Raspberry Cream Pops

Since I've had so much trouble keeping frosting in place lately, I decided to do something different. This time, a refreshing dessert, Raspberry Cream Pops from this recipe.

I must say, I've never made cream pops before, and these came out delicious! The tartness of the yogurt, combined with the sweetness of the raspberry puree and soft raspberry cream is lovely. Plus, you could make pops with any of those mixes! Personally, I think I'll be making raspberry puree pops sometime soon.

The recipe uses vanilla yogurt, but I couldn't find any at the stores so I used sweetened, natural yogurt and added a few spoons of vanilla extract.

My ice-pop molds are very small, so I ended up with 8 tiny pops, a very big one using a plastic cup, and 6 tiny pops with the left overs of the raspberry cream mix.

Cookies&Cream Cupcakes

A couple days ago Carola introduced me to the amazing blog Bakerella and I instantly fell in love with it. One of the most recent entries was about making Cookies & Cream cupcakes with Oreo cookies. The recipe seemed simple enough, so I though I'd give it a shot.

I got my Oreos and broke them into small pieces.

Then, I placed them in the baking cups.

I decided to make half a dozen cupcakes with a whole Oreo cookie within them.

In the end, the cookies didn't go up as Bakerella's did, they stayed at the bottom of the baking cup (maybe it was my Betty Crocker ready-made cake mix?), so there really wasn't a visible difference between the whole Oreo and the broken ones (which is a shame, Bakerella's broken Oreo cupcakes looked so pretty)

This time I actually wanted to try and make the frosting myself, since it was a special cookies & cream one, but unfortunately I didn't have shortening at hand so I had to settle with good ol' Betty Crocker's vanilla frosting.

I smashed the broken cookies I had left and sprinkled them over the vanilla frosting.