Bursting Blueberry Crisp

Hello there! I know I know, where have I been?! I guess you can say I have been pretty busy. It just seems like the days and months are flying by. I let other things get in the way of my blogging and I haven't been as focused...but I think the fog is clearing in my head and it's time to share some sweet treats and inspiration again. So how a about it? Let's get started!

Aren't you all looooving the fresh fruit right now? I sure am. One of my favorites right now is blueberries. I bought a giant carton at the store, first time I have ever done that. It just seems like we go through the pint size way to quick in our house.

We don't really have dessert after dinner much, I know surprising seeing how I love to bake. Though on occasion I do like to add that special touch to a home cooked meal. So tonight I made my own version of blueberry crisp.

Ingredients:
2 cups of blueberries (I used fresh)
juice of 1/2 a lemon
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/4 cup butter (melted)
2 Tbsp 100% maple syrup
1 tsp cinnamon
pinch of nutmeg
pinch of salt

Place the blueberries in a mixing bowl and toss with the lemon juice. Then pour them into the bottom of a baking dish of your choice. Nothing to big, you want the blueberries to be in an even layer.

Isn't that just the cutest baking dish?! My favorite color of course. It was Brian's Grandma's. I wonder what she used to bake in it? Maybe a blueberry crisp :)

Using the same mixing bowl add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.

Sorry had to give the spatula the spot light. It's so adorable! Compliments of my friend Kelly :)

Once you have it all combined, spread the oats mixture over the blueberries.

Then bake at 350 uncovered for 30-35 minutes. Try not to burn the roof of your mouth devouring this one.

OMG Sooo yummy! The blueberries just burst with flavor! I wanted to lick the plate so bad. Maybe I did, maybe I didn't...you will never know ;)

I have to give a shout out to one of my best girlfriends Jenn. She has started to share her amazing, creative and witty talents and thoughts with the world. Stop by her blog and show some love: http://jennssweetblog.blogspot.com/2014_07_01_archive.html

Happy Sweet Tooth Satur...uhhh Sunday! That darn fog, I'll get back in the groove soon enough ;)

Mail from Grandma ~ Chocolate Bird Nests

With Easter fast approaching Grandma sent me a super cute idea to mark the occasion.

Mail from Grandma

Chocolate Bird Nests

Ingredients:

Pretzel sticks

Melting chocolate 

Chocolate covered Easter eggs

I melted my dark chocolate and broke my pretzels into smaller pieces.

Then I poured the chocolate on the pretzels and mixed until the pretzels were coated.

Next I dropped them into little nests on freezer paper and adorned the nests with chocolate eggs. 

Let the chocolate harden and enjoy! 

These were very easy to make as well as festive and yummy!

Thanks for the cute idea Grandma.

Microwave Cheesecake

Hello! So last weekend was slightly monumental, we celebrated my 30th birthday. AHHH! I had a great weekend with family and friends. My mom decided to make it an official sweet tooth Saturday with this gem...haha

So after the big weekend and a long week at work I was kind of slow going this weekend to create a post. I wanted something simple and sweet. I also wanted to use these super cute ramekins my boyfriends mom got us :-).

Microwave Cheesecake

Ingredients:
8 Tbsp gram cracker crumbs
4 Tbsp melted butter
1 1\2 Tbsp granulated sugar
1 block cream cheese
2 eggs
1\2 cup powdered sugar
5 Tbsp milk
2 tsp vanilla extract

First mix the melted butter, gram cracker crumbs and sugar together. Place a spoonful in the bottom of each ramekin. Press down with your fingers them microwave for 2 minutes.

Next mix together the cream cheese, eggs, milk, powdered sugar and vanilla. Pour evenly into the ramekins and microwave for 2 more minutes.

Chill them in the fridge for 1-2 hours to firm. When ready, addorn with whatever your sweet tooth desires.

This recipe will fill 6 small ramekins. Mmmm. This was pretty easy, the hardest part was waiting the 2 hours to eat.

I hope you enjoy them. Stop by next weekend, I'm excited to share a new fondant creation I will be making this week.

St.Patrick's Day Fun ~ Green Rice Crispy Treats with Rainbow Sprinkles

Hi everyone! So Mr. Mr. and I had some fun in the kitchen for St.Patty's day. This kid loooooves marshmallows! Marshmallow could probably be his middle name :). So I thought lets make some homemade rice crispy treats and tint them green for St.Patty's day.

Ingredients:3Tbsp butter
4 cups mini marshmallows
A few drops of green food coloring
6 cups of rice crispy cereal
Melting chocolate
Rainbow sprinkles

First we started my melting the butter and marshmallows on low heat.

A little marshmallows for the pan, a little marshmallows for Mr. Mr....finally we got them all in. Then we added the green food coloring.

He is such a good helper. He asked me the one day if I thought he would be a good baker when he grows up :). Sooo CUTE!

Once it is all combined remove it from the heat and add in the rice crispy cereal. I didn't have the official rice crispy cereal but I had puffed brown rice instead. Still worked great!

Sorry a little blurry... Action shot! Stir to combined everything then spread into a lined 13x9 pan. I used freezer paper and sprayed the paper with cooking spray. I also sprayed my spatula so I could spread it around evenly.

Let cool. Once cool we cut them into bars and dipped the corners in melted chocolate then decorated them with rainbow sprinkles. So festive. I hope the Leprechauns don't eat them! Had a blast in the kitchen with Mr. Mr. :)

Happy St.Patrick's Day!

