A Chocolate Heart Attack!

If you know me then you know me well. And when I say I have a craving for something, majority of the time, I have to fix my craving! Meaning, I have to make or have my craving right then not days later, not even hours later literally RIGHT THEN! So this is where my inspiration came from on this dessert..my craving for CHOCOLATE!! And LOTS of it!!! You are going to be blown away when I list how much goes into this recipe! I admit if you are not all that into heavy chocolate then this dessert is simply not for you! But if you are head over heels in love, can't get enough, I want more, kind of chocolate lover well this dessert is definitely for you! I only baked this sweet dish for my roommate and myself but after having so much left over, I decided to treat my follow co-workers to my chocolate heart attack! It was definitely a BIG success at work! If you ever want something gone just take it to work, trust me you will come home with an empty dish! My one and only suggestion is that you need to eat this dessert when its warm and you most definitely need to have some vanilla ice cream on hand! Those two things are literally the cherry on top for this sweet concoction! I hope you enjoy this heart attack in a casserole dish as much as I did!


Chocolate Heart Attack

Ingredients:
1 package of double stuffed Oreos
Family sized box of brownie batter your choice ( I like Betty Crocker or Pillsbury)
1 Jar of hot fudge topping
2 sticks of butter softened
1 cup of sugar
3/4 cup of light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 tablespoon of Vanilla
2 1/2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of salt
2 cups of milk chocolate chips
1 pint to 1 gallon depending on much you like vanilla ice cream


Directions:
Blend butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla together. Add one egg at a time. In a seperate bowl sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Gradually add flour mixture to your butter, sugar, etc bowl. finally add chocolate chips and stir. That is your cookie dough. Have a 9x13 baking dish and line with wax paper spray with cooking spray. Add your cookie dough as your bottom layer. Next, lay your double stuffed Oreos on top. you will use most of your Oreos. Then, make your brownie batter according to the box and layer the batter on top of your Oreos. Last, add your hot fudge. Bake at 350 degrees covered with foil for the first 30 minutes after that remove foil and bake for an additional 15-20 minutes.  Let cool and serve with ice cream!


I ♥ CHOCOLATE!!!

How do you like them Apples?

My inspiration to make my sweet treat this week came to me days ago! I have had a craving for a delicious apple pie for the past 2 weeks! So I finally made one! And it definitely cured my craving..this pie went so fast I wish I had made two! haha! But seriously! I will definitely make this little goodie again very soon! I decided to actually make a apple crumble pie, I was curious of how the crumbles would taste versus having an upper crust! Now, I don't know about y'all but I love CRUST!!! If you have an amazing pastry recipe use it for every pie you make! I like to think the CRUST makes the pie! And a little whip cream or vanilla ice cream to go on top as well! Also, when baking this pie I used some good ol' Granny Smith green apples. In my opinion green apples are best for cobblers and pies and red apples are good for baking stewed rather there cut or whole! I just like my apples to be a little sour than sweet in a pie cause the amount of sugar and other ingredients added just give it enough of a sweet taste!  But in this recipe its whatever you prefer! This recipe was a big hit and a huge success! I hope you'll try this and let me know how you like them apples?! haha! Enjoy!

Apple Crumble Pie

Ingredients:
5-6 apples peeled, cored and thinly sliced
3/4 cup of white sugar
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
2 tablespoons of cornstarch
3 tablespoons of all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of  ground nutmeg

Topping:
1/2 cup of all-purpose flour
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1/4 cup of butter

*Make a pastry of your choice or use a store bought pie shell!

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. In a large bowl toss peeled sliced apples with lemon juice.  Mix together white sugar, cornstarch, all-purpose flour, ground nutmeg and cinnamon.  Sprinkle over apples and toss to coat. Spread apple mixture evenly into unbaked pie shell. Use your hands or pastry cutter (using your hands is more fun) and mix together all topping ingredients. Sprinkle all over apple mixture. Bake for 1 hour until golden brown!

Fantabulous Cookies!!

Have you ever stumbled upon a recipe and thought, HOLY COW is this real?! Well, that’s exactly how I felt when I found these amazing caramel filled chocolate cake cookies..a.k.a Rolo cookies! Who knew such a treat existed? Well, I’m sure you all did, I’m a person that usually doesn’t discovery greatness until later on! I guess I’m usually out of the loop! Ha ha! Seriously, these were so simple and probably the best cookies I’ve ever put in my mouth! No joke! I will definitely make these again! This recipe is super easy too! Hardly any ingredients and less than 10 minutes for baking and preparation for these drops of heaven! I hope you enjoy these fantabulous cookies as much as I did! Definitely worthy making again! ENJOY!!

