Mae Cake had been planning her 4th birthday cake for approx. 364 day.
At 3, she wanted three cakes: blue, yellow, and green.
At 4, she wanted one cake with three different colors (blue, pink, and green) with chocolate frosting and [in a high-pitched toddler voice] "little tiny cupcakes all around it".
And dude, it was delicious: moist, not too sweet, and interesting. I used the ol' cake mix cheat and then went insane with the filling and frosting.
Bottom filling: coconut chocolate "mousse", which when I tried sans cake, I puckered, "Not. Enough. Sugar." But in the cake? EAT IT.
Middle filling: allrecipes.com highest rating pastry cream, because I've always wanted to make it and it's the highest rated because it's delicious. And weirdly easy. Like real pudding, I've always been scared to make it. For the record, Mae Cake stated she did NOT ask for any "orange stuff" in her cake. Harumph.
Frosting: likewise on the allrecipes.com chocolate ganache and being scary but easy and nomnomnom. Also, a little not sweet without a cake nearby, but EATIT EATIT EATIT when in the finished combo.
On a separate occasion, I was looking for a muffin recipe that wouldn't kill you AND that used bananas. I found this HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS looking one called Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blender Muffins.
Blender muffins. Like that's a thing.
Well, similar to WWLIWD, it is totally a thing.
You put 5 things in a blender and... blend them. And then bake them.
Harumph. Too easy. Muffins need to be coddled and require more 5 ingredients and contain flour and cannot be overblended.
Even with Averie's meticulous descriptions and beautiful photography, I doubted they would be any good.
And they are delicious.
Harumph and HOORAY.
Go make some today.
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[poet joke]
A year ago: The Year of F-ing Replacing Things, in which I lose stuff.
Two years ago: LLLL, in which I make the self-proclaimed best LLLL post ever.
Three years ago: LLLL, in which I make the first list.
