Who Does She Think She Is??

She being Paula Deen.

I had a 40% off coupon for A.C. Moore the other day (kind of like a Michaels) and it was seriously burning a hole in my pocket. Unfortunately, there was very little money in said pocket, yet it usually feels like my hips and or butt are on fire for one reason or another. But that’s beside the point. I saw this Chocolate Dessert Magazine by Paula. $9 for a magazine?? Hello? Get an advertiser like Martha, Mrs. Deen. Anyhoo. I used my coupon on it, which almost brought the cost down to what I wouldn’t usually pay for a magazine. But the idea of a bunch of Chocolate Desserts….it had me from Hello.

So there are some pretty freaking amazing desserts in here, let me tell you. After licking most of the pics, I left it at our store and my mother picked it up. Um, it had HER at Hello, too. She honed in on Paula’s seemingly simple and delicious Banana Split Trifle. Trifling indeed. While this is a fabulous tasting dessert – seriously fabulous – it is uber-pricey. Nearly $30 involved in this one desert. Thirty Bucks! How in the world can you spend $9 on a magazine, then $30 on ONE dessert, AND buy the new jeans you need due to eating an entire Banana Split Trifle? Take out a second mortgage? Oh the enigma.

So how does it taste? Umm, good. Like a cake with a banana split on it. Whip Creamy, banana-y, chocolately – yum in a glass bowl. That’s how it tastes.

Well, here is a look at the trifle made with love by my mother. Photos are by me, as she doesn’t believe in taking pictures of what you consume. Me? I’d like to remember what it looked like before it made those big fat deposits on my ass. Thanks, Paula. I really needed that. If you, too would like to try the Banana Split Trifle, pickup the magazine…it really is worth the price. There are a lot of good looking things in there. My butt, however, is not one of them.