Day 11 - Wine, cookies and puppy chow

So I indoctrinated my little one into the joys of creating Puppy chow in the microwave.  For those of you thinking, "There is something wrong with this chick," I say this read my earlier blogs!  If you're feeling lazy, Puppy Chow is the midwest naming of Muddy Buddies or Choco-Peanut Butter Chex.  Delish!

Until recently, I couldn't melt anything in the microwave.  I didn't have one.  Tonight we had the fun of melting chocolate, peanut butter and butter before mixing it over the chex and rolling it in powder sugar.  That and three phone calls later had me remembering the chilled wine in the fridge and my promise.

I decided it was time to face the music and sacrifice myself for you.  The first bottle I grabbed was bought for its shiny label as much as the similar name to previous wines I mentioned:

Sadly, I found this to be very tart despite it's shiny allure.  It says strawberry and raspberry, but I would only believe that if you're eating out-of-season, under-ripe fruit.

Oooo, shiny!

Next, I pulled out a wine I knew had an excellent chance of being sweet because it is a Muscato.  If you've never had a Muscato, you're missing out.  It has gotten a lot of popularity as of late; usually as a Muscato D'asti.  This makes it much like a sweet sparkling wine.

Anyways....

This was very nice and sweet.  I'm not a fan of Beringer wines in general and I even noticed that this one has that odd finish that I've noticed in most of their wines that I don't like.  Despite that, this was a very good sweet red.  The fruit flavors were strong and sweet like the strawberry syrup you find on an ice cream sundae.  If you like having a sweet wine alone, this is a good option.

I also made some of my Russian Tea Cookies/Snowballs.  The dough looked great when I pulled it out of the fridge and I baked the cookies.  Unfortunately, the new flour seems to have less of the condensing ability as the old stuff and my cookies spread out.  They do not look like my adorable little round balls of yummy, but they taste very good. The hubbs said that they looked like snowballs that someone had already thrown. I sugared them and plan to give them out just the same.

I'm going to hold off on the Apple empanaditas until tomorrow.  I have hope that they will be less changed.  With great hope comes great....responsibility?  Hmm. Yeah...I don't care, I still get goodies.