Thursday, July 12, 2012

Avocado Egg Salad

4 hard-boiled eggs
4 whites of hard boiled eggs
1 avocado
1 tablespoon mayonaise
1 tablespoon sour cream
2 tspn of red wine vinegar 
salt and pepper to taste


Chop, mix, and enjoy!

I adapted this from something I saw on pinterest. I feel like I want to get rid of the vinegar and add fresh herbs. Maybe a little cilantro and lemon juice? Or parsley?

Leave the gun...

Cannoli Cupcake from Whole Foods Market. Vanilla cupcake, cannoli cream frosting, chocolate chips, and cannoli shell. Don't get me wrong, the cupcake was good, but I'd settle for a piping bag full of the frosting...

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Carrot Zucchini Bars

I'm a sucker for anything covered in cream cheese frosting, so when I saw this post on Pinterest for carrot zucchini bars I was eager to try it out. 



  • 2 eggs, slightly beaten
  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup canola oil
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cups shredded carrot
  • 1 cup shredded zucchini
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp ground ginger
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
  • 1 (8 oz) pkg reduced fat cream cheese
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp lemon zest
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, brown sugar, oil, honey, and vanilla.  Don’t worry about clumps of the brown sugar, those will dissolve as it sits while you prepare the remaining ingredients.  Then fold in the carrot, zucchini, and walnuts
  2. In another bowl combine add the flour, baking powder, ginger, and baking soda.  Whisk to blend together.
  3. Add to flour mixture to the wet mixture. Stir just until combined. Spread batter into an ungreased 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
  4. Bake about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
  5. Once the cake is cooled prepare the frosting.   In a medium mixing bowl, beat the fosting ingredients with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy.  Spread or pipe the frosting over the cooled bars.  Makes 36 bars. 
I made a couple of tweaks. Specifically I didn't have any walnuts on hand and I only had a 8x8 pan so they are thicker and there's far fewer than 36 bars and my cream cheese was not low fat. A bunch of comments on the original post suggest subbing applesauce for the oil which sounds yummy as well. Maybe adding cinnamon too. As is though, I thought they were very yummy and super cute.