Runs on Coffee and Cream

A while back I was trying to rack my brain for fandom recipes and I knew I had to come up with a pie to be named after my favourite pony - Pinkie Pie! When I was browsing Pinterest and came across a pink lemonade pie, I knew that was going to be my 'Pinkie Pie'. Because honestly, pink lemonade tastes like there's a party in my mouth! I followed closely to this recipe I found here. I made my crust slightly different and mine definitely came out more pink but either way, it's a great recipe!



Pinkie Pie


Crust:
1 1/4 cups of honey graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup of melted butter or margarine

Filling:
6 oz. can of pink lemonade concentrate, thawed
14 oz. can of sweetened condensed milk
8 oz. container of Cool Whip, plus more for topping
Red food colouring (optional)


Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix graham cracker crumbs and melted butter in a 9" pie plate. Press the mixture firmly to the bottom and up the sides of the pie plate. Bake crust for 7 minutes or until golden. Remove from oven and cool completely.

Whisk together pink lemonade and sweetened condensed milk in a bowl until combined. 

Gently fold in Cool Whip. I added a couple of drops of red food colouring to make the mixture more pink, but it stayed a very pale colour and I didn't want to overload the filling with dye so I just left it.

Spread filling evenly in cooled crust and freeze until solid. When serving, top each piece with more Cool Whip.   

Pink Lemonade and sweetened condensed milk:




This is the colour of it once mixed:


 
Fold in Cool Whip:



Once mixed, it took away a lot of the pink colour:




Let's pretend this picture is in focus! Guests were showing up so I had to take a quick picture after it was frozen so I could serve it soon after!




This pie is delicious! I'm a huge fan of pink lemonade and this is so perfect and tart! I plan on making variations of this pie with frozen lemonade and limeade! I highly recommend giving this recipe a try!

xo Jen

While scanning Facebook this week I came across the new My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Pop! Vinyl figures. I did a little happy dance in my desk chair but I had no one around to share my news with so here I am posting them because look at how cute they are!!


This week I also got completely sucked into cuteness while browsing the net. I favourited or pinned about half of the photos in Jerrod Maruyama's flickr stream. Seriously, cuteness overload!


Now that we're moved in and more than half unpacked, I'm excited to go on some movie dates over the summer because there are so many good movies coming out. I actually did a post over at IGGPPC about all the summer movies that are coming out this year. I think me and Adam are the most excited for The Wolverine.



After straightening my hair last weekend and having it go frizzy because of the humidity, this is my plan for the rest of the summer:



What are you loving right now?

xo Jen

Last month I came across this awesome Etsy shop, Pixel Closet. The shop is filled with the cutest fused beads accessories! I'm in love with all the keychains in the shop! The LSP one is definitely my favourite. And I don't know about other cat owners, but my one kitty enjoys eating plants so we don't have any in our apartment. This only makes me want the Piranha Flower or Fire Flower even more!

I'm actually not sure how I came across this amazing Etsy shop. But it's been in my favourites for a little while now and I just had to share the wonderful prints by The Gorgonist. I'm absolutely in love with her art.



The X-Men print is my favourite! I really need to buy a print.

Go check out The Gorgonist's shop here!

xo Jen

This weekend was San Diego Comic Con and my twitter and Instagram feed became overloaded with SDCC news, pictures, and articles. To say I was jealous is an understatement. I skimmed through the news over the last couple of days but I finally sat down tonight to read some blogs, watch some trailers, and officially feel jealous of all the people who were able to experience the comic con in person.

I think the most exciting piece of news I read was about Katie Cook writing for the new My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic series. Katie is a genius. I met her last year at Fan Expo. Well, I somewhat stalked her table trying to figure out what to say to her. I ended up getting 2 of her mini-paintings and her 'F**k You, Box' book. I follow her twitter account and she can make me laugh out loud sometimes with her tweets so I can only imagine how awesome the MLP comic story will be. The comic artist is Andy Price and by looking at his deviantArt page, I don't doubt that the comic will look beautiful.
Source: Comics Alliance



Hearing news about upcoming Marvel X-Men projects was also really exciting:
* They will be having an Avengers Babies vs. X-Men Babies spin-off - ' puts Nick Fury, Jr. front-and-center in the Marvel Universe and features five short stories centered on as-yet unrevealed characters.' The artwork is by Skottie Young and it's so incredibly adorable.
Source: Comics Alliance and Digital Spy



* Some hints were spilled for the next X-Men: First Class movie. I'm so excited for this movie. I love that they won't just focus on the relationship between Charles and Erik, but they also mention focusing on the relationship with Raven and Hank. I loved Jennifer Lawrence and Nick Hoult in the first movie together. Source: Comingsoon.net

Lego also revealed their new Marvel and DC Minifigures. I cannot wait for them to be available in stores. They are insanely cute! I've had customers ask me at work if they make these so at least now I know they'll be available at some point in the near future.
Source: Comics Alliance

I'm 100% excited for Fan Expo Toronto next month after reading all the SDCC news. I love that I get to experience a huge comic convention every year, especially as an exhibitor.

xo Jen