Cinnamon Sugar Blueberry Banana Bread. Apr 16 Cinnamon Sugar Blueberry Banana Bread Well it would seem I’m on a cinnamon sugar kick. This time I’m adding it to Blueberry Banana Bread. Cinnamon sugar is always a good thing, don’t you think? Do you have a song? You know, one of those songs that just speaks to you? That summer was one of those summers, if you know what I mean.
{BTW I bring all this up because Kimberly Nicole sang it last week on The Voice. Something else that brings back loads of memories? Today I married my two favorite mom recipes and made Cinnamon Sugar Blueberry Banana Bread. I love banana bread. When we got back from a week in San Diego I realized I had 2 very tired bananas in my fruit bowl. I knew I was going to make them into my favorite quick bread, but I couldn’t decide how. Everything I make has a purpose…and a spot on this blog. So I decided to add some blueberries to my favorite banana bread recipe. That was a good decision. That crack? You’ll notice the bread calls for “sour milk”. Ingredients: Notes: Oreo and Peanut Butter Brownie Cakes. Well these naughty little treats are well….naughty but oh so necessary. There are a bit like my Brownie Covered Oreo’s from last Christmas but enhanced with layers of peanut butter and a double decker stack of Oreos in each little brownie cake.
They are simply prepared in cupcake liners. Hope you enjoy this ultra sweet little cake Ok, I have to brag about this brownie mix from Trader Joes for a second. I know not everyone has a Trader Joes near by, however if you do, get a load of their ready to pour baking mix. I am in love! Other than a brownie mix, you just need some of your favorite peanut butter and some Oreos. Break out 24 Oreo Cookies. Some of your favorite peanut butter. Spread a teaspoon of peanut butter over Oreo #1. Press a second Oreo right on top One more teaspoon right on top. Place the little stack right into a cupcake lined muffin cup. Like so Take your brownie mix…. …and spoon a couple tablespoons right over top, letting it run around the edges of the cookies.
Mmmm! 1. 2. Enjoy! Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake. Smooth, creamy, decadent cheesecake studded with sweet morsels of cookie dough and bursts of mini chocolate chips? All atop a chocolatey, buttery crust? Garnished with sweetened whipped cream and more chocolate chips? Oh baby, sign me up for a cookie dough cheesecake IV. Immediately. Hands down one of the best cheesecakes I’ve ever tasted.
P.S. One Year Ago: Cookie Dough Topped BrowniesTwo Years Ago: The Best French Bread Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Note: this cheesecake, like any good, baked cheesecake, tastes best after being refrigerated overnight. Ingredients Crust: 4 tablespoons butter, melted 2 1/2 cups chocolate cookie crumbs (I like to use chocolate Teddy Grahams but you could use any chocolate wafer cookie or even Oreos) Filling: 4 (8-ounce) blocks cream cheese, softened to room temperature 1 cup sugar 4 large eggs 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup sour cream (I used light and it worked just fine) Cookie Dough: Garnish: Directions For the cookie dough:
Steak Cuts. If you’re a total noob at eating steaks, knowing what type of steak to order at fancy restaurants can be overwhelming or intimidating. Let’s beef up your knowledge so you’ll know how to order the perfect steak. Meat quality is primarily based on two factors: the cut of the beef and the grade of the beef.
The first step to being able to order a steak is to know the cuts. (Knowing the different grades of beef will be covered in the next article.) There are many types of steaks and you should at least become familiar with the popular ones. A steak is a piece of muscle cut from different areas of the cow. The type of steak cut you choose will determine the level of flavor and tenderness of steak, amount of marbling (streaks of fat within the meat), as well as the price you’ll pay. Also known as: Tenderloin Steak Description: The most tender beef cut.
Fat content: Low Also known as: Kansas City Steak, New York Strip, Strip Loin Steak, Shell Steak Description: Juicy “steak” flavor. Fat content: High. Home-made Candies. There’s a reason why they put all that deliciously sweet candy up by the cash registers in nearly every store: if you had to find it at the back of the place, you’d likely decide against it before you got up front to pay. But you’re an adult, and once a child sets their sights on a candy bar, there’s no turning back. Instead of worrying about all of the sketchy ingredients, extra calories, additives, and possible allergens in popular packaged sweets, here are a few recipes to Make Your Own Candy right at home. Homemade Twix Candy Bar Recipe Twix bars are the best because they come in a delightful little pair. Homemade Peanut Butter Cups Peanut butter allergies aside, it’s hard to believe anyone could deny anything that combines peanut butter and chocolate.
