Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Rice Krispie Treats



If you have followed this blog for a bit than you know I LOVE peanut butter and anytime I can use it or peanut butter cups in a recipe I do. The inspiration for this recipe came from a photo that I saw on Pinterest, the recipe is from Food Snots it's delicious!



 
I am a huge fan of homey, easy desserts, especially if they are cereal treats with marshmallows or corn syrup, so these treats were right up my alley.




Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Rice Krispie Treats
Adapted from Food Snots

6 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
1 bag of Reeses mini peanut butter cups or Reeses Rabbitts from Easter
5 Tbs butter or margarin
3 Tbs light karo syrup
1 (10 ounce) package plus 2 heaping cups of mulit colored miniature marshmallows
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup chocolate chips

In a large bowl, combine cereal and diced Reeses. Set aside. Spray a 8 x 8 in. pan with cooking spray and set aside.

In a large pot melt butter over low heat. Add karo syrup and marshmallows and stir continuously until mixture is smooth. Remove from heat and add cereal mixture into the pot and fold together just until cereal is evenly coated.  Press mixture into the 8 x 8 in. pan. Set aside.

In a small microwave safe bowl, add peanut butter. Microwave for 30 second to a minute to melt. Set aside to let cool slightly. In a separate small microwave safe bowl, melt chocolate at 30 second intervals, stir between intervals, until smooth. Set aside to let cool slightly. You can either drizzle the peanut butter and the chocolate over the treats or pour over the top and swirl around.


 
What do you think? Is this somethng you will try?


Enjoy and have a great day!

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Happy Mother's Day



Happy Mother's Day!

I hope today that you celebrate the love of your mom, your step-mom, your mother in law or the mother figures in your life.

Have a wonderful day!

Friday, May 4, 2012

Triple Chocolate Cheesecake





I love chocolate and I LOVE cheesecake! As I was browsing through an old pile of tear sheets I came across a recipe from the original and incomparable Martha Stewart. I do so enjoy a great recipe from Martha, and let me tell you this one is FABULOUS! I have made many, many cheesecakes but this has to be my favorite.






Triple Chocolate Cheesecake
Recipe  adapted from Martha Stewart

Ingredients

  • 1 package (9 ounces) chocolate Oreo cookies
  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • 4 bars (8 ounces each) cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • dash of nutmeg
  • dash of cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted
  • 2 ounces of milk chocolate melted




Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Assemble a 9-inch spring form pan with the raised side of the bottom facing down.
  2. In a blender, pulse cookies until finely ground. Add butter, and pulse to moisten. Transfer to prepared pan, and press crumbs firmly and evenly into the bottom. Place pan on a rimmed baking sheet; bake 10 minutes, and set aside.
  3.  In a large bowl, add cream cheese, sugar, and salt; blend until smooth with electric mixer. Add eggs, then sour cream, and finally chocolate; blend filling until smooth, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. This is where I separated part of the filling and added the melted milk chocolate to 1/2 of the filling.
  4. Pour filling onto crust, and bake just until set, 1 hour. Turn oven off, and let cheesecake sit 1 hour in oven, without opening (this helps prevent cracking).
  5. Run a thin knife around the edge of the pan (this helps prevent cracking, too); leave in pan, and cool completely on wire rack. Cover loosely and refrigerate, at least 6 hours or up to overnight.
  6.  Unmold cheesecake. Spread ganache in center of cheesecake (IF USING)  let set before serving.

NOTES: I made a 1/2 recipe. And used a 5 inch cheesecake pan. I also decided instead of making Ganache for the top after it was finished, I took part of the filling about  1/4 and added a melted milk chocolate to it. So my directions are as above, if you want to have a layer of ganache on top than follow the link to Martha Stewart's website.







What do you think? Will you try this recipe? I hope that you do and come back and let me know! It is yummy and I will be making it again soon!


