Dishing Out Dessert

Wow, I am soooo glad that it has cooled down. Earlier this week it was about 90 degrees and humid for 4-5 days in a row. This is particularly painful because my little apartment doesn’t have AC so Aya (my kitty) and I were doing as little moving as possible while camping out in front of fans. Needless to say high temps means there is no baking because that would be insane. But this heat wave was snapped by massive thunderstorms on Wednesday so the baking can resume. As I was cropping some of the pictures today for the cinnamon roll cookies I found some great recipes that I had forgotten to post! The first is a super tasty Oreo cupcake that I had made for a good friend’s birthday. My friends (old lab mates) were in Chicago for the weekend for a wedding but were able to sneek up to Madison for a day. Since it was the weekend after my friend’s birthday I wanted to make him an awesome b-day treat. The request was something Oreo inspired. After pouring over countless possible oreo desserts I decided that an Oreo cupcake would be perfect.
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Hey all, sorry that I have been kind of missing in action lately but luckily Kiki posted some recipes.  While she was in town a few weeks back we did manage to try out her mango lassi recipe which was FABULOUS!  So delicious and creamy with an amazing mango flavor…so if you get a chance give that recipe a try.  Enough praise for Kiki’s recipe today it is my turn to post a delicious one.  Today I am posting a recipe for banana chocolate cupcakes with a truffle and peanut butter cream cheese frostings.  I know it is a mouthful but I guess you could call it an “Elvis” cupcake instead.  These cupcakes were thought up for my friend’s party.  My friend made an amazing plantain lasagna and since he was feeding us all dinner I thought I would bring some dessert.  Though I am pretty sure we all ate enough that night that we didn’t have to eat again for a few days. Continue reading →