tasty business

donut muffins, the perfect tea party guest!

you guys, last sunday, i did something really monumental. as in, i think i changed my life. or, at the v. least, my tummah.

I MADE DONUT MUFFINS!!!!!!

some of you may recall my first encounter with the tasty business masterpiece known as donut muffins during my last trip to boston. they were AMAZING! they were DELICIOUS! they were FULL OF BUTTER & CINNAMON & SUGAR (i.e. the three building blocks of life).

well, shortly after that post, randy sent me a list of recipes he’d found online and suggested that i try out one (or two). but it wasn’t until last sunday when i had the perfect excuse for baking: i got invited to a tea party in honor of MSWR’s birthday!

I LOVE TEA PARTIES!!!!!!!!!

armed with this recipe and lots of time (i tend to mess up if i’m in a hurry, like i’ll put in all the flour and then two lines down i’ll read, “save half the flour for later” and then i’ll angrily threaten the recipe with my spatula and a few choice words), i headed into my kitchen*, tuned into this amazing episode of this american life and mixed up some donut muffin goodness!!!

*this makes my apartment sound incredibly spacious, like i’m on a cooking show. not only is my apartment small, but there were no colorful bows of ingredients waiting for me on the counter. wtf!

unfortunately i did not take any pictures of myself as a baking pants, but rest assured i wore my cupcake apron and even dusted some flour on my cheeks for authenticity.

here’s what the muffins look like when they come out of the oven:

i know they look like biscuits on the top, but their consistency is most definitely muffin-like. also i should point out that donut muffins definitely fall under the julia childs’ school of “you can never have too much butter.” like, if you’re scared of butter, don’t make these. in fact, don’t even click on the recipe or you might actually have a heart attack.

in fact, if you already have high cholesterol, you should probably stop reading this altogether cos i’m about to tell you that, after the muffins cooled a little bit, i dipped them in melted butter and then rolled them in cinnamon and sugar which was pretty much the MOST AWESOME THING I HAVE EVER DONE. in fact i sang a little song that went like this, “donut muffin! hangin’ out in butter! going for a swim! rollin’ around in the cinnamon and suuuugaaaaaar!! gettin’ tasteeeee!!”

after that final bath/roll-round, the donut muffins were READY TO BE EATEN UP OMGGGG!!!!

i have to say, i was pretty proud of myself. like, they actually look like the picture in the recipe!! and they smelled DIVINE!!

and OK ok i ate one before i went to MSWR’s party. YOU GUYS I COULDN’T HELP IT. if you had been there, smelling that cinnamon sugar tasty business smell, i think you would’ve done the same thing. plus it was important for me to know if they were actually good before i served them to unsuspecting tea party people. you know, for politeness sake.

turns out I AM REALLY GOOD AT MAKING DONUT MUFFINS. COS THEY WERE DELICIOUS. they were moist and soft and buttery and crunchy with cinnamon and sugar and, like, the most insanely comforting food i have ever consumed. my tummy had that “tucked-in” feeling, you know, when you’re safe and warm in bed and someone’s just read you a really great story and you’re about to fall into blissful, peaceful slumber.

once the muffins were done, i got myself ready for the festivities! of course, when one is attending a tea party, one must array oneself in finery and jewels and splash on a bit of shalimar (my grandmother’s fave perfume, btw).

i thought i looked pretty nice, but then i got to the party and saw MSWR, birthday queen and hostess extraordinaire, looking positively RESPLENDENT in lavender!

of course, the best looking thing at the party wasn’t a lady (sorry, gals!) but THE FOOD TABLE COS LOOK AT THIS!!!!!

this tea party had all of the requisite dainty snacks: scones with clotted cream, teeny finger sandwiches…

cupcakes and… CAKE BALLS?!!!!!!!!

turns out that i wasn’t the only culinary genius in the mix– erica made chocolate cake balls! and drizzled them in chocolate so that it took me about an hour before i really believed that she hadn’t bought them at a fancy pants store.

of course, it wouldn’t be a tea party without tea, but it wouldn’t be a FUN party without mimosas! in cups with cool scratch-off labels!

i LOVE scratch-off stuff in general, but these cups are brilliant cos usually you don’t win anything with a scratch-off card, but with these cups, you always win cos there’s a tasty beverage inside!!

btw, in case you were wondering, there were a few guys at this party, like josh and carter! i took this picture while they were trying to “bump” their iphones, which i think was just another way of reinforcing their manliness at the tea party. er, yeah.

as you can see, the tea party was full of deliciously fancy food and poshed up pantsers, i.e. a lovely time was had by all!

happy birthday pants, MSWR! and thanks for giving me an excuse to make donut muffins. they may well be my Greatest Contribution to Mankind Thus Far.

LINKS

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squee of the day: DIFFERENT ANIMALS BEING FRIENDS –> a bird and a cat!!!! this is AMAZING!!

in spite of that billy crudup business, i can’t stop loving claire danes. esp. when she looks smoking hot and has sharon from MSCL as her bridesmaid!!!

you guys, let’s pool our money together and get michael jackon’s favorite artist to paint us all in a picture on the moon with, like, angels and children and stuff!

if you haven’t seen it already, check out this for real academic analysis of the likely outcome of a zombie attack (spoiler: we are screwed, y’all). thanks for the link, kiersten!

agent lover spotlights a super cool video by marina and the diamonds and leaves me totally jonesing for rhinestones on my eyelids.

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