Have a great weekend!
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Monday, April 30, 2012

Reese's Peanut Butter Egg Banana Bread



Easter is long gone but for those of us who still have leftover candy there are not too many recipes that call for Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs, and as you can see I have a few. I love these things but I think it is safe to say that I have eaten my share for the season. As I also had some bananas I thought this might be an interesting recipe, after all who doesn't like peanut butter and bananas, throw in some chocolate and you have perfection!



This is a great recipe and it makes two loafs so if you are not too sure of the chocolate and peanut butter than you could try one of each.



Banana Bread Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup softened butter
2 cups Sugar
4 eggs
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
4 cups of flour
6 ripe bananas
15 small or 7 large Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs chopped

Directions:

Prepare two pans with cooking spray and set aside. Preheat over to 325. Cream together butter and sugar, add eggs and blend together. Then add the smashed bananas.  In a separate bowl mix flour, salt and baking soda. Add dry ingredients to the wet. Mix only until the flour is incorporated. Then  add the chopped peanut butter eggs. Pour into prepared pans.  Bake for 1 1/4 hours or until a knife comes out clean. Set on wire rack for 5 minutes, then turn bread out of pan and let cool. If you can wait that long.




I was not too sure that I would like the peanut butter eggs, so I made one loaf of each. The above photo has a lot of chopped up Reese's Eggs, you do not need to put that many in your batch. It is your preference.




I made a plain loaf also, and if you want you can add nuts to it.


I hope you try this recipe, it is great! Frankly I have tried many banana bread recipes and this one is my favorite.

Have a great day!

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Slutty Brownies



What do you get when you take,



 a roll of chocolate chip cookie dough,


 a box of brownies



and some Oreo's?

Yes, I do mean, all three items in the same recipe!



 Only the biggest recipe in blog land for the past few months.



  I am not sure where the recipe originated or if Rose from  The Londoner, made it up but she calls them the Slutty Brownies.



In fact, I read in the newspaper that Jessica Simpson spoke of these very brownies on a late night TV show and then was lambasted for using such vulgar terminology and degrading women.  Whatever you want to call them, everyone that I gave them to loved them!

The recipe is very simple:

Take a 9x9 baking pan, line with foil and spray with cooking spray. Press roll of cookie dough into the bottom of the pan. Then take the Oreo cookies and press them into the cookie dough, use enough to line the cookie dough. Finally, mix up brownie mix using the directions on the box. Pour the mixture over the Oreo's and cookie dough. Then bake the entire mixture for 45-50 minutes and a toothpick comes out clean.



What do you think? Does this look like something you would make? I did taste these brownies, and they are not for the faint of heart, there is a lot of sugar here but they are delicious!


If you try them please let me know, I want to know what you think.

Have a great day!

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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Cadbury Creme Eggs 100 and 1 ways

Image Pine Cones and Acorns Blog

Cadbury Eggs were first created in 1923 by the Cadbury Brothers, but weren't enjoyed in their current form until 1963. Unlike many other kinds of candy that are available, Cadbury Eggs are only around at this time of year so if you are a fan you better buy a bunch to have after the holidays.

If you are looking for a little twist on the Cadbury Creme Egg here are a few recipes I have found around the Internet.

How about a egg sandwich?

via Sweet Spot by Jes Watson



S'mores?
Julie Thomson via The Huffington Post

Cadbury Pound Cake

Julie Thomaspn via The Huffington Post


Cadbury Donuts
Image Krintan Aiken via The Huffington Post



Cadbury Tart

VIA Huffington Post

You can go here to read the article in the Huffington Post for the four photos and recipes above.


Image Buzzfeed

Brownies!

Image Buzzfeed


Deviled Eggs!

via Buzzfeed

Homemade Eggs!

Image Buzzfeed

Buzzfeed also has a great list of 13 recipes and their links! The four photos above are from there!

I hope you have a great day! If you decide to make a few of these recipes come back and let me know!