Homemade Gummi Bears Okay, so they aren’t really bears, but gummy stars sound just as cool. DIY Lollipop There doesn’t seem to be much to making a basic lollipop, which leaves the options of using natural sweeteners and dyes. Most gawked all-time. Nutella Cream Cheese Turnovers. This recipe is for all the Nutella fans. Today I have a very simple yet packed with flavor recipe for Nutella Cream Cheese Turnovers. It only takes a few ingredients and takes like it could come straight from a bakery. Nutella pairs amazingly well with tangy cream cheese in this delicious treat.
I was inspired to make this recipe when I saw a recipe over at the Country Cleaver. I tweaked the recipe a bit after trying the original. I changed the filling ratio as well as making the turnovers a bit larger, as I found the first batch to be cut too small and my filling started spilling out when baked. Many thanks to Country Cleaver for the inspiration for this recipe. Yield: 12 large turnovers Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Ingredients: 2 sheets puff pastry 4 oz. cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup Nutella For Egg Wash: 1 egg, beaten 1 Tbsp. water For garnish: Powdered sugar Extra Nutella Directions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Best Sandwich Recipes. Few foods allow for such creativity as the humble sandwich. By definition, it’s just bread and . . . stuff. PB & J on white? That’s a sandwich. A mountain of pastrami and a bit of slaw between rye? Also a sandwich. Grilled Cheese and Short Rib Sandwiches Unfortunately, you can’t put this guy together during the opening credits of a movie like a lot of sandwiches.
Soft-Crab Sandwich This sandwich is all about the crab. Thanksgiving Leftovers Club Sandwich Some people say Thanksgiving is the best food day of the year. Coffee Bacon Sandwiches We’re very aware that bacon goes well with anything. Orange Barbecue Pulled Pork Sandwich Whenever we lay eyes on a beautiful pork shoulder, our primal response is, “We gotta rip that sucker apart and devour it NOW.”
French Onion Grilled Cheese Sandwich It’s like French onion soup but portable! BBQ Cabbage & Sausage Stuffed Sandwiches Chorizo Breakfast Sandwich With Sage Pesto Sandwiches are not confined to brown bag lunches. California Sandwich. Peanut Butter S'Mores Turnovers. Peanut Butter- S’Mores Turnovers I’m not much of a camper. My husband often takes my son on camping trips, and I happily stay behind and thank the gods for our bug-free house, cozy bed and well-stocked kitchen.
I always send them off in comfort… marinate a little meat for them to throw on the grill, pack up some convenience foods and bake a few goodies too. When they return from their camping weekends, I hear mostly about the evenings sitting around the campfire. Story telling, snuggling in blankets, singing songs and roasting marshmallows for S’Mores seem to be recurring favorites.
It all sounds great and everything, but it’s just not for me. Here’s the How To: Thaw out a box of Puff Pastry, and cut along the fold lines to make 6 large rectangles. Layer 1/4 of a whole graham cracker, a piece of milk chocolate bar and a spoonful of peanut butter on one side of the Puff Pastry. Transfer filled turnovers to a parchment-lined baking sheet, and brush with egg wash. Oreo Cheesecake Cookies. If you know me, you know that I absolutely, positively love cheesecake. Cheesecake anything. Cheesecake everything. I have sampled countless different varieties of cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory, and I always come back to the Oreo cheesecake. I love many of them, but I’m such a kid when it comes to Oreos and I totally adore them in my cheesecake. I even made myself an Oreo Cheesecake for my birthday a few years back. So when I saw these cookies – essentially a cheesecake with mini chocolate chips, and rolled in Oreo crumbs – they were calling my name! Truth be told, I was pretty darn tempted to totally ditch the actual cookies and just eat the cookie dough straight up out of the bowl.
If you love cheesecake and/or Oreos, you will totally adore these cookies! One year ago: Irish Soda Bread SconesThree years ago: Golden Brioche Loaf. Nutella Banana Gyoza. Yesterday I showed you how to make your own gyoza wrappers. When it comes to filling them, the sky is the limit! You’ll be hearing about a more traditional style of gyoza later this month in the Washoku Warrior roundup, so today I’m going to share a simple filling that is a bit more unexpected.
After cooking up some savory gyoza for dinner the other day, I had leftover homemade wrappers. I couldn’t let those yummy wrappers go to waste, so I decided to whip up a dessert that would use them up. When I lived in France, my favorite crêpe stand was on the way from the train station to school. This meant that I had to pass it two times a day: once on the way to class, and once on the way home. This also meant that I probably ate more than my fair share of crêpes. I decided to pay homage to my favorite crêpe by making a gyoza with the same fillings. Bell’ alimento has already posted a yummy recipe for Nutella gelato that is now on my “must make” list. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Drinks. Lemon Brownies. I am constantly looking for different ways to fuel my rather unhealthy lemon obsession, and since I've already made an elephantine amount of lemon bars (don't worry, there will be more!) , I decided to try something new...something kinda-sorta similar to a lemon bar but without the jelly-belly center.
