Late breaking

I keep meaning to post roundups of links I really like and, well, you know how that goes. But this week has been pretty stupendous in terms of the hilarious factor. Observe:

Neil Patrick Harris' 2011 Tony Awards Opening Number - amazing


Whole Foods Parking Lot rap - probably the only rap song I've identified with since Josh Tobin's "Playa Hater"


Go the F**k to Sleep read by Samuel L. Jackson - a masterpiece


Homemade pixie sticks - imagine, mango strawberry... =D


And finally, I've invented a fairly successful vegan dessert of which I am proud. Riffed off the lovely Pittsburgh blog Forked but with apple butter and a few other twists to empty out my pantry a little (our CSA starts tomorrow!!).

Apple Butter Muffins

1 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup sugar - I split between demerara and brown but plain would be fine too
1/2 cup vegetable oil*
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar or white vinegar
8 oz // 1 cup apple butter (or pureed strawberries in the original recipe)

*I split between canola and a blood orange oil because I had it and I really thought it came through. I would encourage you to add a bit of orange zest if you don't have such a fancy thing in your pantry (although it is worth having around for salad dressings also).

- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Combine wet ingredients as best you can (they probably won't combine super well).
- Sift dry ingredients into wet OR, to make it a one-bowl recipe (and why would you not), just dump on top and whisk quickly to get the baking soda evenly dispersed.
- Pour into 12 greased and/or lined muffin cups.
- Cook for 20 minutes or until tester comes out clean.

Bonus step - if you want to take them from cupcake-muffin hybrid to full fledged cupcake, add some frosting (this comes to mind), but I'm not a big frosting person and didn't feel it really needed it.