Foolish Morsel

Well, you don’t have to, these are cuppies, after all!  Today Owen had his birthday party at Brunswick Zone. It’s a busy place, lots of fun, but not a good place to wield a sharp knife, so cuppies and dibs (yeah, those lil’ ice cream thingies with magic shell on ‘em) are the best choice for a six year old’s birthday! I made Star Wars vanilla cupcakes with cheesecake flavored pudding for the kids (Owen’s Mace Windu was a little too big to stand on his Jumbo cupcake), and banana cupcakes for the grown ups.  Both had cream cheese icing and the banana had pecans as well…Actually, I modified the recipe from my friend Sandi (a few posts ago) for cupcakes: replace the half and half with buttermilk, take the temp down to 350, for a hair under 20 minutes, and fill the cups HALF WAY, no more, about 10 minutes in they rise, pretty high!  I used the candy cups for them, but you can use a cupcake pan as well…There were also vanilla minis with cream cheese icing just in case the normal size was too much!  I get to make another cake on Tuesday, for Owen’s actually birthday..Yummy!

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Remember a few posts ago I mentioned I couldn’t pick blueberries as I was in class?  It was one just like this, and I passed!! 95%…Now I’m a food safety manager person, certified by the faboo State of Illinois!  Ta Da!  My kitchen is squeaky clean, and Kevin is getting aggravated with me because I am using dishes and utensils for every little thing (can’t use the same spatula for cooked meat that ya did for raw, ya know)!  And offering a little too much info regarding parasites, viruses and bacteria…(well, that was my favorite part of the class)…But at least everyone knows, that they won’t get sick from my cuppies (about 30% of food poisoning is from your own house)! Yum! ; )

My good friend Sandi gave me this recipe, after I begged for it, and that was after she brought us some…Oh my gawd, that’s all I can say. Deceptively simple, and use the “ripest” bananas you can get a hold of, like already getting mushy, you won’t be disappointed…If you like sweeter than sweet, and more dense than dense can be, you will skip meals to eat more of it… >: )

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recipe ©sandi cortellassi

Next week, it’s all about cuppies on Martha..hmmm, we’ll see what she’s got!  ; ) The cookies have been working out well anyway!  Owen’s put in his cupcake order for his birthday…STAR WARS, what else, right? Vanilla with cheesecake flavored pudding middles…I don’t know if it will taste good, but I trust Owen’s instincts, he’s usually right about these things!  Buttercream frosting for sure…But I’ve got a lot of SW chocolate heads to make!

Owen and I made these Giant Sugar Cookies last week…They really are giant, and yummy!

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