Then we had a crazy winter storm and I was teleworking all last week. By the end of the day I was so sick of my stupid laptop. I mean, I'm sure I'm about to sound spoiled now, but going from two large monitors to a tiny laptop screen would make anyone crazy!
So here I am... almost the middle of January with SO MUCH to catch up on!
Here are the things I want to write about to capture my own memories:
- Christmas
- Stay-cation
- 2013 Wrap Up
- 2013 Resolutions - How did I do?
- 2014 Resolutions
These are what I make for Christmas... over at my dad's family they just love them. I've made them for a few years now... Looking back, I'm not sure I've posted about this before...
Anywho - I always use red velvet cake combined with green chocolate. This way when you bite into them they are red! I add Christmas colored sprinkles to the top.
This year I did something a bit different with them. The last couple of years my dad said he thinks they would be even better with a cream center. My brother has always disagreed. This year I decided to research and see if it was possible to put in a cream center. So I googled and found this recipe. It seemed easy enough so I went for it.
Making the cream filling was a bit challenging because I did not need to make as much as the recipe called for since I was only filling half of the balls with cream (man I'm feeling like there's some dirty jokes in here or at least a good 'that's what she said') It was a fair amount of guessimation on my behalf, but I think I figured it all out - just kept tasting and adding things.
I made little holes in half the balls and added the cream through a make-shift piping bag (Ziploc with a corner cut off)... I'm not going to lie - I really enjoyed this part, maybe I need to pipe things more often? Then you cover the cream with a bit more cake ball mixture.
Half with holes |
Cream filling! |
I got a mixed reaction at Christmas about which were better - cream or no cream... I think the no cream won out, however everyone told me that both were good. I know it's weird, but I don't really eat them, so I can't tell you which I think is better either :)
All pretty and finished - the dark green had no cream and the light green did |
1 comment:
they look really pretty. sadly, i can't comment on which tasted better, since i wasn't privvy to this delight. maybe next year...
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