French Toast with Coconut syrup! Add fresh fruit YUMMY!

Blender French Toast Yummy with Coconut syrup!

WOW...We just had this for breakfast and it was unbelievable! Super quick and easy to make, but tasted a million times better than breakfast at a restaurant! The texture of of the french toast was fabulous-- I think the flour made it really unique, and they weren't too eggy at all (I can't stand eggy french toast!). Also, I loved that the batter was completely lump-free, thanks to the blender. On top of all that, the syrup was SO good, and made me feel like I was eating breakfast in Hawaii! This recipe is definitely a keeper! (But I do think I'll serve it with berries and whipped cream next time.)

Blender French Toast with Coconut Syrup
Courtesy of-Alyssa Griffeth-

4 eggs
1 c. milk
1/4 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla
1/4 c. + 2 T. flour
1 lg. loaf French bread, sliced thick (about 12-13 slices)

In blender, combine all ingredients except bread. Blend until mixture is lump-free. Transfer to a shallow bowl.

Quickly dip both sides of bread in mixture and place on greased, hot skillet (heated to 325 degrees). Flip over when browned. Serve with hot Coconut Syrup.

Coconut Syrup

1/2 c. butter
¾ c. buttermilk
1 c. sugar
½ tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. coconut extract

Place butter, buttermilk and sugar in a medium saucepan. Stir over medium heat until butter melts and sugar dissolves. Bring to a boil and boil one minute.

Remove from heat and add baking soda and extract, stirring constantly. It will bubble up, so if your pot is small, hold it over the sink to avoid spillage. Continue to stir syrup and let it rest for a few minutes before serving. Serve over almost any breakfast food: waffles, pancakes, French toast, crepes, etc.

Moist Chewy Easy Chocolate Chip cookies!

Do you want a gourmet cookie that's soft chewy and so delicious?  Well check this out super easy!

The secret to great chocolate chip cookies: follow your 

favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe then add instant vanilla 

pudding mix to the dough. Leaves cookies soft and chewy 

for days after baking.

Get the Kids Involved and have a Smoother Healthier Morning!

Courtesy of  the Yummy Life

So I'm always running a marathon in the morning in fact I hate mornings!  There never easy getting this one off to school this one to daycare me ready for work etc...... (Do I ever get ready really? hmmm NO)

Well this is something normally I wouldn't think of looking twice at but...... my son just had surgery on his mouth this past Friday and I needed something soft and mushy for him to eat.

Well well these are tasty and healthy and better yet the kids can get involved and make there own well, I call them "concoctions"  LOL because my kitchen usually looks like a science experiment went wrong.  They love to help and even better they are learning a healthy way of eating!

For the recipes follow the link bellow! ENJOY! :)

http://www.theyummylife.com/Refrigerator_Oatmeal

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Biscoff Buttercream Icing

Chocolate Cupcakes with
Biscoff Buttercream Icing

Yield: 24 cupcakes / 3 cups of icing

Use this doctored cake mix recipe from My Baking Addiction or your favorite homemade chocolate cupcake recipe and pair it with this amazing biscoff buttercream icing.

ingredients:

Chocolate Cupcakes
1 (18.25 oz) package devil’s food cake mix (I used Duncan Hines)
1 (3.4 oz) package instant chocolate pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 Tbsp instant espresso granules, dissolve it in 1/2 cup warm water

Biscoff Buttercream Icing

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup salted butter, softened
3/4 cup biscoff spread (next to peanut butter in grocery store)
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
3 cups powdered sugar
3-4 Tbsp milk

directions:

Chocolate Cupcakes
Be sure to preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Place cupcake liners in your cupcake tin.

In a large mixing bowl with a hand mixer or your stand mixer bowl using the paddle attachment, mix together all of your ingredients except the peanut butter cups for minute or two until well mixed. (Don't overmix.)

Place 3 Tbsp of cake batter in each cupcake liner using a measuring spoon or a cookie scoop.

Bake for 18 to 22 minutes or until several cupcakes pricked with a toothpick come out clean. Allow the cupcakes to cool in the pan for 5 to 10 minutes.

Remove cupcakes from the pans and place them on a cooling rack & let them cool all the way. While the cupcakes are baking you can make the buttercream icing.

