Christmas Baking

I enjoy cooking and baking a little too much - my arteries may well one day self-destruct. Yesterday, I made dinner including pasta sauce with 5 tablespoons of butter. (I did make carrots too, but I didn't photograph them.)


After that I made chocolate mousse...


After that I made mint "oreos," shamelessly taken from another blog. But hey, they tasted good.


But the crowning victory/artery-clogger of the evening came in the form of the Snickers cupcakes that Sara and I made. Artery-clogger is an understatement. These are possibly the unhealthiest cupcakes we have ever made....but they taste SO GOOD. We got the recipe here. First we made the cupcakes, admittedly from a mix, but with excellent added ingredients including oil and sour cream.


Once they were done, we filled them with chocolate mousse, made from whipping cream, vanilla, and melted chocolate chips. Our first attempt at that kinda failed, because our melted chocolate re-hardened. Weird. But we made some more and continued.


After that, we frosted them with homemade buttercream frosting (including two sticks of butter, three cups of powdered sugar, some vanilla, cocoa powder, and a little milk) and topped them with bits of chopped up Snickers. They came out beautifully!


Sara and I enjoyed them throughly.


We may both suffer heart attacks in the next few days, but at least our mouths will be full of cupcake.