Game Night - "A" for effort

For Game Night this past weekend, I planned to make these cute brownies decorated like dominoes. Again, another idea from pinterest. :) Here is what the brownies were supposed to look like...

(Image from InStyle magazine)

Cute idea, right? Well, I was running a little behind (imagine that!) so I didn't have time to decorate the brownies before I left. I had bought a tube of white icing and some white chocolate chips for the dots. I packed them in my bag, packed the Jalapeno Bacon Poppers too (recipe below), and was off. When I went to unload my stuff at Pam's house, guess what I had forgotten to take? The pan of brownies!!! Grrrr, how frustrating! But oh well. I'm thinking I might try again next month for Bunco and decorate brownies to look like dice. I'll let you know how it goes. Since Bunco is at my house next month, I won't be able to forget the brownies! :)

Another party fail for Game Night was my Jalapeno Bacon Poppers. I combined 2 recipes into 1 but they ended up being almost too hot for anyone to eat. Oops!

First I read about these Jalapeno Poppers from

http://aisletoaloha.blogspot.com/2011/01/pop-em-like-theyre-hot.html

You put cream cheese, bacon, and fresh jalapeno in the middle of a crescent roll and bake it. Sounds yummy, right? I thought so too.

Then I saw this recipe on the Tasty Kitchen website for Jalapeno Cream Cheese Crescent Poppers. It's cream cheese and diced jalapenos rolled up in cresent rolls.

http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/appetizers-and-snacks/the-gangs-all-here-jalapeno-cream-cheese-crescent-poppers/

Again, sounds yummy, right? So I decided to try and combine the 2 recipes by adding bacon into the crescent poppers. I followed the recipe and put the same amount of jalapenos as she said, but my poppers were VERY hot! Other than that, they turned out yummy, but some were just too hot to eat. Here's my attempt. I should at least get an A for effort. :)

First you combine 3/4 of an 8 oz block of cream cheese with 1/2 of a 4 oz can of diced jalapenos. This is where I would definitely change the recipe! This was too many jalapenos! Or maybe my can of jalapenos were just hotter. Then I thought surely the recipe would be even better with bacon so I added half a bag of real bacon bits. The recipe on Tasty Kitchen calls for a tablespoon of sugar. I'm sure that part is optional.

Mix it all together...

Spread the mixture on a roll of cresent rolls split into two. I found a roll that was not cut into pieces, which made it even easier. I split the roll in half and spread half the mixture on each section.

Then rolled each section up...

Then cut each section into 16 pieces. The easiest way to do this so your pieces will all be the same size is to cut the roll in half, then cut that in half, and keep going until you have 16 pieces.

Then bake them for about 13 minutes at 375. I'm anxious to try the recipe again with less jalapenos.