Showing posts with label Eats and Sweets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eats and Sweets. Show all posts
I can't take credit for this recipe, I found it here and once I took one look at it I HAD to try it myself. Of course I swapped out the semi-sweet chocolate chips for milk chocolate ones because I am a WILD WOMAN but everything else is the same. She calls this cake "ridiculous" and it truly is, and easy! I love love love any recipe that starts with boxed cake. Don't tell anyone but I think doctored boxed cake is better than from scratch in certain cases, especially this one or anything involving funfetti.
INGREDIENTS (recipe is from http://cookiesandcups.com/)
Cake
1 (15.25 ounce) box chocolate cake mix
1 (3.9 ounce) box instant chocolate pudding
1 (16 ounce) container sour cream
3 eggs
⅓ cup vegetable oil
½ cup water
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (I used milk chocolate)
Frosting
¼ cup butter, room temperature
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
¼ cup heavy cream
INSTRUCTIONS
Cake
Preheat oven to 350°F. Liberally grease a 10- inch bundt pan with butter or shortening and lightly dust with flour. Set aside.
In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment combine all the cake ingredients. Mix on low for 30 seconds until combined and then on medium speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Stir in the chocolate chips and pour the batter into the prepared pan.
Bake for 55-60 minutes, until the cake is set. Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 10 minutes and then invert the pan onto a cake plate. Cool completely before frosting.
Frosting
In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on low speed beat the butter, cocoa powder and powdered sugar until combined. Add in the vanilla and cream and beat on medium speed for 1-2 minutes until creamy, scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary.
Frost the top of the cake and garnish with more chocolate chips if desired.
..Chocolate Caramel Funfetti Bars
March 23, 2016 • dessert Eats and Sweets food funfetti recipe recipe post
So if you follow me on snapchat (@erinhabes) you know I'm currently doing a Whole30 (day 17). I know, it's seriously masochistic to bake delicious treats like this when you can't even lick the spoon after you're done but one of my best friends just had the cutest baby girl and I wanted to take them some really fun treats - key word is fun - as in FUNFETTI (the best cake flavor of all time - you can find my other funfetti recipes here and here - WHERE is my sponsorship already, Pillsbury?). The recipe I used is here, I followed it exactly except I just swapped out white cake mix for funfetti mix because popping out a baby deserves a little celebration!
INGREDIENTS
1 box (18.25 oz) funfetti mix
5 oz evaporated milk
¼ cup butter, melted
40 Rolo Candies, unwrapped and cut in half
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat oven to 350°
Spray a 9x13 pan with cooking spray.
With your mixer, beat cake mix, evaporated milk and butter until combined. Mixture will be thick and sticky.
Divide batter in half and press 1 half into the bottom of the pan.
Bake until just set, approximately 8-9 minutes.
Remove base from oven and place Rolo candies, caramel-side down on top.
Drop remaining batter on top of Rolos in teaspoon sized amounts.
Bake for 20-24 minutes longer until top begins to golden.
Cool completely before cutting into squares.
..Funfetti Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies!
October 29, 2014 • Eats and Sweets Funfetti Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe post
I don't know about you but growing up my favorite cake/cupcake combo was always funfetti cake with chocolate frosting. Hands down. Even as someone who loves to bake and make things from scratch I can say it's probably still my favorite because the scent alone floods my brain with happy birthday memories.
I thought recently, why not try to put all that reminiscent deliciousness into a cookie? It's easier, takes less time, and is just a lot more portable (I brought these to a party last Sunday and they were a big hit). Also, these are like SO easy. So go head and make you some goodness.
Ingredients recipe adapted from here
1 box funfetti cake mix
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
8 oz cream cheese (1 package)
1 egg
1.5 cups Ghirardelli milk chocolate chips (spring for something good!)
1/2 cup powdered sugar
Beat cream cheese and butter together until smooth then beat in the egg. Gradually add in the funfetti mix until you create a dough. Fold in your chocolate chips until evenly distributed in the dough. Cover and refrigerate for an hour or so (until its stiff and cold) then roll the cookies into 1.5 inch balls. Coat them in some powdered sugar and bake on 350 for 12 minutes.
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
8 oz cream cheese (1 package)
1 egg
1.5 cups Ghirardelli milk chocolate chips (spring for something good!)
1/2 cup powdered sugar
Beat cream cheese and butter together until smooth then beat in the egg. Gradually add in the funfetti mix until you create a dough. Fold in your chocolate chips until evenly distributed in the dough. Cover and refrigerate for an hour or so (until its stiff and cold) then roll the cookies into 1.5 inch balls. Coat them in some powdered sugar and bake on 350 for 12 minutes.
I made these cupcakes for my friend's work shower. I went with a floral theme because she sent out the most gorgeous wedding invitations that had a beautiful floral lining in them and thought it would be a nice change up from the normal weddingy cupcakes you see all the time. I made a simple vanilla cupcake with cream cheese icing. Then I used these Wilton Ready-to-Use Icing tubes and these tips that screw right onto the tubes. You can get them both at any old grocery store, usually they are by the sprinkles. I used the "star" tip to make the flowers, the "leaf" tip to make the leaves, and the "round" tip for the yellow centers. I promise it is so easy, and how cute and matchy is my cake stand with these sugary cuties? It happens to be a gift from the bride! I love when things like that happen!
..The Easiest Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Cookie Bars Ever!
February 20, 2014 • cheesecake cookie bar cookie recipe Eats and Sweets recipe post
You guys. These chocolate chip cheesecake cookie bars are the BEEEESSSST. Trust me. All you need are four little ingredients. Do it! Plus everyone will think you worked really hard on them and are some crazy amazing baker = bonus!
