Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Eggs...whhhaaaaattt???

Crunchy chocolaty shell, smooth peanut-butter-cream-cheesy center... You're gonna love these!

Ingredients:

8 oz cream cheese
2 Cups smooth (or crunchy if you like) peanut butter
3 Tbsp earth balance (softened)
1⁄2 pound of powdered sugar
1⁄2 tsp salt
1 1⁄2 tsp vanilla extract
24 oz (2 bags) chocolate chips (I used whole foods bulk chocolate chips)

Mix all ingredients together (except the chocolate) with a mixer until smooth.  Scoop into little balls and place on a wax paper covered cookie sheet.  I think my mixture made about 55.  Place in the freezer for at least an hour.

When they're frozen, melt chocolate on medium - low.  Be so careful not to burn the chocolate - it sucks.  Dip the balls - eggs - haha oh my -whatever you'd like to call them in the melted chocolate and place on a wax paper covered cookie sheet or plate.  I used a fork to fish them out.  You should get a nice thick layer of chocolate.

When they're cooled, store in an airtight container in the refrigerator....if they even make it that far....

enjoy!!

p.s. isn't my easter plate so cute?!

Gluten Free!

Tip of the Day!

who says it's not easy being green?  A simple way to add a little green to your day: use re-usable water bottles.  I have a sigg bottle (that I LOVE - it keeps my water tasting fresh all day!!), which is about a $20-$30 investment - not too shabby when you put it in perspective. They say the average American buys 170 bottles of water a year - that's over 200 bucks!  Doesn't sound like a lot, but multiply that by 50 years and you've spent $10,000!  That's a car, or a couple really great vacations, or 200 dinner dates, or lots of clothes, or whatever your heart desires to spend $10,000 on!  Plus, bottled water is much less regulated than tap water meaning your bottled water could be significantly lower in quality than your tap.  Don't like the taste of your tap?  Get a filter - it's still gonna be cheaper than if you use bottle water :)

ribbet ribbet

Vegan Shoes!!!!

I kind of chose to remain ignorant about leather and where it comes from - until I saw Earthlings.  A truly disturbing documentary on the way animals serve us: as pets, as food, as entertainment, as clothing, and for science.  You can watch it for free online - just click on the word "Earthlings" above.  I cried hysterically for the first hour, and after I could hardly see past my puffy eyes, I sat in horror.  I mean it was really really bad.  I think even if you're not vegan, or not too much of an animal lover, you'd be haunted by this.  So I've chosen to fully submerge myself into "vegan-ness" and stop buying leather shoes, bags, wallets, etc.  I still haven't stopped carrying my favorite purse, but maybe I'll come around - I mean I didn't buy it, so does that count??

Anyway, on my quest to find vegan shoes for my wedding, I ran into this AMAZING website.  It's endless.com.  They have thousands of vegetarian shoes, and a lot of them are actually really cute! And most of them are very affordable - I found a pair that I love for $33!  PLUS on most of the shoes they have free 2-day shipping and on some they have free overnight shipping.  PLUS they have free return shipping.  Seriously this site's awesome.  I'm not a huge internet shopper, but with free return shipping how could I not be??  :)   I swear I'm not getting paid for this...

So go to endless.com, click on women's shoes, then at the bottom of the list of categories you'll see vegetarian.

Oh and even if you're not looking for vegetarian shoes, they have bajillions of other shoes.

Happy Shopping!

p.s. they're not all as funky as the yellow ones above, I just liked those :)

Party Soup!

I didn't know what to name it - there's so many fun and yummy things in it.  It's super duper easy and easily modified to please your personal palette!  I had left over rice, diced tomatoes and my carrots needed to be used so I just threw everything together without exact measurements.