Low and behold, I stumbled upon this incantation of a lemon bar/brownie hybrid! They're not quite as lemony as lemon bars, which makes them perfect for silly people who don't like their recipes on the tart side, but they are still lavish enough to pacify citrus-y dessert longings. To paint a better picture, just imagine biting into your favourite brownie, only instead of a rich chocolate flavour, your teeth sink into a chewy, cakey, lemon bar. I'm almost 100% positive that you have everything needed to make a batch, so you have my permission to take a break from sunning & surfing.
Lemon Brownies makes about 25-30 brownies method Preheat the oven to 350 F. Recipe adapted from Sweet Anna's. Schmevil's cake balls. If you haven’t heard of cake balls yet, I recommend that you check out Bakerella’s website to see what the fuss is all about. Cake balls are a great little invention; cooked cake batter crumbled and mixed with cream cheese frosting, rolled into balls, then dunked into melted chocolate. Don’t just make these for the health benefits though, they taste pretty darn good too. The recipe says to use any boxed cake mix for the type of flavor you want. For my first attempt I used Devil’s Food Cake mix, and a homemade frosting.
Devil’s Cake Balls (makes 45-50) – adapted from Bakerella.com Ingredients: 1 Box Devil’s Cake Mix1 16 oz. can cream cheese frosting*1 16 oz. bag of chocolate chipswax paper * To make homemade frosting: combine 8 oz. cream cheese (softened), 1 stick butter (softened), and 2 cups powdered sugar. Directions: 1. After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into large bowl. Powdered sugar, stick of butter, and package of cream cheese. 3 ingredients for a healthy dessert. Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter.
Need a midnight snack? Or anytime snack for that matter, my cookies and cream peanut butter might just knock your socks off I was so lucky to have my sister and her family visit earlier this week and I got to have some kitchen time with her beautiful girls. They are just the sweetest things ever. Hope you’ll enjoy this naughty snack that’s good enough to eat by the spoonful! Here’s your 3 ingredient line up. Break out the Oreos. My sweet little helper, I miss her already! Here’s the second stinker that kept passing through the kitchen. Pour those Oreos in a large bowl. …as well as peanut butter Time to melt the chocolate chips Use either a double boiler or melt in the microwave.
Add 2 tablespoons of peanut butter to the double boiler, helps melt the chocolate nicely. Add the chocolate to the bowl! Mmmm Give a gentle stir and place into a mason jar. Yes please. Double yes please. Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter 10 whole Oreo Cookies 2 Cups creamy peanut butter 1 cup white chocolate chips 1. 2. Gooey S’mores Cookies. I ate way too many of these darn cookies this weekend. It’s everything you love about S’mores… in cookie! :) If you love that perfect combination of sweet graham crackers with warm, melted chocolate and gooey, toasted marshmallows, then I have the perfect recipe for you. This chewy cinnamon graham cracker cookie is stuffed with mini marshmallow bits that get all perfectly toasted on the outside and impossibly gooey on the inside.
They’re also stuffed with mini Hershey’s kisses to complete the S’mores trifecta. Groan. They’re so good. Need I say more? Let’s make these sinful sweeties! Start by creaming one stick of softened butter with 1/2 cup sugar and 1/4 cup brown sugar until light and fluffy, about three minutes. Meanwhile, combine 1 1/3 cups flour, one teaspoon of baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Oh baby, now for the graham crackers! Pulverize 7 full graham cracker sheets to get 3/4 cup crumbs. Add them to the flour mixture and whisk to combine.
Oh my gosh. Swoon. Chocolate Chip Lava Cookies. I am so in love with these darn chocolate lava cookies! What is it about a warm, gooey chocolate chip cookie stuffed with decadent, rich, melted chocolate that makes it so irresistible?? Especially when topped with vanilla ice cream. These are one of Kev’s favorite homemade treats, and he usually asks me to make them at least once a week. They are so simple to whip up, and such a treat! Let’s make some right now :) All you really need for these fabulous cookies is your favorite cookie dough and a bag of chocolate chips. Since these cookies are absolutely gushing with delicious rich chocolate, my favorite chocolate chips for this recipe are the Hersey’s Milk Chocolate chips. Now let’s make some chocolate lava cookies! Place the flattened cookie dough in the bottom of a well-greased standard sized muffin tin.
Now for our gooey, rich milk chocolate filling. Lay the Ziploc bag flat in the microwave, spreading out the chocolate chips in a single layer. Heaven help me. Mama mia. 1. 2. 3. The Ultimate Chocolate Layered Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Birthday Cake! Chocolate chip cookie. Cocoa Dusted Dark Chocolate Truffles. Perfect Brownies. Nutella Mug Cake. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups. Blueberry and lemon traybake. 60 Second Chocolate Chip Cookie A la Mode. How to Cook. Making your food tastier.