Averie Cooks. Baked Apple Cider Donut Holes. Today is the last day to enter our first ever Feastie Friday giveaway - make sure you enter to win that Calphalon panini grill!
All entries must be in by 5pm EST today. A winner will be chosen at random and contacted, and we'll post the results here at Feastie. In the meantime, I've got some yummy Thanksgiving-inspired recipes to share. Being a CA transplant in the DC area, I try to appreciate every second of the fall season. First of all because we don't really have seasons where I grew up, and secondly because it's one of the most beautiful times of year in the Midatlantic.
If you guys like this recipe, try my baked pumpkin spice donut holes - very similar but with a bit of a pumpkin pie feel! Baked Apple Cider Doughnut Holes adapted from The Kitchn makes 24-48 mini muffins or "donut holes" ** Ingredients: Instructions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees and spray a mini muffin pan with cooking spray. Cannoli Bites. Make these Cannoli Bites.
Devour these Cannoli Bites. That is all I have to say. Okay not really all I have to say because these are my dream dessert, I have such a soft spot for Italian and French pastries so, really I have plenty to say about these. First of all, the cups for these are made from a cannoli dough (I made it a bit thicker than I would for a cannoli shell that would be wrapped around a flute and fried, simply so it could hold it’s shape a little better). The cups are baked in mini muffin cups, not fried. If you have sweet Marsala wine on hand you can use that in place of the juice and vinegar (so just omit both of those and replace it with 1/2 cup Marsala wine). That first cannoli bite, always mine =). Ingredients Cannoli cups: Cannoli Filling Directions For the cannoli cups: Add flour, granulated sugar, cocoa powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt to a food processor and pulse until blended. Blog Birthday! Funfetti Cake Balls.
Today is my blogs birthday!
One year ago today I reluctantly started this blog looking for a creative outlet for all my crazy baking and cooking shenanagans (thats the best I can do with the spelling of that). I may not have 698+ blog followers and fancy pictures like many of the great blogs out there but I am still pretty darned proud of this thing and very thankful for the 108 of you that do follow...it makes me :) lots! In the future, I am really really really hoping to get a nice camera. Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookies. Christmas baking can be incredibly nostalgic.
Anytime I bake peanut butter blossoms or mini cheesecake cookies, I imagine being about 8 years old, in the kitchen of my old house, watching my mom bake. I can feel the carpet under my toes, I can see the floral painting on the wall, and if I walk around the corner, I can see the silver and blue garland wrapped around the staircase. There are certain recipes that flat-out have to be made during the holidays, or it’s just not Christmas. Then there are cookies and treats that have been made occasionally, but somehow fall through the cracks some years. These peanut butter cup cookies fall into that category, although how that ever happened with me around is absolutely astonishing. This is one of the easiest cookie recipes you’ll find, and it’s one that will have people going crazy. Peanut Butter Bars Recipe.
What is it about Peanut Butter Bars that make the world just feel right.
Since Little Buddy was just a wee one, we’ve been making these peanut butter bars together. He’d sit on the edge of the counter, swinging his feet as we poured all of the ingredients for the peanut butter base into a large mixing bowl to mix it all together. His favorite part of making these peanut butter bars has always been to dump the confectioner’s sugar into the bowl, the cloud of white sugar dust bringing out his contagious giggle every single time. We celebrated his visit to the orthodontist by making these yesterday. You see, we were fully prepared for the orthodontist to reinstall the bottom device at our visit, but Little Buddy must have some major luck. Over breakfast, he told me that he sure did hope he didn’t have to have the device reinstalled until after his birthday. “Honey, that’s over a month and a half away. To which I received an eye roll and a sideways grin. And Little Buddy had gotten his wish. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies *If you are visiting this post for the first time, you may wish to visit my “Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies Take Two” post- a more recent post where I share (what I think is) a better version of these brownies!
These are good too- but I took the comments suggested in this post and created a new recipe based on feedback. Okay, Cookie Dough Lovers. I gave you those Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles a few weeks ago, and now I’m giving you Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies! The raw dough is egg-free, of course.