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Better-Than-Crack-Brownies | How Sweet It Is - StumbleUpon. I’m sorry for doing this to you. I really am. But see, last Friday while I was on a 10-hour road trip heading for vacation, I received this recipe from a reader named Liz. Liz, I love you. That’s all I have to say. I was tortured by this recipe for a full 8 days before I could make it. I wanted to make it while I was on vacation, but couldn’t drag myself up off the couch to do so. So it was the first thing I made when I returned home. These are an absolute sin. I really don’t have any words, other than you must try them. They may also change your waistline too. But that’s okay. It’s all in the name of chocolate. Better-Than-Crack Brownies 1 batch brownies (boxed mix or oooey gooey brownies) 1/2 cup salted peanuts (if don’t have salted, add sea salt) 1 cup chopped Reese’s peanut butter cups 1 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips 1 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter 1/2 tablespoon butter 1 1/2 cups Rice Krispies Cereal Mix brownies according to directions, and bake for 20-25 minutes in a 9 x 13 baking dish.

Mr. Summer Fruit Cake and Elle &Vire Yogurt Discovery! Cake. Such a simple, four letter word can bring everyone to their knees. Who doesn’t LOVE cake? Chocolate, Vanilla, Layered, Ice Cream…any type of cake, I eat. I eat cake with fork, I eat cake with spoon, I eat cake with hands. When I discovered there was a #baketogether twitter party, I decided to join in the fun!

Not only are Kiwifruit gorgeous in color and packed with a sassy, tart flavor, they are great for you. Great source of Vitamin C and Vitamin E, making it a powerful team of free radical fighting antioxidants! One of the modifications I made to the Summer Fruit Cake recipe was substituting the sour cream for a new yogurt I have just discovered in our grocery store called Elle & Vire. This was a gorgeous discovery! Elle & Vire is produced in the Normandy town called Condé sur Vire, in the valley formed by the rivers Elle and Vire. Check out Abby’s recipe here and below is my modified recipe. Summer Fruit Cake ~My Way! Method Preheat oven to 350°F degrees and grease a 9-inch pan. The Infamous Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies. Now, I have a chocolate chip cookie recipe that I swear by. I love it, I think it is incredible, and I haven’t changed my mind about that.

However, as much as it pains me to say it, these chocolate chip cookies by Jacques Torres are absolutely, without a doubt, the best chocolate chip cookies that I have ever made or tasted in my entire life. I guess that’s why they call him Mr. Chocolate! Either way, I made these and everyone that tried them went nuts. Edit: For more Jacques Torres deliciousness, check out my Jacques Torres Chocolate Mudslide Cookies! Your ingredients. Whisk together the cake flour, bread flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Beat together the butter and sugars, until light and fluffy, at least 3 minutes.

Beat in the eggs, one at a time, followed by the vanilla. Add in the flour mixture, very gradually, until just moistened. Fold in your chocolate. Milk is, in fact, an essential component to enjoying these amazing cookies. Author: The Crepes of Wrath Prep time: Crazy Domestic: Melted Snowman Cookies. I saw a picture of these the other day on Allrecipes.com and thought it was such a cute idea, I had to try it. After googleing it, I found a good tutorial on Stacy's Sweet Shop. I modified a few things to make it more simple for me (less homemade more store bought). To see the original Melted Snowman Cookie, and meet the inventor herself, go check out Meaghan (great name) @ The Decorated Cookie!

Here's what I used: •1 package Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix•10 large marshmallows•Betty Crocker Cookie Icing (white and orange)•Wilton Decorating Icing Tubes in Black, Red, Green, Blue and Pink***it would have been a lot cheaper if I had just made the icing myself, see Stacy's tutorial for a good recipe)*** Here's what I did: •Mix cookie mix according to directions, or prepare your favorite cut out sugar cookie recipe, then just grab a golf ball sized chunk and squish it down until it's about 1/4-1/2 inch thick.

To have your ideas featured on Crazy Domestic, click HERE. 50 Ways To Cook Chicken. Russel Glenister/Corbis Chomping on a skinless, boneless chicken breast gives you 23 muscle-building grams of protein for the bargain price of a single gram of saturated fat and 110 calories--and that brings you one step closer to toned abs and lean thighs. Too bad this omnipresent piece of poultry is about as thrilling as Ralph Nader on Larry King Live. The solution: 50 fabulous makeovers for your average four-ounce chicken breast. Each one uses just a few easy ingredients that are probably in your kitchen already, and none take longer than 25 minutes. Wok This Way THE BASICS For a stir-fry, cut a raw chicken breast into bite-size pieces or thin strips. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

TIP Sesame oil gives stir-fries a distinct flavor. Butternut Cake with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting + Exciting News + A Giveaway... A couple of years ago, one of the editors at Care (the website where I work) asked if I ever made non-traditional Thanksgiving desserts. Funny thing was, I had never made a pumpkin pie. Truth, be told, I still haven’t made one, even though I love it. Anyway, I had just made an Autumn cake for a dinner party, which was really delicious and again, out of character since it was rare for me to bake and even more rare for me to make something up and have a success. I think this was based on some buttery, sour creamy, pumpkin pound cake I found in one of my mother’s old cookbooks, but I have never been able to find the original recipe.

Here’s what happened next. As you might guess, I didn’t throw the email away! In celebration of this gorgeous book, I am doing a book giveaway. Join my Facebook pagejoin the Green Market Baking Book’s Facebook pagefollow me on Twitterget The Tomato Tart via RSS So, you can leave a total of FOUR comments. The giveaway will close on at 11:59pm on February 18th. Peanut butter pretzel bites & Two Tiny Kitchens.

Salty and sweet. Crunchy and melt-in-your-mouth. Peanut butter and chocolate. Dangerous and delicious (you know what I mean). One little bite, so much to experience. Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites recipe courtesy Foodaphilia.com Calorie estimate: 4,000 – 5,000 for complete recipe (depending upon dipping chocolate and pretzels used, etc.) Yield 60 – 80 pretzel bites Ingredients 1 cup creamy peanut butter 2 tbsp softened butter 1/2 cup powdered sugar (maybe more) 3/4 cup brown sugar (maybe more) Pretzels 1 bag semi-sweet chocolate chips Directions Combine peanut butter and softened butter in a large bowl with a fork or whisk, or in a stand mixer. Use a teaspoon measure to scoop the filling. Pour the chocolate chips into a microwave safe bowl and heat at 30-second intervals, stirring occasionally until completely melted. Sweet saturday: one minute peanut butter cake & Food & back to her roots.

Picture this scene: it’s 8:30 in the evening. The sky is just starting to get dark outside your living room window. You ate a delicious, healthy and veggie-filled dinner a few hours ago and now you are ready to sit down to the most recent episode of So You Think You Can Dance and dive into a decadent plate of dessert. Oh wait, you have no dessert. No chocolate, no cookies, no ice cream, no cake, no pie, not even a Jordan almond. What’s a girl to do? Well she’s to go to her microwave. You can make a delicious, fluffy, moist peanut butter cake in your microwave in about one minute (30 seconds mixing, 30 seconds zapping). The options are also pretty endless. One Minute Peanut Butter Cake Print This Recipe Serves One Like my peanut butter microwave cake? Ingredients: 1 egg, beaten1 tablespoon brown sugar1/2 teaspoon baking powder1 heaping tablespoon flour2 tablespoons peanut butter1 teaspoon milk1 tablespoon powdered sugar (give or take) Directions:

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