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Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Caramel Club Bars. Say it with me….These are rich and fabulous!

Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Caramel Club Bars

Cookie Dough Bites Recipes. College Fashion - Tips, trends and style for students. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough + Cupcake = The BEST Cupcake. Ever. Recipe. No-Bake Chewy Cookies and Cream Bars. Oh how I love a treat that can be whipped up in about 15 minutes.

No-Bake Chewy Cookies and Cream Bars

My boys and their buddies couldn’t get enough of these Chewy Oreo Bars we had as an after school snack this week. Sometimes my spontaneous recipe creations turn out to be the most fun, lol! Yes you use an entire package of Oreo Cookies, but what you get in return is a marshmallow-y Oreo treat that is worth every bite. Chubby Hubby Bars. I am not a huge ice cream fan.

Chubby Hubby Bars

Banana Split Bites. Banana Split Bites ~ A classic ice cream dessert gets mini for some bite size fun.

Banana Split Bites

And yes, there is actually a tiny scoop of ice cream tucked inside and underneath the whip cream of those little darlings. Banana Split Mini Bites. Oreo and Peanut Butter Brownie Cakes. Well these naughty little treats are well….naughty but oh so necessary.

Oreo and Peanut Butter Brownie Cakes

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. Italian sodas. How To Make Perfect Brownies. I’ve tried lots of brownie recipes: Boxes, scratch, frosted, plain, nuts, chips, fudge … Each of them has something to like, but depending on my mood I might want a change of pace.

How To Make Perfect Brownies

Not any more. My wife found this recipe, and it’s perfect. I’m done looking. This is the brownie recipe that I’ll use from now on. Ingredients 1½ cups sugar ¾ cup flour ¾ cup cocoa powder (see note below) 3 eggs ¾ cup butter, melted ½ teaspoon salt (if using unsalted butter) ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (see note below) Directions A NOTE ON CHOCOLATE: You’ll notice the list of ingredients is very short. Recipes from Kevin & Amanda. This post is in partnership with French’s Sweet Yellow Mustard and Spicy Yellow Mustard.

Recipes from Kevin & Amanda

Flourless Fudge Cookies. Puff the Magic Pancake. As much as I love pancakes, I’d never been able to find a recipe I really, REALLY liked.

Puff the Magic Pancake.

That all changed while we were working on King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking, the book we published 2 years ago. At the start of the project, the three authors—myself, fellow blogger Susan Reid, and Susan Miller, director of King Arthur’s Baking Education Center—divvied up the book’s proposed chapters. And in we jumped. I grabbed yeast bread, cookies, and pie; Susan Miller took the breakfast chapter, along with several others. HA! These pancakes absorb the butter and syrup without becoming soggy; they even look lovely, golden brown shading to darker patches. A brownie by any other name

Love brownies.

A brownie by any other name…

Love their shiny, flaky top that shatters into micro-thin shards that shower onto your fingers as you eat. Love their dark, gooey center. Their “chocolate nirvana” flavor. 4 American Classics, 1 machine. So it’s pretty clear by now that I’ve made more than enough attempts at difficult recipes, things that aren’t exactly realistic for a person who has a serious job, or someone who has a family, kids to pick up from soccer practice, or for a typical twenty-thirty something that works 9-7 and then goes out every night for happy hour.

4 American Classics, 1 machine

For me, these recipes are difficult, and there is so much research I have to do to find out about molecular gastronomy. But honestly, it is much harder to be creative when there are severe constraints on one’s time and space. I do realize that for most 20 somethings living in urban areas, one tends to deal with limited spaces in kitchens with little access to machines. 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.

Slutty Brownies. Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies. Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies First of all, thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. I had a fabulous birthday weekend. I have an easy and festive Valentine’s Day cookie recipe for you today. I made Red Velvet Cheesecake Cookies during Christmas time and they were a huge hit. Everyone loved them. These cookies are easy peasy. The Best Recipes For Cake In A Jar. Red Velvet Hot Cocoa with Cream Cheese Whipped Cream. It seems like recently, my diet has consisted wholly of hot chocolate, soups and my any type of salad topped with my favorite new green apple vinaigrette (recipe soon)! Seriously though, I've been sipping on hot chocolate or some kind of homemade latte every other day, if not every day.

This is probably because of my innate need for all things holiday to consume me. I'm the kind of girl who loves her winter weather. Although, you and I might have awful different ideas about what 'winter weather' means. As a born and raised Southern California girl, winter to me means: intermittent rains, 2 -3 layers of clothing tops, no sight of snow whatsoever and teeth chattering at the 70 degree mark. Anyways, along with Christmas music, this red velvet hot chocolate is all I need to keep me warm on these cold Californian nights. Red Velvet Hot Cocoa with Cream Cheese Whipped Cream Yields: 4 servings 4 cups whole milk 1 dash water 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips1/4 cup sugar 1 tsp. red food coloring. 5 Minute Chocolate Fudge S'mores Mug Cake.

Oh hi! Just sharing a s’mores mug cake today. That can be made in 5 minutes. You know… NO BIG DEAL. Valentine’s Day Treats: Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies. Written By: Julia Mercier. Snickerdoodle Muffins. Snickerdoodle Muffins I have been obsessed with Pinterest lately! Pinning this and that all while trying not to drool all over my computer.