Sugar and spice

Master of all he surveys, the Babe poses for paparazzi in the afternoon kitchen.

Following a script known only to him, he suddenly switched gears, dropped to the floor and dashed loudly up and then back down the stairs at a high gallop. Applying his brakes at the foot of the stairs, wheels spinning, he pulled a 180 into the bathroom, where he scrambled up to the top of the shower, eyes blazing.

Back down at ground level, he performed a two-step before switching gears from "Crazy Hour" to "Who, Me?" washing his paw and then exiting casually, stage right.

Back in the Experimental Kitchen, we prepared a batch of Bon Appetit's Brownie Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting garnished with crushed walnuts, halving the recipe and using our 12-cup mini-muffin pan to make a plateful of bite-sized treats that satisfy without piling on too many calories. Small and delicious. That's the secret to all things Cold Turkey Cookbook.

Assisting in the taste-test phase, Tiny pronounced our buttercream peanut butter frosting the cat's meow.

Gotta go now. Karl Rove is about to debut as a regular contributor on Fox News to "explain how you cover a presidential primary campaign," says Brit Hume, as Super-Duper Tuesday polls are starting to close. We love this all-caps header at Drudge:

OBAMA LARGE IN SOME EXITS; ROMNEY SHOWS PULSE

Go, Mitt!

Update: Miya and Felix host a Super-Duper 203rd Carnival of the Cats at When Cats Attack!

Update II: Many more things bright and beautiful at Modulator's Friday Ark #177.

Comments

[Teresa]

LOL - kitty cat mind games. He's trying to make you look. ;-) Darling daughter's one kitty walked out of her condo and into the neighbor's condo the other night. He decided he needed to investigate and was very unhappy with her for making him leave. *grin*

The cupcakes look lovely - although I'm not a fan of peanut butter outside of pb&j. And yes, small bite, gives a little good without piling on the bad. Yay! How's the Cold Turkey going? The pics all look good.

[pb]

What is it with cats and sweets? Isn't the conventional wisdom that they prefer protein.

Not in our house. Toast with honey will bring them faster than baked scrod.

As always, thanks for my daily food and feline photo fix.

[Gayle Miller]

I am sure my co-workers will thank you Sissy. I've been pondering what to bring in next Thursday to honor Valentine's Day and now I know! Let's see, 4 for each of the car pool ladies - plus 1 for me of course - and that still leaves plenty for the 2 attorneys and my next door neighbor!

Now as to the Babe's behavior - I have always called it "Chasing Invisible Elves" and Sam usually indulges until he runs into a wall. Then he gives me that cat look: "I meant to do that you know!"

What would we do without our humorous angels?