Milk Chocolate Truffles | Sneaking

So I finally saw The King’s Speech.  Wow.  Amazing, amazing, amazing.

Last Sunday was a good day for food.  The day before, I realized that we were watching the movie at 9:10 am (I know, but…cheaper tickets!), meaning we probably wouldn’t have time to buy snacks and bubble tea to sneak into the theater.  Solution?  Make some snacks of my own.

Chocolate truffles are easy to pop into your mouth during a movie and are sweet enough that you don’t feel the need to scarf (scoff?) them all down in one go.  And they’re easy to make.  Win-win-win.  The win starts with three bars of chocolate and some heavy cream.

Miniblog: Sift Cupcakes

Quick iPhone post:

Sift makes awesome cupcakes. And giant macaroons. This one had tons of raspberries.

My friend’s s’more cupcake.

My chocolate-caramel cupcake. There was caramel INSIDE.

Yum.

EDIT:  Just to clarify, I have no affiliation with Sift.  My friends and I just walked in and decided to buy some dessert and take pictures of it and say good things about it. 🙂

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Egg-free Banana Muffins | e to the power of i times pi

I love my math class so much that I made us all banana muffins for our Friday morning lesson.  That and everyone else is bringing breakfast stuff.

We had a super-ripe banana lying around, and just too many other ones.

Miniblog: Ranch Dressing

So I thought it might be an opportune moment for me to tell you how I feel about ranch dressing.  I love it. Like, collect-it-from-the-plate-with-my-finger-and-lick-until-I’ve-finished-every-last-drop love it.

It’s a sunny Wednesday afternoon.  We have some color-coordinated, sweeter-than-vegetables-should-be bell peppers lying around.  As I might have mentioned, I like ranch dressing.

How else can these things come together?

I have friends who don’t like bell peppers.  I don’t care.  All the more for me.  But if you find someone who doesn’t like ranch dressing, send them to me.  Let’s not speak of what might happen to them.

Soda Buns

I have food on the brain almost all the time.  The other day, I was imagining baking bread, but the amount of time it would take waiting for it to rise kept putting me off.  Then I remembered reading a recipe for soda bread a long, long time ago and decided to make some this weekend.

Not only does soda bread not involve waiting for the dough to rise, it has so few ingredients it’s almost ridiculous.  One of those ingredients is buttermilk, which they don’t sell in too many places around here, but never fear…this is where the vinegar-or-lemon-juice-plus-milk solution comes into play.