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12 Days of Nerd-Mas: Team Red Rules Red Velvet Cookies with Cream Cheese Bits

You know what rules? Team Red. You know what also rules? RED VELVET COOKIES. What happens when the two meet? You get the best cookie the world has ever seen. 

I have yet to find a place to sell red velvet cookies with cream cheese. So I decided to cut those nerds out and make my own.

Feel very, very lucky because Ant gives you precious recipes that have been in her family since last Tuesday.

What You’ll Need:

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 Tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 tsp cornstarch
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tsp distilled white vinegar
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 Bar Frozen Cream Cheese
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 tsp red food coloring

What To Do, Son:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Which is only slightly hotter than I am.
2. In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch, baking powder and salt, set aside.
3. With electric mixer, or the strength of hercules and a wooden spoon, whip together butter, sugar and vinegar until pale and fluffy, about 3 - 4 minutes. Add egg. Add vanilla and red food coloring and mix until blended.
4. With mixer set on low speed, slowly add in dry ingredients and mix just until combine. 
5. This is important, so listen up. Or read twice. Cut up frozen/cold cream cheese into tiny bites. When rolling your dough by spoonfuls, (About 1/4 of a cup.) add bits to desired spots OR press into tops of cookies after baking. Whichevers you like.
6. Bake 9 - 11 minutes. Allow to cool on cookie sheet before transferring to a wire rack to cool. Or eat them hot as hell because you a strong independent baker who don’t need no safety regulations MmmmHmmm.

This is seriously one of my favorite cookies. It’s super soft and cake-like with a crackly top and I think I ate 14 of them just by myself. I regret nothing. Except not eating more cookies.

And yes, that is superhero themed wrapping paper that I had my team hunt for. Yes.

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kingchief:

MY FAVORITE IS SPIDERMAN THO

nerdache-cakes:

Jayla’s Tea Partying Avengers Birthday Cake: Avenger’s Tea Party Cake

My niece is pretty vocal about what she wants, even at 3 years old. So what did she want this year? An Avengers party! But Jayla has also been on a tea party kick, even inviting her Iron Man and Captain America for a cuppa’ ‘tea’ in the middle of the day.

So I made her this cake! I love the teeny details of it, from the tea cups with 2d roses- to the tiny cookies and cherries on the cupcakes. I was also really focused on getting Cap’s Bucky-bear and tiny lemons on the cups of tea. I also thought it would be funny if Spider-man wasn’t allowed to come to the tea party. AVENGERS ONLY.

The table itself is made from vanilla bean cake, with fresh strawberry buttercream and dark chocolate ganache’ (The birthday girl’s favorite!)

There’s a ton of tiny details on this cake that I could talk about all day- but I’ll let you find them for yourself!

[Based on the amazing Avenger’s Baby art by Gurihiru]

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peanutandrobot:

Promotional still and images from a promotional featurette for “Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel”, a TV special announced for next year today at Comic-Con and the first official crossover between a Disney property and the Marvel Universe.

©Disney. ©Marvel and Subs. No ownership intended or implied.

I have decided that I all I want for Christmas and/or Graduation are the following:

• The full set of Marvel DVDs as they currently stand - Iron Man and Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, and the Avengers - as well as Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and the Dark Knight Rises DVDs. I would like them all nicely packaged in sets according to comic book company they are affiliated with, which of course leaves Batman all by him lonesome - as it should be because the Dark Knight rides alone.
• All of John Green’s books - Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherine’s, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars. 
• Librettos for: The Book of Mormon, How to Succeed in Business, [title of show] (oh wait I already have that one :)), Spring Awakening (I might have this one, I don’t remember), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Avenue Q. As well as hard copies of: Seminar and Peter and the Star Catcher (if either exist)
• The Barnes and Noble hardbound editions of: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and Grimm Fairy Tales, and Alice in Wonderland.
• And a plane ticket to Europe/New York and reassurance that I’ll never come back to the West Coast for the rest of my life.

All of this seems reasonable right? I don’t feel like I’m asking too much, I mean it IS Christmas and my Graduation from college. Yeah, I feel like I’m being very reasonable. :). 

laughingsquid:

The Hulk and Kermit the Frog Find Share Their Pain on Being Green