Biscoff Buttercream Icing
In your stand mixer bowl using the paddle attachment, mix thoroughly the softened butter and biscoff spread on low to medium speed. Add vanilla extract and mix well. Turn off your mixer and in two batches, add the powdered sugar and mixing until well blended (it will look like a dough). Be careful, the powered sugar can go everywhere!

Add 3 to 4 tablespoons of milk a little bit at a time while blending on low speed. Blend until well combined. You'll start to see the icing pull from the sides of the bowl. Add a little bit more milk to get to the right thinness (to your preference). Keep blending, higher the speed, until nice and fluffy, about 5 to 7 minutes.

Using a big star tip and decorator bag, pipe icing onto cooled cupcakes. Icing can be stored in the fridge for up to a couple of weeks. Allow to sit at room temperature for at least 30 minutes before icing cupcakes.

Courtesy of: Cupcake recipe slightly modified My Baking Addiction and Biscoff Buttercream Icing recipe is from The Little Kitchen.

Life's sweetest memories start with the MOOD!

Ahhh to enjoy an evening like this would be wonderful!!

Cute and Rustic

Instead of getting the campfire out while watching a movie try this yummy  S'mores Caramel popcorn!!!

Caramel Popcorn:

16 cups popped corn
1 C brown sugar
1/4 C Karo syrup
1/2 C butter
Cook sugar, syrup and butter in a glass bowl in microwave on high for one minute. Stir and repeat for a total of five
minutes. Should be hot and bubble.
Add:
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2-1 tsp vanilla
Mix until foamy. Put popped corn into a brown grocery bag. Pour syrup into bag. Stir to coat. Fold bag over. Place
in microwave and microwave for one minute and shake. Repeat. Microwave 30 seconds and shake. Repeat.
(Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar if desired and shake again)
Pour popcorn out to cool on wax paper.

S'mores Popcorn:

1 batch of caramel corn(recipe above)
2-3 C of miniature marshmallows
2-3 C of Golden Graham cereal
1 pkg. of chocolate chips (I used milk chocolate)
Spread caramel corn onto two parchment lined cookie sheets to cool. Sprinkle with marshmallows and cereal. Melt
chocolate chips and then drizzle chocolate over mixture. Allow chocolate to set up. Enjoy!

Tiger Cupcakes w/ Brown Butter-Cream Cheese Icing

Tiger Cupcakes w/ Brown Butter-Cream Cheese Icing Tiger Cupcakes w/ Brown Butter-Cream Cheese Icing Ingredients for cupcakes: 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon salt 8 tablespoons butter, room temperature ½ cup buttermilk or sour cream, room temperature 1 large eggs, room temperature 2 large egg yolks, room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste, or 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 cup cocoa gel or paste food coloring, if desired Directions for the cupcakes: 1. Adjust oven rack to middle position; heat oven to 350˚ F. Line 18 muffin cups with paper or foil liners. 2. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in bowl of standing mixer fitted with paddle attachment. Add butter, buttermilk (or sour cream), egg and egg yolks, and vanilla; beat at medium speed until smooth and satiny, about 30 seconds. Scrape down sides of bowl with rubber spatula and mix by hand until smooth and no flour pockets remain. 3. Divide batter evenly into 2 or 3  medium size bowls (3 if using extra colored swirl). Sift cocoa into one of the bowls of batter, then stir well to combine. If using a third color, add a small amount of gel or paste food coloring to the second bowl of batter and stir well to combine. 4. Pour the batter into 3 ziplock bags or disposable decorating bags, scraping the bowls well to use all of the batter. Cut off a tiny snip of a corner of each bag (start tiny, you can always cut off a bit more). Beginning with the plain batter, squeeze about a tablespoon of batter into the bottom of each cupcake liner. Next, take the chocolate batter and poking the corner of the bag right into the vanilla batter squeeze out another (approximate) tablespoon of batter. This will form a chocolate circle surrounded with a vanilla ring of batter. Repeat this process with the third bag of batter (if using 3 colors) and then start again with the vanilla and repeat until all the batter is used up. Don't worry about trying to be exact with the amount of each color you add - the cupcakes with come out surprisingly fun and swirly even if you're not super precise. If you're finding it hard to picture this process, check out this youtube demonstration. It shows a zebra cake being made instead of cupcakes, but it will help you get the basic idea. 5. Bake until cupcake tops are firm  and toothpick or skewer inserted into center comes out clean, 20 to 24 minutes. Remove the cupcakes from tin and transfer to wire rack; cool cupcakes to room temperature before frosting. Courtesy of The Cafe Sucre Farine Adapted from Cook"s Illustrated Brown Butter Cream Cheese Icing Ingredients for icing: 1 stick (4 ounces butter 1 stick (4 ounces) butter, softened cream cheese 2 ounces, softened 2 tablespoons milk or half and half, more if needed 6 -7 cups powdered sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract Directions for the icing: 1. Place first stick of butter in a medium size saucepan over medium heat. Allow butter to melt, then continue to cook until butter begins to foam and bubble. This is when you have to watch it like a hawk! Swirl the pan frequently on the burner to keep the butter from burning. It will go from yellow to pale gold to golden. As soon as you see the nice golden color, turn off the heat and remove pan from burner. It will continue to deepen a bit in color off of the heat. Set aside to cool while you're continuing to prepare the icing in step 2. 2. Place softened stick of butter and cream cheese in the bowl of an electric mixer. Mix on medium for 5 minutes until very soft and fluffy. Add 4 cups of the powdered sugar, the browned butter and the milk and mix again until well blended. Add another 2 cups of powdered sugar and vanilla. Add more milk or powdered sugar as needed. To pipe frosting you'll want a somewhat looser consistency. If you are frosting with a knife, it will need to be firmer.   3. Frost or pipe icing as desired. I used a disposable 18 inchicing bag with a 1M tip to swirl my icing.  You may have more icing than you need for the 18 cupcakes. This icing freezes well, just beat again for a minute or two after unthawing.

