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Brownie Batter Cookies n Cream Ice Cream

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I have several good reasons why it is a good idea to have a second ice cream(ish) recipe posted this week

1. It is the first week of school. Hello early mornings and late nights of homework!?

2. Summer is not allowed to leave me.

3. It has OREOS aaannddd brownie batter goodness in it! Uh… yeah

4. Ice cream is delicious and I used some skim milk in there, therefore its nutritious.

Brownie Batter Cookies n Cream Ice Cream

2 cups heavy whipping cream

1 cup milk (I use skim)

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

pinch of salt

1 cup white sugar

1 1/4 cup dry brownie mix

1 cup crushed Oreos (I used the 100th anniversary birthday ones!)

  1. In a large bowl, whisk together milk, cream, sugar, vanilla extract, salt, and dry brownie mix. Pour mixture into ice cream maker and freeze according to directions.
  2. During the last 5 minutes of time in ice cream machine, mix in crushed Oreo pieces. Store ice cream in air tight container and finish freezing in the freezer until firm, about 4 hours. Enjoy!

Note: You may want to let ice cream thaw about 5-10 minutes on counter or microwave about 15 seconds before serving.

Random Fact of the Day: ”Goodbye” came from “God bye” which came from “God be with you.”

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Cookie Dough Frozen Yogurt

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I haven’t always been the biggest fan of frozen yogurt. The tang from the yogurt doesn’t exactly always turn me on. I mean, why have frozen yogurt when you can have ICE CREAM?!

That is of course unless cookie dough is involved. Then that really makes things better. WAY better.

Cookie dough has always been held near and dear to my heart. When I was little my family would always go to this little ice cream shop called “The Stupe”, they had the BEST cookie dough ice cream. Every time I went there it was a toss-up between cookies n cream or cookie dough. The cookie dough flavor had the biggest chunks of cookie dough you’d ever seen.

Of course this frozen yogurt doesn’t really have “chunks” of cookie dough. It’s more of just cookie dough all throughout, which I can totally dig. Or um… scoop?

Cookie Dough Frozen Yogurt

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1/3 cup brown sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup whole wheat flour

1/8 teaspoon baking soda

pinch of salt

1/2 cup chocolate chips

1 cup plain yogurt

  1. Beat sugars and butter with mixer. Mix in vanilla extract. Add in flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix in chocolate chips by hand. Mix in yogurt, place mixture into tupperware container and freeze till set (about 6-8 hours). Enjoy!

Random Fact of the Day: Penguins mate once and stay together for life.

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LA Round 2

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So I left off on Monday with the Disneyland goodies, so here’s some more from Disney that I didn’t put up for you to feast your little eyes!

Close-up of the adorable Mickey Mouse chocolate dipped pretzels!

We stopped in the Candy Palace to look at all these treats! If you’re ever in Disneyland, you have got to stop in this little shop even just to look around. But…you’ll most likely be tempted to pick up one of the yummies inside.

These cookies are so big, they look like scoops of ice cream!

The cookies…I just have no words.

The candy apples were just too awesome. The somehow manage to make EVERYTHING Mickey-themed!!!

 

Even the lollipop stand looked pretty. oh gosh…I’m a total food blogger.

 

Chocolate Turtles in the shape of Mickey, how is that even possible!?!

Okay break from food here for a second, how about a couple beach shots? ;) Hopefully you all aren’t too jealous, heck I know some of you probably have the beach all year right by you!

We finally got to the beach Monday and headed out to a second one yesterday.

 

Here are some shots of all the yummy treats and funny little things they were selling in the Manhattan Beach Creamery.

 

The cookies were just too cute, I used to always get ones like these at a bakery by our house in the shapes of smiley faces.

 

Pretty macaroons, mini tarts and parfaits!

 

Cupcake bandages, uh hello? How come I have not heard of these and don’t have a lifetime supply?!

 

Abe Lincoln bandages, I gotta love these as a Illinoisan.

 

A drink flavored like peanut butter and jelly? Eh… not sure how I feel about that one.

