Cooking fun...

Ladybird Cupcakes

Just use a regular cupcake recipe. Here's how to turn them into ladybirds:
I iced the head and body by hand. I used chocolate frosting for the head and vanilla for the body (with lots of red food dye-couldn't find red frosting!)
For the eyes use small white marshmallows with a dot of chocolate frosting in the middle.
The spots are just chocolate drops. And that's it! They were far from perfect but looked really cute.

100 Calories Cupcakes

Chef Curtis Stone made these on The Biggest Loser and I wanted to try them! They definitely do NOT taste like traditional cupcakes but they weren't bad, they were...different. Just a lot of substitutions, whole wheat instead of regular flour, honey instead of sugar and just use egg whites. Here's the link to the recipe: http://www.examiner.com/weight-loss-in-national/curtis-stone-biggest-loser-raspberry-cupcake-recipe

Cafe Rio Pork Barbacoa----Amazing!

One of the hardest things about leaving Utah was leaving Cafe Rio behind, my absolute favourite place to eat ever. My friend told me about a recipe for the pork on somebody's blog so we made it and it's pretty close! Here's everything we used to make the pork and dressing:

Seems like a LOT but it's really not hard to make. The hardest part was finding all the ingredients at the store. All you have to do is put everything in the crock pot and cook for 18 hours! Seriously try this it's soooo good. Here's a link to the blog with the recipe and full instructions: http://heidikins.com/2008/08/29/whippin-it-up-cafe-rio-pork-barbacoa-salad-with-tomatillo-dressing/

More to come soon!