They Look Delicious!

There is a post from Kevin & Amanda with many pictures of DELICIOUS desserts and their recipes. You'll want to check them out by clicking HERE.

Warm Nutty Caramel Brownies

I went to this super fun bridal shower last night, and we did a recipe exchange, the bride did not want any gifts. This was one of my favorite recipes shared, but I think I would leave the nuts out. I am not nuts about nuts. :) Hope you enjoy! The Pampered Chef ® Warm Nutty Caramel Brownies Recipe

1 teaspoon vegetable oil 1 package (12 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate morsels, divided 1 package (18-21 ounces) brownie mix (plus ingredients to make cake-like brownies) 3/4 cup packed brown sugar, divided 1 cup salted mixed nuts, divided 5 rolls (1.7 ounces each) milk chocolate-covered chewy caramels, divided (40 pieces total) Vanilla ice cream (optional)

Preheat oven to 375°F. Lightly brush Large Bar Pan with oil using Chef's Silicone Basting Brush. Chop 1 1/2 cups of the chocolate morsels using Food Chopper. In Classic Batter Bowl, combine brownie mix, water, oil, eggs and 1/4 cup of the brown sugar; mix well. Fold in chopped chocolate; pour batter into bar pan, spreading evenly using Small Mix ‘N Scraper®. Chop nuts using Food Chopper. Combine half of the nuts and remaining 1/2 cup brown sugar; sprinkle evenly over brownie batter. Bake 20-22 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Meanwhile, using Utility Knife, cut 16 caramels into quarters. Place remaining 1/2 cup chocolate morsels in Prep Bowl; microwave on HIGH 1 minute or until melted, stirring after each 20-second interval. Spoon melted chocolate into resealable plastic bag; set aside. Remove bar pan from oven to Stackable Cooling Rack. Immediately press remaining 24 caramels evenly into brownie in four rows of six caramels each. Sprinkle quartered caramels and remaining nuts over brownies. Trim corner of chocolate-filled bag with Utility Knife; drizzle chocolate evenly over brownies. Cut into squares; serve warm using Mini-Serving Spatula. Serve with ice cream, if desired.

Yield: 24 servings

Nutrients per serving: Calories 310, Total Fat 16 g, Saturated Fat 3.5 g, Cholesterol 25 mg, Carbohydrate 38 g, Protein 2 g, Sodium 135 mg, Fiber less than 1 g

© The Pampered Chef, Ltd., 2001

Strawberry Cake & Cream Cheese Icing

Recipe and image found at The Sweet Life.

Strawberry Cake  1 box white cake mix
10oz bag of frozen strawberries {thawed}
1 small package {3oz} strawberry gelatin mix
4 eggs
2/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup milk


In a small bowl, use a fork and mash the strawberries. Set aside 1/2 cup of the strawberries for use in the frosting. Mix the remaining strawberries, cake mix, gelatin mix, eggs, oil and milk together in a mixing bowl and mix on medium speed for 2-3 minutes.

You can either make a layer cake or a 9x13 cake. If you choose to make a layer cake, grease and flour your cake pans. If you are making a 9x13, cooking spray will work great. Fill your pans and bake at 350 for about 20 minutes for layer cakes and 25-30 minutes for a 9x13. 

Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting  8oz cream cheese {softened}
6 Tbsp. butter {softened}
1/2 cup of reserved mashed strawberries
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
1.5 lb. powdered sugar

In a mixer, whip the cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add the strawberries and vanilla. Mix until completely incorporated and fluffy.   With the mixer on low, slowly add the powdered sugar. Add more or less as needed to achieve a nice spreading consistency.

Frost your cooled cake and enjoy!!

Sinful Cupcakes by Natalyn Shepherd

These cupcakes are to die for! You'll see why when you read the ingredients! Enjoy!

