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nopizzanotwizzlers: Chocolate frozen banana ‘ice cream’ with...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:07:02 -0400

nopizzanotwizzlers:

Chocolate frozen banana ‘ice cream’ with roommate’s maple almond butter and fresh raspberries.

bricesander: Miley speaks for us all.

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:04:26 -0400

bricesander:

Miley speaks for us all.

Gluten Free Milky Way Cake Bites Alright ladies and gentlemen,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:42:00 -0400

Gluten Free Milky Way Cake Bites

Alright ladies and gentlemen, I’m finally going to start uploading recipes for all the food I’m going to be making or have already made. Due to the new job, I have frequent opportunities and lots of people to test out recipes on. Last friday we had a potluck, in which I invented a new dessert based off of my favorite candy - milky way. I got the inspiration from making some brownies with milky ways baked into the middle, but I was unsatisfied with those because it seemed like the nougat and caramel melted into the brownie and I wanted to actually taste them. And thus, Milky Way Cake Bites were born. And they were an absolute HIT at the potluck. I have a gluten intolerance so I made them with gluten free ingredients but they are very easy to make regular.

*NOTE: This recipe is a bit messy to make. Just be prepared…*

Ingredients

For the Cake
1 box of gluten free (or regular) devil’s food cake mix and the ingredients it calls for - I used Simply Organic.

1. Prepare the cake as directed. I highly recommend a bar pan for cooking the cake mix, and then cutting each bar in half so they are about the size of a fun-size milky way bar. The cake bites are so rich that making them any bigger than that will be too much.
2. Put tin foil on a cookie sheet and grease the tin foil. once the cake bites are cooled, put them on the cookie sheet with a bit of space between them.

For the Nougat (adapted from the recipe here, found on google)
2 C granulated sugar
2/3 C light corn syrup
2/3 C water
2 egg whites
1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/3 C instant nonfat dry milk powder (I used Carnation)
1/8 tsp salt
a candy or deep fry thermometer (if you don’t have one, GET ONE. they are so useful!
a hand mixer (or if you have a stand mixer, use the whisk attachment)

1. Put sugar, corn syrup, and water in a medium saucepan over medium high heat (probably a 7 or 8 on a scale of 1 to 10). Stir until the sugar dissolves.
2. Cook without stirring until the temperature on the candy thermometer reaches 260 degrees. While you wait for the temperature, prepare the rest of the recipe.
3. Put chocolate chips in a microwavable bowl and melt. Stir every 20-30 seconds so it doesn’t burn. Stir until smooth and set aside to cool slightly.
4. Put egg whites in a medium bowl. When the temperature on the candy thermometer for the syrup reaches 250 F, start beating the egg whites on a medium speed.
5. When the sugar syrup reaches 260 degrees, remove the pan from the heat.
6. If you have a stand mixer, keep the mixer going and stream the sugar syrup down the side of the bowl. If you have a hand mixer like me, pour a little bit of the sugar syrup down the side of the bowl at a time, and beat it in for a few seconds. Keep doing this until all the sugar syrup is in the bowl with the egg whites.
7. Beat the mixture on a higher speed until it is shiny, white, and stiff (about 5 minutes).
8. Turn your mixer speed down and add melted chocolate, salt, and milk powder. Mix until smooth. This is your nougat.
9. Take a spoon and drop the nougat on each of the cake bites. I let mine run off a little bit to cover the entire cake bite, but you don’t have to do that. The portion of nougat and caramel and chocolate on your cake bite is entirely up to you. Just remember, the more you put on your cake bite, the messier it will be trying to get them off the cookie sheet and onto your serving tray later.
10. Stick your cookie sheet in the fridge to help cool the nougat, and start working on the caramel.

