Share Your Sweets!
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We hosted a party last night and a friend brought this amazing chocolate peanut butter bark. She said it was the easiest thing ever to make.
Three ingredients: dark chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, mini Reese's cups.
Step one. Melt the dark ones in the microwave and pour on a wax sheet. Then melt the peanut butter ones and use a toothpick to swirl in. Top with Reese's.
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spacequiztime wrote: »I went to the Lunar Festival today at Discovery Green! We weren't there as long as I would have liked but it was a pain for my sister to push the wheelchair with the dog we're watching for the weekend connected to it.
I had a big ol' turkey leg and this pretty little cupcake.
Wait, are you in Houston, or are there lots of discovery greens?0 -
So I decided to try out fondant this morning. I'm not sure why but I decided to do a red panda. He turned out kinda big for cupcakes but I think it went well overall.
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I want that chocolate peanut bark!
The panda is cute! Seriously impressed my attempts with fondant have been pretty scary.0 -
GiveMeCoffee wrote: »I want that chocolate peanut bark!
The panda is cute! Seriously impressed my attempts with fondant have been pretty scary.
To be fair, I minored in ceramics. It just took a few small adjustments to manage with fondant-- it's harder than clay for sure. Much easier to get clay to stick to itself and to smooth out any imperfections.0 -
Oh wow the panda is awesome!
And that bark looks amazing.0 -
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Amber the panda is amazing!0
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That panda is super cute!0
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Great job on the panda so adorable.0
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I freaking love that Panda. So cute.ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »So I decided to try out fondant this morning. I'm not sure why but I decided to do a red panda. He turned out kinda big for cupcakes but I think it went well overall.
That is freaking adorable!
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Some talk in the "Let's Discuss It All" thread sent my on a walk downtown to a local ice cream store looking for cinnamon ice cream (which I haven't had in forever). No luck; on the way back I decided to pop into Trader Joe's for some sort of treat for my valentine -- anybody had one of these?
I was told that it has Pop Rocks in it, and indeed the label indicates that in addition to a little bit of chipotle and pasilla chilis and some cayenne, there is indeed "popping candy" in the bar. I will have to convince my wife to share a little bit with me.
So, turns out my wife also got me this very same bar. We were enjoying a long weekend with lots of good food and wine over the Valentine's weekend and really only had the tiniest taste of the chocolate which I don't really remember or at least don't trust my impressions (did I mention there was an interesting tequila bar in town and that was usually after some wine tasting earlier in the day?).
Had a few bits tonight -- our first impressions last weekend were "surprisingly spicy; not great chocolate; and an initial sparkle from the pop rocks that passed quickly"; my impression tonight was actually pretty consistent -- not impressed with the chocolate (waxy and less flavor than I'd like); really lingering spicy flavor (and I loooove spicy but this was a bit overpowering to other flavors, though maybe by design given the quality of the chocolate), and not much on the pop rock sparkle. Glad I tried it, and it won't go to waste, but not worth your calories compared to other options, IMHO.
Edit: Forgot to add - nice red panda, Acrylics!0 -
Some talk in the "Let's Discuss It All" thread sent my on a walk downtown to a local ice cream store looking for cinnamon ice cream (which I haven't had in forever). No luck; on the way back I decided to pop into Trader Joe's for some sort of treat for my valentine -- anybody had one of these?
I was told that it has Pop Rocks in it, and indeed the label indicates that in addition to a little bit of chipotle and pasilla chilis and some cayenne, there is indeed "popping candy" in the bar. I will have to convince my wife to share a little bit with me.
So, turns out my wife also got me this very same bar. We were enjoying a long weekend with lots of good food and wine over the Valentine's weekend and really only had the tiniest taste of the chocolate which I don't really remember or at least don't trust my impressions (did I mention there was an interesting tequila bar in town and that was usually after some wine tasting earlier in the day?).
Had a few bits tonight -- our first impressions last weekend were "surprisingly spicy; not great chocolate; and an initial sparkle from the pop rocks that passed quickly"; my impression tonight was actually pretty consistent -- not impressed with the chocolate (waxy and less flavor than I'd like); really lingering spicy flavor (and I loooove spicy but this was a bit overpowering to other flavors, though maybe by design given the quality of the chocolate), and not much on the pop rock sparkle. Glad I tried it, and it won't go to waste, but not worth your calories compared to other options, IMHO.
Edit: Forgot to add - nice red panda, Acrylics!
What I got from this is that you and your wife are soul mates. :laugh:
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I'd never tried Trader Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter, but grabbed a tub of (new?) cookie butter cups in dark chocolate. Like little peanut butter cups, about the size of a rolo candy. Tasty! I will come down definitively on the "yes" side of cookie butter.0
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I'd never tried Trader Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter, but grabbed a tub of (new?) cookie butter cups in dark chocolate. Like little peanut butter cups, about the size of a rolo candy. Tasty! I will come down definitively on the "yes" side of cookie butter.
Oh I had one of those a few months ago-- it was very good. Unfortunately tiny for the calories, but very good.0 -
Breakfast this morning. I had the cannoli donut (bottom left) and the black raspberry jam one. Tasty, but my favorite is still Boston Cream (middle).
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ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »I'd never tried Trader Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter, but grabbed a tub of (new?) cookie butter cups in dark chocolate. Like little peanut butter cups, about the size of a rolo candy. Tasty! I will come down definitively on the "yes" side of cookie butter.
Oh I had one of those a few months ago-- it was very good. Unfortunately tiny for the calories, but very good.
Yes - 60 cals in one little cup! And I found out my wife is not a huge fan of cookie butter so I may be on my own with this little box or - heaven forbid - have to share some with the kids.
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emily_stew wrote: »CallMeCupcakeDammit wrote: »
I know! I've never heard of them here. Must procure some.
Also, I meant to share this here earlier but I lost count, but I made my 3000th post today..here's to having no life! I wanted to make my 3000th post in this group because you guys are the shiznat, but instead I goofed up and wasted it on some sarcastic remark in the main forums. Oops.
Here's some chocolate in celebration:
Congrats on 3000 posts! Was it your comment about defeatist attitudes to that guy in the "eat nothing or junk" thread? Because I laughed at your comment I said the same thing to myself when I saw his post.
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CallMeCupcakeDammit wrote: »
It's a small local donut shop. But I was disappointed, might be because I had a fantastic cannoli on Saturday though...0