Cupcakes

Cream until fluffy:

1 ½ c. unsalted butter

2 c. sugar

5 eggs

            1 ½ t. vanilla

            1 ½ t. almond flavoring

Sift dry ingredients and add to creamed ingredients:

            3 c. flour

            1 t. baking soda

            ½ t. baking soda

            ½ t. salt

Stir in:

            1 c. buttermilk

            14 oz sweetened coconut

Place in foil cupcake liners. Bake at 350’ for 20-25 min.  Makes 24-26.

Butter - Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream:

            1 lb. Philadelphia cream cheese

            1 ½ c. unsalted butter

            1 t. vanilla

            ½ t. almond flavoring

            ½ lb. powdered sugar

An additional 2 oz. coconut may be colored green and sprinkled on top of frosted cupcakes.  A few jelly beans on top makes it the perfect Easter diner dessert!

Chewy Banana Nut Oatmeal Cookies

I found this recipe on the internet a few days ago and decided to try it last night. They sound delicious and let me tell you... they ARE delicious. Very good recipe. I recommend you trying!

To see pictures of these cookies and Gina's website, SkinnyTaste, click HERE.

Cheeky Kitchen!

I love Cheeky Kitchen. many recipes include ingredient that I have and aren't too difficulty to make. Here are a few I have recently discovered!

• Garlic Butter Breadsticks
• Cranberry Streusel Muffins
• Loaded Baked Potato Soup
• Flaky Biscuits
• Grown Up Mac-N-Cheese
• Roll/Cinnamon Recipe
• Banana Bread
• White Chicken Chili
• Brown Sugar Cookies
• Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars
• Chewy Brownies

Enjoy!

Mascarpone Oreo Snowflake Cookies

Tell me these don't look absolutely delicious!

I know, you can't! So, go HERE to get the recipe and more pictures!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

{Found at Greaves Goodies}
2/3 c. shortening
2/3 c. butter (not margarine)
1 c. granulated sugar
1 c. brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
3 c. flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 c. chopped nuts (optional)
12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips (I always use milk chocolate chips!)

Mix thoroughly first 6 ingredients. Stir in remaining ingredients. Drop on ungreased baking stone. Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 375 degrees. This is a single recipe which makes about 7 dozen.

Rolo Cookies

I saw this great, easy, recipe on Oops! Redone today and HAD to post!

Ingredients:

1 chocolate cake mix

2 eggs

1/2 cup oil

4 Packs of Rolos

Directions:

Mix chocolate cake mix with 2 eggs and 1/2 cup oil.

Form dough into small balls around a Rollo.

Bake at 350.

8-10 minutes.

Chocolate Fudge... Yum!

Today, Chris' aunt taught me how to make his Grandma Billie's fudge... and it's so good! I don't have exact measurements... but it's fairly simple.

Sauce pan Ingredients:
2 sticks of butter (1 cup of butter)
4 cups sugar
1 can evaporated milk
2.5 jars of marshmallow cream

Mixing bowl Ingredients:
2 big Hershey bars (the ones that have like 20 little squares)
2 bags of chocolate chips
2 hand fulls of almonds
2 hand fulls of walnuts

In a sauce pan, bring to a boil sugar, butter (not margarine), and evaporated milk. Once boiling, boil for 10 minutes while stirring. Then, check mixture to see if it's "soft ball" like. Meaning, you drop a bit of it into ice water and if it instantly forms a soft ball... it's ready!

Add 2 and 1/2 jars of marshmallow cream  (not the tall jars of cream, but the shorter ones) and the mixing bowl ingredients to the boiling mixture. Stir until it's creamy and everything is mixed in well. Then, pour into a buttered pan and let set up. It will make a few pans worth! Enjoy!

Pretzel Rolo Treats

I love these fun treats because they are super easy to make and they are always a big hit at any party!

