Recipes to Try

Today, I read a recipe for sunflower cupcakes by Megan Berry at her blog, Fowl Single File, that had me drooling. Her cupcakes are not made of sunflowers, but I'm sure you could probably add sunflower seeds or sprouts to the batter. They are chocolate cupcakes with yellow cream cheese icing edged around an Oreo cookie middle. Yummm. They look like sunflowers. See for yourself!  Be sure to come back and finishing reading here. Click.

Did you notice that she used a pastry bag to get the sunflower look? I've never used one, even though I have one, because I feel kind of scared about using it.  But, those cupcakes look so tasty, I'm now willing to conquer the fear. 

No scaredy cat me!

That, in turn, got me thinking about recipes I've bookmarked from food/craft blogs that I like to read, but haven't tried making for one reason or another, including being lazy.

Not anymore.

Before the beginning of winter, I will have made the sunflower cupcakes and these recipes. I don't guarantee that I will follow them exactly, but I shall have made them. Stay tuned.

• Rosemary Crackers by Elana Amsterdam at Elana's Pantry. The crackers are gluten-free. The recipe calls for almond flour.
• Meyer Lemon Sorbet Eve Fox at The Garden of Eating. The recipe sounds very, very lemony. If I could get away with it, I'd add another lemon, at least for myself. 
• Yogurt by Doing Without at How to Live in Poverty and Still Have it All. The recipe says I can make yogurt easily and simply in five minutes!
• Lower Fat Granola by Hannah at Hannah in the Kitchen. I've got a whole bunch of her recipes bookmarked to try. Snack cakes, cup cakes, and cookies. So, why granola? It is a staple breakfast food in this house. That about says it. 

How about you, dear readers? Are there recipes or crafts you've been wanting to attempt, books to read, stories to write, or whatever else, but for some reason haven't yet? What might inspire you to just do it?