Are you ready for this?

Be prepared for the best thing since sliced bread.

If you remember from last Friday's post, I was researching new dessert recipes to make for V-Day. For the dessert contest, I ended up making the Oreo & Nutter Butter Truffles. Although they did get a couple of votes from the judges, they did not win. That's perfectly fine with me though, as there were tons of yummy desserts. Here's what they looked like when I was finished:


White chocolate-covered Oreo goodness.

Nutter Butter filling rocks my face off...although the Oreo centers seemed to be more popular.

These were A MESS to make, or maybe I'm just messy when I bake. Yeah, I think it's the latter. Anyway, the kitchen was a complete disaster when I was finished. Even my face had some dried almond bark on it. My face! How the heck does that even happen?

I'm really bad about starting something before I'm finished with what I was working on, and since my next recipe called for powdered sugar, which for the life of me I cannot figure out how to keep it from going absolutely everywhere, I figured, "Why not? You can't see the countertops at this point anyway."

I had found some Pepperidge Farms Puff Pastry Shells on sale at Wal-Mart, so I got a box. Lord knows how many recipes I had run across that called for these pastry shells; I was confident I would find one that sounded irresistible.

I was so right.


First, you get a box of these:

In the spirit of V-Day, I used some red food coloring to make the cream cheese hot pink. I look at it like this: anything white (i.e. cream cheese, vanilla frosting, chocolate chip cookie dough, etc.) is like a blank canvas; it has the potential to be so much more than just...white. I sprinkled some powdered sugar on the top, but only because I think a dash of powdered sugar always makes a dessert look 5-star-restaurant-fancy.