Peanut Butter Fudge Cookies

These cookies are very easy to make! The basis of this recipe is a cake mix, eggs, oil and chocolate or peanut butter chips. Yum. 

Peanut Butter Fudge Cookies

Ingredients:
1 box Yellow cake mix
1/4 c Cocoa powder
2 Eggs
1/3 c Vegetable oil
1 bag peanut butter chips (or 1/2 bag peanut butter chips with 1/2 bag chocolate chips)


Directions:

1.  Mix together all ingredients.

2.  Bake 350 degrees for 9-12 minutes. Makes 2-3 dozen depending on size.

Peanut Butter Glaze:

Ingredients:
1/2 cup peanut butter chips
2 TBSP butter
1 TBSP milk


Directions:

1.  Melt together on low heat.
2.  Drizzle over cookies.


ENJOY!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes

Cookie Dough Cupcakes, stuffed with cookie dough and frosted with cookie dough frosting. Yum.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I have been super busy with school ending, family visiting, etc. These cupcakes are absolutely amazing! They do take quite a bit of work but I think it is completely and entirely worth it!

I can't take any credit for this recipe. I followed it exactly from Annie's Eats Blog. I love her blog but I have only had time to make a few of her recipes. Here is the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes recipe.

Maybe I will get a few more recipes up on this blog sometime soon, but until then enjoy these cupcakes. 

Cookie Dough Truffles

I found a great recipe for Cookie Dough Truffles that my family LOVED! I may or may not have spent about 5 or 6 hours reading the "How Sweet It Is" blog and bookmarking recipes to try.

You probably will want to make these as soon as possible! They are easy, taste amazing, and are quite fun if I do say so myself. Enjoy!

~Krys

Oreo Cheesecake - easy

Oreo Cheesecake:
Ingredients:
1 cup crushed Oreo cookies (about 12 cookies)
1 TBSP butter, melted
4 packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
4 eggs
20 Oreo cookies, quartered

1.  Mix crushed cookies and butter. Press in the bottom of a 9 inch spring form pan. Bake at 325 for 10 minutes. (I cheated and bought 2 Oreo cookie crusts instead).

 2.  Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each addition just until blended. Gently stir in quartered cookies. Pour over crust. (If using pre-made crusts, split cream cheese mixture into the two pie crusts.

3.  Bake at 325 for 1 hour or until the center is almost set. Run knife or metal spatula around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim of pan. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight (overnight is best). Garnish with additional cookies or whipped cream if desired.

Enjoy!
~Krys

Reese's Peanut Butter Bars (no bake)

I found this recipe on Our Best Bites. It is quite amazing and always requested when we are looking for dessert ideas.

Reese's Peanut Butter Bars (No Bake)
 (adapted from Our Best Bites)

1 1/2 C graham cracker crumbs
1 lb (3 1/2 C) powdered sugar
1 1/2 C creamy peanut butter
1 C (2 sticks) real butter, melted
1 12oz bag chocolate chips (milk, semi-sweet, or dark, you pick!)
2 tsp peanut butter

In a large mixing bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs, powdered sugar and peanut butter and butter and beat until combined. Press into a parchment (or waxed paper or foil) lined 9 x 9 square pan. If you want them thinner, use a 9 x 13 pan.

Place chocolate chips and 2 tsp peanut butter in a microwave safe bowl and heat in 30 second intervals, stirring after each one, until melted and smooth. Pour chocolate over peanut butter mixture and spread out evenly. Place pan in the fridge just until chocolate is set and then cut into bars.

Tip:  If the bars chill until the chocolate is too hard to easily cut, use a hot sharp knife and score the cuts first, then gently cut through.  Can be stored in the fridge or at room temp.  They will stay firmer if stored in the fridge.

Chocolate Pudding Cookies

I love pudding, I love cookies, so when I found this recipe I fell in love immediately. The basic idea is to replace some of the flour and sugar with a small pudding packet.

My favorite is chocolate cookies with white chocolate chips, but you can use any flavor of pudding and chip combo you want! I may be trying chocolate pudding with peanut butter chips, or white pudding with white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts. Good luck and happy baking!

Chocolate Pudding Cookies

recipe adapted from Vanessa's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

3/4 cup packed brown

3.4 oz package of instant pudding: small package

1 cup (two sticks) of butter room temp

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 large eggs

2 1/4 cup flour

1 package of chocolate chips.

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a large bowl place your butter, baking soda, salt, brown sugar, pudding, extract, and eggs. Mix until creamy.

Gradually add in flour. Keep mixing until all the flour is added in. Add chocolate chips.

Bake for 9-11 minutes. Cool on cooling rack and Enjoy!

Homemade Chocolate Milk

Once upon a time I was sitting on my couch craving chocolate milk. I LOVE milk - I drink at least a 1/2 gallon a day, but sometimes I just like a good class of chocolate milk.



I'm am tired of buying the chocolate milk powder that ends up forming a gritty mess in the bottom of the cup and not mixing into the milk! Yes you can also buy the chocolate syrup to mix in but I also put to much in which makes it taste like milky chocolate syrup - gross again.



