This weekend I had my very first dinner party in my new aapartment - yay! Lifelong dream come true! I wanted to do something fun and fancy - so I made fondue!
Daniel, Julie and Matt liked it, apparently. And Matt is not trying to stab Julie with his fondue fork (man do I love those things - I want to eat all my food with it!). He is just ready for his next bite.
For dipping, I had bread cubes, carrots, clementines, veggie sausage, apples, mushrooms (which I forgot in the fridge), grape tomatoes and cauliflower. Way too much food for 4 people, but we didn't leave hungry and I had a lot of leftovers! It was my first try at fondue, and I used this article and accompanying recipes for inspiration. The one I selected was made with cheddar and beer - a little stringy, but still very tasty (if messy!)
And nothing goes with fondue like cupcakes from Butter Lane, right? RIGHT? Matt brought an assortment that we sampled - chocolate with strawberry frosting, chocolate with caramel frosting topped with kettle corn, vanilla with cinnamon honey frosting, and classic vanilla with chocolate.
But that's not all - both of these are banana cake, one with cream cheese frosting and the other with peanut butter chocolate! Yum! I love how you can mix and match cakes and frostings at Butter Lane. Plus they seem to have Groupons a lot so you might be able to get a deal!
Overall, a success! Can't wait to do it again - and have some more fondue experiments.
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