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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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Fiesta Quinoa Salad

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There are a few key words in some recipes that jump out to me to tell me that it’s gonna be something I’ll really like.

Some of these key words would be chocolate, healthy, cookie, cupcake, cookie butter, biscoff, chocolate – so important it deserves to be mentioned twice, peanut butter, southwest, and last but certainly not least-fiesta. Helloooooo who would not want something with fiesta involved?! Fiesta tacos, fiesta enchiladas, fiesta brownies, fiesta cookies, fiesta ice cream, fiesta salad. I can totally hop on all those first trains.

The fact that fiesta was in the name of the recipe I got adapted my fiesta salad from, was what partly motivated me to make it. I also bought quinoa because the blogoverse is like obsessed with it almost as much as cookie butter…please tell me how anything can even be compared with cookie butter?!

Anyways, I tried quinoa for the first time. I’m no longer a quinoa virgin! ;) woohooo. It was scary. It was scary good. I loved this recipe, it was super flavorful and perfect on the side with some salmon. I’d even eat this salad as a main course, it would be killaa  with some grilled chicken! I’ve seen so many other interesting recipes with quinoa that I’m anxious to try now that I have finally tried it and gotten through the scary first time of preparing the stuff (one of those recipes is a cookie recipe. cookies with quinoa?! crazy!)

Fiesta Quinoa Salad

(adapted from mom de cuisine)

1 cup quinoa, rinsed

1 cup black beans, washed and drained

1 cup corn, cooked

1/2 cup onion, chopped

1/2 cup red bell pepper, chopped

2 Tablespoons lime juice

2 Tablespoons olive oil

1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

1/2 teaspoon chili powder

1/4 cup cilantro (chopped), or to taste

  1. Cook quinoa in 2 cups of water according to package directions-about 15 minutes, or until water is soaked up. Drain quinoa and rinse with cool water. Set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, combine chopped onion, chopped bell pepper, black beans, and corn. Mix in cooled quinoa to combine.
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together lime juice, olive oil, ground cumin, and chili powder. Pour dressing over quinoa salad and mix with fork to incorporate.
  4. Mix in chopped cilantro, and serve. May be prepared a day in advance. Store in airtight container in fridge.
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Week in Review (4/30-5/4)

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Hey there! Another week in the life of Beautiful Disasters has come and gone, once again. Let’s review!

Monday I shared with you guys my April Secret Recipe Club post! I loved hosting my blog this month and the recipe I made, Cinnamon Pull Apart Bubble Bread, was absolutely incredible. So yummy and delicious! Obviously you can hardly ever go wrong with cinnamon and sugar. ;)

Wednesday I finally proved that I have an ounce of self control and was able to put the spoon down and actually BAKE with cookie butter! I made some cookie butter cookies that are absolutely cookilicious. It’s a word.

Thursday I had a soccer game, so our team took the bus all the way there. Got there. Saw lightning. Waited about a half hour. Then they decided to reschedule the game. Seriously one of the most annoying things you can do to a soccer player right there. So much wasted time! Anyways, I really just felt like I needed to do something when I got home. Wanna know what I did? Biked 13 miles on the exercise bike. Now I don’t know about you but that A FREAKING TON to me! It felt great though. I’ve been thinking about doing a triathlon this summer, and if I want to do it, I know I’m going to have to be able to bike a lot more than 13 miles!

Friday I showed you guys a tasty pasta salad recipe. Only recently have I discovered my love for pasta salad. It’s perfect!! Refreshing, delicious, light, yet starchy. Tasty, tasty, tasty! Friday was quite the busy day for me. This is what went down…I went to school (of course!), then I had two meetings for soccer, got my nails done for prom after waiting an hour and a half in the nail salon, then I got my spray tan for prom after waiting a little bit there, too, then I finally got home around 8. I’d like to clear one thing up, I AM NOT the tanning type! This is like the first time I have ever gotten one, but I have a yellow dress so I felt like you kind of need to look tan for that. Plus, I have some pretty funky tan lines from soccer.

Today I have PROM!! WOHOOOO! So excited :) I have a game this morning though which is a wiiittle bit inconvenient, but hey, it’s keeping this interesting. I will just be running around ALL DAY today. Then, of course, everybody always does something the following day, so we’re going to 6 Flags Great America. Can’t even remember the last time I went to Six Flags, but I’m a sucker for roller coasters, so I’m super excited!! I’ll post pictures for you all next week

Random Fact of the Day: Philematology is the scientific study of kissing.

P.S. Feliz Cinco de mayo!

