Tag: peanut butter

  • chocolate chip peanut butter cookie dough brownie cake

    chocolate chip peanut butter cookie dough brownie cake

      this is more a Neat Stack Of Diabetes than it is a cake. rounds of peanut butter cookie dough get spread with chocolate ganache and squashed between brick-like layers of brownie, then doused in more ganache and frosted with rosettes of whipped peanut butter buttercream. butterbutterbutterbutterbutter. i’m not sure what the best occasion for…

  • peanut butter and banana stuffed french toast

    peanut butter and banana stuffed french toast

         my brother got a tattoo today! it’s a bridge, and it’s on his RIBCAGE. where all the nerve endings are. owwwwww. i’m not sure exactly what the significance of it is, but it’s from the video game ‘shadow of the colossus’ and it looks fuckin BOMB. the tattoo artist’s main instructions were to…

  • bittersweet chocolate peanut butter pie

    bittersweet chocolate peanut butter pie

        chocolate and peanut butter are one of those classic combos, right up there with maple and bacon, sea salt and caramel, and peaches and cream. the two flavors compliment each other perfectly. this pie’s only flaw is that it’ll have you gasping for a glass of milk after a few bites; it yields a wide range…

  • overnight oats

    overnight oats

          i make these for my dad to eat as fuel before his weekly eighty mile bike rides (he’s crazy). the jars are easy to grab in the morning, very customizable, and packed with carbs and protein to ensure long-lasting energy. oatmeal is perfect for athletes, but i think it should be a staple in…

  • happy sunday!

    happy sunday!

    over the week, my attitude toward orange is the new black season three progressed from ‘pretty excited’ to ‘uncontrollably jittery with anticipation.’ netflix released it on friday, and i’m proud to say that i have watched all thirteen episodes. the jitters were partially due to the daily consumption of the huge cookies and cookie sandwiches shown above. i’m interning…

  • chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter bacon frosting

    chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter bacon frosting

    i have a friend, cy, who eats like no one i’ve ever seen. he’s happiest in a state of food coma, stomach contentedly protruding and eyes drooping shut. he readily devours the leftover baked goods i bring to school on a daily basis. unless they contain a trace of banana. the curved, yellow, potassium-rich fruit is…

  • marzipan monkey cake + nicaragua

    marzipan monkey cake + nicaragua

    I went to Nicaragua!      I spent a week in Nicaragua with my friend Cameron, her parents, and her parents’ good friends. We stayed on a farm called Finca las Nubes, and spent a lot of time reading, playing cards, visiting the animals, and swimming in our house’s infinity pool. We also went zip…

  • brownies with peanut butter frosting

    brownies with peanut butter frosting

    makes sixteen servings I know, I know. I’m stuck in a rut. Everything I’ve been making recently is the same color. The same flavors, too. Probably the same calorie count. So this is my last post like this for a while! Soon Lena’s Lunchbox will have dark leafy greens and citrus-y pale yellows and intense beetroot reds. These…

  • peanut butter cookie dough brownie cake

    makes twelve servings In my head, I divide food bloggers into three subgroups – the ones who are all about eating good food, it doesn’t necessarily have to incorporate kale or cookie butter or anything, it just has to be satisfying; the ones who would never dream of using butter or gluten or eggs, only coconut…

  • dark chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting

    dark chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting

    makes six servings Everything in moderation, right? It’s fine to eat a slice of this cake if as long as I balance it out with a hearty kale and cashew salad or something. Here’s the problem..this cake is actually physically impossible to eat in moderation. You’ll cut a sliver off, eat it in a few seconds, and…