I love baking cupcakes! In fact, one year for Christmas, my boyfriend-at-the-time's mother bought me 500 Cupcakes, a cupcake pan/ 2 tier carrier, a cupcake rack and other assorted cupcake tools.
I have modified a recipe from 500 cupcakes to make chocolate-banana cupcakes!
2 sticks butter/margarine (softened)
1 cup sugar
2 cups self-rising flour
4 eggs
3 mashed ripe bananas
1/2 cup cocoa powder
Nutella (for frosting)
Preheat oven to 350F
Grease muffin tin (batter could yield 18-24 muffins) or use paper baking cups.
TIP: Grease the top of the pan, not only the cups. This helps the muffins slip out even if they grow above the rim of the cup.
Combine butter, sugar, flour and eggs until smooth. Stir in Banana. Add cocoa to taste. I estimate that I put about 1/3-1/2 cup in the batter.
Bake 15-20 minutes until toothpick comes out clean. Don't have toothpicks? I use a knife to the same purpose.
TIP: I've been known to burn my cupcakes by walking away and forgetting about them until I smell them burning. I found a great tip in Real Simple Magazine. Allow the muffins to cool, then use a grater to gently scrape off the burnt outer edger.
Frost with Nutella!!
TIP: Kroger Brand Hazelnut Spread also comes in a crunch version and it is DELICIOUS!
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Chai the Way I Like It
Tazo Chai mix
Vanilla Silk Almond Milk
1:1 + ice
Tazo Chai Concentrate is more of a spiced Chai. Oregon Chai is more sweet- also delicious.
Almond Milk makes the drink a bit thick. Sometimes I like to dilute it a bit by doing 1/2 almond milk and 1/2 skim milk.
One of these days I'll get around to mixing my own chai, but I'm not that ambitious. However, I'm sure it would save me some money! Dang this stuff is expensive!!!
Vanilla Silk Almond Milk
1:1 + ice
Tazo Chai Concentrate is more of a spiced Chai. Oregon Chai is more sweet- also delicious.
Almond Milk makes the drink a bit thick. Sometimes I like to dilute it a bit by doing 1/2 almond milk and 1/2 skim milk.
One of these days I'll get around to mixing my own chai, but I'm not that ambitious. However, I'm sure it would save me some money! Dang this stuff is expensive!!!
Monday, August 15, 2011
I Made Something Yummy!
My friends and I had Brinner (Breakfast for Dinner) on Sunday. I decided to bring fruit. Well fruit is boring. So I also made a fruit DIP for my fruit. I vaguely remembered making a yogurt/cool whip/cream cheese fruit dip-or some combination of some of those ingredients- in Jr. High. I couldn't find anything with all three ingredients on the interwebs, so I decided to be brave and experiment.
It worked! Here is what I did.
1/2 cup cream cheese, softened
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
1 cup yogurt (I used Vanilla Stonyfield Yogurt, but Strawberry probably would have been good too)
1 container of Cool Whip
Cream the cream cheese and vanilla until it is smooth. Add the Yogurt, mix until smooth. Fold in Cool Whip. Voila! Easy, Delicious Fruit Dip!
To make it a little sweeter, you could probably add a tablespoon or two of sugar or sweetner.
It worked! Here is what I did.
1/2 cup cream cheese, softened
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
1 cup yogurt (I used Vanilla Stonyfield Yogurt, but Strawberry probably would have been good too)
1 container of Cool Whip
Cream the cream cheese and vanilla until it is smooth. Add the Yogurt, mix until smooth. Fold in Cool Whip. Voila! Easy, Delicious Fruit Dip!
To make it a little sweeter, you could probably add a tablespoon or two of sugar or sweetner.
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