Birthday Cake Oreo-Stuffed Brownies You didn't give up sweets for Lent, did you? If you did, may I suggest putting this on your list to make AS SOON AS Lent is over?!? Did you know that Oreo is turning 100 years old? Did you know that to celebrate, Oreo is making Birthday Cake OREOS?!? Really. So, of course, we can't just EAT the Birthday Cake Oreos, we must BAKE with them. If you can't find Birthday Cake Oreos (I found them at Target), feel free to use regular Oreos. And, oh...don't feel obligated to top yours with Haagen-Dazs 5-Ingredient Vanilla Bean ice cream. Birthday Cake Oreo-Stuffed Brownies 1 cup dutch-process cocoa (such as Hershey's Dark) 1 tsp. coarse salt 1/2 tsp. baking powder 3/4 c. unsalted butter 2 cups sugar 1 TBSP vanilla 3 eggs, lightly beaten with a fork 1 cup unbleached, all-purpose flour 20 Birthday Cake Oreos (or regular Oreos) 1 tsp. corn syrup 1 tsp. water sprinkles Preheat oven to 325. In a medium bowl, whisk together the cocoa powder, salt, and baking powder.
juicing 101 | Small Fry Welcome to wellness week! With a fresh new year ahead of us, we wanted to focus on creating healthy habits and best practices for ourselves and our kids! A huge thank you to Jylare Smith Photography for these beautiful images, she shoots in Utah, Idaho and California and is a real artist! Emily’s two-year old, Hayes, is a pretty picky eater. The secret combination for their success was to let Hayes drop the produce in, use the presser, and give him a fun straw to drink it with all the while making a huge deal about how awesome it is that he made this juice, and please can mama try some!? Their favorite combination is apples, pears, carrots, beets and some sort of leafy green like spinach or kale. Juice Fountain Elite and loves it. Here’s some kid tested and approved recipes to try! Beach Sunrise: 2 spears of pineapple / 1 kiwi / 3 peeled oranges / half a lime optional: 1/2 c. of coconut water Orchard Dream: 3 apples / 3 stalks of celery / 4 carrots / tablespoon of ginger
Homemade Soft Pretzels Recipe : Alton Brown Directions Watch how to make this recipe. Combine the water, sugar and kosher salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and sprinkle the yeast on top. Allow to sit for 5 minutes or until the mixture begins to foam. Add the flour and butter and, using the dough hook attachment, mix on low speed until well combined. Change to medium speed and knead until the dough is smooth and pulls away from the side of the bowl, approximately 4 to 5 minutes. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Bring the 10 cups of water and the baking soda to a rolling boil in an 8-quart saucepan or roasting pan. In the meantime, turn the dough out onto a slightly oiled work surface and divide into 8 equal pieces. Place the pretzels into the boiling water, 1 by 1, for 30 seconds. Recipe courtesy of Alton Brown, 2007
Keeping it Clean: Food 101 I am so thrilled to be welcoming a fabulous guest today who will be sharing something that *I* have really needed to learn more about – clean eating! I am a junk food junkie and I feel awful more days than not. Reading these tips have me motivated to change my diet and to start looking and feeling better in no time! Take it away, Jen! I remember looking through health and lifestyle magazines in years past and coming across samples of healthy daily diets and thinking to myself, “These people must be starving themselves with this food.” I thought that eating eggs with vegetables for breakfast and chicken on a veggie-loaded salad for lunch and salmon with greens and oranges on the side for dinner and even almonds as a snack equated to total body deprivation. I was completely wrong. Let me back up and say that I’ve always loved healthy food. Now, I eat to fuel. In January of this year, I decided to clean up my and my family’s diet. Everyone’s idea of clean eating is different. Sunday Prep:
My Mom’s Famous White Bread Growing up, we never had store-bought bread. My mom always made bread and was a bit famous for it. [Yes, Draper friends, this is the recipe.] Of course, I didn’t really appreciate the time and effort it took her to make bread every.single.Saturday. I’m not as amazing as my mom and don’t make bread every weekend. When I’m feeling homesick, I make this. Alright, now that I’m all teary and dearly missing my mom, let’s get to it, shall we? First, you need good quality bread flour. I use a Bosch Mixer, but any mixer with a dough hook will work. In the mixer, combine 1.5 T yeast, 1/4 c sugar, 2.5 c of the bread flour, and 3 c very warm water. Next, add another 1/2 c flour, 1/2 c oil and 1.5 T salt and mix for 4 more minutes. It’s still runny after those additions. Now you’re going to add the bulk of the flour. Keep adding flour, one cup at a time, until the dough pulls away from the sides and is stiff. Spray a counter top with Pam and dump the dough onto it. Poof. Next, punch the dough down.
Death By Oreo Cupcakes They are probably the best Oreo cakes I have ever tried. A lot of cake's that I have experimented with before are like a vanilla cake with bits of Oreo in them, which didn't really give them enough Oreo flavor. But these were a lot better. Ingredients 1 package Oreo Cookies, regular size 1 package Mini Oreo Cookies, for decoration (optional) 1 package chocolate cake mix (mix according to directions on box) 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), room temperature 3 3/4 cups powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract cupcake liners Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together butter and cream cheese. foodsnots.com
Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread I’m sorry. I know it’s Monday morning and you probably came here for some pretty pictures of food that you could glance at, and then move on with your day… and here I go thrusting warm, soft cinnamon sugar bread in your face. It’s not fair. I know it’s not fair. You don’t deserve this sort of torture. This bread hits all the comfort spots in my soul. I’m sorry and you’re welcome and I love you. Let’s start at the beginning. I did this all without the use of a stand mixer and dough hook. This dough can be made and left to rise , then refrigerated overnight for use in the morning. This is the dough just before it’s left to rise. After the dough has rested and risen for an hour, I knead it in a few tablespoons of flour. This is the part in the bread process where you can wrap the dough and place it in the fridge to rest overnight. I worked with my dough right away. I can’t even deal. I sliced the dough, vertically, into six long strips. After 30 minutes in the oven… oh man…. bread heaven.
50 Smoothies 1. Banana Blend 2 bananas, 1/2 cup each vanilla yogurt and milk, 2 teaspoons honey, a pinch of cinnamon and 1 cup ice. 2. Strawberry-Banana Blend 1 banana, 1 cup strawberries, 1/2 cup each vanilla yogurt and milk, 2 teaspoons honey, a pinch of cinnamon and 1 cup ice. 3. Strawberry Shortcake Blend 2 cups strawberries, 1 cup crumbled pound cake, 1 1/2 cups each milk and ice, and sugar to taste. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.