Magic Cookie Bars

Magic Cookie Bars

• 1 stick of butter
• 1 1/2 cups of crushed graham cracker
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
• 1 cup coconut
• 1 can swetened condensed milk

Directions:

1. Preheat to 350.
2. Melt the stick of butter in a 13x9 pan, making sure it's evenly distributed.
3. Add the graham crackers, making a traditional crust.
4. Add the following ingredients in a layer on top of the crust; walnuts, chocolate chips, coconut.
5. drizzle the condensed milk on top.
6. bake for 20-30 minutes.

Overall: These might have been my favorite cookies of the night. They were made by alli's roommate and when we walked into the apartment, these were in to oven baking. They are so good =) I asked for the recipe so I could try and replicate. Super awesome.

Christmas Cookies!

Let me explain:




Hope that was good enough... ONTO COOKIES



Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 (14oz) can condensed milk
• 6 tablespoons crushed peppermint candies
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or peppermint)
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

Directions:
1. preheat oven to 300 degrees
2. Melt 1 cup of chocolate chips, over a double boiler or carefully in the microwave.
3. Combine the melted chocolate chips with 1 can condensed milk. Mix thoroughly.
4. Add the egg, vanilla, melted butter, and about half the crushed peppermint. Stir to combine.
5. In a separate bowl, combine flour, cocoa.
6. Slowly add the dry ingredients to wet ingredients.
7. Once combined, add the remining chocolate chips.
8. Cook for 7-10 minutes. Remove and sprinkle some peppermint on each cookie. Finish cooking for about 2 minutes.


Overall: So since the semester is almost over, the regular girls night crew, plus some new awesome faces, decided to go out with a bang. Cookie style. These cookie's were found by Alli. These were awesome. Love! Be warned, they are very very chocolaty, so make sure you have a cup of milk handy with each cookie.

Pumpkin Waffles with Maple Cream Cheese

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup cream cheese (rm temp)
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1 1/2 cups canned pumpkin
• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 3 eggs, separated
  
• 4 tbsp melted butter

Directions

1. whisk cream cheese and maple syrup together until blended
2. heat pumpkin on a small sauce pan, about 5 minutes
3. combine all dry ingredients into large bowl
   
4. in a seperate bowl, combine milk and eggs
5. stir the pumpkin and butter to wet ingredients
6. Brush waffle iron lightly with oil and heat.
7. Stir wet ingredients into dry. Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form
8. fold egg whites into batter. ]
9. ladle into waffle iron. enjoy =)

Overall: So for the record, these were made by my roommate and his awesome vegetarian cookbook/dictionary... Came home from shopping to this being made. Super awesome flavors and just a great treat. So good, they barely made it to a plate....

Stephen Mayper's Pistacho Cake

This cake was made for me by a really good friend for my birthday this year. I asked him for the recipe to make this cake for my mom's birthday. So here we go:
Pistacho Cake:
Ingredients:
1 box yellow cake mix
1 pkg pistachio pudding jello mix
4 eggs
1 stick melted butter
8 oz sour cream or plain yogurt (I Opted for Sour Cream)
1/4 cup canola oil (Used Sunflower Oil because i couldn't find canola in the house)

Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting (Not part of the original recipe, but added on because every cake needs frosting!)
1 8oz package of soften creamcheese
3 cups confectionary sugar
1 cup sweetened cocoa powder

Just mix everything in a big bowl, sprinkle cinnamon sugar in your greased pan, pour 1/2 batter, pour a thicker layer of cinnamon sugar, the rest of the batter, and some more cinnamon sugar.


it was quite a thick batter, not what I'm use to making.

to be extra special I added a heart for my mom's birthday!

This cake is insanely good. It's a heavier cake, so one to two pieces in one sitting. But for cake enthusiats it goes fast. The frosting was INSANE. I basically altered a vanilla recipe, hoping that the ratio of chocolate would be alright. It totally was. I only wish I had gotten to pipe more designs on the cake.