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2-Minute Chocolate Chip Cookie For One. This is one of those ‘I-need-a-cookie-right-now-or-I-die’ recipes that can be prepared in almost no time.We all know that kind of situation, don’t we? I definitely do, I confess.And you know what? This impressive cookie not only takes less than 5 minutes to prepare, it tastes really delicious.

Just like a good chocolate chip cookie.The preparation is beyond easy… just have a look… First you need this stuff. 1. Place the butter and sugars in a 2-cup bowl or ramekin. Use a fork to combine all these ingredients. 2. 3. 4. Save a few for the top, if you wish to.5. Ta-dah! 6. LaTienda.com - Turron Crujiente - Crunchy Chocolate and Rice Turron. Creamy blend of milk chocolate and puffed riceMade with 30% cocoaSpain's most famous brand of turronSize - 10.5 oz/300 g Remember how much you adored those milk chocolate and crunchy rice candy bars you ate as a kid?

If you loved them as much as we did, you're in for a treat! Made by '1880', a top quality turrón producer, this crunchy chocolate and rice bar is similar to the candy bars of your youth - only bigger and made with superior ingredients. Creamy milk chocolate truffle is blended with toasted puffed rice and encased in another layer of milk chocolate. The resulting bar is over a half pound of one of the best chocolate bars we have ever tried. Made in Jijona by '1880', a name synonymous with quality throughout Spain. '1880' is known as the brand to turn to when you want high quality turrón. This family company has made turrón for hundreds of years using closely guarded family recipes and superior ingredients. Ingredients Nutritional Information Serving size 38g. Matzo Brittle Recipe. Plain matzo is the base of this easy brittle: Line a baking sheet with it, pour caramel over it, add chocolate chips and spread them around once they melt, then top with sliced almonds.

There’s no fussing over a candy thermometer when making the caramel, and one recipe makes enough to feed a crowd. A sprinkling of fancy fleur de sel adds a savory touch that helps cut through the sweetness. What to buy: Fleur de sel is a hand-harvested sea salt that is moister than other salts and has a nice crunch and a distinct mineral taste.

It can be found at gourmet grocery stores. Game plan: The matzo brittle can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature or refrigerated for up to 1 week. This dish was featured as part of our Recipes for Passover, as well as our Crazy-Easy Christmas Cookies. Turrón de chocolate en 5 minutos, paso a paso. Cinco minutos (más el rato de refrigeración) es lo que se tarda en hacer un delicioso turrón de chocolate tipo Suchard. Éxito garantizado. Yo lo hago todos los años desde que conocí la receta a través del blog La casita verde, allá por 2009, su versión era para Thermomix. Yo publiqué la receta el año pasado en Pequerecetas, en versión tradicional, con cazo… pero este año he probado a hacerlo en el microondas y… ¡fabuloso!

Y para que os animéis a hacerlo he fotografiado todos los pasos. Si tenéis cinco minutos, tenéis turrón de chocolate tipo Suchard casero y delicioso. Necesitamos: 50 gramos de manteca de cacao o de manteca cerdo de buena calidad (yo uso la manteca de cerdo ibérica de El Pozo), 60 gramos de arroz inflado (tipo Choco Krispies), 125 gramos de chocolate negro, 150 gramos de chocolate con leche. 1) Troceamos los chocolates y los ponemos en un bol junto con la manteca de cerdo y metemos en el microondas a potencia máxima durante 2 minutos. 5) Desmoldamos y… ¡a comer!

Beautiful Fruit Pizzas for Vegan Pizza Day! Saturday June 29th is Vegan Pizza Day! Let's fruitify it! Make a superhealthy vegan fruit pizza for breakfast...in fact, make two so you can have an extra one to munch on throughout the day, or share it with your favorite neighbor.Sendik's Food Market has a wagonload of fruit on sale this week including peaches, pluots, strawberries, blueberries, grapes and cherries...all fabulous pizza toppings. Like a palette of paint in a pizza maker's hand. :) from One Love Meg from Gail at Cooking at the Pacific Outpost from Angela at Oh She Glows from Kristin at Pinch of Yum from Lisa at Raw on $10 a Day (or Less!) From Maggie's LesVegan Kitchen from Tiffany at Live. From Tia Tofu from Harini at Tongue Ticklers from Aylin at Glow Kitchen What will you paint on your beautiful fruit pizza? Fanciful Fruit Pizza recipe from Pillsbury. How to Make Brownie in a Mug.

