They’re now perfect for your training bra!
I love playing jokes.
This year, I spared you all (You’re welcome!), but my poor real-life friends were not so lucky…
Yesterday, three friends came over for some homemade Vegan Reeses Cups.
I started by melting a frozen PMS Chocolate Bar into mini liners.
(You can use any chocolate bar.)
Then, instead of adding peanut butter, I opted for my favorite Cashew Butter.
The resulting little guys were amaze! That’s right: amaze. So good, plain amazing just wouldn’t cut it. Mini cashew-butter 32-C cups!!!
For a specific recipe, see this post: 32-C Chocolate Cups.
But wait, what about the joke?? Ah yes… well, you see, one of the mini cups was not filled with cashew butter.
There’s Mustard in my Reeses!
One of my friends was unfortunate enough to bite into a mustard-filled mini reeses. (I thought about filling them all with mustard… but honestly, what a waste of chocolate that would’ve been!) It was so funny, because she’s the type of girl who never wants to hurt anyone’s feelings. So rather than spit it right out, she kept eating the offending morsel, trying not to grimace. After a few bites, though, I had to tell her. She could not stop laughing!
Did you play any April Fools jokes?
Or did anyone else play one on you, yesterday?
Normally, I’m proud of the fact that it’s very hard to trick me on April Fools Day. (Maybe this is just because my family thinks of ridiculous jokes. Um, snow in Texas in April? Yeah, like I’m going to fall for that!) But yesterday, I think I fell for every single joke I saw on Twitter, from “Paula Deen is a vegan!” to “So-and-so blogger is moving!” to “So-and-so blogger is giving up blogging.” Yup, I fell for them all. So ashamed… lol.
Oh, and in case you didn’t know: I’m pregnant.
I didn’t play any good tricks yesterday! The mustard one is a good one.
And I think it’s about time I make some 32-C cups! In my last post, I talked about how I made my own cashew butter…and I think this would be a great use for the next batch! Yum.
I had a dream about mini reeses!! They were spread all over the field for Easter and a ton of college kids were scrambling for them. 😛 That’sbe convenient..but I’d much rather make these!
Life pranked me good yesterday. I didnt need to add any jokes to it. But I’m doing ok all things considered. I didnt fall for any blogger jokes this year, but last year i did!
The reeses cups look…amazing! the filling makes me want to just dive into those!!
hahah that’s awesome! mustard would be SICK. what a great recipe; I bet these are so creamy with the cashew butter!
I’m kinda of a Scrooge for April Fools, I just lay low and hope everyone else forgets what day it is. My dad is a huge prankster though. The worst was once when I was taking a shower, he slipped into the bathroom and stole all the towels! I had to use the rug! Come to think of it, I don’t think I ever got him back for that…
My two older girls had been looking forward to April Fools’ Day for months as this seems to be the first year they really get it. So we had a day full of silly little jokes – so much fun! I love how you used the word “amaze” today. That’s actually our baby’s middle name – we call her Maisy for short. (All our girls have verbs for middle names – “imagine,” “promise,” and “amaze.”) So you made me smile by using that word today!
One last thing, it seems a little silly to melt down a PMS chocolate bar to make these. When I make them (and that is quite often!), I just make a new batch of PMS chocolate and instead of spreading it into bar shapes, I put it into the cupcake liners. Seems like that might save you a few steps. Also, a tip for making the bars – I don’t like messing with plastic wrap so I throw all the ingredients into a ziploc bag, zip it and mush it all around till it’s mixed, then flatten it in the bag to freeze. Then I bang on it a bit to break it into pieces and have my chocolate all ready in a ziploc bag with no dishes to wash! How’s that for lazy!!! 🙂
I was wrong when I said one last thing! :{
I’m one of your subscribers, but for some reason, I didn’t get this post as an email today. I was surprised not to “hear” from you today so I came to the website to see what was up only to see this post. It still hasn’t come into my email and I’ve even checked my spam folder to make sure it didn’t go there. Am I the only one this happened to? Weird, huh?
Ugh. Unfortunately you’re not the only one. I didn’t realize it until you told me, though… and sadly, I know so little about computers that I don’t know what could’ve gone wrong or how to fix it :(. I can only hope it fixes itself tomorrow!!
Hahaha no you’re right! Usually I don’t bother to make a bar and then re-melt it. But yesterday all I had were bars I’d already made, so I just used one of those instead of making a whole new batch. How’s THAT for lazy? 😉 😉
I love your bag idea!
Ewww, haha. I wouldn’t have been able to waste all of them, either!
I’m not one for April Fool’s jokes… I’m not sure why. I have a sense of humor and I’m not easily offended, but I guess it was just never a tradition around here.
My husband was talking about an April Fool’s joke post for IET for literally 6 months, and here I didn’t do a single thing. He had funny ideas, but most of them involved wasting food. I just can’t do that!!
Agreed. It would’ve been so funny to make them all mustard-filled… but I just couldn’t waste the food (not to mention the money and the time it took to make them).
That is such a good prank!! I would love to do that to my mom. She knows my recipes are a little “weird” and is willing to try them. I’d love to see her reaction.
Haha, I just did a “Reese’s” makeover post too…
Just wanted to say that I nominated you for a little award over at my blog! Check it out there! Hugs to you!
Hey Katie!
I’m the girl from Twitter who asked about how you don’t end up broke after spending all the money you do on Vegan/Organic products. Or are awesome things like that cheaper in the states? Because things are CRAZY expensive here. Agave nectar is almost 20 bucks a bottle and coconut butter is almost 40 dollars. It’s INSANE.
– Amrita
Thanks, girl! I wrote a little bit here: https://lett-trim.today/2010/09/19/i-won-the-coconut-butter-lottery/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Also, I only buy organic for certain items (like the “dirty dozen”) and make sure I know the good prices for produce. For example, I won’t buy broccoli if it’s over $1.40, and I wont’ buy asparagus if it’s over $3.99/lb because I know it sometimes sells for less. Also, I use coupons a lot!
But I’ve never heard of coconut butter being so expensive anywhere! Can you order it online for less? Or make your own: https://lett-trim.today/2011/01/26/make-your-own-coconut-butter/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E