agreement that blue and yellow will make beautiful red velvet cupcakes.
Perfect lets mix blue and yellow with some cocoa.. then of course there was not enough! wahh wahhh. Time for more bright ideas... lets put green! that's close to blue right? .. wrong? ... our "red" turned a wonderful shade a black. Unbelievable.

So using some more of our creative skills we oh so cleverly named these cupcakes.. black and white cupcakes and ended with a well deserved glass of RED wine.

Our disatrous food coloring

But delicious "black and white" cupcakes

Peanut Butter Brownies

I'm not sure if mailing peanut butter brownies across Florida is the best idea in the world. That is exactly what my mom and I did though. We shipped these puppies to my brother in orlando, by the tiime they got there they must have been melted and goopy... its the thought that counts right? Yeah, mom were awesome family members. At least we didn't eat them all! (:

Chicken Pesto Grilled Cheese

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

All I can say is thank you Closet Cooking for this amazing spinach pesto grilled cheese sandwich... you made my sandwich dreams come true.
..What a beautiful plate I used! hahaa


Ingredients:
Spinach Pesto:
1 cup baby spinach (packed)
1/4 cup of parsley, dill, and mint
1 clove garlic
1/4 cup feta
3 Tbs Olive Oil
Lemon juice to taste
Salt and Pepper to taste

(place everything in food processor to blend)

For Sandwich:

1/4 Cup Gruyere Cheese (Grated)
Bread
1 Tbs Butter

Assemble as you like you could use a different cheese.. place on sandwich grill until cheese is melted.

I added Chicken (YUM)

Its Big Brothers Fault

It is midnight and once again I find myself watching Big Brother after dark. Ok, I'm obsessed with big brother, but really the after dark show is not all that entertaining. For some reason or another I always end up watching it, even when I know how boring it can be. They literally just sit in silence a lot of the time and I can not seem to change the channel. Well big brother may be helpful for late night posts. Hurray for late night posts, no time during the day.. this works out great.

For breakfast this week I made, these doughnut muffing which are originally from KAF but when I saw this glazes version on My Baking Addiction I absolutely could not resist.





Doughnut Muffins
from : My Baking Addiction

1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 to 1 ¼ teaspoons ground nutmeg, to taste (I used ¾)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup milk

For the Glaze
3 tablespoons butter; melted
1 cup confectioners’ sugar; sifted
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons hot water

Directions
- Preheat the oven to 425°F. Lightly grease a standard muffin tin. Or line with 12 paper muffin cups, and grease the cups with non-stick vegetable oil spray; this will ensure that they peel off the muffins nicely.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, cream together the butter, vegetable oil, and sugars till smooth.
- Add the eggs, beating to combine.
- Stir in the baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, and vanilla.
- Stir the flour into the butter mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour and making sure everything is thoroughly combined.
- Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared pan, filling the cups nearly full.
- Bake the muffins for 15 to 17 minutes, or until they’re a pale golden brown and a cake tester inserted into the middle of one of the center muffins comes out clean.
- In a medium bowl, prepare the glaze by mixing together the melted butter, confectioners’ sugar, vanilla and water. Whisk until smooth.
- When muffins have cooled slightly, dip the muffin crown into the glaze and allow the glaze to harden. At this point, you can leave them as is or go for the double dip.


Ok, ok they don't look anywhere near as good but they sure did taste amazing!