No-Bake Easter Treats. Holidays are all about getting together with family and friends, making memories and eating good food. The oven is jam packed with roasting hams and tasty casseroles. It’s nice to get a few things done before the big day as well as give the oven a much needed break. Make sure to keep your meals simple so you can truly enjoy this Easter holiday. Nothing is more disappointing then working so hard that you’re not able to enjoy the holiday itself. These recipes will help to make your lives a little easier and keep the kids busy while you make some last minute preparations in the kitchen. I made these Chocolate Dipped Rice Krispie Eggs for the first time last year when I went back to spend Easter with my family. These ones were made with the leftover Strawberry Marshmallows I had stored away in the freezer.
Kids can: Dip the eggs in chocolate and sprinkles. Chocolate Dipped Rice Krispie Eggs Makes: 24 * If you don’t want to go through the work of making the eggs. Un-Baked Cookie Nests. Flourless Fudge Cookies. Baking: Grain-free Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies. I’ve been going crazy with the hazelnuts lately. I still dislike them in their natural form but grind them up, add sugar and chocolate and it’s all good. I admit that these cookies don’t taste like your typical buttery chocolate cookie and they certainly don’t taste like Nutella cookies (I had high hopes!) But they’re still awesome. Really. You know what? If you’re a coconut fan, you might want to toss in some extra coconut because these don’t have a strong coconut taste, although it’s there. . * One time in college I abandoned my bedroom for over a week because I saw a cockroach in there. I’ve been fiddling with grain-free recipes lately.
The chocolate chips are optional. Ingredients: Preheat your oven to 350ºF / 190ºC. Rainbow Cake in a Jar. I’ve always had a penchant for sunshine in a jar. Doesn’t the very phrase itself, “sunshine in a jar,” roll off your tongue and fill your mouth with magic? While I’ve never yet found myself a sunshine in a jar, I think we may have just concocted it in our kitchen tonight. In this simple recipe, a basic white cake is turned into a slew of bright colors, baked to perfection, then topped with a creamy white frosting. Cakes baked in jars can be topped with traditional metal canning lids and stored in the fridge for up to five days. They make a great treat to ship to someone, so long as you can ensure delivery to it’s final destination within 3 days. Rainbow Cake in Jar 1 box white cake mix made according to package instructionsNeon food coloring in pink, yellow, green, turquoise, and purple3 one-pint canning jars1 can vanilla frostingRainbow sprinkles Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Scoop about 1/2 cups of cake batter into five small bowls. Mint Chocolate Chip Cake. Chocolate cake and I have had a very interesting romance. I started off with quite an intense dislike of chocolate cake. I KNOW. But try not to judge me too harshly, I had many bad experiences with store-bought dry, dense mudcakes covered in grainy baking chocolate icing. So every year when I asked Regex Man what cake he would like for his birthday and every year he replied me with "Chocolate. So this year for Regex Man's birthday I offered to do a chocolate cake even though he said it didn't have to be chocolate this year.
I used David Lebovitz's devil's food cake recipe again, my new favourite chocolate cake since making it for my raspberry cupcakes when I launched the new site. Originally I was going to arrange the scoops of icing around the edge of the cake, but I realised I didn't have quite enough icing to do that so I ended up just doing a few of them in the middle. Mint Chocolate Chip Cake Mix together the coffee and milk. Happy Birthday Regex Man! Elmo cupcakes. Cupcakes. Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes. It happened again. I had one of my cupcake visions. And I couldn’t shake it. I kept thinking about these cupcakes, constantly, even dreamed about them multiple times.
And much like the last ones, the only way to stop obsessing was to hunker down and make them. So I did. What’s odd about this is I don’t usually like lemon-flavored sweets. Don’t let any fruit get in the way of my chocolate is my usual sentiment. And you know what? I used a variation on the tropical cupcake base I’ve used previously, with all coconut milk rather than soymilk (I thought the coconut would play nicely with the lemon). The frosting was tricky. Nevertheless, another cupcake for the books. You may also like...
