Halloween Cupcakes!

The cupcakes are yellow cake that I dyed orange with crushed up Oreos mixed in.


Inside shot, looks like a jack-o-lantern face.


I piped some mummies:

So cute!

I dyed the rest of the icing to make some jack-o-lantern faces with marshmallows.

Happy Halloween!

Cheesy Baked Ravioli

Giada wanted this to be made with tortellini, but I didn't have any on hand and really whats the difference? This is the cheesiest cheesy baked ravioli ever.

I used 3 cheese marinara sauce.

Then of course the ravioli is cheese filled.

Then I whisked marscarpone cheese mixed into the sauce.

THEN it all gets topped with smoked mozzarella cheese.

GLOOOORIOUS.

Cap'n Nuggets

Cap'n Crunch + chicken + deep fryer = amazing dinner

There really isn't anything more to say.

Here it is pre-fry all coated in Cap'n Crunch. As Nigella once told me "raw chicken doesn't win any beauty contests."


Here she is fresh outta the fryer all nice and crispy, the Cap'n Crunch caramelized up so nicely.


Of course we had to make some fries to go along with our chicken, and yes they were salted with bacon salt.



And see, we ate something green too! A lovely cucumber salad.

Apple Peanut Butter Tart

I used puff pastry and I couldn't be more excited about it. This is another winner from Picky Palate. It was so simple and required minimal ingredients, I really can't ask for much more. Sliced up an apple, spread peanut butter and honey on a puff pastry, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar and bake. Magical.

And I topped my slice off with some pumpkin pie ice cream.

Bark

What do you do when you have a large tin of Christmas chocolate laying around for 9 months? Melt it down and make yourself some chocolate bark that's what you do.

Step 1: remove all the wrappings.


Step 2: melt chocolate, spread in pan


Step 3: top with whatever goodies you have on hand, in this case marshmallows, pretzels, walnuts, and raisins


Success! Now we just need to find something to do with the Cadbury mini-eggs from Easter...

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Rice Krispie Treats

On Thursday I set out to make this recipe. As I began gathering the ingredients I realized that I was missing 2 possibly key ingredients, oats and dried fruit. I was also hoping to make them into a bar rather than a ball. So really I did not make this recipe, but what I did put together was quite tasty.

Rice krispies, chocolate chips, honey, peanut butter, and butter:


Unfortunately they didn't quite stay together to be a bar cookie so it makes a bit of a mess when you are standing at the refrigerator eating it.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Crunch

Rachel Ray has managed to take a rice krispie treat and kick it up about a thousand notches. 6 ingredients and about an hour later...magic.

Behold! Layer 1: peanut butter, chocolate, rice krispies


Layer 2: sugar, peanut butter, butter, rice krispies


Layer 3: chocolate, reese's pieces


Here is a cross section:


And here is a surprise photo I got of a very satisfied customer!

(yes the Saranac summer sampler was also good)