Almond Joy Brownies

I found this recipe from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen,  
Her pictures are better than mine.

                                                but I'm pretty sure they tasted just as good :)
You first bake the brownie and then place coconut and an almond on top, and then dip in chocolate!
How good does that sound?!

Ingredients:
Brownie batter (homemade, from a boxed mix, whatever is your favorite. I used Ghirardelli)
4 cups sweetened shredded coconut
14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
About 4 dozen almonds 
Chocolate candy melts or almond bark

1.Preheat your oven according to brownie recipe directions and bake brownies either in a mini muffin pans or just a regular pan. ( If you don't use muffin pans you will have to use a cookie cutter or something to get them in the form you want). When brownies are done, cool completely.

2.In a bowl, combine coconut and sweetened condensed milk. With clean hands, roll coconut mixture into balls and press onto tops of brownie bites. ( The coconut gets stuck to your hands and then doesn't form into balls so what I did was wet my hands with some water. That helped the coconut stick together).

3.Press an almond on the top of each and place brownies in the freezer to harden for about 15 minutes.

4. Melt almond bark dip the tops of the brownies in the chocolate. Place dipped brownies on a wax paper lined baking sheet and refrigerate until chocolate is set.

Enjoy,

Sugar Dust

S'mores Cookie Bars

I was planning on making these this weekend but my brother( who, I must say eats EVERYTHING!) opened the Hershey's chocolate bar that I needed so I figured if I don't make them today I wont be left with any chocolate. 

Well, these are S'mores in the form of bars/cookies. It tastes exactly like the ones from a campfire. If your like me you know that theres a difference between the S'mores you make at a bonfire and the ones you make at home, on your stove.  I don't know, maybe its just me but there IS a difference!!

Again, another simple recipe. I got this from Lovin in the Oven.   Yea I know again, but I cant help it she just has some amazing recipes!

After you make the dough spread half of it in an 8x8 pan and place your chocolate bars on top.

As you can see, I am missing chocolate so I had to use chocolate chips:/

Cover with marshmallow fluff and then cover with dough.

The tricky part is getting it dough to spread, so I suggest that you use your hand to flatten the dough and then place it on top.

Do the best you can:)

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 king-sized milk chocolate bars (e.g. Hershey’s)
1 1/2 cups marshmallow creme/fluff (not melted marshmallows)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare an 8x8 pan.
2. Beat butter and sugar until fluffy and light. 
3. Add egg and vanilla and beat until mixed well.
4. Add the flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder, and salt and mix until well incorporated.
5. Divide the dough in 2 and place one half of it into the pan. 
6. Place the Hershey bars on top . ( I used the extra large chocolate bars so everything fit in perfectly.)
7. Add the marshmallow fluff on top.
8. Add the last layer of dough on top of the marshmallow. ( I suggest flattening out pieces of dough with your hand and then laying them on top of the marshmallow one by one.)
9. Bake for about 30 minutes or until golden brown.

Enjoy,

Sugar Dust

BOMB Cookies

So today I asked my little brother what he felt like eating?
He said cookies so I decided to make him these Pillow cookies from Divine Baking.  Lovely little blog.

Anyways I have made these before but using a different recipe and lets just say they did not come out quite as I would have expected. But thankfully this recipe did not disappoint like the last one:)

Yet they did not come out looking like the ones on Divine Baking's Blog either.
They came out HUGE!!

Thats where the name BOMB cookies comes in hehe:)
My mom actually came up with the name. I'm not sure how Divine Baking formed the cookies but who's complaining, everyone loves a huge cookie!

Well for those who don't know a Bomb Cookie (aka pillow cookie) is a chocolate chip cookie with a brownie  center.

Sorry again about the photo. I really need help with those:(

but they really are good.

They came out pretty big and one of these bad boys should satisfy anyone!

Ingredients:

1 box of brownie mix (or you can make your own)

16 tbsp cold butter, cut into small cubes
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1. First bake the brownie according to the instructions on the box. Let cool completely.

2. In a bowl, beat butter and sugar together until barley combined. Do not beat until creamy or fluffy.

3. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until combined.

4. Add your flour, baking soda&powder,salt. Mix until dough forms.

5. Add chocolate chips. ( Just FYI, I added 2 cups and my brother said it was too much).

6. Put in the fridge until the brownies are done and cooled.

When you are ready to form these Bomb cookies, cut the brownies into squares about 1inch x 1 inch. Take some of the cookie dough in your hand and flatten it in your hand. Put the brownies on top and then add some more cookie dough on top. Spread the cookie dough all around, making sure the brownie is not showing. Repeat for all the other cookies.

My cookies came out really big and I only ended up with about 12 cookies. I think I needed to flatten out the dough more. The actual recipe is supposed to be for 24. It just depends on how much cookie dough you use per brownies. Well good luck and let me know how it goes!:)

Enjoy,

Sugar Dust

Peanut Butter Oreo Pies

Let me just say that I love Oreos....

anddd peanut butter

So I figured that together they would be even better. Am I right?

When I saw this recipe on 

Picky Palate I had to try them.

Unfortunately, in my opinion they did not taste as good as they looked. Don't get me wrong, these could probably be amazing but the pie crust sucked out all my sweetness. I have a major sweet tooth so, to me they were not sweet enough and the main flavor was the pie crust. If I make these again I'm going to sweeten them up a bit. Thats why if you plan on making this add some extra sugar on top or inside 

(or anywhere).

Or you could even make the pie crust really thin so then the crust doesn't triumph the Oreo&peanut butter.( This is probably better because we all know sugar = calories :/ eh)

and dip them in milk! They are very good with milk. It softens the crust.

Anyways...

This recipe requires only a few ingredients so I was even more excited to try them. Everyone loves an easy, quick recipe.

Ingredients:

2 pie crust ( the refrigerated kind you find at local grocery store)

A pack of ores ( around 16 for 8 pies)

Around 1 cup of creamy peanut butter ( but you don't have to measure, just scoop it out of the jar)

2 tablespoons of melted butter

2 tablespoons of granulated sugar

1. First preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and spray your muffin pan.

2.Unroll pie crust. I rolled mine out to make it larger.

3. Make about a 4inch circle in the pie crust and press into pan.

4. Spread about 1 tablespoon of peanut butter on top of an Oreo and then stick an Oreo on top of the    peanut butter. Then add some more peanut butter on top of that Oreo.

5. Press cookies in pie crust.

6. Using remaining pie crust, cut strips to make lattice top. ( for photo instructions visit Picky Palate). 

7. Brush top of pies with melted butter and add lots of sugar!

8. Bake for about 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Enjoy

Sugar Dust