Two-Bite Strawberry Hand Pies. This post comes to you from damply beautiful Seattle, Washington! Yes, kids, I am in Seattle for BlogHer Food 2012 and not just as an attendee, but I am speaking! I am nervous, but terribly excited, and ready to get the party started! The last month has been a CRAZY travel month for me. First, I went to Camp Blogaway, then I spent 6 days in Tokyo (expect a few Japanese themed recipes in the future – the place is life changing!) , and now I am here in Seattle. My mother, who is amazing in just about every way, has been my faithful dog sitter during my travels. I decided to make the filling for these little pies fairly rich. Two-Bite Strawberry Hand Pies Author: Kelly Jaggers Recipe type: Dessert Cuisine: American Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Serves: 30 Begin by making the crust.

To assemble the pies begin by placing a heaping ½ teaspoon of the filling into the center of 30 of the dough circles. Enjoy! © 2012, Evil Shenanigans – Baking & Cooking Blog. Santa Strawberries | Cute Fruit. Desserts, Cupcakes, Cakes | Dessert Hero Blog. The Londoner: Slutty Brownies. Now I don’t want to over sell this, so I’m going to be conservative and simply say, that these are… The Best Brownies In The WORLD. I know, big statement. They’re called Slutty Brownies because they’re oh so easy, and more than a little bit filthy. They’re best served warm from the oven, with good quality vanilla ice cream (devastatingly I didn’t have any in the freezer this time, so I guess I’ll just have to make them again). They take about 45mins to make, including baking time.

The ultimate comfort food, whipped up within the hour. You will need… 1 Box of cookie mix, 1 Box of brownie mix, 2 Eggs, 2 Packs of Oreos (double stuffed ones are even better if you can find them) Some oil & your favourite ice-cream (optional) Preheat your oven to 350F, 180C, gas mark 4. Line a baking tray with grease proof paper. Squidge (technical term) the cookie dough into a lined baking tray, until it covers the bottom. Cover this layer with your Oreos. Mix up your brownie batter. & pour over your Oreos. Bake for 30mins. Apple Lemon with Cinnamon Muffins Recipe. Raspberry-Chocolate Bars Recipe. Oatmeal Toffee Cookies Recipe. Steel-Cut Oatmeal and Blueberry Muffins - Recipes for Health. Healthy Banana Cookies Recipe. 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.

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.

The assembly is about as easy as you can get. Do this by hand, until the dry ingredients are just incorporated into the wet, and stop. Stir in the chocolate chips. Line a 9×13 baking dish with parchment. Pour the batter and spread it out. Bake at 325° for 20-30 minutes. Very carefully lift the parchment out of the baking dish. Peel the edges and let cool for a few minutes before slicing. Like this recipe? Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie. I made you a pie. Well, okay… I made you the filling of a pie. I bought the crust.

I don’t do crusts. Remember when I tried? Yeah… not happening. But I made croissants so that makes up for it. Way back when I shared a chocolate chip cookie pie that I found on a yellowed scrap of newspaper in my mom’s recipe box… and it literally tasted like a giant chocolate chip cookie. I’ve only made it once since then because if it’s made, it’s eaten. By me. All of it. Just try it. So… I made the pie with pumpkin. I woke up on Sunday morning with one thought in my mind: pumpkin chocolate chip cookie pie. Alright, I sorta do. See, for the last four weeks I’ve been trying to perfect a seriously CHEWY pumpkin chocolate chip cookie. I’m probably the reason for the pumpkin shortage because, um… I think I’ve gone through at least 10 cans trying to perfect these stupid chewy cookies. I’m convinced waking up with pumpkin cookie pie on the brain was the universe’s way of telling me to lay off the cookies.

Print Save. Double Chocolate Craisin Cookies. I made Double Chocolate Craisin Cookies recently and soon thereafter came to a realization I was born in the wrong body. I enjoyed the sinfully delicious chocolate cookies exploding with dark chocolate morsels and dotted with cranberries dried into tart remnants of their former selves.

How many different ways are there to make chocolate cookies? I don’t know, but I’m inspired to find out. And I like to do as much personal taste testing as possible. And the human body is not without its own irony. It’s not as if the universe is picking on me with some galactic-size practical joke. So my theory is that if you can only have so many calories in a day, they might as well be mouth watering, finger licking, lip-smacking delicious. There’s a light pattering of rain on the window as a fall storm approaches our neighborhood. Ingredients: Directions: Heat your oven to 350°F. Place the margarine and sugars in a large bowl and mix with vigor until light and fluffy.

