Well, it’s the New Year. All you people are fresh and sparkly and full of resolutions and new beginnings. Me? I’m about the same. I am definitely not fresh and sparkly. I am tired and need a shower. I mean, I didn’t have any major, party people plans for NYE, but I did stay up and watch the ball drop. My 7 year old was slightly disappointed with the whole “ball” situation. He was fully expecting there to be damage. Anything less than the ball smashing, shattering glass and oozing lava was completely unacceptable. So when the ball began it’s 2012 decent at the usual geriatric speed, I could see his thoughts loud and clear: “I stayed up for THIS?” On top of that, we were watching Ryan Seacrest’s NYE special and I don’t know about you, but Jenny McCarthy frankly scares the poop out of me and I was worried the children might have nightmares. My NYE in a nutshell. But anyway, since I stayed up past midnight, I will now be moving at geriatric speed all day long. Maybe tomorrow too. And since I am so tired, I am a little cranky, which makes me want to squish-squash all your New Year’s diet resolutions. So I made Peanut Butter Cup Spread. It’s basically the filling of a peanut butter cup, in spread form. Spread it on your graham crackers, a chocolate bar, your toast, a sandwich, or even your {gasp} celery. But ideally on a spoon to shovel into your face when no one’s looking. Get on it. I want to tell you guys how very easy this spread is. BUT trying to come up with an honest replication of the innards of a Peanut Butter Cup wasn’t as easy as I had anticipated. Yes, I have made Peanut Butter Balls before, yes, I’ve made Buckeyes, and yessss I’ve even made Peanut Butter Eggs. And while all of those are delicious, the peanut butter filling isn’t very spreadable. It took me 5 tries, 6 cups of peanut butter, 2 pounds of powdered sugar, a whole box of graham crackers, 413 curse words and infinity tears to crack the code. Round one…I thought I would be all smart and use my blender.Well. This worked. Until I went and added too much milk. Trash. Curse 1-6. Then I tried it again. In the blender. Then I didn’t add enough milk and overheated the blender. Which subsequently makes everything in the blender hot, and in this case greasy. Curse 7-30. So then I tried it in the mixer. Better. Then I messed it up again by adding too much other stuff. Curse 31-267. Meanwhile my kitchen started to look like this… Another try, too crumbly… Curse 268-412. Then I stopped taking pictures because I was over it. But I’m not one to let peanut butter beat me. And I had one more cup left. So I went for it…and it worked. This is the only picture I have of the final product being made… Curse 413. Any guesses? Finally… Happy New Year!
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