Ingredients
1 tube cookie dough
1 package of cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
Directions
1. Cut tube of cookie dough in half. Take the first half and press it down into a square 8x8 inch baking dish.
2. Mix cream cheese, egg, and sugar together until well blended. Pour it over the cookie dough.
3. Use the remaining half of cookie dough to sprinkle over cream cheese layer.
4. Bake on 350 for about 35 mins and then refrigerate for a few hours to set.
5. Eat your face off!
If you are looking to get into the pink and red heart filled holiday this weekend, here are some of my favorite little love projects from Valentine's Day's past. Chocolate cherry heart shaped cupcakes because duh, give me all the cupcakes, easy DIY love notes to friends and fam because who doesn't love sparkly snail mail?, and cheesecake conversation hearts because I want all my sweet treats personalized on holidays! Feel free to get really weird/crazy with the messages here.
This pecan pie might not look as pretty as one you would buy, but I would bet all my monies that it damn well tastes more delicious! I honestly don't even LIKE pecan pie and had no idea how to go about making it, but my Dad's 50th birthday fell on Thanksgiving Day this year and it is his absolute favorite. It usually is my aunts duty but the dinner was held on the other side of the family this year and what kind of daughter would I be if I let him miss out on his favorite treat he only gets to eat once a year on his birthday? What's a girl to do? MAKE THE PIE, DUH. I know. Whilst perusing the internet for recipes they all called for some mystery ingredient I assumed was gross called "Karo syrup" (which turned out isn't weird or gross at all but scared me anyway) so I was determined to find a recipe that didn't have it and that also seemed easy enough to bang out before the "night-before-thanksgiving-drinkfest" that we all know and love commenced. Enter this recipe. I made one for the dinner and one for him to take on his annual hunting trip that follows every year. No joke, my dad, the non-texter, sent me this text the next day "Your pecan pie is the best me and my friends have ever had!" Mission accomplished. It was super easy and very tasty!
Ingredients
1 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter (melted)
2 eggs
1 tablespoon flour
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans
1 unbaked 9 inch pie crust
Directions (via All Recipes)
1. Preheat your oven to 400.
2. Beat eggs, butter, brown sugar, white sugar, and flour. Then mix in the vanilla and nuts.
3. Pour into shell then bake for ten minutes on 400. Turn down to 350 and bake for 35 more minutes.
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Soup season is upon us. The six above are my favorites from blog posts of yesteryear. I'd like to think there is a little sumpin' sumpin' for everybody here whether your taste is creamy, spicy, cheesy, or even healthy. Enjoy!
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This little pie was so delicious I basically ate the entire thing myself. I am not actually a big fan of apple pie, I am more of a cheesecake, pumpkin, or berry type of gal but since we picked these amazing apples ourselves from Carter Mountain Orchard (gorgeousness documented below) and because I went a little cray cray bringing home 11 lbs of them or so, I thought I should probably try my hand at this American favorite. My first go round I used all green apples, and while it was really yummy I made a second one with one Granny Smith, two Fugi, and two Pink Ladies and the flavor was much more complex and to my liking. It may not be traditional to use an array of apples but I'm starting a new trend. I promise you won't regret it! I also totally cheated and bought store crust bc frankly I HATE rolling out my own and ain't nobody got time for that. Okay I do...but I didn't anyway.
*Recipe was adapted from here (I made quite a few changes though, so I'd follow along below).
Pie
1 (9 inch) deep dish pie crust
5 medium size apples - peeled, cored, sliced (1 Granny Smith, 2 Fugi, 2 Pink Ladies)
1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1/8 teaspoon ginger
Lay out unbaked crust in your pie dish. Put all your apple slices in a bowl and toss them in the sugar/spice mixture util fully coated then put them in your pie crust.
Crumbs
1/3 cup white sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 stick of butter
Cut butter into sugar and flour mixture until crumbly then spread evenly over pie. Bake at 375 for 40 minutes.
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..Red Velvet Pancakes
October 22, 2013 • breakfast cream cheese drizzle Eats and Sweets recipe recipe post red velvet pancakes
One of my favorite local watering holes (A-Town for all you Arlington folk) is not only walking distance from my apartment, but one of those places where debauchery is probable, accepted, and encouraged. It also happens to be right next to a 24 hour IHOP, so needless to say, when A-Town gets my patronage, IHOP usually benefits too. One of these nights I happened to have the best pancakes of my life - a special that was happening - red velvet pancakes. I have since tried to go back and order these delicious creations but alas, they are no longer on the menu. After going through all five stages of grief, I decided to try making them myself. I followed this recipe and obviously opted for the cream cheese drizzle instead of using syrup because, duh.
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October is upon us and I have noticed that in the past couple weeks some of my pumpkin recipe posts have been making the rounds on Pinterest - I guess everyone has fall cooking on the brain - so I thought it would be a nice idea to round them up here for you. Apparently I have a love for cooking with this magical squash as it keeps making appearances on this little old blog.
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..The Easiest Pumpkin Chip Cookies You Will Ever Make
September 20, 2013 • cookies Eats and Sweets pumpkin pumpkin chocolate chip recipe recipe post
The title of this post says it all. Just mix together the three ingredients below and bake on 350 for about 12 minutes and you have yourself pumpkin chocolate chip cookies (mine came out a little muffiny and very moist after I refrigerated them for a day but I don't mind that at all). I am headed up to Jersey to visit my newly engaged cousin tomorrow morning for some festivity planning and photo taking, I hope you all have a great weekend!
Ingredients
1 box spice cake mix
1 can pumpkin puree
1 cup chocolate chips
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