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Feb 13 2013
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!

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Feb 5 2013
white chocolate cheesecake

White Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe

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I love cheesecake! Basically I love anything that’s not healthy. But it’s ok if it’s in moderation right? Here is a recipe for white chocolate cheesecake. The white chocolate taste is very light in this recipe, add more if you prefer a bolder white chocolate taste or omit the chocolate all together if you prefer a regular cheesecake. This has a graham cracker crust, the type of graham is up to you, cinnamon and honey are good choices with honey being my favorite. Prep time is only about 15 minutes and oven time is 2 hours.

White Chocolate Cheesecake

Ingredients:

Crust:

  • 1.5 cups graham crackers crumbs (about one sleeve) can be done by hand or in a food processor
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup melted butter

Filling:

  • 3 (8oz) packages cream cheese at room temperature
  • 1 (14oz) can sweetened condensed milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 (4oz/113g) baking white chocolate bar

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees and VERY LIGHTLY grease your 9″ spring form pan.

           – I just mist some Pam because the cheesecake sometimes sticks to the sides and breaks my cake and that makes me sad.

2. Mix graham cracker crumbs, sugar, butter.

– I find it best to use my hands to mix to make sure everything is coated in the butter

white chocolate cheesecake

crust pressed into pan

 

 

 

3. Press crust mix into bottom of pan, and up sides of 9inch spring form pan, set aside on a cookie sheet with a lip

 

 

3. Beat cream cheese on medium until smooth

4. In a saucepan melt white chocolate, add to cream cheese and beat until well combined

5. Gradually add the condensed milk, beat well, add vanilla. Then add the eggs, one at a time, and beat on medium until smooth

6. Pour into prepared crust

7. Bake for 1 hour, turn off oven and leave in oven for another hour, remove and cool completely, refrigerate

Enjoy plain, with more chocolate, or with fruit!

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Jan 28 2013
waffle recipe

Waffle Recipe

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Who doesn’t love waffles? My waffle recipe is pretty basic. I use applesauce and honey to make them a little sweet. This makes 6 large George Foreman waffles, I don’t have a regular waffle iron.

Ingredients:

  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups of flour
  • 1½ cups milk
  • ¼ cup applesauce
  • ¼ cup honey
  • 1 Tbsp. sugar
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

  1. In a large bowl, whisk eggs.
  2. Add the remaining ingredients and combine until well mixed.
  3. Pour over preheated iron and cook
  4. Enjoy!

 

Dec 3 2012

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!