This is an exciting post for me! Not only you are going to see how to make cookies and cream cupcakes, you will also get to see my very first cooking video! Everyone that I know loves cupcakes. I also know many people also loves Oreo cookies. So why not combine these two together! Along with the homemade frosting, you are going to enjoy these cupcakes! Before I go in detail on how to make these cupcakes, watch my cooking video below!
Here is what you need to make these cupcakes!
24 Oreo cookies, halved
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
8 tbsp. butter, softened
1 2/3 cup sugar
3 large egg whites
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup milk
20 Oreo cookies, chopped
For the frosting, you will need
8 oz. cream cheese
8 tbsp. butter, softened
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
4 cups confectioners sugar
2 tbsp. milk
20 Oreo cookies, chopped
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees! Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, butter, sugar, egg whites, vanilla extract, and milk in a bowl. Combine well! Then crush 20 Oreo cookies in a bag. Combine crumbled Oreos with the cupcake batter and mix well!
2. Place halved Oreo cookie into each muffin tin. Place cream side up!
3. Fill each muffin tin with cupcake batter. Bake in oven for 18-20 minutes. After taken out of oven, make sure each cupcake is cooked through by checking with a toothpick.
4. Combine cream cheese, butter, vanilla extract, confectioners sugar, and milk in a bowl. Take 20 more Oreo cookies and crush them in a bag. Then add crumbled Oreos into frosting mixture. Mix well!
5. After cupcakes cool completely, put frosting on each cupcake!
There you go! Many people so far have enjoyed these cupcakes, I think you will enjoy them too!
This post is about some things I am wanting to do with the Geek Alabama blog. If you have noticed, the title of this post is a reference to the David Bowie song Changes.
I am almost at the one year mark when Geek Alabama launched. Many people have viewed this blog. I have also gotten a lot of tweets, Facebook messages, and e-mails from people inviting me to their events or thanking me! The first major change involves the possible TV deal. Here is a post talking about my ideas for a TV show.
Right now, Danny Passman from Crybaby Media is busy with stuff and I hope something will come through very soon! I am beginning to wonder if I need to appear on TV again to convince the staff that I would be a perfect fit for TV. After what I saw over the last weekend here in Oxford. I think I have the perfect story to appear on all four Birmingham TV stations! Here is the video and post.
Other than that big change. I have a couple of new things I am wanting to do! The first involves the Guy’s Cuisine portion of Geek Alabama. Yes, I will continue to do recipe posts on Geek Alabama. But I think it’s time to make a wonderful addition! I am wanting to do recipe videos! I want to make these videos around 3-6 minutes long and cover a variety of things! One great example is the YouTube channel Laura In The Kitchen. Here is one of her videos showing you how to make chocolate waffles!
The next change involves the Roadscapes posts. I will continue to do weekly posts about roads and infrastructure. But I want to make a great addition. There are videos online showing highways in high-speed with music in the background. I would like to start making high-speed highway videos! One example from YouTube is from the channel Freeway Jim.
Another great change I am wanting to make is an addition of a daily weekday video of about 1-2 minutes long. These videos right now will be called The Daily Geek. And these videos would talk about some of the biggest stories in the geek culture. Anything from TV, movies, games, tech, gadgets, would be talked about! I would like to lead this to an eventual podcast like you see on the website This Week In Tech. My short videos would be like the videos you see on Newsy.
Along with these awesome changes, I would also continue to do the stuff you see on Geek Alabama all the time. Everything from TV and movie reviews, local topic coverage, weekend events, major stories, Animation news, business and product reviews, special projects, geeky and nerdy stories, etc. would still be talked about. I would also like to come out with a brand new Geek Alabama website. Sounds great right! Sadly, there’s one problem and it involves that green paper called money. I wish our society would not revolve around money, money, and more money!
To do these things I am wanting to do, it will cost around $10,000. I am going to need new camera equipment and microphones, new and better computer, money to hire someone to redesign the website, equipment to do recipes, stuff to make a video background with, and yes, stuff to put in the background like what you see in this video. Most of the background stuff would be geeky and nerdy!
I thought of the cool idea to start a blog after being fired from my 13th job in August 2011. Since then, I have been blown away from the response from people! One of the missions of Geek Alabama is to show the world that having Asperger’s Syndrome or high functioning autism does not affect what I can do. I want to make Geek Alabama the home for local scene flavor, great recipes, wonderful interviews, coverage of local sports, pictures and videos of local events, business and product reviews, coverage of geeky and nerdy topics, you get the idea! If something big happens in Alabama, Georgia, or the geek, nerd, or technology world, I want people to come to Geek Alabama!
