Monday, July 30, 2012

weekend review: peanut butter heaven

If you are into decadently rich dark chocolate cupcakes with creamy and luxurious peanut butter frosting - you should make these. Otherwise, you should curl up in a ball in the corner - because I have no other advice for you.

Figure 1. Friday afternoon baking: dark chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting for Dad's birthday.

Figure 2. Friday night's dinner (the last dinner in my old home*): a variation on this summer pasta skillet. My modifications were using whole wheat rigatoni, roasted red peppers instead of tomatoes, feta cheese instead of Parmesan, and fresh thyme instead of basil. Delicious.

Figure 3. Saturday night's dinner (the first dinner in my new home*): grilled bbq chicken, baked sweet potatoes, fresh bread, and asparagus sauteed with garlic, grape tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, and topped with feta cheese. I'm pretty sure most Americans order pizza on their first night after a move - not me. I dug out all of the kitchen equipment I could find because I'm gourmet like that.

*This weekend I moved to a new home so bear with me as posts may be short.

12 comments:

  1. Wow those look professional, I am a terrible baker. The dinner looks amazing as well, I love sweet potatoes any way!

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  2. Peanut butter frosting! Those cupcakes look perfect.

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  3. OH MY GOSH. I love peanut butter anything. Those look SO good!

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  4. I really don't think there's hope for people who don't like peanut butter. You would LOVE the cupcakes from Sweet (a little cupcake shop here in Orlando that actually won cupcake wars one year). They make a chocolate cupcake with peanut butter frosting in a frosting:cake ratio that puts other cupcakes to shame. Seriously, it's two desserts rolled into one - the frosting one night and the naked cake the next!

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  5. Congrats on the move! I'm sure your new house is beautiful :)

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  6. Oh my goodness, those cupcakes look amazing! PB & Chocolate is my dad's favorite too...I need to make him something like this for his next bday.
    I tagged you in a blog award today! No worries at all though if you don't want to participate :) http://blueberrysmiles.com/2012/07/30/11-things-blogger-award-fun/

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  7. You can totally make those cupcakes and send them to me on September 16th. haha!!!! They look incredible!

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  8. While I'm not a big cupcake fan, PB& chocolate has been in my life every day lately! Usually in the form of a pack of Reese's on bread or a chocolate bar smothered in peanut butter and wrapped in a tortilla...like I'm eating right now (and getting peanut butter all over my fingers and, subsequently, my keyboard - I'm a mess).

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  9. Those cupcakes are so pretty! I love the swirl :)

    Congrats on the move! You had a pretty awesome looking first dinner that's for sure. All your food always looks so good though, who am I kidding?

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  10. Oh my gosh. Those cupcakes look and sound unbelievable. Peanut butter and chocolate has to be one of my favorite combinations ever. Actually, I'm a fan of ANYTHING with peanut butter. haha.
    Congratulations on moving! I can't wait to hear more about it. (:

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