St. Patty's Day Feast!

St. Patrick's Day this year is nothing compared to St. Patrick's Day last year... I was studying abroad in London and Ki came to visit over my spring break, which just so happened to coincide with St. Patrick's Day.  We wanted to do some traveling during her visit, and of course we just could not resist going to Dublin on the big day... it was interesting to say the least as the city was littered with green-clothed tourists to watch the parade and to pack the pubs.  Probably not something I would choose to do again, however it's pretty cool to be able to say we spent a St. Patrick's Day in Ireland.  I personally prefer a trip  to Chicago to see the most artificially green river in the world and see the crazies out and about there ;).

February 13th marked the IronCupcake: Milwaukee challenge, which we luckily found out about a couple of weeks prior to the event.  Let me just say that we were both ECSTATIC to be going and bought our tickets right away ;).  One of the perks of going?  The judge was none other than Duff Goldman, himself, from Food Network's Ace of Cakes.  This. Is. Awesome.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Applesauce Cookies

Jeesh, what a mouthful!  Haha, I (Ke) looove baking cookies.  I literally began baking because of my love of the Martha Cookies cookbook I got as a present a few years back for a birthday.  I cannot even count how many recipes of hers I have made, but unfortunately the amount of butter alone in these babies have made me stop baking from her book as much and made me turn to other options... such as other bloggers.

I found a recipe on a fellow blogger's page, and edited it slightly to make it even healthier ;).  I will include the original ingredients next to the modified ones if you do not want to use the peanut butter modification (but really, who wouldn't want to have peanut butter?!).

-Banana Split Dessertini-

One night, Ki had the marvelous inspiration of this quick and easy dessert recipe, just with items we happened to have on hand.  Definitely a more calorie-conscious alternative to a regular banana split!

Simply multiply the recipe for however many people you have over if you want to use this as an entertaining option - and they can obviously be dressed up in different cocktail glasses to give them a fancy flair.