Right now I have a few ideas for raising money. One would be to start a Kickstarter campaign. My only worries about this is what would happen if the campaign is not successful? I would need the help of friends and TV media to get the world out about this campaign. The second option would involve me applying for the Advantage Capital Enterprise System here in Calhoun County. I have to think about this one and quick! Because I will show you this.
Yep, I could be celebrating the one-year of Geek Alabama next Monday by not having the geekalabama.com or guyscuisine.com web domains name. The costs are not the problem, it’s only $125 a year. It’s just being without a job for 21 months and still looking for my 14th job in seven years is tough! I would like to do more event coverage, business reviews, product reviews, and other cool stuff if I had money. Yep, I will be calling some family members I know in the next few days. I am also dreading Easter Sunday. Going to my mom’s house with the money hassles is not going to be good. Just sayin.
My first ever recipe using a coffee cup was popular! Brownie In A Coffee Cup drew a lot of traffic and the people liked it! You can view it by clicking the link.
For this coffee cup recipe. Nobody can go wrong with chocolate cake! This chocolate cake recipe has no eggs. But you will still enjoy lots of chocolate flavor. Here is what you need.
1. Combine all ingredients except ice cream into a coffee mug.
2. Mix ingredients together thoroughly!
3. Microwave for 2 minutes. Do not overcook!
4. Take out of microwave and add chocolate syrup.
5. Add ice cream and enjoy!
This recipe is easy to follow! And I have created a nice infographic where you can print out and stick anywhere. Believe me; I think you will want to create this over and over again! Go ahead and print it out!
First I wanted to show off my new logo for A Guy’s Cuisine which I designed myself! I think this logo looks great! And sorry Alabama fans; I am an Auburn fan and used a Auburn coffee cup!
So for my first recipe with the new logo I decided to make something yummy! I saw something online where you can make a brownie in a coffee cup. I thought this was something that could not be done. But after I tried it I became a believer! With the weather getting cooler nothing is better than a warm brownie! Here is what you need:
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons water
pinch of salt
ice cream
coffee mug
1. Combine all ingredients except ice cream into a coffee mug.
2. Mix ingredients together thoroughly!
3. Microwave for 1 minute and 40 seconds. Do not overcook!
4. Take out of microwave and top with ice cream and enjoy!
This recipe is so easy anyone can do it. And I have created a nice infographic where you can print out and stick anywhere. Believe me; you will want to print this off because you will fall in love with brownies in a coffee cup!
This is week eleven in my series of Shape Up! The weekly post on what I did over the last week in my quest to getting healthier.
Since we are transitioning over to Geek Alabama. I am going to feature the video of the time I was featured on ABC 33/40.
Yes this will be the final Shape Up! post under the Young’s Blog banner. Starting next week this blog will be known as Geek Alabama. I think this is an exciting time for me and this blog. Many people are discovering what this blog is all about. And having this blog known as Young’s Blog was making some people turn away. So I came up with the Geek Alabama name and It has gotten great response. So over the weekend I will be transitioning over to Geek Alabama.
Not only I am relaunching as Geek Alabama. I am also launching Redo AL’S Roads and A Guy’s Cuisine. So this is a very busy time right now as I am building three blog websites and doing minor changes to the photo blog Traffic Light Pixels. The blogs being run my me Nathan Young are going to be an great adventure. So please come back often and read. Today my brother has prom with his girlfriend in Gadsden. And yes I will have many pictures to show off on Geek Alabama.
The exercising I am doing (all walking) is starting to get tired. I mean I am doing the same thing over and over again. Of course I would love to do new types of exercises but as you know I have been unemployed for nine months now. And I am still looking for my 14th job in 6 years. Maybe April will be the month something changes! I know the TV folks will be back out. Well at least I will not have to worry about how to spend any of the Mega Millions winnings.
Here is what I ate last week:
Saturday: Cereal; Homemade pizza; Milo’s no calorie tea.
Sunday: Cereal; French bread pizza; Fruit bar; Milo’s no calorie tea.
Monday: Yogurt; Burger sliders; Chips; Fruit bar; Milo’s no calorie tea.
