Tag Archives: Baking and Confections

Oreo Cookie Spread

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Remember my homemade cookie butter? That super delicious stuff that you want to just eat straight from the jar? Of course you do!

Well I decided to go with an idea I saw on foodgawker. Oreo cookie spread. Uhh hello! TOTAL GENIUS

This stuff is beyond words. This stuff is seriously just the best. Better than Speculoos. Better than Biscoff. Yes, I am saying it. I may get like hate mail for those words, but it’s the truth.

If you have oreos at home, make these. If you don’t have oreos, buy them. NOW. Seriously just run and get those babies. You NEED THIS.

Oreo Cookie Spread

3 cups (1 package) Oreo cookies

2 Tablespoons coconut oil or canola oil (melt for 30 seconds in microwave)

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup – 3/4 cup milk (I used skim)

  1. Place Oreos, vanilla extract, and melted coconut oil in the food processor. Blend until combined and smooth. Slowly pour in milk through spout until you achieved desired consistency. 1/2 cup milk was good for me, but if you prefer a thinner cookie butter you should add 3/4 cup milk. Store cookie butter in an air-tight container and keep in refrigerator. Enjoy!
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Cinnamon Pull Apart Bubble Bread-SRC Post

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Hey there! How ya doing on this fine Monday? You look like you could use some sugar. Maybe some cinnamon? Oh yes, yes you definitely need it. Even if you don’t think you do, trust me you definitely do.

Here we are at another lovely month of the Secret Recipe Club (SRC) and I am so excited to tell you about the blog I was assigned. I feel SO, SO, SO fortunate to have found Carrie at Bakeaholic Mama. Her blog is ah-mazing, for lack of a better word. Oh my gosh, seriously. EVERY single one of her recipes look awesome. I kinda sorta want her to hang out with me. But…she lives in New Hampshire, and I don’t want to totally creep her out. Anyways, I feel like I’m totally like her. I love all the flavors she puts into her foods. Aaand we share the common love for bologna. Why doesn’t everybody love that stuff? Sure it feels weird, but it’s so yummy! Anyways, if you’d like to find out more about Carrie, you can go to her “About Me” page right here.

It’s kind of funny I got Carrie’s blog because I had just saved a bunch of her recipes on foodgawker like a week before I was assigned to her. Talk about perfect timing!

I ended up choosing to make her Cinnamon Pull Apart Bubble Bread. It’s sort of like Monkey Bread, but in loaf form. Also, the dough balls are filled with cinnamon chips to give you that extra cinnamon kick! This is a delicious bread that is perfect for breakfast anyway, but is sweet enough to enjoy as a treat any time of the day.

Cinnamon Pull Apart Bubble Bread

(from Bakeaholic Mama)

FOR THE BREAD:

1 batch of pizza dough (for the pizza dough, I used This Recipe, it’s perfect because it is no-rise and you can just use your food processor!)

1/2 cup cinnamon chips

1/4 cup melted butter

1/2 cup white sugar

1 Tablespoon cinnamon

FOR THE GLAZE: (I made half of this recipe for my glaze, less is more to me on the icing for breads)

4 oz. cream cheese

1 cup powdered sugar

2 Tablespoons of cream or milk (I used skim milk)

1/2 Tablespoon vanilla extract

1/2 Tablespoon cinnamon

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a loaf pan using cooking spray and set aside.
  2. Mix white sugar with Tablespoon of cinnamon. Divide dough into 2 inch pieces, stretch out into a 2-inch circle, fill with a few cinnamon chips. Press edges together to seal in cinnamon chips and roll into a ball. Roll each ball into melted butter, then into cinnamon sugar. Place each ball into prepared loaf pan. Take leftover butter and cinnamon-sugar mixture, combine together and pour over dough balls.
  3. Bake loaf in preheated oven for about 30 minutes, or until top of bread is starting to harden and the sides of the pan have a bubbly caramel. Let cool for about 10 minutes. Then flip onto serving dish.
  4. FOR ICING: beat cream cheese, vanilla, and powdered sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer. Slowly add in milk or cream. Mix in cinnamon. Add more milk as needed to make icing right consistency for drizzling. Pour icing over warm bread and enjoy!

