Butterfingers

This might be the only thing I've actually pinned on Pinterest and cooked. Sorry guys I like Cooks.com a lot. Anyway, this recipe seemed way to easy to actually be good, but it was delicious! Three ingredients: candy corn, peanut butter, and chocolate. All you have to do is melt the candy corn in the microwave then mix the peanut butter into it, spread the mix in a pan lined with wax paper and freeze it. Once it's cold enough, melt the chocolate (I used the microwave again, no double broiler) and cut the mix into bars and roll them in the chocolate. Put the bars on a pan and stick them in the fridge to harden. The best thing is they actually taste just like Butterfingers. They're soooooo gooooood. And easy. AND you don't have to get any pans messy, just a few bowls. Enjoy!

Butterfingers

Choco chocolate cookies.

Kristen and I had been hanging out all weekend with a lot of other people and we finally settled down at my moms house in Brandon with the munchies. I was bored. I like cooking. It was so hard to find a chocolate cookie recipe. I must have gone through fifteen chocolate chip recipes. But I found a good homemade chocolate cookie recipe. It was absolutely delicious. I'm tired so I'm done typing. Goodnight, the links are below.:)

Cookies

Dud Crab Cakes and Dud Toscana Zuppa

These two duds were probably my fault.  I'll say that from the get-go. 

The first was this recipe: Maryland Crab Cakes.  I've realized that one of my cooking problems, at least when trying new recipes, is that my frequent substitutions don't always work out.  This is my theory for what went wrong with these crab cakes.

The main ingredient I had run out of was Worcestershire sauce.  It only called for one teaspoon, so, eh, maybe that wasn't it after all.  Every other little thing in the recipe was the same. At any rate, my family wasn't thrilled with how these turned out.  In fact, my kids hated them.  They pretty much begged me never to make them again.  Sad face.  I had such high hopes.

The upside of this meal was that I'd made thinly-sliced roasted red potatoes to go along with them, and these were completely delicious.  I'd doused them with olive oil and sprinkled them with the "every-day" spice mix my old neighbor gave me for Christmas last year.  She's started her own spice company, which you can check out here.  She's a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute, her year at which made all of us neighbors super-lucky since she'd often share her experiments with us.

The second dud meal this week was this boring 'Zuppa Toscana' made in the crock-pot.   I had high hopes for this one too considering that the original posting said that it's one of those recipes that 'wow' people when you serve it.  Whatever. 

The sausage smelled amazing as I was cooking it, and the whole thing was pretty easy to throw together, but it just lacked a certain something.  It was boring.  Flavorless.  I won't make it again.  Sorry, Crock Pot Girl, but this one is a total doesn't work. 

 On a side note, I really need to start taking photos of the finished product of my cooking.  Both of these photos were taken half-way through, making them look unappealing.  Well, considering how the finished products were, I figure that's about right this time round.

Cake cake cake.

For Sierra's 17th birthday she requested that I make her a cake. I've never really been into cakes. The few times I've attempted to make one it turned out horribly. But that was a few years ago. So I decided to try again. I was most definitely successful.

 

"Rerra" wanted a strawberry cake with purple cream cheese icing. I didn't have the time to make the whole cake purple so I jusst bought some purple writing icing, suprisingly it tasted quite good. I also couldn't make an actual homemade cake. I got a box cake mix. It felt wrong. But the homemade cream cheese icing made up for it. SO GOOOOOOD. Mmmmmm. I'm not artistic, but I tried my hardest. She loved it:) 

I listened to The Wombats while baking. They're a British punk band. My three favorite songs are 1996, Jump Into The Fog, and Techno Fan. 

Link to cream cheese icing can be found by clicking here (scroll down past the carrot cake recipe).