It’s been way too long since I’ve made dessert for Pinch of Yum. For me. For anyone. Actually, it’s really been more like one minute if you count those coffee cake muffins as dessert, which I don’t. Here we are at nine days into the new year, and these are already shaping up to be my top dessert of 2013. And I’m shaping up to be out of shape. comment icon 60 more comments Salty has been the name of the snack game in the Philippines. Something about it being good for you to eat chips because it helps you retain water? Which definitely SOUNDS chubby, but I don’t know. Considering that the first thing I wanted to do after coming out of sick week was dive headfirst into a bag of chips, it sure feels at least a little healthy. And if you were going to say that you crave vegetables when you come out of sick week, well, you’re lying. In my heart of hearts, I’m a dessert girl. My dreams are made of pools of chocolate fondue and towers of refrigerated sea salt chocolate toffee bars and gooey Peanut Butter Oreo Blondies. I don’t even mind a crooked Oreo layer from time to time. Sometimes people ask me if I developed a love of cooking, or, more importantly, eating because of all my cooking experiences growing up. But the truth is, not really. My mom usually made a family favorite for dinner and I rarely helped other than the eating part. On the other hand, baking has always been dear to me. To us. My family. Not in the classically-trained baker way. More in the homemade chocolate chip cookies and weekend brownies and warm banana bread with melted butter and a glass of cold milk kind of way. Last week my sisters came to visit me in the Philippines and about 30 seconds after they arrived, we all found ourselves elbow-deep in peanut butter blondie batter and covered with Oreo crumbs. This is what we do, friends. And then we went to one of the most beautiful places in all of the island of Cebu, and took a picture that none of us really feel good about, and then I posted it on my blog. #why And we also ate blondies. That’s what I call a good time. I don’t mean to tell you to eat raw eggs or anything, but batter lovers, these were made for you. 5 from 9 reviews
