Ah! Poppaycock.

So, I was in line at Walgreens the other day, buying some Glade's Tropical Mist air freshener (my favorite Glade's scent) and I was saw a bag of one dollar salted peanuts on the check out rack and I thought of crackerjacks right away and decided to make crackerjacks. The great thing about making your own is you can add any many peanuts as you'd like! Or even pecans!

past cakes and creations

Just uploading a few cake pictures that I have done in the past that I had never posted before. Enjoy.

Mmmmmm neon pink and green cake checkerboard cake?!?! Could you get any more punk?

Valentine's Day cookies for my imaginary boyfriend

Cookies from one of the cookie cookoffs

Hoggle cupcakes!!!!

mickey moused reesecups

I didn't have any flour in the house and I wanted something with chocolate in it. I had just got the amazing bag of chocolate chips that I've ever seen in my entire life, so I decided to put them to work. I made from scatch reesecups. They came out prettay awesome. Next time I'd use natural peanutbutter.

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

A couple of weeks ago, there was one of my favorite Good Eat's episode on. Mr Alton Brown was making pretzels. I made these a few years ago and they tasted awesome, but they didn't look very pretty. I thought I was give them another shot. These ones came out looking OK. I made the traditional salted pretzel and then I made some garlic parmesan preztels. Next time, I would like to try to do a nice cinnamon sugar pretzel.

My finished pretzels

Combine warm water, sugar, salt and yeast.

Your gonna need to use the hook kitchen aid attachment and don't forget to tease your dog with the tool.

Hehehehe.

Add your flour and melted butter to your water yeast mixture.

Mix until the mixture comes together.

Then beat on high speed for about 5 minutes.

Cover with a tea towell and stash in a warm place for about an hour. Your dough will double in size.

Devide into 8 equal size balls. Mine are a little uneven. I need a food scale.

Make your traditional pretzel shape or whatever shape you want.

Your gonna soak these raw preztels in boiling water and baking soda for about 30 seconds and then transfer the pretzels to parchment paper covered cookie sheets, and then coat with egg yolk, water and salt. Then bake.

Microwave brownies.

So, you wanna make brownies but you don't have a working oven? Apparently, you can microwave brownie mix in a microwave safe container. The other day, I was left oven-less. I was craving to bake something. So I tried making microwave brownies. I made this amazing frosting, started off with your basic butter creme frosting and added some of this amazing chocolate honey fudge. Came out prettay good.

Apple of my eye.

I'm not sure why I made pie.

oatmeal chocolate chip and cranberry cookies

I decided to make some cookies, I had some cranberries in the house along with some oats, so I decided to make some oatmeal chocolate chip and cranberry cookies. I wasn't allowed to really have any because I started my diet, but I tried a little corner or one and they were pretty good.

Boredom turns to baking

So I learned how to make Pate A Choux. For losing all of my pasrty bag tips and half of my baking stuff in one of the moves this year, I think they came out pretty good.

Eclairs in 40 minutes!

When I was a kid, me, my bros and my sister would all go over my Nana and Grampy's house every weekend. We would stay there from Friday night to Saturday night. On most Friday nights, my Nana would order pizza from the best pizza place in the world, Papa Ginos. (Boston pizza is the best pizza ever). Then when we didn't order pizza on Fridays, my nana would make her famous Mac and cheees or American Chop Suey. Alot of the time, we would have these Eclairs for dessert. So me and my brother's and sister all grew up with these eclairs. So when we moved here to Florida and ordered an eclair somewhere, to our suprise, these eclairs were filled with this fake wannabe custard. So I've always wanted to make my own.

So tonight for dinner, pain in the ass. I was making pasta for about 2 hours and then in 5 minutes had to make my chicken, while everyone else had beef. Had to make my sauce and everything in like 5 minutes. By the time we ended up eating, it was pretty late and I remembered that I wanted to try out this awesome eclair recipe I found on this amazing bread site.

http://www.thefreshloaf.com/recipes/eclairs. But I was extremely limited on time. I wanted to make these tonight because a bunch of people were over for dinner, so what a perfect time to make them eh? For the time I was given, I think that they came out pretty good. They don't look super pretty, but for sure next time they will.

Fresh Pasta, the only way to pasta.

So we got a pasta maker!!!! Finally and its awesome. Tonight I'm gonna make some fresh pasta with mushrooms, shallots and peas. A few nights away we decided to try to make some fresh ravioli. I made a champagin cream sauce to go along with it and our ravioli were stuffed with regatta and mushrooms with garlic, they were good, but there was too much egg in the regatta mixture. And my sauce was perfect until my step father decided to ruin it by adding olive oil to it and broke my sauce. So thats why it doesn't look that great. I also made fresh bruschetta that came out awesome.