Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Dip « Slice & Dice 6 Oct This dip might put me into rehab. It is so addicting. I couldn’t get a grip. I kept telling myself I needed to stop, but apparently my hand and mouth had a different plan. I. Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Dip 8 ounces cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened 3/4 cup powdered sugar 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup miniature chocolate chips Graham cracker sticks or teddy grahams In a small bowl, beat together cream cheese and butter until smooth. Like this: Like Loading... Tags: Appetizer Mini Oreo Cheesecakes This was the first recipe that caught my eye when I bought Martha Stewart's Cupcakes. I'm a sucker for anything Oreo, anything mini, and lately, anything cheesecake. If you're a sucker for these things too, or you want to win the heart of someone who is, these are your new best friend. The recipe is just a simple cheesecake batter poured over a whole Oreo cookie sitting in the well of a cupcake tin. I made these for a New Year's Eve party, and they were a huge hit. Mini Oreo CheesecakesAdapted from Martha Stewart's CupcakesPrintable RecipeMakes 30 42 Oreos (~1 package), 30 left whole, and 12 coarsely chopped2 pounds cream cheese, room temperature1 cup sugar1 tsp vanilla extract4 large eggs, room temperature, lightly beaten1 cup sour creamPinch of salt 1. 2. 3. 4.
Decadent Chocolate Truffles These truffles are so rich and delicious and surprisingly easy. Perfect for any special occation... or just a serious chocolate craving. and unlike the ones you buy, they won't cost you a dollar each! Want to know how to make your own? Of course you do. Read more to find out how. Start with 8 ounces softened cream cheese and... 8 ounces chocolate (I like to use half semi sweet chips and half milk chocolate chips) Melt your chocolate. (I usually put it in the microwave on 50% power for one minute. *hint* if your chocolate seems too thick try adding a little shortening. Poor the melted chocolate into a bowl with your cream cheese. Mix together. You don't have to add any additional flavoring, but I like to. (My favorite flavor to add is hazelnut) Pour your mixture in a tupperware or pan and refrigerate until set. Roll each square into a ball and put back into the fridge to set. Melt about 12 more ounces of chocolate. Set on a lined cookie sheet. Enjoy! The Recipe in a nut shell: 20 ounces chocolate
Pepperoni Pizza Monkey Bread - StumbleUpon How do you make bread even better? You stuff it with pepperoni and cheese. Then, you bake it in a bundt pan that allows you to pull off little chunks and dip them in pizza sauce. This is the perfect thing to bring to a party (and I did, where it disappeared quickly!) This bread takes a little bit of time to prepare, but in about half an hour I had filled my bundt pan with little dough balls, each with a piece of pepperoni and cheese stuffed within it. My new definition of bliss: warm dough with a cheesy center and a bite of pepperoni. Pepperoni Pizza Monkey Breadfrom Confections of a Foodie BrideIngredients: -2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced -4 tbsp butter -2 lbs pizza dough (I used 2 balls of Trader Joe's fresh dough) -6 oz. mozzarella cheese, cut into small cubes (about 48 pieces) -pepperoni (about 48 slices) -2-3 cups marinara sauce for serving Directions: 1. 3. 4. This post is linked to Eat at Home.
Cinnamon Roll Pumpkin Vanilla Sheet Cake I love watching the reaction of my boys sampling my baked goods. I gave them a bite after school a couple days ago of this sheet cake and their expression was priceless. If I left the room, I am afraid the entire plate would have been devoured. Don’t let the cake mix in the recipe scare you away. Try it out for yourself and let me know how that first bite was :) Enjoy!! Here you have your line up of ingredients. Let’s get this party started :) Start with dumping all of the cake ingredients into the mixer. A small box of instant pudding mix does wonders! Add those eggs. Oil, milk and sour cream. Add a can of pumpkin. How gorgeous is that?! Here it comes! Almost there Perfect. Spread the cake evenly to the edges. Like so Melt your butter, add the brown sugar and cinnamon Time to drizzle! Seriously! Run a knife through to swirl the goodness then bake 350 for 30-35 minutes. Here’s a shot of how it looks right after baking, wait until you smell this! Drizzle while the cake is still warm…. Love! 1. 2. 3. 4.
