The Best Banoffee Pie I’m sitting here hemming and hawing over how to convince you to make this pie NOW without coming across as pushy. (Me? Pushy? How about: If I had to choose ONE dessert to eat before I die, this would be it. Not enough? What about: This pie is so good that after eating two pieces (ok, three), I went into labor. Convinced? I’m sorry to hold out on your for so long, but really, you need to make this and become one with the Banoffee Pie. Note: I use the Heath brand of chocolate covered toffee bits. Ingredients Crust: 24 chocolate sandwich cookies (like Oreos or Trader Joe's Joe-Joe's) 5 tablespoons butter, softened Pie: 20 ounces dulce de leche (1 1/2 cans) or make your own 2 bananas 1 cup chocolate covered toffee bits 1 cup heavy whipping cream 1/4 cup powdered sugar 8 ounces light or regular cream cheese, softened to room temperature 1/4 cup brown sugar Directions Add the cookies and butter to a blender or food processor and process until well combined.
Special Needs Kitchens by Snaidero: Skyline Lab | Kitchens Like this article? Share it: It's so refreshing to see a super stylish kitchen properly designed for people with special needs, like the awesome Skyline Lab kitchen by Snaidero. Modern and beautiful, this kitchen is designed to make life easier - which is what good design is all about. Born from an ergonomic point of view, Skyline Lab offers solutions to those who need to use a kitchen in a different way. Essentially, the kitchen surrounds the user so that everything is within reach at the appropriate heights and depths to accommodate wheelchair access.
lollies - a little ART CANT HURT a perfect rainy day thing to do! the colors make any day better! how to make LOLLIESyou will need: jolly ranchers, candy sticks, parchment paper, foil & a cookie sheet 1) lay a piece of foil on cookie sheet. cover foil with a piece of parchment paper.2) unwrap candies and place side by side on parchment paper in your choice of color & flavor combinations. use three candies together for extra large lollies, and only two candies together for regular lollies.3) heat candies in oven for about 5 minutes at 200 degrees. keep a close eye on the candies and take them out as soon as they've barely melted together. if you leave them in too long they will melt too much and you won't be able to put a stick into the lollie. alter the cook time accordingly.4) carefully take cookie sheet out of oven. immediately lay candy sticks into place on melted candies. slowly twirl in melted candy to coat the stick and so it will hold in the lollie. they're hot!
10 Totally Adorable Thanksgiving Cupcakes, Cookies and Baking Ideas Looking for some adorable baking ideas for Thanksgiving? Here are a ten absolute gems that I found. They like lots of fun to make with kids or, heck, have fun making them all by yourself! 1. In my mind these are winners of most ingenious use of nutter butters cookies. 2. Not to be outdone by this clever use nutter butters cookies, we have turkey pops! 3. OK, let's just come right out and say it... 4. I love how devilishly simple and yet very cute these candy-corn-encrusted cupcakes are. 5. And if the idea of packing away en entire cupcake after your Thanksgiving meal is just too daunting, these sugar cookies are just as sweet. 6. Single serving pies in a jar. 7. Just to throw your Thanksgiving guests for a loop, confuse them with some cupcakes that look like miniature cherry pies. 8. How can you go wrong with a dessert made from oreos and peanut butter cups? 9. This cute cupcake requires you to use fondant icing but it looks well worth it. 10.
you knew i was going to make one. they are all over pinterest....(i still am not signed up for pinterest because i don't have time for one more thing but browsing is fun!) so we made one. i took a box of 64 crayons and took out the blacks and browns.i used another small box and doubled up on the good colors i liked and hot glued them to the top of our canvas. then we turned our blow dryer to hot on high. not long after you set the hair dryer by the crayons they get shiny and then the wax starts to melt! and it dries really quickly too. seriously. what could be happier than this?? GREAT project. loved it today is the first FULL day with ALL my kids in ALL day school.yeah...i am smiling as i type that. it's good. it's quiet. i am rockin' it. removing wallpaper.....making code for craft weekend stuff.....doing my hair....going to lunch..... it's all good. hooray for school!
Polka Dot Cake from Bake Pop Pan Find the tutorial on how to make an Ice Cream Cake with surprise inside polka dots as seen on KUTV Channel 2 here. Will putting polka dots inside a cake work? How does one do that? I conducted a little experiment to find out. Perhaps you've seen these in the store lately and walked right by them. I kept asking myself, "Why in the world would I possibly need that when I can roll a perfectly round cake ball with my own two hands?" After researching cake ball pans a bit, I settled on this brand. I started with a white cake mix and made some of the adjustments recommended in the instruction guide that came with the bake pop pan. You can see the bright colors in the vents peeking through after the clamps were put on. The instruction guide also suggests spraying some non-stick baking spray with flour on the outside of the vents. One of the happiest surprises of the day was that the volcanoes were more like little caps that popped off almost by themselves leaving the insides intact.
Peanut Butter and Jelly Baby Lattice Pies Good Tuesday to you! I had so much fun making these baby pies! For some reason party food seems more fun when it’s miniature right? So, these are totally doable, they look detailed, but seriously are really easy. Peanut Butter and Jelly is one of those combinations that I could do in almost any dessert. Time to create the lattice top… My strips were a little long, but you get the idea. Brush lightly with egg wash Here you have the lovely little PB&J pies. Peanut Butter and Jelly Baby Lattice Pies 1 roll Pillsbury pie dough 1/2 Cup creamy peanut butter 1 Tablespoon sugar 1/2 Cup Smucker’s Strawberry Preserves 1 egg white whisked with 1 teaspoon water for egg wash Sugar Crystals for sprinkling on top if desired 2 Tablespoons powdered sugar 1. 2. 3. 12 mini pies…..let’s see what the judges think… Think we’ve got some happy taste testers! Other recipes you may enjoy...
Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries with Chocolate Drizzle Only 5 ingredients and done in 10 minutes. This dish is pure bliss. Strawberries are currently in season so you can make this lovely dessert pretty inexpensively. These strawberries can be made ahead of time ( perfect for a party). This recipe is Gluten – Free. If you like this recipe then PIN IT on Pinterest Everyday at 5 pm PST/ 8 pm EST Budget Savvy Diva posts a NEW RECIPE Make sure to follow Budget Savvy Diva on Facebook Find Copy Cat Restaurant Recipes HERE Find Crock Pot Recipes HERE Find Gluten Free Recipes HERE Find more Recipes HERE What You Need 10 Strawberries Splash of Vanilla Extract 1/3 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips 4 oz of room temperature cream cheese ( I use low-fat) 1/4 cup of powdered sugar What To Do Cut the tops off the strawberries and with a sharp knife cut an X – do not cut through the strawberry. In a medium size bowl mix – cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Place mixture into a pastry bag or a plastic bag with the tip cut off and pipe in the filling. Enjoy
Cinnamon Roll Waffles Cinnamon Roll Waffles I’ve had a tough time forgetting about those Cinnamon Roll Pancakes that I posted a few weeks ago. So much so that I started wondering what else I could do to replicate the Cinnamon Roll. “Why not waffles, too?” I went with a buttermilk waffle… plain, with no cinnamon filling added. I drizzled the cinnamon-sugar filling on top. I figured… why not? My ideal cinnamon roll always has cream cheese icing, so a cream cheese icing drizzle was in order too. Lots of cream cheese icing, please. I could hardly wait to take a bite… to see if this whole Cinnamon Roll Waffle thing worked out. That’s about all I could eat. Print Recipe Save Recipe Cinnamon Roll Waffles Yield: About 12 (4-inch) wafflesPrep Time: 30 min Cook Time: 20 min Completely decadent breakfast treat- like a deconstructed cinnamon roll, turned into a waffle.
Cinco de Mayo piñata cookies Video how-to: Pinata Cookies Ingredients: 1 cup sugar1 cup powdered sugar1 cup butter1 cup vegetable oil2 eggs1 teaspoon cream of tartar1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon almond extract1 teaspoon baking soda5 cups flour1 tablespoon vanillaMini M&M candies1/2 cup powdered sugar (frosting)2 teaspoons milk (frosting) Directions to make piñata sugar cookies: Cream sugars with butter. Split dough into five, even-sized balls and one smaller ball (this will be the black one). Use a container the same approximate width of your donkey/burro piñata cookie cutter, and line it with plastic food wrap. Cover the layered dough and freeze for four hours or overnight. Remove the dough from the container and unwrap from the plastic. Immediately after you take them out of the oven, use your burro piñata cookie cutter to cut the cookie shapes. Create the hidden pocket For the middle cookies in each set, cut off the ears and legs, and cut out the center where the M&Ms will go. Assembling the piñata cookies
Roy G. Biv Smoothies I’ve had a few requests over the last few weeks for some smoothie recipes because I let it slip that Betsy and I generally just have a big smoothie for breakfast everyday. Turns out our daily smoothie recipe is a mix between yellow, red, and indigo, but that’ll make more sense to you later. Smoothies can be so varied I really struggled for awhile on how to present a wide spectrum of recipes in one post. That was, of course, until I saw a guy riding a bike last weekend with a rainbow sticker on his backpack. When I saw the rainbow I thought, now those would be some awesome smoothies! Anytime I think of a rainbow, I can’t help but think of the mnemonic device for remembering the order of the colors: ROY G. After some tinkering, I present to you, the ROY G. Pretty. Each of the recipes I used are below, but before that, there are a few quick notes on smoothies that I think are important. First, smoothies are all about balance. So let’s take a trip through Roy G. The Red Smoothie. Delicious.
Frozen Yogurt Dots! Here it is…another installment of Jillee’s Favorite Frozen Treats! Everytime I see an idea for a new frozen treat idea…I can hardly WAIT to try it! This one was NO exception! As much as I love the Frozen Yogurt Pops that I posted about a couple of weeks ago and have since probably eaten at least a dozen of! Oh and they freeze SUPER FAST! Never miss a good thing! Easy As 1, 2, 3 | Churros with Chocolate Dipping Sauce » toasty biscuit The other day my friend sent me a text and asked, “I want to try making doughnuts and want to make churros but they look difficult. Are they tricky to get right?!” I replied, “Nope! In fact, churros are the easiest doughnuts of all to make. She was so surprised that it only took me about twenty minutes to prepare a fresh batch of these delicious crispy doughnuts. For the doughnuts, I have a recipe that I’ve been using for years, and it never fails me. It really is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Churros with Chocolate Dipping Sauce 2 cups plain flour 1 tablespoon baking powder pinch of salt 500ml of boiling water 2 tablespoons of olive oil vegetable oil, to fry cinnamon sugar, to dust (just combine caster sugar with ground cinnamon) Chocolate Dipping Sauce 150g milk chocolate, chopped 100g dark chocolate, chopped 300ml of cream For the sauce: 1. For the doughnuts, it’s easy as 1, 2, 3: 1. 2. 3. Serve warm with the sauce. [Print recipe]
Better-Than-Crack-Brownies 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. 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. While they are finishing baking, melt chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter. Mr.