Adventure #7

So today is not a destination adventure but more of an adventure with a product I have not used before.

My Adventure to Disco Dust Land and Beyond...

This stuff is edible and it makes every thing sparkle! I had a cake pop order for a girls cheerleading team called the Divas. So I went sparkle crazy. :)

 It was everywhere!!!

I don't know which one I like better. Pink or purple, both so "Diva-ish"

This stuff is awesome. I love how it gives that added pop and excitement to the dessert. Here is a picture of everything I worked on for the order. So much fun!

I hope your day shimmers...just like my fingers ;)







Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies with Whipped Chocolate Filling

Hello everyone! Another busy weekend in the books. I'm starting to second guess using Saturday in my blog name Haha. We are getting carpet tomorrow and we decided to rip out our old carpet and move all our furniture...ZzzzZzzz... Oh sorry I started dozing. Needless to say I am beat. Surprisingly enough after all that manual labor I was left with a sweet tooth. How does peanut butter cookies with a whipped chocolate ganache sound?

I had very limited ingredients, looks like I need to stock up on my sweet tooth supplies.

Ingredients:
1\2 cup peanut butter
1\2 sugar
1\2 of a beaten egg
Splash of vanilla extract

Ganache:
1\2 cup heavy whipping cream
1\2 a bag of chocolate chips
* bring cream to a boil and pour over chocolate. Stir to combine.

I blended all the ingredients together and used a 1\2Tbsp to measure out the cookies. Then rolled into balls and flattened with a fork to give the traditional hash markings.

 Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

Cool completely. I placed my ganache in the freezer while the cookies baked. To make a whipped ganache you want it to be cold then you beat it with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.

I then piped it on the cookie and sanwitched together.

This made 8 mini delicious cookies. I just love whipped chocolate ganache! So did some other people I know...the bowl was licked clean.

Happy Sweet Tooth Sunday!

Mini Neapolitan Cakes

Hello, looks like another Sweet Tooth Tuesday(life just got in my way again)... Today is my friend Makenzie's Birthday and yesterday we brought in treats to work for her.

Do you ever have left over batter or other ingredients and wonder what to do with them? It would be such a shame to throw out all those delicious ingredients. Well, I had some left over cake batter from a previous order and thought I would create something fun with it.

 

Mini Neapolitan Cakes

Ingredients:

leftover cake batter

leftover frosting

candy coated chocolate balls

 

Chocolate Ganache:

12oz chocolate chips

1 cup heavy whipping cream

 

*Bring cream to a boil and pour over chocolate chips and stir until smooth. Let cool at room temperature.

 

 

First bake your leftover batter in a thin layer. I had chocolate, strawberry and white cake batter left. I used parchment paper to easily remove the cakes. I baked them at 350 for 12-15 minutes.

Once cooled use a small circle cookie cutter to cut out your layers.

Use your leftover frosting to stack the layers. Just a thin layer of frosting.

Pour the chocolate ganache over the cakes to cover. I took my knife and swiped up the sides in small sections to give it some detail.

Adorn with a frosting star and a candy coated chocolate or what ever your heart desires. :)

I enjoy trying to create new little desserts. I hope you do too.

Happy Sweet Tooth Tuesday...hopefully I can be on the ball and post this Saturday again...fingers crossed :)





Healthy Cookies

Hi Everyone!
Just so you know the subject line is not a joke. I am so excited to share this recipe with you today.  We all would like for baked goods to be healthy from now and then right? So we don't feel as guilty eating them. Well these cookies couldn't get any better. Plus they are so simple.

Ingredients:

2 Bananas
1 cup of quick oats
*additions of your choice

~This will make 12 cookies.

Mash the bananas, mix in the oats. Then add what ever additions you want. I split the "batter" and added chocolate chips to half and a little cinnamon and raisins to the other half.  No flour or sugar. See I told you they were healthy :).

Bake at 350 for 15 mins.

Done! That's it. They are soooo good and pretty good for you too. The options are endless for additions. I may try to add a little peanut butter with the chocolate chips next time. mmmm yum yum yum.

I hope you try these. They are fun and simple.

Happy Sweet Tooth Saturday!

Mint & Chocolate Cake Cookies

Happy Sweet Tooth Saturday Everyone!

I have been having a sweet tooth craving for something chocolate and mint. For some reason it sounded so good to me. Probably because it is girl scout cookie ordering time and someone at work has a picture up of the cookies with a sign that says now taking orders. So I pass that sign everyday and stare at my favorite thin mint cookies, drooling and whipping the droll... Yes I think I have found the root cause of my craving.

So I was perusing my baking supplies and saw a box of chocolate cake mix and a bag of Andes mint chips and thought ohhhh this will be delicious and satisfy my craving of course.

This recipe is so simple. I love it!

Ingredients:
1 box of devils food cake
2 eggs
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
Andes mint chips

Preheat your oven to 375. Mix together cake mix, eggs and oil. Then stir in your mint chips.

I used a Tbsp to scoop out my dough.

Place on a cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes. Look at my brand spanking new cookie sheets...Thanks Grandma ;)

Cool and enjoy! Mmmmm my craving is definitely satisfied, love when that happens. They honestly do taste like thin mints. Different texture of course.

I dipped the edges in green icing. I just mixed together powdered sugar, milk and green food coloring. You just eyeball it. I could have made mine a little thicker so the icing didn't run off...next time :)

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!
:)