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Grasshopper Brownie Bars For the brownie base: 3/4 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon dark unsweetened cocoa powder (like Valrhona) 5 ounces good quality dark chocolate (60 to 72%), coarsely chopped 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, cut into 1 inch cubes 3/4 cups sugar 1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar 3 large eggs, at room temperature 1 teaspoons vanilla extract For the buttercream: 3/4 cups sugar 2 tablespoons flour 3/4 cup milk 2 tablespoons heavy cream 1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup) butter, softened but still cool, cut into small cubes 3 tablespoons creme de menthe 1 teaspoon peppermint extract For the chocolate glaze: 6 ounces good-quality dark chocolate (60 to 72%), coarsely chopped 1 teaspoon light corn syrup 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened, cut into cubes To make the brownie base: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter the sides and bottom of a glass or light-colored metal 9-by-13-inch pan. Configure a large size double boiler. Sprinkle the flour/cocoa/salt mix over the chocolate.
Oreo Truffles Attention ladies and gents – Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and you are about to be given the tools for a delectable sweet that will have your sweet thinking you are: a. thoughtful b. a great cook and c. not at all concerned with the size of their ass! Following last year’s Easiest Cookies You’ll Ever Make, these bad boys are the easiest truffles you’ll ever make. Three ingredients. Just commit to having a little patience as they chill, and you’ll be good to go. If you can find that lovely little container of chocolate disks that melts to perfection in the microwave – use it! Warning – they are incredibly easy to consume in large quantities. Ingredients: 1 package (18 oz) Oreo cookies 1 8 oz package cream cheese, softened 1 container Chocolate Melts Directions: In the bowl of a food processor, pulse the Oreo cookies until they are coarsely chopped. Roll into 1-inch balls and place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Refrigerate until firm, 4 hours, or optimally, overnight.
America’s Top 10 New Sandwiches Forget who piles pastrami highest or fits the most varieties of cold cuts onto one hero roll. A great sandwich has come to mean more than just bigger, better and meatier. Across the country, a new breed of sandwich artisans are taking lunchtime to a whole ‘nother level. From California to New England, here are Endless Simmer’s top ten favorite new sandwiches. 10. Spuckie is a term used by old-school Bostonians to identify any sub sandwich, but it’s increasingly associated with this year-old Brookline shop. 9. At the risk of outraging an entire city, we’re going to say it: the Philly cheesesteak is boring. 8.Crispy Drunken Sandwich — Baguette Box, Seattle Have you ever dug into a steamy styrofoam container of General Tso’s chicken and thought, “this is delicious, but it would be even tastier on a bun?” 7. 6. Upgrading Mexican street food has suddenly become a hot task of haute chefs around the nation, although the results often have us pining for the real thing. Next: The top 5 Pages: 1 2
Mini Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookies Subscribe to Cookie Madness by Email Earlier this week I posted a recipe for peanut butter sandwich cookies with a spicy filling made with Hell Fire Pepper Jelly. For those of you looking for something without the heat (or just adorable and cute!), here’s an alternative. They’re very, very, light in texture and they have a lot of flavor from the peanut butter, butter flavoring, vanilla and toffee chips. I recently purchased more small (1 pound) Kraft tin tie bags and this small batch makes 50 cookies or enough to completely fill a Kraft bag with extras for munching. Mini Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookies Author: Cookie Madness Recipe type: Cookie Preheat the oven to 325F and have ready a couple of large, ungreased baking sheets.With an electric mixer, beat the shortening, salt, baking soda and peanut butter together. You should get about 100 cookies, but possibly fewer if you make your cookies larger. Related posts:
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Apple Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes Apple Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes By Stefani Pollack Be sure to leave your kitchen while these apple pecan cinnamon roll cupcakes are baking. When you reenter the room, you’ll get to experience a sensational smell that is so strong you can almost see it cartoonishly wafting from your oven directly to your nose. When the cupcakes are done, quickly drizzle the tops with apple cider glaze. Yield: 24 cupcakes Cinnamon Roll Ingredients 2 cups 2% milk 1 tablespoon (.5 oz) active dry yeast 1/3 cup sugar 2 teaspoons salt 6 ½ cups all-purpose flour, divided 2 eggs ¼ cup unsalted butter, room temperature Filling Ingredients ½ cup unsalted butter, melted 1 cup sugar 1 cup brown sugar 3 tablespoons cinnamon 1 cup loosely chopped pecans 2 cups finely chopped tart apples Directions In a small saucepan or a microwave oven, warm milk to about 110 F. Brush with about half of the melted butter. To make the filling, in a medium-sized bowl, mix sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, pecans, and apples. The Deen Bros.