Caramel filled chocolate cake cookies!

Ingredients:

 A box of devil’s food cake mix

½ cup of powdered sugar

2 eggs

1/3 cup of vegetable oil

1 (12 ounce) bag of Rolos

Directions:

Combine cake mix, oil, and eggs.  Take a small portion of the dough just enough to cover the rolo and form a ball around the rolo. Roll dough in powdered sugar and place on a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 350!

Southern Goodness!

Howdy! So lets be real for one second, who doesn't LOVE the south?!  I am so proud to be a southern girl! Don't get me wrong, I love the west and everything about it but I love my southern roots! There's nothing like warm weather, sweet tea, sand in your toes, and southern hospitality to kick off your day! Just like there's nothing like a fresh homemade peach cobbler! Now, I know its not peach season cause trust me my grandmother from peach country herself aka Clanton, Alabama would have already given me a dozen or more of some of the finest peaches I've ever put in my mouth! I couldn't help but make something, I was craving! Here's a funny story of how this particular peach cobbler went down..are you ready?.. Here we go!
Okay, I found this amazingly easy recipe and I wasn't in the mood to bake a fancy pastry, so I wanted something that was going to be quick, but good. This recipe took about 15 minutes of preparation time, but one thing that raised some worry in my mind as I prepared this dessert was the amount of self-rising flour that it called for, especially for the type of  baking dish you had to put the cobbler into. So, I thought to myself if the recipe calls for it and it was a Paula Deen recipe, then it would be okay because Paula knows best, right?! Not the case! And here's why, I put this easy dish in the oven and about ten minutes later I smell something burning, I quickly check the oven to see that this flour was headed straight to heaven! I have never seen flour rise that high in my life! I knew I had to think quick so I wouldn't ruin what was left, so I  put a cookie sheet underneath to stop some of the dripping and said a prayer that this cobbler would pull through! Luckily, I was in the clear and it came out well minus some of the pastry down the side, on a cookie sheet and of course in the bottom of the oven! Oh, well live and learn! At least I had some laughs out of it all! So, if you try this good ol' Paula Deen peach cobbler less is definitely  better in this recipe! 

Ingredients:
4 cups of peeled, sliced peaches
2 cups of sugar, divided
1/2 cup of water
8 tablespoons of butter
1 cup of self-rising flour (it actually calls for 1 1/2 cups but if you read the story above you might want to put less, your choice)
1 1/2 cups of milk
ground cinnamon

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350.
Combine the peaches, one cup of sugar and 1/2 cup of water in saucepan and mix well.  Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
Put the butter in a 3 quart baking dish and place in oven to melt. Mix remaining 1 cup of sugar, flour, and milk in bowl.  Pour mixture over melted butter.  DO NOT STIR.  Spoon peaches on top, gently pouring in syrup. Sprinkle top with ground cinnamon! Bake for 30 to 45 minutes. Also, add some whip cream or some good ol' vanilla ice cream on top to make this cobbler real gooooooood!!!

Note: Not my personal pic cause I didn't get a picture this week, oops!

Chocolate Delight!

So last week, I was contemplating a lot over what I was going to make for the week. I wasn't sure what I wanted to bake. I didn't want a pie, cake, or really even anything sweet because I honestly just wasn't in the mood to think or know of something great to make. Crazy, I know! So after doing some research through the Internet to get some ideas, I decided why am I looking to the Internet for something to bake, why don't I go over to my huge stack of cookbooks and get my inspiration from there! So that's exactly what I did! Over the holidays, I was given as a gift this cookbook inspired by the women of Rosie the Riveter who served in WW2 together. In this book they share not only their stories of serving our country and the men they tended to during those times, but their amazing recipes either passed down from family generations or what they concocted themselves.
So this one recipe, I stumbled upon was BROWNIE PUDDING! I thought this sounds interesting never heard it nor have I ever tried it, so why not make it! This recipe was super easy! And definitely something I might try again! I'll be honest I was not in love with it the first night, but the next day and even the day after that I fell in love! Along the way, I added somethings to it like cutting up strawberries and adding cool whip to give it a little kick! So if your like me and never had this vintage recipe before, give it try! Trust me it will be worth it! I want to personally thank those ladies who were apart of the American Rosie the Riveter Association for serving and dedicating their lives to help our soldiers! Thanks for your dedication and sharing some amazing recipes that I cannot wait to try!


