Cake bites, the lollipop lady and other happenings....

So I've been experimenting with new recipes lately- in a good way. Not the kind that get you on a show because your cooking is so bad that your family is desperate to get you help (see reality show: Worst Cooks in America).

Here's my latest creation:

Chocolate Cake Bites. I learned how to make them from a 4 minute clip on youtube- and several other online articles. They turned out great (excluding the colored frosting, I should have used colored chocolate).

They were originally for a dinner party last night, but I ran out of time. I don't know if it was a great substitute for bringing chocolate, but we did bring an appetizer out of the Biggest Loser cookbook.


I've been on this treat kick for the last week or so. People love to talk about food and so I've been telling a few friends about my adventures in this place we call the kitchen. I was talking to Vanessa who said that our other friend Heather was also a lollipop lady. This is was my vision of what a lollipop lady does:

I thought, "How cool is that?! I could be the next Willy Wonka."  So when I was talking on the phone to Heather yesterday, I asked her to teach me how to make lollipops and other candies. Heather had no idea what I was referring to. It took a few minutes, but we figured it out. There was a bit of confusion between American English and Irish English. This is a lollipop lady here in Ireland:

The other half of this house has been keeping himself busy as well. He's in the full swing of getting his papers finished up. The Trinity library in Dublin has become his local hotspot of choice. He left with the other scholars a few hours ago to kick of the Mitchell Scholar's graduation weekend. Their first pit stop will be Limerick tonight and the weekend will end on Monday with the ring ceremony at Farmleigh.  I'm so proud of him for all of his hard work this year!