Yum.

This is what I woke up to this morning. This is why I didn't want to go work out before work. This is why I stayed in bed until 9 and had a dream where I called in sick to work because I waiting for a train so I could go to the midnight showing of the Harry Potter movie...I think I might have been in England? When I called into work I told them I had a family emergency the next day so I wouldn't be able to come in. The HR lady sounded slightly skeptical. After I had called her I felt so guilty so I was going to call her back and tell her I could come into work, but my dream ended before I could.

As promised, here are photos and recipes for Kringla and buckeyes.

Kringla

They're like sweet bread rolls...but totally better

1/2 Cup Oleo

1 Egg

1 Cup sugar

3 Cup flour

2 1/2 Tsp. baking powder

1 Tsp. soda

1 Cup buttermilk

Dash of salt and vanilla

Mix together and bake @ 375 degrees (about 7 minutes...better to undercook than burn with these babies). Brush with milk when done.

Buckeyes

Don't even think about trying to compare these to Reese's (even though they are peanut butter covered in chocolate)

1 1/2 Sticks oleo

2 1/2 Cup powdered sugar

2 Cup peanut butter

Mix together in a big bowl (don't be afraid to get your hands dirty!)

Roll into small balls and put into freezer (or out on the porch)

Chocolate coating

Semi-sweet chocolate chips

Parafin wax

Melt semi-sweet chocolate chips in a pan (on the stove over low-low-low heat). Throw in some wax, as little as possible, to make the chocolate thinner and shiny! (I think, it's not scientifically proven).

Take toothpicks and dip the peanut butter balls 3/4 of the way in, place them on wax paper (they don't stick as much), and once they're dry you can cover up the holes by smoothing a knife over them...then nobody knows how you did it!

Before I end this post, I would like to apologize for two things:

1. I'm sorry my Kringla resemble feces. If you use regular flour instead of whole-wheat flour, you won't get the icky-poo-brown color and they look more like yummy little sweet-bread things you'll want to eat.

2. My Buckeyes are lumpy. And for that, I apologize. It's because I can't roll balls...they turn out like little space ships instead...then I try to fix them and they start sticking to my fingers and they turn into lumpy, chunky, globs of beautiful peanut buttery goodness.

Before you make the Kringla and Buckeyes, watch this video, and know that I can dance like this....kind of.