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Week in Review (4/23-4/27)

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Monday I shared with you guys a little vent session about babies and teens. I also shared some delicious buttery biscuits! You have GOT to make these biscuits. They are so, so, sooo yummy and extremely easy!!

Tuesday I took the ACT…for the third time. This one was required by our school, though. I promise I’m not some ACT-addicted freak.

Wednesday I shared a recipe that every single person on this planet universe should experience. Yes, homemade cookie butter is THAT DELICIOUS.


Friday I shared with you guys Brownie Explosion Ice Cream. Ice Cream. Chocolate. Brownies. Need I say more?

Random Fact of the Day: On the planet 51 Pegasi B, it rains Iron!

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Fudge Brownie Explosion Ice Cream

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For those of you who have not invested in an ice cream maker yet, well I highly recommend you do.

Honestly, one of the best appliances I have my parents have ever bought. Making your own ice cream is like the easiest thing ever!! I’m not one to mess with recipes with eggs in them for ice cream. I just like to stick to the basic cream, milk, and sugar base. Salmonella freaks me out in ice cream..however, I’m TOTALLY okay with it in cookie dough! ;) (Completely different story, let’s be real here)

Anyways, making ice cream at home lets you be the most creative person on the planet. You’re like Ben & Jerry for a couple hours! You get to make up your own funky flavors and just do whatever the heck you want. Like put gummy bears and skittles in your ice cream and no one will judge! One of my favorite ice cream concoctions that I have made was the Brownie Batter kind I showed you guys a bit back. Well, I tweaked it a bit and made it fudge brownie explosion ice cream! Sounds good, right? FYI: It tastes even better than it sounds :)

So here is your to do list:

  1. buy ice cream maker
  2. make ice cream
  3. eat it.
  4. :)

Fudge Brownie Explosion Ice Cream

1 cup heavy cream

1/2 cup milk (I use skim)

1/2 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

pinch of salt

1/2 cup plus 2 Tablespoons Dry Brownie Mix

about 3/4 cup chopped up baked brownies

1/4 cup hot fudge topping**

  1. Mix the milk, cream, sugar, vanilla, dry brownie mix, vanilla extract, and salt together in a bowl using a whisk. Pour mixture into ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer’s directions.
  2. When there is 5 minutes left, pour in chopped brownies.
  3. When ice cream is done in ice cream maker, fold in hot fudge topping. Place ice cream in tupperware container and pop in the freezer. It will take a few hours for the ice cream to harden up, but I like mine soft so I was ready to eat mine about 2 hours later :) Enjoy!

* I actually made brownies a few weeks ago using a box mix. I only wanted to use half the batter, so I put the other half in a zip-loc bag and popped it in the freezer. I baked the brownies from the frozen batter in silicon muffin tins, that were sprayed with cooking spray, for about 20-25 minutes in a 350 degree F oven or until a toothpick inserted in the center came out mostly clean. I accidentally over baked mine a little bit, but it was no biggie since they went in the ice cream and you couldn’t tell at all.

** I used a hot fudge topping from a jar from the store, microwaved it for about 30-35 seconds until it was soft and smooth and a pourable consistency. I stirred it around with a knife in the jar to help it get to this point, then I let it cool for a minute or two so it wouldn’t heat up the ice cream too much and totally mess up the texture and consistency.

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Week In Review (4/16-4/20)

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Monday I shared with you the delicious cake I made to celebrate my mom’s birthday!! It was awesome getting to celebrate my mom’s day with this cake.

Tuesday I went with my prom date to go pick out his tux and all the little accessories that go with it. I never knew what cuff links were until this day… always just thought they were little decorative clips that some kids gave to their dad’s for Christmas. And um can I just say this looks like the most awesome thing in the history of ever! Coffee Faucet

Wednesday was the day the White Chocolate Wonderful ice cream came out. Holy Schmoly. Make THIS! Buy an ice cream maker. Buy White Chocolate Wonderful. DO IT DO IT DO IT.


Friday I showed you guys the yummy coconut cake I made for Easter. I’m convinced this baby could turn coconut haters into coconut freaks! I also got my fake baby for my child development class. It’s just like in the movies for when kids have to take care of fake babies for class…that baby is the reason why my week in review post is later than usual…crying baby=no sleep.

Random Fact of the Day: In the 1920′s popcorn was banned from movie theaters because it was too noisy.

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