Dead Rabbit Coffee Cake

Our youth group had its annual dessert auction this morning, something I had imagined grandiose plans of wonderful desserts I could make.. (I even contemplated trying to build a "robot" out of ding-dongs) and then ended up too tired to really do any of them the day before.  Darn!  Nevertheless, when I woke up I figured I had time to make *something* if I could think of anything even mildly creative.  Enter the leftover rabbit.

The giant chocolate rabbit has been sitting there in its box since Easter as, while it looked like fun, no one in my family actually likes milk chocolate.  Bashed it into little pieces in a bowl and mixed them into a buttermilk coffee cake recipe and added a bunch of cinnamon (goes with chocolate, right?).  Added little signs with an illustration of a rabbit laying on its back with little X's for eyes.

Hope it tasted all right - I'll never know, as both of the resulting "Dead Rabbit Coffee Cakes" were auctioned off (over $20 each!).

I still have a fat handful of rabbit chunks and I hate to just throw it out.  Anyone else out there who likes dark chocolate but knows of something that has milk chocolate in it that tastes ok? I'm open to ideas!

That 15 Characters meme

I've so enjoyed the results that I've seen with others, and I really could use something to help me get back in the groove of short-term writing blurblets - hence, here we go.... with fair warning that my characters are all over the map, but I don't think they should be too obscure for most of my flist.   And, as lost_spook said, "it's never not fun"!

1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.

2) Ask your flist to post questions in the comments. For example: 'One, nine and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?', 'Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?', 'Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?'

3) After your flist has asked enough questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.

I have my 15 - ask, ask away!