This moment…
A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from our lives.
A simple, special, extraordinary moment.
A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Happy weekend everyone!
Summer Wisdom
These things I know to be true…
Some damsels just aren’t interested in being rescued…they’d rather redecorate.
The perfect frame will bring the sunshine into any room.
Bruschetta is positively scrumptious with mostly fresh ingredients. More on this later.
There is only one proven way to keep wee folk out of the freezer when there are Popsicles inside.
A variation on a theme of oatmeal is still oatmeal and therefore…good for you.
Watching a cul-de-sac on fire is a splendid way to spend a summer evening.
It is perfectly acceptable–sometimes–to let someone else make the dessert.
Cottonwood is a magical, floating, fairy-like thing…unless it makes your sister sneeze–then, of course, it should be banned from the kingdom.
When you’re not quite 2, it’s really ok to be a great, big chicken.
Water really does taste best from a garden hose.
Amen and amen.
Max Headroom
This guy was fascinating, magical and scary all at once. We’d never seen anything like this before–ever.
Chocolate Malt Cupcakes
If you have a glorious weakness for chocolate, and if you love the creamy flavor of malt, AND if you have any respect whatsoever for the fact that it is National Milk Chocolate Day…and how could you not?
…then, my friends, these sweet little morsels are liable to just flip you around backwards in all their chocolaty loveliness.
Pretty sure I ate them…all…by…myself.
I suppose I should be ashamed.
I’ll work on that…soon.
Milk Chocolate Malt Cupcakes
Ingredients:
1- 1/2 cups Bisquick® mix
3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/4 c malted milk powder–plain or chocolate
2/3 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
Frosting
2 tablespoons malted milk powder–plain or chocolate
2 tablespoons milk
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
1/4 cup butter, softened
1. Heat oven to 357 F. Line 16 regular-size muffin cups with paper baking cups. In large bowl, beat all cupcake ingredients on low speed for 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on medium speed 4 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Spoon evenly into muffin cups.
2. Bake about 15 minutes. Immediately remove from pan. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
3. In medium bowl, stir together malted milk powder and milk; let stand 5 minutes. Add remaining frosting ingredients; beat with electric mixer on medium speed 1 to 2 minutes or until smooth. Spread frosting over cupcakes.
Chocolate Malt Cupcakes
: Launi
Ingredients
- 1- ½ cups Bisquick® mix
- ¾ cup sugar
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa
- ¼ c malted milk powder--plain or chocolate
- ⅔ cup milk
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs
- Frosting
- 2 tablespoons malted milk powder--plain or chocolate
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
- ¼ cup butter, softened
Instructions
- Heat oven to 357 F. Line 16 regular-size muffin cups with paper baking cups.
- In large bowl, beat all cupcake ingredients on low speed for 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on medium speed 4 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.
- Spoon evenly into muffin cups.
- Bake about 15 minutes.
- Immediately remove from pan.
- Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
- In medium bowl, stir together malted milk powder and milk; let stand 5 minutes.
- Add remaining frosting ingredients; beat with electric mixer on medium speed 1 to 2 minutes or until smooth.
- Spread frosting over cupcakes.
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Dark Knight Day
If you look very closely…
you may just pick up on a particular…
theme…
that has been playing itself out…
over and over and over again at our place…
for many years now…
most noticeably in the life of a certain “artist formerly known as the bald kid.”
Oh, he’s not alone in his admiration for the “Caped Crusader.” In fact, did you know that the Batman comic book character is the longest running Super Hero and has stayed consistently in print since 1939?
So considering all of this, and after much deliberation—I hereby proclaim, from this day, henceforth–July 27 will officially be know–at least in this house–as…
“Batman Appreciation Day”
True story.
