yummy butts and poker cupcakes

I made some sweets for a co-worker who's gettin' hitched in Vegas. The Naughty Butt Cookies (later renamed "yummy butts") were a hit. I just used a sugar cookie mix (I'm very lazy when it comes to baking) and used a heart-shaped cookie cutters and cut of the tips to get the shape. Some strategically placed frosting, and you have some sweet asses! These were about the most fun thing I've ever baked. I was giggling and making jokes throughout the whole process. I will be making them in the future for just about every occasion possible.








I also made these much more tame cupcakes. They didn't turn out as pretty as I wanted, but people thought they were cute, and they fit the theme of the shower.

the pizza of my childhood

When I was growing up, THE place to get pizza in my neck of the woods was Faraci's. It was where you got pizza for occasions that required something a little more special than, say, Little Caesars (Pizza! Pizza!...yuck, I know but when I was a kid that stuff was AWESOME!) Faraci is still going, and even has a second location (the link above only has the new address, but the original one in Ferguson is still there). Last night my mom, brother and sis-in-law came over. They brought Faraci's with them! The Faraci Special, which has Italian sausage, pepperoni, bacon, mushrooms, um...a whole mess of deliciousness. They also had a sauceless pizza (my SIL isn't supposed to eat tomato sauce) with hamburger, mushrooms and onions.

Wow, was the pizza good! As good as I remember. Super-thin, handmade crust that's not greasy at all...in fact it still has a dusting of flour on it. The provel cheese, a St. Louis favorite, is runny and sticky and yummy. And the toppings were plentiful. They use canned mushrooms, which I kinda like. I was too anxious to dig in to get any pretty photos of the whole pizzas, but I snapped some after the carnage...there wasn't much left.


a lone piece remained. This was the Faraci Special.



Look at the toppings!



The sauceless. It was tasty, but I would have preferred Italian sausage. Hamburger doesn't have much flavor.



A good shot of the crust. The crust is so good. Light and crunchy.