Happy Birthday!

Warning: You all may go into shock, call for emergency help, or just laugh because of all this nerdiness.

Today is Leonard Nimoy's birthday! Happy birthday!  I thought of baking something, but I didn't want to make a cake, (Too cliche'), cookies? Nah, brownies? Uh no. I've seen the consequences. Not recommended. Unless you're the type of person who sits there and laughs histerically when your Vulcan friend sings the periodic table of elements. Not that I would do that..... but still, not recommended.

So, once again, Happy birthday Nimoy! Live long and prosper! 

Neal Caffrey.... for the last time. Maybe.

Ok, ok. Maybe I have gone a bit over board with this whole white collar/Neal Caffrey thing. But can you blame me?  I realized that I forgot to mention who Neal Caffrey is. Neal Caffrey is this brilliant, (good looking) super cool  ex convict. (Terrible, I know. But he has changed his ways)  He works for the F.B.I and helps them solve various white collar crimes. (Hence the name, White collar)  I have included links of the white collar commercials, they will give you a better idea of the show then I could. The girl he is looking for in the first commercial is Kate. Kate has gone missing, but he can't go look for her because he has a two mile radius tracking anklet.  It's a pretty cool show and I can't wait for the next season!

Ok. There. I'm done. No more White collar rants. No more Neal Caffrey blog posts........

 For now.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PboCDSVIk   

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_FDidbskxM 

Oh and under no circumstances are you to read the comments beneath the videos. They give away the ending.  So don't do it.

Neal Caffrey... again

I know this post has nothing to do with food, or anything relevant for that matter, but it's  Neal Caffrey! Neal Caffrey is amazing!!  He is probably the coolest ex-con man I have ever met! (Well, seen, not met)   I watched the whole series in less then a week, it called for lots of sugar, giggling and great friends.  For your sugar intake while watching white collar, I recommend my friend's 'Neal Caffrey amazingness bars' you can find the recipe on her blog, just follow the link on my blog.... There almost as good as Neal Caffrey.

Neal Caffrey Cookies

Have you seen White collar, the one with the oh so charming Neal Caffrey? Oh yeah he is awesome.

In honor of the event of my first white collar marathon, I made these cookies. They're fast and really easy, so you can make them in no time.  You can even change the flavor, depending on your mood.

You will need:

One Devil's food cake mix

2 eggs

1/2 cup oil

 Cream cheese frosting

Optional Mint Extract

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees, mix together cake mix, eggs and oil, if you want to make them mint cookies, add a little bit of mint extract. It makes them taste like thin mint cookies.  After mixing dough, roll into balls and drop onto a greased cookie sheet. Flatten the cookies either with your hand or the bottom of a glass.  Bake for eight or nine minutes depending on the size.  When cookie are cool, melt in the microwave a little bit of the frosting until liquid. Drizzle frosting over cookies. (If making mint cookies, use chocolate frosting instead of cream cheese.)

Double decker confetti brownies

I like these.

I really like these.

If you want to like these too, then here is the recipe:

3/4 Cup butter (or margarine) softened

1 Cup white sugar

1 Cup brown sugar

3 Large eggs

1 Teaspoon vanilla extract

2 1/2 Cup AP flour, divided

2 1/2 Teaspoon Baking powder

1/2 Teaspoon Salt

1/3 Cup unsweetened Cocoa powder

1 Tablespoon Butter (or margarine) melted

1 Cup M&M's, divided

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and lightly grease a 13x9 pan; set aside.

In a large bowl, mix together 3/4 cup butter, and sugars until smooth; beat in eggs and vanilla.

In another bowl mix together 2 1/4 cups flour, baking powder, and salt, blend into creamed mixture.

Divide batter in half. Blend together cocoa powder and melted butter; stir into one half of the dough. Spread cocoa dough evenly into prepared baking pan.

Stir remaining 1/4 Cup and 1/2 Cup M&M's into remaining dough; spread dough over the cocoa dough in pan. Sprinkle with the rest of the M&M's

Bake 25-30 minutes. Let cool.