For the Caramel and the Chocolate Drizzle
1 bag of caramel baking bits or caramel cubes
Heavy cream
Semisweet Chocolate chips

1. The caramel is more of a guess and check type of cooking for me. I’ve never really measured because in my eyes you can’t really mess it up. All you need to do is melt whatever amount of caramel that you want on top of the cake bites with a little bit of heavy cream and stir until melted and smooth. I used the whole bag of caramel and maybe a quarter cup of cream, but that ended up being a lot of caramel and I didn’t use it all. Just remember, the more cream you have, the less structure your caramel will have after it cools when you pour it on the cake bites.
2. Once your caramel is melted, pull your cake bites out of the fridge. you can either pour all of the caramel all over the cake bites or drizzle it - up to you. I poured it and tried to cover all of the sides of the cake bite and it turned out great, albeit messy to get onto the serving plate later.
3. Melt your semisweet chocolate chips (however much you like) in the microwave, stirring every 20-30 seconds to keep from overheating. Once smooth, take a spoon and drizzle the chocolate over the cake bites.

Serving the cake bites
This is where the messy really comes in. It was kind of hard to get the cake bites up off the tin foil just by picking them up since I had literally drenched them all in nougat and caramel. so what I ended up doing was greasing a non-serrated kitchen knife and cutting each cake bite out its place on the tin foil, then peeling the tin foil off of the bottom and transferring them to my serving dish. (if you can think of a better way, please let me know).

In my opinion, these cake bites taste best when refrigerated. So my recommendation is to make them the night before your event, refrigerate overnight, and devour your cold creamy nougaty milky way cake bite at the company potluck with no regrets.

My next experiment: gluten free fresh fruit tart with homemade pastry cream and a pretzel crust. :)

So Yahoo decides to pay 1.1 billion for 108.8 million blogs.

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:29:44 -0400

stumbleduponmyself:

Where’s my 10 Dollars Tumblr?

fuckmeaghan: Here are some interesting facts about him,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:52:26 -0400

fuckmeaghan:

Here are some interesting facts about him, though:

He basically saved public television. In 1969 the government wanted to cut public television funds. Mister Rogers then went to Washington where he gave an amazing merely six minute speech. By the end of the speech not only did he charm the hostile Senators, he got them to double the budget they would have initially cut down. The whole thing can be found on youtube, a video called “Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate.”

“Certain fundamentalist preachers hated him because, apparently not getting the “kindest man who ever lived” memo, they would ask him to denounce homosexuals. Mr. Rogers’s response? He’d pat the target on the shoulder and say, “God loves you just as you are.” Rogers even belonged to a “More Light” congregation in Pittsburgh, a part of the Presbyterian Church dedicated to welcoming LGBT persons to full participation in the church.”

According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”

Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec’s house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver’s home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life—the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night. Further, like with the reporters, Rogers sent him notes and kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 17:17:28 -0400

You know tumblr of where I come to escape from advertisements. The more I read about this the more I...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:11:53 -0400

You know tumblr of where I come to escape from advertisements. The more I read about this the more I don’t like it…

Dear Yahoo,

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:51:26 -0400

If this acquisition of tumblr means that my feed will be bombarded with advertisements and I will have to be wary of what I click on because content isn’t generated by who I follow, then I’m out. I may be a part of the demographic you’re looking for, but I will find another website if this one turns into a facebook style newsfeed where ads appear in between posts and on the sidebars. No thank you.

Sincerely,
Me

psychoticmist: if you ever feel bad about yourself remember that george bush was once informed that...

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:51:27 -0400

psychoticmist:

if you ever feel bad about yourself remember that george bush was once informed that 4 brazilian people were killed in iraq and he responded ‘how many is a brazilian’

miketooch: roccoconut: aviantheatrics: celesteboldlygoes: yah...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:43:54 -0400

miketooch:

roccoconut:

aviantheatrics:

celesteboldlygoes:

yaheardwithperd:

sarrel:

Ingredients:

CINNAMON FILLING:
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, just melted (not boiling)
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
1/2 tablespoon ground cinnamon

CREAM CHEESE GLAZE:
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
2-ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

PANCAKES:
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon canola or vegetable oil

Directions:

Prepare the cinnamon filling: In a medium bowl, stir together the butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Scoop the filling into a quart-sized heavy zip baggie and set it aside (see *Tips below).

Prepare the glaze: In a small pan, heat the butter over low heat until melted. Turn off the heat and whisk in the cream cheese until it is almost smooth. Sift the powdered sugar into the pan, stir and add in vanilla extract. Set the pan aside while you make the pancakes.

