cheesecake brownie

Cheesecake Brownies

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Combining two of my favorite things, cheesecake and brownies. Yum cheesecake brownies!

Cheesecake Ingredients:

  • 8 oz package of cream cheese, softened
  • 1 egg
  • 1/3 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Brownie Ingredients :

  • 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Directions:

  1. Preheat over to 350°
  2. In a bowl,  with a hand mixer, beat all of the cream cheese on medium until smooth. Next add vanilla and egg and mix. Then add the sugar and beat until smooth and well combined. Set aside.
  3. Grease and 8x8inch pan.
  4. In a small saucepan on low-medium heat, add butter cocoa powder and sugar. Place over heat stir occasionally until butter is completely melted and is well combined. Remove from heat.
  5. Whisk in eggs, one at a time, and then vanilla. Try to mix quickly because the cocoa mixture is still warm and could cook parts of the egg if you just let it sit there.
  6. Next add the rest of the ingredients. Brownie mixture will be thick.
  7. Pour into greased pan.
  8. By the spoonful, add the cream cheese mixture and use a butter knife to swirl it throughout the brownie mixture for a marbled look. I usually have a few spoonfuls of cream cheese mixture leftover.
  9. Bake for about 25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
  10. Enjoy!

 

 


cream cheese frosting

Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

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Who doesn’t love cream cheese frosting? The rich bold flavor tastes great on almost any dessert! This recipe lightly frosted 24 cupcakes with a bit leftover.

Here is the cream cheese frosting recipe that I use.

Ingredients:

  • 1, 8 oz, block of cream cheese, softened to room temperature
  • ½ cup, 1 stick, unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 tsp of vanilla extract
  • ~ 2 cups of powered sugar, more or less to suit your tastes

How to:

  1. In a small bowl, add the cream cheese, butter and the vanilla.
  2. With a hand mixer, beat on low-to-medium speed until well combined and creamy
  3. Gradually add the powered sugar to the cream cheese mixture and beat until smooth and delicious. Adding all the powered sugar at once makes it more difficult to control the taste because you can only go sweeter and it creates a powered sugar snowfall in your kitchen from the mixer.
  4. Enjoy!

cream cheese frosting recipe

 

cream cheese frosting

cream cheese frosting recipe


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Simple Biscuit Recipe

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I have this biscuit recipe because my husband requires bread at all meals. He doesn’t always get it but he’d prefer to have it. Here is my simple biscuit recipe I sometimes make him because it is easy and simple to make and it doesn’t take all day to make.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 5 Tbsp butter, cut into tiny pieces
  • 2-4 Tbsp honey, depending on how sweet you want them, I normally do 3
  • 3/4 cup milk, whole, buttermilk, 2% I’ve used all and prefer whole, they all change the taste a little bit

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 400° and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper
  2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and butter until it’s coarse
  3. In a small bowl, combine milk and honey
  4. Pour milk mixture into flour mixture and combine until all of the ingredients are no longer dry
  5. Put dough on a flour surface and kneed for a couple of minutes
  6. Roll dough into a log a couple of inches thick
  7. from log, cut 1.5-2 inch thick biscuits and place on cookie sheet

    biscuit recipe

    cut and ready to be baked

  8. Bake for 10-12 minutes
  9. Enjoy!

 

biscuit recipe

yum!

 


Blackberry Muffin Recipe with Greek Yogurt and Steel Cut Oats

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So it’s going to be a food week! Today I’ll start with breakfast, a muffin recipe! Blackberry muffins with greek yogurt and steel cut oats.

When buying fruit out of season, it’s always a guessing game as to when it’s going to go bad. I had boughten some blackberries a few days ago and decided I needed to do something with them before they went bad. I decided on blackberry muffins! I looked through a lot of recipes and ended up pulling different things from a few them and created my own to make them somewhat of a complete breakfast? Or really so I can say they have all of these things in them, they must be healthy 🙂 I tend to make the batter the night before to bake the next day because they can be time consuming.

Here is my muffin recipe:

  • 1 cup precooked steel cut oats I usually do 1/2 cup oats to 1 cup boiling water
  • 1 cup greek vanilla yogurt
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1/4 cup oil I used canola but vegetable oil should be good too
  • 3/4 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ~ 1 cup blackberries carefully cut into smaller pieces, I quartered mine

Directions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°
  2. in a medium bowl, mix the oats, yogurt and honey

    wet ingredients 1

    cooked steel cut oats, greek yogurt, honey

  3. in a small bowl, mix oil egg, and sugar until well combined

    sugar mixture

    brown sugar, egg, oil

  4. combine sugar mixture with oat mixture
  5. sift the flour, salt, baking soda and powder today and add to wet ingredients

    dry ingredients

    I dont have a fancy sifter so I use my mesh strainer

  6. gently fold in blackberries, they can lightly coated in flour to prevent them from sinking in the batter

    fruit

    blackberries cut into fourths

  7. bake, in a greased or lined muffin tin, for ~ 15-20 minutes, until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean

    yum!

  8. Enjoy!

I would say that this recipe makes around 12 muffins, but I don’t really know because I use the muffin tin and my George Foreman, don’t judge me :), and those muffins are tiny compared to my muffin tin for my oven. Also, you don’t have to use blackberries. Blueberries work great with this recipe too!

I hope you love these muffins!