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The Best (Brazilian) Dessert You'll Ever Make

Got a sweet tooth? No-go on the gluten? The recipe below is an easy AND delicious way to connect with another culture. I had a craving for Brazil the other day so I whipped up some brigadeiro, the Brazilian national candy. Streuseled Apple Oatmeal Cinnamon Chip Muffins. It is seriously cold in Oregon right now and according to a poll I did on Facebook last night, it seems everyone is feeling a little “Arctic” at the moment.

Streuseled Apple Oatmeal Cinnamon Chip Muffins

We currently have snow and cold temperatures, which means my oven is going constantly. Cold weather and baking just seem to coincide, at least for me. The frigid weather has put me in the mood for one of the most comforting flavors I can think of, I call it the apple-cinnamon complex. Together apples and cinnamon are the perfect hand shake. Make a Quick Cream Cheese Apple Braid. The Best Original New York Style Cheesecake! …at least for me.

The Best Original New York Style Cheesecake!

You guys have no idea how long I have been looking for THE recipe. I absolutely LOVE NY Style Cheesecake, and THIS recipe is the ULTIMATE! Chocolate chip cookies (koekjes met chocolade) - Recept. Bake or Break - Adventures of an amateur baker - StumbleUpon. The Best Banana Bread. We’ve been eating a lot of bananas recently – on cereal, Stonyfield Farm Banilla yogurt, with chocolate in crepes, even with peanut butter on toast.

The Best Banana Bread

While all delicious, nothing really beats freshly baked banana bread. If you buy a bunch of bananas, and some start to get a little mushy, well, they are a prime target for making into banana bread. You want the bananas to be really ripe; the riper the better. I don’t know if there is some science behind this, maybe it just makes them easier to mash.

I mashed by hand, using the back of a spoon. This time around I doubled the recipe and made two loaves. Banana Bread Ingredients 3 mashed ripe bananas 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional) 1 tsp baking soda 1 1/2 cup flour 1 cup sugar 1 egg Directions. Kaneelrolletjes. How to Make Awesome Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. Caramel-Filled Chocolate Cookies Recipe from Pillsbury. Moist Chocolate Chip Banana Bread. Caramel Brownie Cheesecake. This is a monkeyhead concoction so please don’t be disappointed with me that it’s not 100% homemade.

Caramel Brownie Cheesecake

Sometimes as a mom you have to go with your childrens ideas in order to lift their creative wings. Monkey One loves cheesecake and caramel, Monkey Two has a passion for brownies you put the two of these knuckleheads together and look at what they come up with… Caramel Brownie Cheesecake. You gotta love the way these boys think. To see their vision come to fruition we used one of our favorite brownie mixes, a no bake white chocolate cheesecake recipe from Williams-Sonoma and we tried Jamie’s homemade caramel recipe from My Baking Addiction. My girl has it going on in the kitchen y’all, get ready to drool. Ree Drummond - StumbleUpon.

Iced coffee is my life.

Ree Drummond - StumbleUpon

When I wake up, often around the time party animals on the west coast are just heading home, I start each day not with a cup of freshly brewed hot java, but with a tall, blessed glass of creamy iced coffee in a glass. I’ve been an iced coffee freakazoid for years and years. To say I couldn’t live without it is an understatement. It gives me the tools I need to cope. Iced coffee is a complicated thing, and there are many different approaches. 1. Given the previous set of facts, one would assume that the logical solution would be to brew hot coffee, then transfer the brew to the fridge, allow it to cool, and use it to make iced coffee from there. There are reasons this method results in a smoother, richer, more delicious concentrate than simply brewing strong coffee and refrigerating it. The Brownie That Will Change Your Life - StumbleUpon. Let me start off by saying that viewer discretion is advised for today’s post.

The Brownie That Will Change Your Life - StumbleUpon

OK now with the story that preludes possibly the greatest brownie I have ever sunk my teeth in thus far in my life. Last Saturday Mrs. Recipe/chantals-new-york-cheesecake/detail.aspx. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups. Soooooo… you know that episode of Sex and the City where Miranda has to dump dish soap on top of chocolate cake just so she will stop eating it??

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups

Uh. Yeeeeeah. These are like… of that caliber. And that totally almost happened to me. You PROBably should not make these if you are home alone for four days. Web's Tastiest: Pancakes Recipes. Everyone knows that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Web's Tastiest: Pancakes Recipes

So of course you want to get off to a good, healthy start. However, anyone with kids knows that some mornings are just too special to worry about a properly balanced meal. Spending time in the kitchen as a family, whipping up something absolutely decadent and definitely too sweet, is the stuff that memories are made of. Pull Apart Lemon Coffee Cake. The title says "cake" but I really feel that "bread" better describes what this is.

Sweet yeasty dough cut and slathered with butter and lemon infused sugar is baked and then spread with lemon cream cheese icing. Once its iced you can just peel the slices off, no need to cut (who has time to find a knife anyways??) When I think coffee cake I think dense, moist, and sweet.. this is more soft, lemony, and sweet-ish. How to Make a Cake with Zebra Stripes on the Inside! & MyCakeSchool Blog - StumbleUpon. Hi everyone!

How to Make a Cake with Zebra Stripes on the Inside! & MyCakeSchool Blog - StumbleUpon

Happy Friday! Okay, it is just about 15 minutes until Saturday here, but I’m still going to call this a Friday blog -:0) — Let’s celebrate by making a zebra cake! In my last video tutorial, I demonstrated how to decorate a cake with zebra stripes–a very fun look for your safari, fashion or just plain funky themed cakes! Well, today I’ll show you how to continue the theme to the inside of the cake. By the way, I did not invent the zebra cake. Cinnamon Toast&Rolls - Circle B Kitchen - Circle B Kitchen - StumbleUpon. The USDA released its new food pyramid the other day (which is actually a plate now instead of a pyramid), and I am sorely disappointed to report that cinnamon rolls did not appear anywhere on that plate.

I think by now most of us know what should be on our dinner plate in terms of healthy, well-rounded nutrient-laden meals, but it is my considered opinion that our breakfast plate should include cinnamon rolls now and then. And not just any cinnamon roll, mind you, but how ‘bout a homemade cinnamon roll hybrid that is a cross between a cinnamon roll and cinnamon toast, is super easy to make and gosh darn delicious. In honor of their ancestry, I call these little gems cinnamon toast rolls, and here’s all you need to make them… Yep. That’s it… some soft white bread, some butter and some cinnamon sugar. Trim the crusts off of the bread Roll the bread really flat Brush both sides of the bread with butter.