Prepare the pancake batter: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Whisk in the milk, egg and oil, just until the batter is moistened (a few small lumps are fine).

Cook the pancakes: Heat a large, nonstick skillet over medium-heat and spray with nonstick spray. Use an ice cream scoop (or 1/3 cup measuring cup) to add the batter to the pan. Use the bottom of the scoop or cup to spread the batter into a circle (about 4-inches in diameter). Reduce the heat to medium low. Snip the corner of your baggie of cinnamon filling and squeeze the filling into the open corner. When your pancake begins to form bubbles, add the filling. Starting at the center of the pancake, squeeze the filling on top of the pancake batter in a swirl (just as you see in a regular cinnamon roll). Cook the pancake 2 to 3 minutes, or until the bubbles begin popping on top of the pancake and it’s golden brown on the bottom. Slide a thin, wide metal spatula underneath the pancake and gently but quickly flip it over. Cook an additional 2 to 3 minutes, until the other side is golden as well. When you flip the pancake onto a plate, you will see that the cinnamon filling has created a crater-swirl of cinnamon. Wipe out the pan with a paper towel, and repeat with the remaining pancake batter and cinnamon filling. Re-warm the glaze briefly, if needed. Serve pancakes topped with a drizzle of glaze.

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danieldempsey: My dude straight loving him some nsync.

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:37:47 -0400

danieldempsey:

My dude straight loving him some nsync.

"For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives an R to a movie in..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:44:44 -0400

““For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives an R to a movie in which a women is carved up by a chainsaw and an NC-17 to one that shows a woman sexually pleasured. From such ratings one might conclude that sexual violence against women is OK for American teenagers to see, but that they must be 18 to see consensual sex. What message does this send to the kids the MPAA presumably means to protect?””

- Carrie Rickey

(via fireworkselectricbright)

“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film.”

-Ryan Gosling on the controversy around the rating of his film ‘Blue Valentine’

(via misandry-mermaid)

heyitskhem: DIY Easy Ponytail Hairstyle

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:19:39 -0400

heyitskhem:

DIY Easy Ponytail Hairstyle

thecakebar: Fried Ice Cream Tutorial { You must click on the...

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:12:33 -0400

thecakebar:

Fried Ice Cream Tutorial { You must click on the link for recipe and FULL tutorial}

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Thu, 09 May 2013 15:55:19 -0400

thefluffingtonpost: Notorious Puppy Gang Finally Behind...

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:51:34 -0400

thefluffingtonpost:

Notorious Puppy Gang Finally Behind Bars

After an epic crime spree that spanned two months and three states, the puppy gang known as Wolf Pact has been apprehended in Texas, according to authorities there. Sources on the ground say the Pact was holed up in a shed after stealing the slippers of area resident Margaret Mallone.

“I had never heard of this gang,” Mallone tells The Fluffington Post in an exclusive interview. “Then I happened to turn on the news and saw my own backyard on TV. There were police everywhere. That’s when I noticed my slippers were missing.”

Authorities apprehended the trio without incident after receiving an anonymous tip from a neighbor.

“The standoff lasted about an hour,” says sheriff’s deputy John Beck. “At first, they weren’t cooperating, but then officer Sanders shook a bag of treats. They caved pretty soon after that and we scooped them up.”

The Wolf Pact, consisting of Rex (the presumed ringleader), Tango and Clyde, was wanted for a string of similar alleged crimes, including sock chewing and flagrant urination. They will be arraigned individually in Federal court on May 14th, according to officials.

Via HandlesOfLove.

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Thu, 09 May 2013 15:49:25 -0400

i just feel like if you volunteer someone to have a bill put in their name, you should have your...

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:48:07 -0400

i just feel like if you volunteer someone to have a bill put in their name, you should have your payment on time so their credit doesn’t go down the shitter. it’s not like there wasn’t fifteen days between the day the bill came out and the day it was due to have the money…

guceubcuesu: Should’ve stuck to the status quo

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:56:33 -0400

guceubcuesu:

Should’ve stuck to the status quo

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Wed, 08 May 2013 14:38:21 -0400