If you follow this recipe you will get a great glass of milk with an amazing chocolate taste and no gritty-ness.








Homemade Chocolate Milk


Mix together in a small microwave safe bowl:
2 T sugar
1 t cocoa powder



You want to mix these two together so you have no clumps of the sugar or the cocoa powder. If you do have clumps you will get gritties in the bottom of your glass.



Mix in 2 T hot water. Mix together so the sugar and cocoa dissolve completely.



Microwave for 15-20 seconds.



Add to 11 oz milk (or one tall glass of milk - I never measure the milk) Stir and enjoy.

Frozen Chocolate Mud Pie

Today was a VERY hot day in our un-air-conditioned apartment. When I was softening the cream cheese to make this I left it out for 5 minutes and it was already melting when I started to mix it in! Yes you may now feel sorry for me, thanks for asking...

Lets start cooking

Recipe Adapted from Right@Home

Make the crust by mixing together:

1 1/2 cups crushed cookies or graham crackers
         - I used 1 cup crushed Nilla Cookies and 1/2 cup
           Grahams because that is what I had
3 TBSP Butter
1 TBSP water

Mix together until crumbs start sticking together. Press into the bottom of a greased pie pan or greased springform pan.

Cook 350° for 12-15 minutes. It smells like you are cooking Nillas in your house! AMAZING...

Let cool completely. If you don't you will melt your chocolate mud.

Now to make the chocolate mud. Mix together:

3 oz cream cheese (at room temp)
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla


Mix until completely creamy and no clumps exist.


Mix in 1/3 cup cocoa powder and 1/3 cup milk alternately being sure everything is mixed in completely.




Fold in 8 oz cool whip and 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips.


Spread into cooled pie crust.

Cover and leave in freezer for 8 hours or over night.

Lets be honest - who wants to wait that long? I let it freeze for 2 hours and it was perfect. If you freeze it for longer make sure you take it out 15 minutes before serving so you can cut it.

Sprinkle mini chocolate chips on top for a garnish. I also drizzled with chocolate sauce.

 YUMMM.

Chocolate Sauce

 It is now time to share my yummy chocolate sauce recipe. It is referenced in many different places online, but I don't know where I got this exact recipe from (sorry). You can use fat free ingredients if you are into that stuff - but I wouldn't. I believe dessert is made to yummy, not healthy. Enjoy...

-1 cup Milk Chocolate Chips (good quality)
-1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk (not evaporated milk)
-1/2 cup Butter (1 stick)
-1 1/2 tsp Vanilla



Melt together in sauce pan on medium heat. Stir constantly and do not let it boil. Serve immediately. Put extra (if there is any) in an airtight container in the fridge. To reheat, uncover and microwave in 30 second intervals stirring until smooth.

Drizzle on ice cream, cream puffs, cheesecake, pie, cake, or anything else you would put chocolate sauce on.

Cream Puffs

Are you drooling yet?  I sure am!

Also, there is two recipes today, that's right  -  TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! 

Cream Puffs
Ingredients:

-1 c water

-1/2 c butter

-1 c flour

-4 eggs

Heat butter and water to a rolling boil. Stir in flour. Stir vigorously over low heat about 1 minute or until mixture forms a ball.

Remove from heat and stir in 4 eggs, one at a time. Continue mixing until smooth. Don't worry this stirring should take a while. I usually switch off with the hubby - I mix in one egg, then he mixes in the next, that way we both are dead after mixing!

Drop dough by slightly rounded spoonful onto ungreased baking sheets. I used parchment paper and it worked perfectly.

They do not puff a lot or change shapes while baking so you will want to make them more into tall mountains instead of flat circles.

Bake 400°F 25-30 minutes until puffed and golden brown.

Cool away from drafts.

Pudding Filling:

Blend together 1 small package (3.5 oz) instant pudding (both chocolate and vanilla are excellent) 1 cup milk on low. Add in 2 c chilled whipped cream and beat for 2 minutes on medium speed.

Cut off the top and fill with pudding mixture. Drizzle with chocolate or raspberry sauce.

Lemon (or Chocolate) Lush

My mom used to make this for us when we were younger and it was always one of my favorite desserts! The original recipe calls for lemon pudding, but since none of us kids liked lemon, Mom always replaced it with chocolate pudding. The original recipe will make a 9x13 inch pan, but if there is only 2-3 of you eating it I would half the recipe to make an 8x8 inch pan.

First, you are going to make your crust

Ingredients:
-3/4 cup butter

-2 TBSP Sugar

-1 1/2 cup flour

Mix together and press in bottom of pan and bake 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Cool completely.

Second you are going to mix together:

-1 cup powdered sugar
-1 pint whipping cream (or 2 c cool whip)

-8 oz cream cheese softened

Whip the cream and mix together with cream cheese and powdered sugar. Pour over cooled crust and refrigerate.

Then top that off with:

-2 small packages Instant Pudding (I used chocolate but Lemon is in the original recipe)

-3 cups milk

Mix together and pour on top of cream layer. Top with whipping cream, chocolate shavings or sliced almonds. Refrigerate and serve.



ENJOY!