Monday, July 29, 2013

Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Cookies

Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Cookies  What do you do when you have way to much brownie mix? Make it into cookies of course. But not just any cookies. You want to combine as many different flavors as possible into the cookies. Thats where the banana and peanut butter come into play. I was meeting up with some of my friends one afternoon....

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Nutella Banana Ice Cream

Nutella Banana Ice Cream   Whenever anyone else types bananas do they start singing that Gwen Stefani song in their head? b-a-n-a-n-a-s. I do. In celebration of national ice cream month, a treat that you can feel good about eating. Why? because it only has two ingredients. Bananas and nutella. This is a very versitle treat. All you...

Cinnamon Banana Bread (dairy free)

Cinnamon Swirl Banana Bread It was my moms best friends moms birthday two weeks ago. She can't eat any dairy products so I made her dairy free bread and cookies. Unlike a lot of dairy free recipes, this one doesn't even call for margarine. I can't even count how many banana bread recipes I've tried. Any ranging from adding peanut butter to...

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Pink Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pink Chocolate Chip Cookies Everything is always better when its pink. That being said, my room looks like you stepped into a bottle of pepto-bismol. My roommate in college hates pink. Unfortunately for her, all of the stuff that I brought to college was pink. Our room was half pink and half purple/black. It was actually pretty comical.  I...

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Blackberry Frangipane

Blackberry Frangipane If there was ever a dessert where pictures didn't do it justice. I had honestly never heard of a frangipane when my sister mentioned it one day. I even had to google what it was. According to google it is almond paste. Its a hard taste to describe. One word to sum it all up would be amazing. If you have never had/tried/tasted...

Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie

Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie It is exactly what it sounds like. A cookie that is filled with whole grains that will also cure your chocolate fix.  These cookies are not super sweet. You could almost get away with eating them for breakfast. They are however chewy and soft.  Ingredients: 1/2 C butter 1/2 C brown sugar 3/4 C...

Monday, July 15, 2013

Pluot Bread

Pluot Bread This is for those days when you have too many fruit trees and too much fresh fruit. This is a sweet bread that tastes almost like a pound cake but is still considered bread. It has a light and fluffy texture. You can use this basic recipe and add in different kinds of fruit. More layers of fruit can also be added, the cooking...

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Rolo Stuffed Cookies

Rolo Stuffed Cookies I love rolo candies. They melt in your mouth and get stuck in your teeth all at the same time. These are similar to the previously posted caramel stuffed cookies but without all the fuss of making homemade caramel. Plus the chocolate coating on the rolos adds extra chocolate to the cookie.  These cookies were...

Chocolate Raspberry Cookie Bar

Chocolate Raspberry Cookie Bar We had some raspberries left over from making the raspberry tart, so I got creative. I made the dough before I really had a idea of what I was going to make. I had some chocolate syrup and raspberry jam so I just combined them all together.  These bars were AMAZING. I had no idea how it was all going...

Chocolate Raspberry tart

Chocolate Raspberry Tart I was handed raspberries and told to make a dessert. Obviously there needed to be chocolate mixed in there two. Mix them together, and what do you get? Chocolate ganache raspberry pie! Well technically its a tart but its made in a pie shell so its a little of both.  I used dark dove chocolate to make the...