Monday, June 30, 2014

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Friday, June 27, 2014

Peanut Butter Cookies Made with Cupcake Mix

1 Box Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Classic Yellow Cupcake Mix- makes 12 cupcakes
2 tablespoons crunchy peanut butter (2 Cdas. mezcla magdalena amarilla mantequilla de cacahuate crujiente)

3 tablespoons vegetable oil (3 Cdas. Soperas de Aceite Vegetal)
2 large eggs (2 Huevos grandes)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray oil on baking sheet.
Mix together eggs, oil, peanut butter and cupcake mix until well blended.
Scoop by spoons full onto baking sheet.
Bake 12-15 minutes. Remove cookies from oven and cool before lifting from baking sheet.*

Makes approximately 12 cookies. However, the number of cookies made depends on the size of the spoon you use to scoop out the dough. This dough is not as stiff as regular peanut butter cookie dough and the cookies taste lighter, although they are not lighter in calories or fat.

* I use aluminum foil on a pizza stone instead of a baking sheet. Then all I have to do is lift off the foil and set it aside for the cookies to cool while I make the next batch.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Jen's Favorite Cookies- I feel like someone gave me an early Christmas present!

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Hi, I’m Jen.

I’m a wife and mom of three. I teach piano lessons, and love self-help books. I carpool and I sacrifice for my kids karate lessons.

I love baking, and even more than that, I love blogging. I don’t have any kind of formal baking training, and that’s the point of this blog. It’s not meant to be fancy or complicated. The recipes are meant to bring better and more varied cookies to everyday life. My one hard and fast rule: no ingredients from specialty stores. If I can’t buy it at my local grocery store, I’m not using it.

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Caramel Stuffed Chocolate Chunk Cookies

I had been wanting to make some caramel-stuffed cookies anyway, and since it was my niece’s birthday, I decided to use Rolo candies instead of caramels to stuff the cookies.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip

The idea of this cookie dough dip really appeals to me. It’s all about the chocolate chips. The dip, and whatever you dip in it, is just a delivery system for the chocolate chips.

Peanut Butter Snickers Ice Cream Pops

This week, I decided my portable snacks ought to be homemade, and since I recently purchased some new popsicle molds, I figured this was the perfect opportunity to test them out. Also, it gave me an excuse to eat Snickers.

Frozen Hot Chocolate

I actually regret teaching my kids this recipe, because now every other time I come in the kitchen, I find empty cocoa packets on the counter, a dirty blender in the sink, and empty whipped cream can, and most importantly, no frozen hot chocolate for me.

Orange Blueberry Whoopie Pies

I love everything about citrus fruits, except eating them plain. Personally, I’d rather bake with the oranges. Which is what I did today.

Chocolate Covered Cheesecake Bites

Dipping things in chocolate is all the rage. It’s like the trend that never goes out of style, because it’s always awesome.

Butterscotch Blondies

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S’mores Cookies

This is not my first time baking with graham crackers. In fact, adding some graham cracker crumbs to the chocolate chip cookies is just SO fantastic. It gives a little unexpected oomph to the cookies. I figured some marshmallow frosting would put these right over the top.

Raspberry Sorbet

Sorbet is crazy simple to make (this one has only 5 ingredients!), and it’s easy to make it really delicious. I added a mint leaf to my dish, and I loved what the mint did for the flavor.

Toasted Coconut Popcorn

Maybe you’ve heard me tell you before how often we eat popcorn, and how much we love coconut. It’s only natural that I should put coconut and popcorn together. Honestly, I’m surprised I haven’t done it before now.

Royal Icing

Royal icing is an icing that is great for decorating cookies, it dries hard so you can stack the cookies and even ship them. It is smooth, pretty, and easy to color any color you want.

Double Chocolate Cookies

I couldn’t get these Double Chocolate Cookies out of my head, mainly because of the one ingredient that makes them so different. One surprising little spice makes these cookies unique and memorable.

Cinnamon Coffee Cake

I’m having a chunk of coffee cake right now, as a matter of fact. I’d tell you it helps me think, but honestly, the only thing I’m thinking about is crumb topping. And lots of it.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

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Monday, June 23, 2014

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Baked Pork Chops

My daughter and son-in-law came up with a new recipe for baked pork chops. After tasting them last night I just had to share! My daughter keeps Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing mix on hand and uses it in a lot of her dishes. This one certainly is a winner!

Heather's Baked Pork Chops

Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Rinse pork chops- they use boneless, but it doesn't matter which you use.
Sprinkle dry Ranch Dressing seasoning on top and bottom of each pork chop. No other seasoning or meat tenderizer is needed.
Spray oil in baking dish. Place pork chops in baking dish.
Bake pork chops 30 minutes in the preheated oven, turning once. Cover if pork chops seem to be drying out.