White Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

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Even though these were "technically" Christmas cookies and "technically" should have been posted, you know, during December, I wanted to go ahead and post them as a "public service".  You see, I vaguely remembered my sister showing up with them, and even though I'm not a huge fan of their more common variant, in which mini Reese's peanut butter cups are mashed into peanut butter cookie dough, I LOVED these. However, when I googled, I couldn't find them anywhere! I wasn't sure if she'd just used brownie mix, or some kind of chocolate cookie dough. Well...

The "recipe" is this: Get a bag of white chocolate mini Reese's peanut butter cups. Get a box of brownie mix.

 

Mix up the brownies, and scoop about a tablespoon into mini muffin tins. NOTE: I HIGHLY recommend using paper liners...even if you grease the heck out of them, you'll have trouble prying the little devils out.

Bake. I did about 20 minutes at 350. Unwrap your PB cups while they're baking.

As soon as they come out of the oven, smash the PB cups into the center of each one.

 

You can make them more "festive" by adding sprinkles as soon as the PB cups melt a little. They're great when they're still mellllllty. =)

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Way too many "quotes". And calories.

Drive-by Giveaway (not mine)

Head over to CraftyMoo for a great New Year's giveaway!

Theme-a-licious graphic update!

OK, how many of you noticed that "Theme-a-licious" was misspelled in the banner graphic?? (Don't go look now; it's already fixed!) Thanks to Sharon for emailing me and pointing it out! I felt kinda like you do when a friend tells you you have spinach in your teeth...really embarrassed but really glad she told you! I blame NyQuil for my lack of observance. Yeah, that's it....

Anyway, the graphic is updated, and as a bonus Michael gave me a nice sidebar graphic to replace my crappy button:

Note that this button has an animation, too, so if you want that, link to it rather than downloading and uploading to Blogger. Check out the Theme-a-licious page for updated graphic instructions!

The Geekend That Was, 1/1

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This report is going to be kind of light...except for one thing! (FORESHADOWING: Your KEY to QUALITY blog posts.) Friday was a day off, and it was the first day we really had to relax the whole holiday season! There was a whole lotta relaxing, and that was good.

Saturday we went to Michael's parents' house for his mom's birthday. We went to see TinTin, which was EXCELLENT. You must go see it. Good, clean fun, and even if you've never read the famous comic, I promise you'll enjoy it. I'm a huge Snowy fan, so I found much to be happy about. The rest of the day we spent playing with our new Settlers of Catan expansion pack that Michael's parents gave us for Christmas, Traders and Barbarians! It was a ton of fun...we played two games and didn't even get to the traders or the barbarians. There are five new scenarios, and those are the last two.

Unfortunately, I started to feel sick on Saturday (didn't keep me from winning the second game, though ;) I barely made it to midnight. Sunday I spent half the day in bed and the other half on the couch (my typical sinus infection type thing). However, that did let me spend a good deal of time beading Dasher...yeah, yeah, I know, it's Jardin January, but as Michael said, "Dasher's got a garland! That's greenery!" Part of Theme-a-licious is the creative designation of favorite projects so fit them into the theme. ;) Anyway, I was too out of it to even consider foraging for a project that wasn't lying right by me. But the good news is that by doing that, I have my first happy dance of 2012!

"PLEASE! No more!!!"

After putting on all the Treasures, I'm pretty sure that Dasher is "dashing" so that no one tries to put any more sparklies on him! =) Now I just need to figure out how I want to finish him. I was thinking a cube, but maybe he deserves to be framed? Or maybe a flat fold? What do you think?

I did make some changes in Dasher's colors if anyone is interested. I thought the original deer colors were too "yellow". I can also tell you the Delica numbers for the Mill Hill beads. Several are used across the eight reindeer, and even if you're just doing one or two, it's a lot cheaper to buy a tube of Delicas.

Today has been another hibernation day, but tomorrow it's back to work. =(

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Being sick is not a great way to start the year, but a finish is.

Happy New Year!

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WOW, I can't believe I haven't blogged since LAST YEAR!

Just kidding. I used to do that when I was a kid. Just after midnight I'd be saying, "MOM! I haven't BREATHED since LAST YEAR!!" =P

Here's where I'm starting out on my Theme-a-licious projects (also WIPocalypse projects) for the month...this post is really more for my reference. =)

Shakespeare's Garden

Convents Herbal Garden (Chatelaine Mystery II)

Sanctuary


Thanks to all of you who are joining in with Theme-a-licious 2012...remember that you don't have to commit to doing all the months...just drop in when you can. And enjoy visiting other participants' blogs each month!

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Gee whiz, I haven't written JiffNotes since LAST YEAR!!