Peanut Butter Choc. Chip Brownies

For a co-workers birthday, I decided to make these yummy peanut butter chocolate chip brownies…and believe it or not, they are only 125 calories, which is nice for those watching their weight (for me, it’s watching it go straight to my hips….).

Well I found the recipe on cooking light’s website. Here is the link: http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=223313 (I also used their picture)


Here is the recipe too:
Ingredients
• Cooking spray
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate minichips
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
• 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 large egg
• 1 large egg white
Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°.
Coat bottom of an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking spray (do not coat sides of pan).
Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour, chocolate chips, soda, and salt in a bowl.
Combine sugars and remaining ingredients in a bowl; stir until well-blended. Add flour mixture, stirring just until blended. Spread batter in bottom of prepared pan. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out almost clean. Cool on a wire rack.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Last night I was in the mood for chocolate. Chocolate Cake, lathered in a rich peanut butter frosting.

So I made some Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes. They are rich and yummy. I used the peanut butter frosting recipe from Annie's Eats(http://annies-eats.com)who got it on the Food Network (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/chocolate-cupcakes-and-peanut-butter-icing-recipe/index.html) I omitted the Heavy cream and just used milk until I got the correct consistency. I added some shaved chocolate to the top. The pictures are ones I made before, only with reeses on top. Both are filled with the frosting inside. YUMMY!

I want to eat one right now.

Baby Shower Goodies

I hosted my Sis-in-Laws baby shower last Saturday. I was going for the sports theme, which is the theme of my nephew's nursery. I was going to make this cake for the shower, but I was sick the entire week before, so I knew it wouldn't be the best idea for me to attempt the masterpiece I was hoping to create.

BUT! I did make some sugar cookies that were shaped like footballs and baseballs for favors. I used Wilton's Royal icing recipe. It's basically Powdered Sugar, Meringe Powder and water. I don't know the amounts, I got the recipe with the meringe powder. After reading Bake at 350's blog (http://bakeat350.blogspot.com/), I was inspired to try the "flooding" technique with these cookies. I have attempted it bfore, but not to this capacity. Two and half hours later, a double batch of royal icing, running out of icing (the red is the fake in a tube stuff...which I hate but I had no more powdered sugar for more icing) and several ziploc bags later, my cookies were done. For being only my second or third attempt at Royal icing, I was pretty happy with the outcome.

Halloween Goodies

I realize that Halloween was a few weeks ago now, but I made some fun cupcakes I wanted to share! I had planned to make the pumpkin ones for both Ryan and I to take to work, but the first batch didn't rise enough, so I made the pretty orange with sprinkles. Then teh next night I made more cupcakes that did rise enough to look like pumpkins, so I made those too!