- Part 135

Chocolate Covered Cherries

Chocolate Covered Cherries ~ The quintessential summer fruit. Okay, my quintessential, nothing reminds me of summer more than cherries.

These chocolate covered cherries are embarrassingly easy. I almost didn’t post them, but I had to since my lil guy is just getting into food and helped me dip and drizzle them. Aside from that, he was so excited to see his work on a computer screen.

No long post, no recipe to follow just dip, drizzle and enjoy.

A few notes:
1. Make sure your cherries are room temperature and dry before dipping.
2. Stay close to the microwave to easily reheat your chocolate as needed.
3. Stir your chocolate gently to avoid air bubbles.
4. The cute bicycle napkin is from Target and the tiny dish is from Sur la Table.
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Chocolate Turtle Cupcakes

Chocolate Turtle Cupcakes ~ Holy mother of cupcakes, grab your fork and for the bold and the brave that will skip the fork . . . open wide. This is going to be a session of symphonic sweetness.

The faint of heart need not apply. By that I mean, if you are a tepid dessert partaker this won’t be your thing.

Case and point, the gentlemen that surveys my messy kitchen wanderings, asking questions more often than tasting, gave a big pass on this. Reason: Too much going on in that thing.

I will admit it’s a sweet one, but sweet in the best of ways. I first saw these at Cavelli Bakery’s site and being that it’s located in Texas, there was no way I could order some. So like any foodie, I set out to recreate it in my kitchen.

This chocolate turtle cupcake has everything. It’s a chocolate cupcake with a pocket of caramel sauce tucked inside, and on top of that is caramel buttercream with some sprinkled brown sugar pecans and to finish everything off . . . drizzled caramel and chocolate sauce.

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Homemade Peanut Butter

Homemade Peanut Butter ~ Healthier, tastier and cheaper. How easy is it to make this homemade peanut butter recipe? It’s so easy and so fast that you can finish it from start to finish in less than five minutes.

Once you see how easy it is start having some fun. Play around and tweak your peanut butter with some spices and/or oil combinations. One of family’s favorite homemade brews I created is cayenne and bacon flavored peanut butter. We use it in combination with other ingredients to create a sauce for grilling and braising short ribs.

Of course I am attesting to the taste and texture via my family, as I’m allergic to peanuts. Luckily, my allergy is limited to ingesting it, whereby, my tongue starts to swell up like a puffer fish. Lovely, huh?

All kidding aside, I’m so glad I am able to work with it, unlike other people I know whose peanut allergy is so severe they can’t even touch it.

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