The Baker's Daughter: Polka dot cheesecake. I saw someone wearing the greatest polka dot rain coat today and it inspired me to make this cheesecake. It needs to be refrigerated overnight so make sure you make it the day before you want to serve it. I find that popping it into the freezer for about 1/2 hour makes it a lot easier to cut. Using a knife dipped in hot water between cuts also helps to make clean edges. If you want to make this into a traditional cheesecake you will need an 8 inch spring form pan. Crust 1 cup Graham crumbs 2 tbsp sugar ¼ cup melted butter Filling 16 oz softened cream cheese ½ cup sugar 2 eggs 2 oz dark chocolate, melted 1 tsp vanilla 2/3 cup sour cream Directions Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Grease a 7 X 7 inch square pan and line it with parchment paper. In a small bowl, mix together the graham crumbs, sugar, cocoa, and melted butter and press into the pan. Beat cream cheese until smooth.
Pour the plain batter into the pan, smoothing out to the edges. Place in the oven and bake for 1 hour. Molten Lava Chocolate Chip Cookie. Need I say more? Just yum! Go make a couple of these! Made a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough. Baked most of them as these: Then I did this: Baked these two guys for 15 minutes, next time I'll only do about 12 minutes. I like goo! Plenty of chocolaty deliciousness hidden inside. But that's just not quite enough, so I did this: And that, my friends, is what I call Molten Lava Chocolate Chip Cookie heaven! Any cookie dough will work, but here's the recipe I used: The Ultimate Chewy and Soft Chocolate Chunk Cookies INGREDIENTS 1 cup unsalted butter at room temp 1 cup tightly packed light brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 2 large eggs 1 1/2 tsps. pure vanilla extract 3 cups plus 2 tbsp. all-purpose flour 1 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt 16 oz. flavorful bitter or semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped (I used a 1 oz square of bitter sweet chocolate, a 4 oz bar of bitter sweet chocolate and about 10 oz of semi sweet chocolate chips) INSTRUCTIONS 1.
Okay, I'm done! Frozen Watermelon Pops | kid healthy snack. 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. 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. Spoon about 3 tablespoons of the purple batter into the bottom of each jar. For even more great desserts in a jar, check out our slideshow “Contain Yourself! Cheesecake Pops. 5 (8 ounce) packages of cream cheese, at room temperature 2 cups granulated sugar 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 5 large eggs 2 large egg yolks 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream boiling water, as needed 30 to 40 (8-inch) lollipop sticks 1 pound semisweet flavored, milk chocolate flavored, or brightly colored confectionery coating (also known as summer coating or wafer chocolate) 1.
Position an oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 325°F. Lightly grease a 10-inch cake pan or a 9 or 10-inch square pan (don't use a springform pan.) 2. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer set at low speed, beat together the cream cheese, sugar, flour and salt until smooth. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. *We've actually kept these in the freezer for a few days with success. Marshmallow Fun Pops | CouponClippingCook.
Marshmallow Fun Pops These are so fun to make so I decided to call them “Marshmallow Fun Pops”. I happened to see these giant marshmallows in the store one day and kept thinking about how fun it would be to coat and dip them in candies. I made the mistake of not buying them when I saw them the first time, and as luck would have it when I returned to buy them, the shelf was empty. Once I finally found them on the shelf again I could go on with my life! This recipe includes granola, shredded coconut, and various candy toppings but feel free use your favorite toppings. You could even customize the candy topping colors to match a party theme, school colors, or maybe you would just like to make S’mores! I actually had some graham cracker crumbs on hand and used them for a topping.
If you want to make a S’more Pop, an option would be to actually get whole graham crackers and break them in small pieces rather than using the crumbs; you may get more of the graham cracker taste that way. Enjoy! Churro Tots. Happy Wednesday, beautiful people.Factoid for you: Getting my car serviced stresses me.To deal, I totally made Churro Tots. Throw in stress eating and calls to dad, and it some how made everything okay. I encourage it! Last week I went to a cookbook release party at Border Grill and they had churros…in tot form! I was blown away by their cuteness–had to replicate it stat for you all.I basically made a tweaked and adjusted version of this pate a choux recipe.
And then fried small balls of the dough. It was a breeze. Grab a baking sheet, line it with some paper towels. Recipe adapted from Dorie GreenspanPrint this recipe! Millionaire's Shortbread. Since one half of the blue-eyed baking squad is currently blogging from waaaay across the pond in London, we figured we'd bake you lovely duckies a British treat. Shortbread. Millionaire's shortbread (ooooh aaaah). Don't get too excited. There's no money in this crumbly deliciousness. But there is crumbly deliciousness which counts for something right? Right. So there's shortbread, which is rather tasty on its own, and v v British. Just go with it. And THEN to transform it into Millionaire's Shortbread (ooooh ahhhh), you slather the aforementioned crumbly deliciousness in caramel and chocolate. We know. It's ok, just go slow, eat some melted chocolate along the way to keep your strength up, and you'll do just fine.
And then, you can have as many pieces of the crumbly deliciousness slathered in the caramel and the chocolate as you want. We totally hit the jackpot. Millionaire's Shortbread Print Recipe For the chocolate: 1 1/4 cups semi sweet chocolate, chopped First, make the shortbread. Supernatural brownies « one cake two cake. November 7, 2010 § It seems like every baker has that one perfect recipe for chocolate chip cookies, that they’re so confident in that they need never try another.
I’m not generally capable of doing that, since I have a neurotic need to test a bazillion recipes – what if the next one is better? The world could end without me tasting the best possible cookie! When it comes to brownies, however, I have my winner. I guess that someone as serious about chocolate as I am would have to have identified its most perfect vehicle.
This recipe hits all my brownie requirements: dense and fudgy, but not because the batter is underbaked and gooey. So here are my favourite brownies: not compared against all other possible recipes, because once I found them, I made them exactly again and again. Supernatural Brownies – adapted from Chocolate: From Simple Cookies to Extravagant Showstoppers Butter a 13-by-9-inch baking pan and line with buttered parchment paper or foil. Whisk in melted chocolate mixture.