Cake in a Cup (But Not a Cupcake)

The actual recipe is called "5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake," but to me that seemed a little boring. So I improvised! It was quite fun to make, and about 5 times more delicious. In a mug, you mix milk, vanilla extract, cocoa powder, sugar, flour, egg, chocolate chips, butter, and a pinch of salt we decided to add.

The prep time is about 2 minutes, and then you actually MICROWAVE it for 3 minutes. Our youngest chickens (who are considered "chocolate" egg layers) have started laying eggs now, a deep brown color (like the egg in front).

I decided to use one of those, and I'm glad I did. Fresh is better than store bought. We mixed all of the ingredients together in a hot cocoa mug, and put it in the microwave.

At first, I couldn't see it rise. But that was only because the mug we put it in was too tall and wide. But, it worked out just fine!

French Macarons

My friend Morgan and I made French Macaroons today. They look like tiny little hamburgers! The tops were made from egg white, sugar and almond flour, and you could choose which fillings to put on the inside. We squirted the tops and bottoms out of a pastry bag, and then we would bake them. We tried five different types of fillings: strawberry cream cheese, buttermilk frosting, rhubarb jam, grape jelly, and chocolate mint. The mint won. We did most of the macaroons with the mint, and we did the rest grape jelly. They were really good!

(Green Bay) Packer Pops

Well, since the Superbowl is coming up, I thought we should make something for the party. So, using my new Cake Pops cookbook, I invented something called a Packer Pop.

You start by crumbling a baked yellow cake and mashing in a can of butter-cream-frosting.

Then you make balls out of them.

And insert a lollipop stick that has been dipped in melted candy coating.

Then we dipped them in yellow candy coating and the top in green chocolate and finished it with a white chocolate G. Go Pack Go!

Homemade Nutella

Sorry I haven't posted anything in a long time, but with school and all, I hope you'll understand. Today is a Sunday, and I have tomorrow off from school. My brother and I have been in a Nutella phase lately, so I decided to make this. It was quite simple and very fun. It called for peanuts, but because we didn't have any, we just used cashews, which was fine by me. We roasted and pureed them.


We mixed the cashews, powdered sugar, salt, cocoa, and coconut oil in a food processor.

Then, after a while, it turned into our very own Nutella. The texture or taste is not quite the same, but I loved it anyway.