Olympic Style Treats.

The Olympics make me giddy. And weepy. Whenever Bob Kostas starts telling one of those stories that Sol calls a "Triumph of the Human Spirit," I start losing it a little bit. The Olympics are just awesome, and I'll pretty much watch until the flame goes out in Vancouver. I've always been more of a Winter games fan because of the "x factor." Snow and ice are just plain unpredictable.

Summer or winter, the Olympics are a good reason to get together with friends and have an Opening Ceremonies party. I am sorry you weren't invited to ours. It was in Virginia and was pretty small with just two of Sol's friends from work.

I really wanted to make an Olympics themed dessert. I was inspired by my friend Martha who made this beauty for the Summer games in 2008.

That's a lot of Rice Krispie treats! We had a couple of rings left over at the end of the party. My supportive friends thought it was a good idea for me to take the yellow ring over to my cute downstairs neighbors and introduce myself.

They watched from the balcony while I made a fool of myself. It's never cool to open with the line, "Hey. Do you want an Olympic ring made of Rice Krispies?"

This year I tried to think of something easy but Olympic themed for the Opening Ceremony.

I started with a box of Trader Joe's "Brownies without Guilt." They are so yummy and all you add is vanilla yogurt to the mix. I baked them in little muffin tins for bite size fun. Then I made peanut butter frosting because I knew it would make Rachel happy. So easy and so yummy. I added a LOT of yellow food coloring to make them golden in color.

I should have stopped there. But I saw this thing in Martha, and I wanted to try it.

Sigh.

I printed ones off the computer and put them under a piece of waxed paper. I squeezed melted chocolate out of a ziploc trying to make artsy ones. Then I put them in the freezer to set up. I wanted them to stand up on the cupcakes. Wrong. They were much better laid across to the top of the cupcake.

And even then, I wasn't that impressed with myself. As I've said before, I don't have a future as a food blogger. At least they tasted delicious.

Now excuse me, there is a tub of leftover frosting in my fridge and the Olympics are on. I better find my Kleenex. This is better than a romantic comedy.