-
Recipe: Heath Cheesecake Bars
Cheesecake – who doesn’t love cheesecake? My nana makes the best cheesecake and I’ve been trying to muster up the courage to ask her for her recipe. Soon, I promise. For now, let’s bake up these heath cheesecake bars. This recipe was created on the fly this past weekend – why, you ask? I had a block of cream cheese in my fridge for something – I purchased it at the grocery store with intent. My thoughts escaping me I checked the best before date…3…
-
Recipe: Sweet and Salty Cake Mix Cookies
My grocery store sells boxes of cake mix for 1$. Cheap. When I feel like a treat or simply brining a treat to work, this basic recipe is just too simple to pass up. Let’s bake up these sweet and salty cake mix cookies. Ingredients 1 box of cake mix – chocolate 1/2 cup of canola oil 2 eggs 3/4 cup of crushed pretzels 3/4 cup of butterscotch chips Gather all of your ingredients and mix them all together – it’s that easy. Next –…
-
Recipe: Cowboy Bark
This recipe or a variation of it has been floating around Pinterest and I decided to give it a try. Time for some cowboy bark. What is Trader Joe’s? It’s a grocery store in California and surrounding states…comparable to Whole Foods. Try this the next time you feel like some chocolate or need to bring a treat to work. The combination of salty sweetness is divine. Ingredients 600g of dark chocolate 8 crushed peanut butter oreos half a cup of the following: pretzels skor bites…
-
Recipe: Baked S’more
S’mores! Yes, it’s summer and s’mores are the best. The only issue is we don’t always have a campfire ready to go, do we? This baked s’more summer treat is easily made in the oven and is great for picnics or to make before you go camping. Try it out! Ingredients 4 cups of honey graham cereal and marshmallows 3 cups of chocolate chips 1 1/2 cup of brown sugar 1 cup of butter (I used salted) Gather all of your ingredients. Why Honey Graham…
-
Recipe: Cookies and Cream Cookies 2
I found it!!! Oreo Cookies ‘n Cream Pudding Mix. Time to make these cookies and cream cookies 2 the right way. Back in November/December of 2013 I ran a series – 12 days of cookies, and these cookies n’ cream cookies were awesome. Only issue, I used vanilla pudding mix instead of Oreo pudding mix. It’s better with more Oreo! This time, I also used the triple double Oreo cookies – so good. Try it! Ingredients 1 cup of soft salted butter 1/2 cup of…
-
Recipe: Easter Bark
Easter Bark! This recipe is such a treat – beautiful pastel colours and all jazzed up with peanut M&Ms! Takes about 10 minutes total…and then about 2 hours to set. Ingredients 3 packs of Wilton Melts 1 1/2 cup of pastel peanut M&Ms First – get your melts and M&Ms ready. Dish out your melts – I used pink, purple, and yellow – about 60-80 pieces in each bowl is enough. Melt! I used the microwave…less to clean up. Now, once each chocolate bowl is…
-
Recipe: Butterfinger Brownie
It’s not very often that the grocery store has butterfingers – and little ones, ta-boot! This recipe is a combination of a couple and it’s fantastic! Remember my deadly brownie? Or my cake mix cookies? Those two are combined here, but with butterfingers, of course! Ingredients 20-24 mini butterfingers bars 1 box of marble cake mix 1/2 cup of reese’s peanut butter chip 2 eggs 1/2 cup of canola oil 3 cups of salted pretzels 1 cup of butter 1/2 cup of sugar First –…