Brownie Pudding!

Ingredients:
1 cup of all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons of cocoa
3/4 cup of sugar
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 cup of milk
2 tablespoons of vegeatable oil
3/4 cups of morsels or nuts whatever you prefer I used morsels! More chocolate the better, right?!
3/4 cup of brown sugar
1/4 cup of cocoa
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 3/4 cups of  HOT water

Directions: Sift together flour, 2 tablespoons of cocoa, salt, baking powder, and sugar together. Add and mix until smooth milk, vanilla, vegetable oil and morsels or nuts. Pour mixture into a greased 8x8 pan. Then mix together and sprinkle on top the brown sugar and 1/4 cup of cocoa. Last, pour the hot water over it all. DO NOT mix in the water! Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes until a light crust is formed on top, but don't overbake!  Enjoy!!! :)

Birthday Bash!!

Hey! Hey!
Here we are another week and another sweet treat! Yay!! Technically, I made this sweet goodie last week for one of my best friends, Logan. Her birthday was on Valentine's day!! And she turned the big 21! So as usual I'm a little behind in posting this, but we celebrated her birth literally ALL week! So there's my excuse for being tardy in posting. I wanted to create something special and really good for her birthday but she requested a strawberry cake and when you have a request from the birthday girl, you better make what they ask! Which was okay, considering I had a fabulous strawberry cake recipe in mind!
 And of course it fit with theme of this month with it being the color pink and having fresh strawberries in it, which in my opinion suits the month of LOVE! Anyways, the cake was a hit! She loved it and so did our other friends who enjoyed a tasty bite as well! Overall this recipe was a success! So, I'm sure your wondering what this great recipe entails and all that good stuff! Listed below is the best strawberry cake recipe! I hope you enjoy making this sweet moist goodie! And I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines day and shared it someone super special! Until next time...


Ingredients for cake:
White Duncan Hines cake mix
1 box of strawberry jello
1 cup of oil
1/2 cup of water
4 tablespoons of self-rising flour
4 eggs
1/2 package of frozen strawberries or 1/2 cup of fresh strawberries (your preference for that)
Ingredients for icing:
1 box of powdered sugar
1 stick of butter ( melted)
1/2 package of frozen strawberries or 1/2 cup of fresh strawberries (again your choice)

Directions:
Mix all cake ingredients together. Pour into greased cake pans, bake at 350 for 35-40 mintues.
While cake is baking, mix together all icing ingredients and set aside. After cake cools, pour icing on top!

A month of LOVE!!

I can't believe its already the month of February, where is the time going?! So I started this blog last month obviously, and I'm already behind. Either I need to be baking more or time needs to sloooooww down! I know its to bake more; but let me tell you all.. life has been very, very busy for this girl! But I made a promise to myself and you, whoever you are reading this blog that, I would bake once a week for whole year which would equal 52 weeks which also equals 52 sweet treats! Whew, I gotta a lot of catching up to do! As for baking this week, I have made some delicious homemade red velvet cream cheese brownies! This month is all about love with pinks and reds, hearts and flowers,  cupid and romance..you get the idea! So with all this love in the air... this month will be dedicated to baking with love by incorporating all things sweet and romantic! I myself am a huge fan of romance, Valentines day is my 2nd favorite holiday! I'm so happy to bake fun sweet treats, cause  if you think about it other than flowers for Valentine's day your either going to get some amazing candy or some type of sweet for the holiday, right?!

Alright, on to the good stuff..the RECIPE for these delicious brownies! I have to say this recipe is fairly simple but make sure you have some eggs handy and vanilla because it requires a lot of the two! I hope this month of LOVE is treating you all well and hopefully your special Valentine will make you some of the amazing brownies with of course a tall glass of milk for both of you to share!



Red Velvet Cream Cheese Brownies! Yum!

Ingredients for brownies:
1 cup of butter (melted)
2 cups of sugar
1/3 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder
4 eggs
2 tsp. of vanilla
1 1/2 cups of flour
1 tsp of red food coloring gel
1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips (add more if you want, I know I did!)

Ingredients for cream cheese:
1 (8 ounce)  package cream cheese (softened)
1/2 cup of sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. of vanilla

Enjoy!