Pink Lemonade Pound Cake. Pink Lemonade Cake Ingredients 1 cup homemade unsalted butter, softened 2 cups white sugar 4 eggs, room temperature 2-3/4 cups flour 2-1/4 tsp baking powder 3/4 tsp salt 1 cup frozen pink lemonade 1 TBS Lemon Zest Pink food colouring Frosting: 1 cup butter, softened 7 to 8 cups powdered sugar, sifted 1/2 cup thawed pink lemonade Lemon zest to taste Pink food colouring Directions Preheat oven to 350 Sift the dry ingredients together and set aside. Beat the butter for 3 minutes until light and fluffy. Add the sugar and beat another 3 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat thoroughly after each addition. Start adding the flour mixture one cup at a time, and alternate with the lemonade; ending with the flour mixture, mix well and pour into prepared cake pans. Apple Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes.
Apple Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes By Stefani Pollack Be sure to leave your kitchen while these apple pecan cinnamon roll cupcakes are baking. When you reenter the room, you’ll get to experience a sensational smell that is so strong you can almost see it cartoonishly wafting from your oven directly to your nose. When the cupcakes are done, quickly drizzle the tops with apple cider glaze.
Then, dive into your works of art, making sure to lick the warm, gooey apple cinnamon pecan filling off of your fingers as you go. If you somehow have any cupcakes left over, you can reheat them in the microwave for a few seconds before serving. Yield: 24 cupcakes Cinnamon Roll Ingredients 2 cups 2% milk 1 tablespoon (.5 oz) active dry yeast 1/3 cup sugar 2 teaspoons salt 6 ½ cups all-purpose flour, divided 2 eggs ¼ cup unsalted butter, room temperature Directions In a small saucepan or a microwave oven, warm milk to about 110 F.
Brush with about half of the melted butter. More cupcake recipes to try! Oreo and Peanut Butter Brownie Cakes. So, after being gone all last week, this has been catch up on the house week. Mostly laundry actually. Man, who knew that a weeks worth of laundry from 5 people could be so daunting. Yikes!! But I am kind of behind on my cooking and baking as well since I've been gone and cleaning. Not to mention, I needed an Oreo fix! So here we are. Oreo and Peanut Butter Brownie Cakes 1 box brownie mix, 8x8 inch size 24 Oreo Cookies 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a 12 muffin cup baker with paper liners.
Prepare brownie mix according to package directions. Makes 12 servings Recipe from picky-palate.com foodsnots.com. 28 Muffin Recipes You’ll Want to Try. I love muffins. I love them even more than cupcakes. Probably because they are so quick to make. It’s almost instant gratification from the time the muffin idea pops in your head until you’re pulling them from the oven. Of course, not all muffins are the sweet variety. Here’s a list of muffin recipes gathered from this site and all around the web too. Snickerdoodle Muffins – Just like the cookie, only in muffin form. Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins Cranberry Muffins with Orange Marmalade Glaze – The glaze would be really good on other kinds of muffins too.
Chocolate Chip Muffins Blueberry Muffins with Orange Glaze Apple Brown Betty Muffins Poppy Seed Muffins Blueberry Sour Cream Muffins Graham Muffins Pumpkin Muffins Argan Banana Muffins from Maroc Mama Sweet Potato Spice Muffins from The Jammie Girl Pumpkin Muffins with Streusel Topping from Hoosier Homemade Banana Muffins with Tart Lemon Icing from Addicted to Recipes Apple Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins from Barbara Bakes Cheddar Muffins. DIY | Colorful Cupcake Icing. Can you believe that every color swatch in the palette below can easily be made from a standard box of red, blue, green and yellow food coloring!
Stefanie over at Anna and Blue Paperie shares this lovely icing find from The Food Network. The numbers below each color are the amount of food coloring drops you need to add to plain white icing. Such great color combinations! The numbers below each color are the amount of food coloring drops needed. Never decorated cupcakes before? Check out this {Cupcake Basics} How to Frost Cupcakes from Glorious Treats to see some great tips and advice. How to Make a Rose Apple Tart. I love pie. Love it. LOVE it. For flavor, it can't be beat, in my opinion. No finer dessert around. But even I have to admit it has a more humble, rustic appearance than a fancy cake. I was inspired by classic French apple tarts.
