Your Daily Caloric Needs...

...can be found in one of these cupcakes.

I made these for a friend's birthday. Chocolate ganache peanut butter cupcakes. The recipe was taken from our cookbook challenge. They were definitely good, but my enjoyment of them were hampered by knowing exactly what I put into them. They were also very time consuming. First you make the cupcake part. Then you make the peanut butter filling which then needs to be put inside the already baked cupcakes. After that, you dip them in the ganache that you made (if you aren't familiar with that - it's mixture of chocolate and cream), and finally you top it with the peanut butter frosting that you have to cook on the stove top using butter. Lots and lots of butter. Had someone merely set a cupcake in front of me and told me to eat it, I probably would have enjoyed it much more. In order to keep us from eating them all, I gave some to some friends down the street and sent some home with the birthday girl. The rest of our family, each got two apiece. Well, except for David. He ended up eating two last night at supper and then there were two left over. He ate those this morning. I figure when you are running 6-9 miles a day, are almost 5'9" and weigh only 110 lbs, you can afford to eat a little more than most people. :) I finally told him to stop asking me if he can eat a snack all the time and just eat when he's hungry, as long as he makes at least a couple of them healthy - which he does. 

On other cookbook challenge notes, we have enjoyed such recipes as lemony-spinach stuffed chicken, stuffed french toast, chorizo-queso egg rolls, lemon yogurt bread, spicy sweet potato fries, grilled chicken with peaches, hot fudge cake, and hawaiian turtle cups. We've had a number of friends over during those meals so they get to help us rate our recipes. It's still fun for all of us, so we will continue.

That's all for now. Stay tuned as I think Keilah is working on another post to put up in the next day or two.