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Zoku Popsicle Maker: Blue Bottle Macchiato Pops. It’s no secret that Seattle is a coffee town, so there’s only a little shame in the fact that my coffee of choice actually comes from the Bay Area.

Zoku Popsicle Maker: Blue Bottle Macchiato Pops

If you’ve walked the hall of the San Francisco Ferry Building on a Saturday morning, you’ve no doubt seen a little crowd of people standing outside Blue Bottle Coffee Company, patiently waiting for their espressos, their caffe lattes, their macchiatos. And it’s worth the wait. Blue Bottle prides itself on properly pulled espressos that bring out the best in the ground beans. This is no churn-and-burn assembly line. Luckily, Blue Bottle also does mail order from its home base in Oakland, so those of us not living in the Bay Area (or Brooklyn) can get our fix.

So why are they macchiato pops, not caffe latte pops? Blue Bottle Macchiato Pops Author: Michelle Jenkins | DailyWaffle Recipe type: Dessert, Snack 1¼ c. brewed espresso¼ c. heavy cream½ c. milk (I used non-fat, but would recommend 2% or whole milk)2 T. agave sweetener Like this: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake for One. Happy 4th Birthday Picky Palate! Thank you for all of your sweet congrats, I must say I am a bit embarrassed, I was so sure I had been blogging for 5 years that I never bothered to really check. I did go back and check and have been blogging for 4 years, not 5. Thanks!! Someone is turning 4 years old this month….can you guess who? Picky Palate, yay! Boy, does time fly. It’s funny how life takes you in unexpected directions. Ok, enough of the sappy stuff, can we talk about this fun little cake…for one? Start with the dry ingredients. Add your oil, vanilla…. …egg and melt your chocolate chips and… add to the bowl. Give it all a good mix.

Ahhh, perfect! To bake the little cake, I used an empty 12.5 ounce can of Chunk Chicken Breast from Costco. Pour the cake batter into your prepared can, and bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Loosen edges with a knife, let cool for 10 minutes then remove from can Once cooled cut cake in half lengthwise. Time to whip up the peanut butter frosting layer. Spread peanut butter layer over bottom cake. Strawberry Peach Vodka Collins Popsicle Recipe. You like fruit, you like vodka, you like popsicles — shoot, you like a lot of things.

Strawberry Peach Vodka Collins Popsicle Recipe

So to help move you more quickly towards all your likings, we found a way to combine the three aforementioned likes into one. Before your skeptical brow can arch upwards, let us say — yes, you can freeze vodka. After some quick experimenting and an afternoon of mixing and an evening of freezing …Strawberry Peach Vodka Collins Popsicles are yours for the licking! And careful, these are deceptively kid-like in flavor but packed with adult enjoyment. Strawberry Peach Vodka Collins Popsicles Makes 12 2.5 oz Popsicles 6 oz pureed strawberry (about 10 strawberries) 2 oz peach syrup (recipe follows) 12 oz tonic water 2 oz plus 3 oz vodka (divided use) Instructions:

Oreo and Peanut Butter Layered Baby Lattice Pies. Oh dear, I have no explanation for this dessert.

Oreo and Peanut Butter Layered Baby Lattice Pies

None at all. They should actually be illegal, but what the heck I will share the recipe with you anyway Last Sunday night, the boys and I were playing in the kitchen and that’s when these pies were born. If you follow me on Instagram (pickypalate) you got a sneak peek of them Talk about decadent, cute and wrong! Well, you won’t need a whole lot for the recipe, just some peanut butter, Oreo cookies and some pie crust. Hello beautiful stack of cookies and peanut butter Cut out little 4-inch rounds from your pie dough, no need for perfection, just eyeball it. Press those rounds into your muffin pan. Now, place that little stack right inside the dough. Time for the lattice top. See, that wasn’t so bad :) Pretty little lattice tops. Time for a little melted butter then sugar sprinkled on top!

Time to bake em’ at 350 degrees F. for about 25 minutes, until golden. Can you even stand it?! Oreo and Peanut Butter Layered Baby Lattice Pies 16 Oreo Cookies.