All you need for this recipe is:
1 bag butter snap pretzels (the small square ones)
Bag or Bags of Rolos(There are about 49 rolos in a bag- so however many bags you'd like)
or I've done it with kisses too and I am sure you could do it with any type of chocolate candy
1 bag of M&Ms

Preheat your oven to 200 degrees. Lay out pretzel squares on a cookie sheet. Top each pretzel with a rolo (or kiss.) Bake in the oven until the chocolate is melted enough to press the M&M on top. Remove from oven and top, pushing down slightly with an M&M. Let cool to set (I put mine in the refrigerator for a bit). Then eat and enjoy!!
Store in airtight container.

Makes however many pretzels you have!

Snickers Bar Salad

This is super yummy and so easy to make!

1 Lg. Instant Vanilla Pudding
8-12 oz. Cool Whip
4-5 Snickers Bars
5-6 Diced Apples
3-4 Sliced Bananas

Use 1 1/2 cups milk to puudding and mix until creamy. Add cool whip. Add snickers(cut into pieces). Add fruit to mixture.

Serves 8-12.

Enjoy!

The Ever-So-Fabulous CAKE POPS

Ingredients:

1 box cake mix

1 can of ready-made frosting

1 Package of Wilton’s candy melts. (white chocolate, milk chocolate, etc.)

Cookie sheet

Wax paper

Popsicle sticks

Sprinkles, etc.

•Prep time 15 min.

•Bake time 35min
•Cool time 1 hr 30 min
•Total time: About 3 hr

Directions:

• Bake cake and allow to cool completely (about one hour).
• Crumble cake in large bowl and add frosting (usually 3/4 can of frosting).
• Put cake mixture in fridge and chill for 30 min
• Take out and shape dough into balls or press into favorite cookie cutter.
• Dip end of Popsicle stick in candy melts and insert into cake ball. Allow to harden. This helps cake to stay on the stick.
• When ready, dip cake pop in candy melts and dry upside down. At this point you can add decorations.

Blueberry Streusel Muffins

What I love about this recipe is you likely have everything but the blueberries! You can probably substitute the blueberries for another fruit as well. From allrecipes.com.

1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1/3 c. milk
1 c. blueberries

Streusel Topping
1/2 c. sugar
1/3 c. all-purpose flour
1/4 c. butter, cubed
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 400F. Grease muffin tin (or line with paper liners). Combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.

Place vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup; add the egg and enough milk to fill the cup. Mix this with flour mixture. Fold in blueberries.

Fill muffin cups right to the top, and sprinkle with crumb topping mixture.

To Make Streusel Topping: Mix together sugar, flour, butter, and cinnamon. Mix with fork, and sprinkle over muffins before baking.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until done.

Oatmeal Banana Cookies

This is a recipe I found off of myfitnesspal.com:

3 bananas
2c. uncooked quick cooking oats
1/4 c. raisins
1/3 c. margarine

1/4 c. 1% milk
1tsp. vanilla extract

1-2tsp of cinnimon (to taste)Directions
Combine all ingredients, beating well with hand mixer. Let stand for 5 minutes so oats will absorb moisture. Drop dough by heaping teaspoonsfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Flatten. Bake at 350 degress for 15-20 minutes let stand 1 minute on cookie sheet.

Makes about 20 "cookies."

They are interesting. They aren't sweet like cookies, but the are satisfying. :) And not bad for 80 cal a cookie!

Strawberry Pretzal Dessert

Ingredients:

Crushed pretzels
Melted Butter
Sugar
Cream Cheese
2 Pkg Strawberry jello
2 Pkg frozen strawberries
Cool Whip

How to make it?
2 cups crushed pretzels
¾ cup butter melted
3 tablespoons sugar
mix above ingredient into 9x13 pan press flat onto bottom of pan bake 400 degrees for 5 minutes let cool
8 oz cream cheese 1 cup sugar 8 oz cool whip -- mix together until smooth spoon over pretzel layer.
2 - 3 oz pkg. strawberry jello 2 cups boiling water 2 - 10 oz pkg frozen strawberries.
Mix strawberry jello and boiling water together. Add sliced strawberrries. Refrigerate for about an hour until slightly jellied. Pour carefully over cream cheese mixture and refrigerate.

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