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Well hello!  Oo I can almost smell you…

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The continued adventure of melting popsicles!  This is a lazy picture of a melted and strained piña colada popsicle mixed with pineapple and orange juice.  And a tiny bit of lemon and juice from our strawberries.  The ice cream made it an interesting tropical float, but it probably would have been better without it. 
I could go for some more right now. 

I recently had family over and was presented with the task of baking a carrot cake and some triple chocolate brownie cookies for them to feast upon.  The carrot cake uses an 8 oz can of pineapple which must be drained.  Usually I mix all that juice with orange juice and drink it, but this time I thought to throw some strawberries in the food processor and combine all three.  The result was drool-worthy!

Version #2.  Yumm!

I’ve been trying to bake less often, and I needed to fulfill my photo shoot urges.  The lovely orange color of clementines inspired me, and…wish complete! 

I can’t stop staring at this photo from Joy the Baker (and also the forth one in the post)!
Orange and Dark Chocolate Buttermilk Scones…sounds good.

I used the extra pie dough from the lemon curd blueberry tart to make these.  The first is strawberries with the orange-cream cheese left over from this.  And the second is chocolate pudding, but the strawberries tasted weird with it.  

SCONES!!  Not gross hard ones.  Deliciously soft cranberry apricot-orange ones.  We had company over…they heard about my scones and requested them.  Problem was, we didn’t have any lemon curd to eat with them.  But as luck would have it, I had the exact amount of frozen lemon juice and zest (because you have to have fresh) to make some!