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Chocolate Blackberry Cream Cookies!

Recipe of the Day!!!!

~from your cup of cakes~

Don't these look absolutely fabulous!

YUMMY

Chocolate Cookies:

1 box Devil’s Food Cake Mix

2 eggs

1/3 cup oil

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

¼ cup powdered sugar

Blackberry Cream:

4 ounces cream cheese

¼ cup butter

2-3 tablespoons blackberry     puree, strained

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups powdered sugar

Blackberries to decorate

Directions:

1.     Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

2.    Gently combine eggs, oil and vanilla extract.

3.    Sift (for easy mixing) in Devil’s Food Cake Mix and stir until combined.  Dough will be very firm.

4.    Make dough balls (about 1 ½ T in size) and then pat them out into disks ¾ thick.

5.    Cover the dough in powdered sugar and place on cookie sheets

6.   Bake for 7-10 minutes.

7.    Blackberry Cream: Beat all ingredients and adjust taste and consistency as needed.  (More powdered sugar to thicken, more purree or milk to loosen.)

8.   Pipe cream onto cooled cookies and top with fresh blackberries.

Happy Memorial Weekend

So very busy little bee today!  Made absolutely the cutest RED, WHITE and BLUE chocolate covered strawberries and of course my gourmet double dipped with specialty toppings YUMMY!  Thank you everyone for your orders.  I know you and your guests will just absolutely adore these heavenly little beauties! 

From the Beginning

So it all started for me with having my daughter!   I knew I absolutely loved creating these awesome little creations.  First it was cute little decorated cookies for daycare then cupcakes then the cupcakes became an artistic piece for me.  The more everyone said OMG these are so cute or omg they taste fabulous the more I wanted to do the bigger the better the "cuter" they had to be!  The more compliments the better! The best is when the kids go I wonder What Mrs. D is bringing.  Wow these little people just couldn't wait for one of my new creations, it was like Christmas morning when we would arrive.  I love seeing there faces all light up and the best for me was knowing how special my little girl felt (the importance I guess) of being cool or being wanted for a child (if that would be the right words to say).  I sure hope I can find my older pics of from the beginning to share with everyone.  But for now here is a picture of a creepy crawly Chocolate covered "ROTTEN APPLES" this I did for her 2nd grade class for Halloween. And yes I was up til 4am curling the little ribbons on each little apple ;)

OMG thank you so much to Coupon Nurse and Donna is this my first post?