Nutella Ice Cream. This simple recipe isn't really ice cream, but you'll think it is when you're eating it. Actually you'll just think it's the best thing you've ever eaten. Pay attention to the health bits, Portion control or you'll eat the whole batch. You can substitute Almond Butter if you want to make this a healthy recipe, or if you just hate being happy. Nutrition Now the recipe- Ingredients 1 cup of Nutella 6 Bananas That's it. If making with almond butter follow recipe exactly just swap nutella for almond butter.

Reasons for Ice Cream Pops Easy Portion Control Practical & Freezer Friendly It's Nutella on a stick, that's awesome I'm sure someone will find a way to deep fry this, then we can eat deep fried Nutella bananas at the fair. For a banana alternative try my Nutella Pudding Pops! ***Update*** I got a great question emailed in -"I repined your Nutella Banana ice cream and stressed the 140 calories for a 1/3 cup serving and a lot of my health conscious friends questioned the 140 calories. Chocolate Chip Peppermint Crunch Cookies Recipe. Chocolate Chip Peppermint Crunch Cookies I was at the grocery store the other day and found Peppermint Crunch Junior Mints-they were begging to jump into my cart.

I bought a few boxes and decided to create a holiday cookie with them. It snowed on Saturday, which was my excuse to stay in my pj’s, turn on the Christmas tunes, and bake the day away. Josh and Caleb assisted me in my baking adventures-we got out the Peppermint Crunch Junior Mints and created a new cookie for the holiday season-Chocolate Chip Peppermint Crunch Cookies. These chocolate chip cookies have a few Peppermint Crunch Junior Mints tucked inside. I decided to make the cookies even more festive by adding crushed candy canes to the top. I made these cookies jumbo size by using my muffin top pan. The Peppermint Crunch Junior Mints melted throughout the cookies creating a nice minty surprise. Starting this week, we will be doing some fun holiday giveaways. Black Bean Brownies. Vegan Hazelnut Chocolate Cake. Saturday night we had a special dinner with family friends. For one weekend all 8 of us were around before starting vacations and school again; one of is even spending a year studying at Oxford(no, it’s not me; yes, I’m jealous).

That called for cake. I had been wanting to make this recipe for a while and wanted to wait until just the right celebration. Everyone loved it, although when I told them the frosting involved avocado you would have thought I told them my own hair was in it. They started eating it again 2 seconds later when they remembered how good it was and decided you couldn’t taste the avocado. I actually made this cake for Father’s Day last year and featured it as a guest post on Gena’s blog. Hazelnut Chocolate Cake {Raw/Vegan} Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 0 minutes Ingredients(makes 5 2×3-inch frosted cakes): 2 cups hazelnuts1 cup pitted dates3/4 cup cocoa powder, divided1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons maple syrup, divided1 medium avocadoCrushed hazelnuts for garnish Method:

The best ice cream ever & it's raw too! | NatureInsider.com. I have no idea who invented the raw banana ice cream, but he/she is a genius! I tried to check as many posts as possible about it and decided that the oldest one might be the inventor, or may be not, who knows and does it matter? So, I was able to find a youtube video dating from may 2007, a blog post dating from june 2009, frozen bananas ice cream maker (can you believe that!) And a wikipedia article saying that hundreds of years ago the ancient people used to eat frozen fruits for dessert.

As for me, I saw it for the first time a couple of days ago at this bulgarian raw food blog. For the past couple of weeks I experimented a lot with frozen fruits, because I wanted to add an ice cream and sorbets to the book I’m writing, so I ended up with combining both of them. And for everybody interested in gardening, here is how a strawberry is formed… First, there is the blossom: Then, the leaves fall and a strawberry is formed :) raw ice cream Instructions: 1.

Time for preparation: 5 min. Single ingredient ice cream. Recipe: single-ingredient ice cream Administrative news: The amount of spam accumulating in my filter is increasing and the amount of time I have to glance through and fish out the occasional legitimate comment is all but nil at this point. From now on, I’m deleting the hundreds of spam caught each day without a second glance. If you leave a comment and it does not show up immediately, you probably went the way of spam. Please feel free to email me and let me know so I can rescue you and keep you off the blacklist. I’ve been doing a massive purge of my second office, recycling old notes and literature that I no longer need. Needless to say, I kept that little gem. Summer for some of my friends (those with school-age children) is coming to an end. Please please please clouds, take a break? So what’s this ice cream for breakfast ridiculousness?

Bananas i prefer them just spotted I try, I really try to love bananas. And there she is slice into 1/4 to 1/2-inch disks sliced frozen. The Ultimate Vegan Baking Cheat Sheet. The Infamous Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies. Dark Chocolate Zucchini Brownies.