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Cookie Butter Cookies

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I had a near death experience about a week ago. Maybe I’m exaggerating. But let’s face it, I like never exagerrate! My life is totally like Spider Man’s, where every day brings new challenges, deathly risks, and flying. Alright, maybe not the flying part. I don’t think Super Man can fly anyways…

But back to my near death experience. It was a lovely Sunday morning and I had just made a pizza dough (for the cinnamon pull apart bread) and I decided to let it rise for the necessary 2 hours in the turned off oven, covered with a towel. I set the timer for 2 hours and was feeling like I was on top of everything. So prepared, setting a timer and all. I then proceeded to make the biscuits that I posted last week. My mom happens to love biscuits, so I thought I’d make her happy by making some for her. I then preheated my oven to 425 degrees F. Still feeling awesome because I had preheated where it was timed perfectly for when I needed to put my biscuits in the oven. Something started to smell a little funny in the house. This was not a haha funny. This was a HOLY SMOKES I’M GONNA DIE funny (of course, the word funny didn’t come to my mind at the moment, though).

I kind of ignored it at first hoping my nose was just going crazy. Then as I was about to put the biscuits in the oven, I realized I had forgot that I had put the pizza dough in the oven to rise. With a towel on top.

I immediately freaked out threw my hand in the oven, realized it was FREAKING HOT, grabbed an oven mitt, and threw the pizza dough and towel out of the oven. This was all happening with my fake baby crying and fire alarms going off. Thank God my parents were not home! The towel was green to begin with, but came out an orange-ish brown color. The pizza dough became kind of like a bread. Funny enough, I actually tried the pizza dough and it was delicious! It tasted like it would be perfect for rolls. Hmm…maybe a good idea for the future. So as it turned out, my near-death experience turned into something kind of amusing and I figured out a new idea for the future with the pizza dough.

Now that you have heard my near death story, I’d say it is time for cookies. Better yet…cookies made with cookie butter! These babies are yummo to the max! If you love delicious things then I recommend that you make these. I don’t know why anybody wouldn’t like delicious things, therefore, I see these cookies in your future!! ;)

Cookie Butter Cookies

(makes about 3 dozen)

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

1/2 cup cookie butter like Trader Joe’s Speculoos or Biscoff or you can make your own homemade version!

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup whole wheat flour (all-purpose will work too)

milk, as needed

1/2 cup chopped dark chocolate pretzels

1/2 cup chocolate chips

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
  2. Melt butter and cookie butter in a microwave-safe bowl in microwave in 30 second increments. When fully melted, mix butter and cookie butter until fully combined. Set aside and let cool.
  3. Place cooled cookie butter mixture in large mixer bowl and cream with sugars. Mix in vanilla extract and eggs. Add in flours, salt, and baking soda. If dough is crumbly, add milk until dough achieves desired consistency.
  4. Mix in chopped chocolate covered pretzels and chocolate chips.
  5. Scoop dough onto cookies sheets. Bake in preheated oven for 9-11 minutes or until set and slightly underdone. Let cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes then transfer to wire rack. Store in an air tight container. Enjoy!

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Homemade Cookie Butter

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For those of you who have not yet experienced Biscoff Spread or  Speculoos Cookie Butter from Trader Joe’s, my heart aches for you. That stuff is seriously AH-mazing. Capital AH.

Now if you have tried the stuff before, you know what I’m talking about. It’s just plain good. I have attempted to make my very own recreation of cookie butter. It’s definitely not the exact same taste, and not exactly the same texture but it’s the same concept!

I love this stuff. This is MY cookie butter. My very own version that suits my very own needs. But I thought I’d be nice and share. :) So here you go. This concoction is awesome with anything and everything. Even healthy things *gasp*, like apples! Go off and make your own cookie butter!!

Homemade Cookie Butter

(makes about 1 cup)

2 packages (18 total sheets of crackers) Graham Crackers

1 Tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1 Tablespoon brown sugar

1 Tablespoon molasses

2 Tablespoons coconut oil (any other type of oil will work as well)

3/4 cup-1 cup water

  1. Place graham crackers in food processor and process until they become very fine crumbs.
  2. Keep processor running and add in cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar through top spout. Add in molasses and coconut oil through top spout.
  3. Gradually add in water until cookie butter has achieved desired creaminess. It is best to add in about 1/2 cup, lift the lid and then see where you are at and how much more water you want to add in from there. This is also a good time to taste test and see if you want to add in more spices. I store my cookie butter in an air tight container in the fridge. It should be fine in the pantry, but I have not tried it.

Random Fact of the Day: The first man to survive going over Niagara Falls later died from slipping on an orange peel.

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