Sugar Overload

I’m starting to get the chronology a little screwed up but at some point there were these:

Ooooooh, baby.

Vegan and organic cupcakes and buckeyes. Again, I ask: why is peanut butter and chocolate so wonderful together??

As you can see, there was the perfect amount of icing on this above cupcake. As Spencer said, it’s the ideal icing to cupcake ratio, which would be 1:1 I could NOT believe that the icing was vegan! It tasted rich and creamy and perfectly sweet. I’m going to have to look up vegan icing recipes, although part of me is a little scared to find out what exactly goes in it.

We thoroughly enjoyed the sugar break.

Later that night, we had taco night!

Of course we started off with the best part of any taco night: guacamole. I have to say, this guacamole was one of the best I’ve ever made.

Erica is holding a ginormous avocado but we ended up not using it because it wasn’t ripe enough. What a let down.

Ingredients:

3 regular sized avocados, ripened in the sun

1/2 red onion, diced

1/4 cup chopped cilantro

1 Tablespoon lime juice

salt to taste

Directions:

Mush up the avocado in a large bowl and then mix everything else in.

Dunzo!

Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures of the process or the final product so most of the photos in this post are courtesy of Spencer.

For the “meat”, we crumbled extra firm tofu in a pan with some canola oil and added 1 Tablespoon of cumin and 1 Tablespoon of chili powder. If I were the only one eating it, I would’ve doubled both measurements, though.

Just saute until it’s warmed up.

The rest of the fixings included corn tortillas, chopped up lettuce, chopped up tomatoes, and Greek yogurt and salsa as toppers.

And a little wine…

We ended the evening with this beautiful sight…

…which was turned into this:

And these were just a means to eat the chocolate:

What I really wanted to do was just put a cup under the fountain and drink the chocolate straight up but I thought it might be inappropriate.

But don’t worry – Spencer and I made sure to clean the chocolate off the fountain afterwards.

Here’s Tommy wondering what all the excitement was about:

(he’s not a fan of chocolate, clearly)

And then the next day, we encountered this guy:

We just HAD to go back for more vegan cupcakes.

I may or may not eaten my dessert before my lunch (don’t tell my mom).

Happy Florida faces If any of you have a vacation home in a sunny place, feel free to invite me. I will cook for you, I promise.

Just for the record, it’s snowing in New York City today.

Tags: buckeyes, chocolate fountain, Florida, guacamola, tacos, vegan cupcakes