Sunburn & a Sweet Tooth! :)

I've been away for a few days gathering my thoughts in the big ocean sunbathing in the sea breeze. Okay, actually I have been swimming in my dad's back yard pool wearing a bathing suit way to tight for a post-partum (mom of an almost 4 month old) body. Also, it is well noted that a red head from the south really shouldn't be in the sunlight with out sunscreen. It's been four days and my skin is still boiling.

On a different note, in the few days I've been home from my oceanic oasis... I've been doing the whole 'house wife" thing.. I mean really, who knew I could actually cook. My husband isn't complaining... I really just have to watch out for the scale... it may not be happy with me. ha.

On the menu in the past few days I have created pizza muffins
 (recipe found here: http://lickthebowlgood.blogspot.com/2010/07/annoying-habits.html)

 I've also cooked some delicious pork loin and more than amazing peanut butter cupcakes! nomnomage!!(see deets below)
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 First I started by melting a jar of peanut butter in a sauce pan on medium. I just let it melt until it was smooth, not runny. Next I added the contents on the back of the Funfetti cake mix! (My FAVE!)... I also stirred in the peanut butter. This made the cake mix extra gooey, so to smooth it out some I added 1/3 cup of Coca-Cola. (As you can tell, I've downed most of the bottle.. blame my grandmother.. it's in my blood.) After the Cola was added,  I stuffed the mix into a heart shaped pan and poured another 1/3 cup of Cola on top of the cake and set to bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

(When you remove the cake after 20 minutes it will still be extremely doughy.) I then took the gooey cake mix and dumped it into a bowl and remixed it up.. (I also added Funfetti sprinkles to the batch just for fun.) Next I placed the cupcakes into a muffin pan (this is where my camera died, so no picture of the cupcake pan.) I packed the mix into each muffin section.


Then I jacked the oven temp up to 430 degrees and let the muffins cook for another 10 minutes. I took them out to cool for another 10. (Mine were actually still a bit dough like, but that's how I prefer them.. I'm sure cooking them longer will add a more cake like effect).

I had planned on putting icing and crushed nutter butter wafers on the cupcakes, but since my darling husband doesn't like icing.. I'm leaving it off of this batch.

This is a little extra work to cooking peanut butter cupcakes, but seriously they are delicious!! So worth it... and perfect with a tall glass of milk! :)..(also made a few peanut butter cake balls rolled in crushed nutter butters)

PERFECT!