Almond joy

K - so remember when I was all ambitious-like and wanted to post every week?  Hah.  So young...so naive!  But just to explain myself quickly: 3 days, 9 girls, 2 suites, and about 10 hours of sleep total.  Vegas my friends - such an amazing time but I needed a full week to even begin to recover.  Well worth it, but I'm le tired.

So now I'm back and ready to bake - assemble the minions!  To add a little spice to the blog, I decided to throw in something different - maybe some French Macarons?  First things first, macarons are not the same as macaroons which are those shredded coconut cookie-things.  Macarons are sandwiches made from two delicious, merengue-based cookies with a fun treat in between.  Note: I don't know if the whole spelling of macaron vs. macaroon holds true, but Wikipedia says so and I'm OK with that!

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Hey you guuuuuys!  I'm back!  My apologies for missing a post last week - some of my besties came into town to celebrate a good friend's wedding and with all the craziness, baking was just not going to happen.  But I'm back in the game now and as an apology to all my dedicated readers (ha ha) I've decided to make some cupcakes with one of my favorite ingredients ever.

Spreads are a wonderful invention.  What do I mean by "spreads" you ask?  Peanut butter.  Cookie butter (run to Trader Joe's if you've never tried it...seriously.  Run.)  And....drum roll please....Nutella!  Oh baby, Nutella.  Nutella is this wonderful hazelnutty slash chocolatey concoction and is so good there just so happens to be a World Nutella Day (February 5th for those who are curious).  You can stick it on just about anything but I chose a really good chocolate cupcake that isn't overly sweet.  Then I went about cramming as much Nutella as I could fit into a mini-cupcake.  It wasn't easy, but my friends, I believe I have succeeded!