This was more of a technique than a recipe, really, but I'll list out the ingredients I used, too. Rose Apple Tart Recipe single pie crust recipe Four or five large apples, sliced thinly 1/3 cup sugar 1 t cinnamon 2 t lemon juice 2 T butter, melted First thing's first: make your dough. Press the dough into your tart pan and brush with melted butter. Pin It Next up, core and slice your apples. Use this technique for coring your apples. Pin It Slice your apples thinly. Pin It Now it's time to start forming the roses. To create the center of the rose, roll one apple slice in a tight coil.
Pin It Do you see what I mean about using the coring technique I linked to above? Pin It Pin It This apple tart was delicious just as it was. Icings Recipes at Bake Decorate Celebrate! Baked Cinnamon Bun Donuts with Vanilla Cream Cheese Glaze. Sugar Donut Muffins. Homemade Jelly Doughnuts. Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread. I’m sorry. I know it’s Monday morning and you probably came here for some pretty pictures of food that you could glance at, and then move on with your day… and here I go thrusting warm, soft cinnamon sugar bread in your face. It’s not fair. I know it’s not fair. I know that now you’re craving cinnamon rolls, and cream cheese frosting and chili fries and hot dogs.
You don’t deserve this sort of torture. This bread hits all the comfort spots in my soul. I’m sorry and you’re welcome and I love you. Let’s start at the beginning. I did this all without the use of a stand mixer and dough hook. This dough can be made and left to rise , then refrigerated overnight for use in the morning. This is the dough just before it’s left to rise. After the dough has rested and risen for an hour, I knead it in a few tablespoons of flour. This is the part in the bread process where you can wrap the dough and place it in the fridge to rest overnight. I worked with my dough right away. I can’t even deal. Apple Walnut Muffins — Our Life In The Kitchen. Muffins are always good but with fall in the air it was time for a new variation. What can be simpler and more fall-like than apples and cinnamon?
Throw in some walnuts, add a streusel topping and they’re even better. All Purpose Flour, 2 1/4 cups, dividedSugar, 2/3 cupBaking Powder, 2 teaspoonsSalt, 1 teaspoonEggs, 2Milk, 3/4 cupButter, 1/2 cup, dividedBrown Sugar, 1/3 cupApples, 2Walnuts, 3/4 cupCinnamon, 1 teaspoon plus more for sprinkling Preheat the oven to 400. Grease a muffin pan. I just sprayed it very generously with Pam.
Peel and core the apples. Dice them into small chunks until you’ve got about 1 to 1 1/2 cups. In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine 2 cups of flour, white sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon with a whisk. In a small bowl, combine the remaining 1/4 cup flour, the brown sugar and 1/4 cup butter. Whisk together the milk and eggs until well-blended.
Very gently stir the liquid into the bowl of dry ingredients. Gently fold in the apples and walnuts. Cotton Candy Meringues for a Special Birthday. When I heard that Kristan of Confessions of a Cookbook Queen was having a birthday today, I immediately wanted to help celebrate! I've been a long-time fan of her creative desserts, not to mention her hilarious point of view and true-to-life anecdotes. Yes, she's smart and funny, but above all- she's as sweet as her confections. I deeply admire the openness she has with her readers, and even though we've never met in person, I consider her a friend! Kristan loves all things pink and sparkly (helloo, a kindred spirit!) , so I created these glittering pink cotton candy meringues for her special day. They are just as easy to make as standard meringues!
Just swap out the granulated sugar for finely ground cotton candy sugar. Be sure to check out all of Kristan's birthday party fare at the following sites: Happy Birthday Kristan! Note: Lots of you are asking where to buy cotton candy granules. 2 egg whites, at room temperature Pinch of cream of tartar 1/2 cup finely ground cotton candy granules.
French Macaron Recipe for Your First Time Making Them (pictures included) If you’re new here, welcome! I’m AmberLee, and Giverslog is my place to share simple DIYs for gift giving, happy mail ideas, simple recipes, and more. I also just opened an online chocolate shop, The Ticket Kitchen. Stop by if you get a moment. I hope my notes here about making French macarons for the first time help you out. I’d love to hear how it turns out. I’ve had a hankering to make macarons for some time. I found the process of making macarons to be every bit as delicate as I expected, but doable. And once you have macarons down, you will be a whiz at turning out a beautiful souffle. Do you like the tag? French Macarons Tag, printable (25067) After my day of experimenting with different batches, here are some lessons learned.
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