cake batter crispy treats

I love cake batter.  I could take a bath in it.  It's so good.

I wanted to make something fun.  Something delicious.  Something I may or may not want to share with friends.  Then I saw this pin and jumped for joy.

cake batter + sprinkles + rice krispies treats.

oh mama.

I doubled the amount of cake batter it called for... next time I add more cake batter.

I just can't get enough of that stuff.

popsicles + purple cake = my birthday!

Today is my birthday.  Mondays are not the best days to have a birthday so I'll share with you my birthday weekend...

my cute mister and me!  he's the best. can't wait to hang with him tonight.

it's always hot around my birthday, but holy crap.  110?  Really?  Thank goodness it's raining today.

Friday evening, my sweet friend Amanda made me some rosemary lavender salt scrub... the best part about this?  the yoga poses shrinky dinks!  Makes me want to time travel to 1986 for a few hours and play shrinky dinks with my 8 year old self.

after we had dinner with our favorite couple, we drove over to this new popsicle joint in town called Steel City Pops.  They have some pretty great flavors.  I got banana, which had cinnamon in it, which was amazing.

We went back on Sunday and I got pineapple jalapeño.  Equally amazing.

let's just skip over to Sunday.

I made my own cake (I always do... I like baking my own birthday cake)

My sister-in-law, her boyfriend and his roommate (formerly my husband's roommate) made dinner for us.  I bet you think we had Mexican... nope.  Pizza.

John and me.  Ready to do the birthday cake thing.

Ellen and me.  Let's blow out these candles.

Purple hombre cake?  yes!

and yes.

it's just boxed cake and food coloring.

no fancy instructions.

yay for happy birthdays!!

and feeling pudgy on Mondays!!

I scream.

seriously.  how often do you truly scream for ice cream?  maybe a yell.  or a statement... "I'd like some ice cream."  We bought an ice cream maker 3 weeks ago and have made a batch of ice cream every weekend.

The mister is a purist.  Just chocolate.  I want to make fun stuff, but he just makes a face if it's not plain chocolate.  BOR-ING (but delicious).

I finally convinced him to let me make mint chocolate chip last weekend and he reluctantly said that was cool, but he probably wouldn't eat much.

guess who was begging me to make more mint chocolate chip last night.

best flavor we've tried so far.

recipe here.

nutella lava brownies

we needed something sweet.  it was imperative that it was chocolatey and well, we kinda needed the nutella, too.

brownie mix mixed.

topped with a dollop of nutella.

topped again with more brownie mix.

ready to bake at 350 for 15 minutes.

what.  ever.

pretty.

these were super rich and super yummy.

would've been even better with ice cream (yeah, I just made it a hot cold treat.  my fave)

apple cranberry pie

so the best thing about the mister's new job is that if he makes nice with the culinary students who work the cafe, they bring him beautiful pies like this for us to fatten up on.

apples and cranberries.

so delicious.

so pretty.

I may eat this whole pie over the weekend.

yeah I said it.

then I will run several miles.

it's someone's birthday today... let's have ice cream cake!

today is my husband's birthday.

happy birthday, David... the best husband ever (seriously.  Other people just think they have the best husband ever)!

David loves this picture of himself.  That is why I chose it.

My husband's favorite cake is ice cream cake.  I usually spend way too much purchasing one, but last year I made ice cream cupcakes and they were delicious. So this year??  We're turning those cupcakes into a cake.  Let's see how it turned out...

I baked a chocolate cake in a springform pan.

scraps from leveling it off... tasty and dangerous.

melty ice cream (my husband would give his right arm for this)

melty ice cream spread on top of leveled cake.

now for the most frustrating cake frosting ever..

don't judge.  it's hard to frost melty ice cream... even after I let it harden in the freezer over night.

he loves chocolate... it's gonna be a happy birthday!!

nutella AND rice krispies treats? you know it!!

it's been a very long weekend.  yesterday as we were planning our evening, I remembered this pin and decided to make the very same treats.

holy cow.  super awesome and really easy to make.

post-wedding I can make and eat fun stuff again cheesecake...

this is why girls get fat after they get married.

new springform pans and kitchenaid mixer = sugary trouble.

an extra long run today??? I think so.

goin' bananas!

I thought I was going bananas when I was writing that novel last month, so I made my first attempt at bananas foster.  I didn't flambe anything.  I had to use rum extract since David is weird about eating liquor-based foods.

Anyway, when you're looking for a good recipe to try... check out allrecipes.com.  

Here's the bananas foster...

in the pan.

a la mode!