 

Breakfast floss…Hm, I wonder if my dentist would approve of this? Fun fact: my uncle is my dentist!

 

Chocolate boyfriend. Okay, now I could get on board with this one!

I split a cookie ice cream sandwich dipped in dark chocolate with my mom. Oh my gosh…so GOOD. If you are ever around here you have got to try it! The cookies they use are just absolutely perfect for the ice cream sandwich. The cookies are so chewy and yummy!

The one we went to yesterday, we got to rent these super cute old fashioned bikes with the high handlebars. I’ve always wanted to ride one of those, so that was pretty fun! It’s funny to see how different peoples’ personalities are here, everyone is SO friendly!! However, the traffic is crazy and driving around is like being on a roller coaster. But overall, I love it here in L.A. It’s gonna be so, so hard to leave!

That’s it for now! Again, sorry for no recipe :( Things will be back to normal around here soon enough!

 

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The “Joe” Cupcake

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You curious about the name of this cupcake? Good, good, that was the idea! If you weren’t then sorry, have fun looking at the pictures here.

My dad is a coconut fan. A fanatic really.

It feels like literally every time we are on vacation and go to an ice cream shop, the first thing he goes for is anything with the word coconut in it. When I was younger I was totally and completely disgusted with the thought of coconut in ice cream  any dessert. It was like a waste of dessert in my mind. 

Anywho, I have my dad to thank for helping me come around and appreciate coconut and all it’s goodness. So here is his cupcake. (By the way, his name is Joe)

He particularly enjoys coconut accompanied with chocolate. So I decided to make a cupcake that would make him happy. These cupcakes start out with a dark chocolate cake, topped with coconut cream cheese frosting, drizzled with chocolate.

Some of the cupcakes I stuffed with coconut cream Hershey kisses, when there was 2 minutes left to bake, but most of them don’t have them just because the idea came to me with 2 minutes left in the second baking pan’s turn. Oh well ;) good idea for next time!

The “Joe” Cupcake

DARK CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES

(Makes 12-16 cupcakes)

1 cup boiling water

1/2 cup cocoa powder (I used dark cocoa powder)

1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons white sugar

2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease or line regular cupcake tins.
  2. In a small bowl, pour boiling water over cocoa powder, and whisk until smooth. Let mixture cool. Into a separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
  3. Cream butter and sugar together with a mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Stir in vanilla. Add the flour mixture. Add the cocoa mixture. Pour batter into prepared cupcake tins.
  4. Bake in preheated oven 15-18 minutes. Allow to cool in tins, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely. When thoroughly cooled, frost with frosting below.

Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting

6 oz. cream cheese, softened (I used neufchâtel)

1/2 stick butter, softened

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

pinch of salt

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted

2/3 cup shredded coconut

milk, as needed

  1. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the cream cheese, butter, vanilla extract, and salt. Add the powdered sugar and mix until desired consistency is achieved. Add milk as needed to thin frosting out if it gets too thick, or add more powdered sugar if frosting gets too thin. When desired consistency is achieved, fold in the shredded coconut. Frost cupcakes as desired.
  2. Melt 1 cup chocolate chips in plastic bag in 30 second intervals, snip tip of bag when chocolate is melted and drizzle chocolate over frosted cupcakes. Place cupcakes in fridge until ready to serve.

Random Fact of the Day: All porcupines float in water.

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Homemade Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwiches

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One of my favorite treats in the summertime when I was younger, was ice cream sandwiches. Particularly the kind with vanilla ice cream smashed between two chocolate chip cookies.

I decided to make chocolate chip cookies just about a week ago, and the recipe made a bit more than we needed laying around the house, so I figured I would try my hand at making my own ice cream sandwiches.

Making your own ice cream sandwiches could seriously not get any easier. I was a little freaked out by getting the ice cream to look all nice without making a complete mess, but I figured out my own little way.

I’ve seen people soften the ice cream, put it in a rectangle baking dish, refreeze, then cut with a cookie cutter which I’m sure is a great method and all but…I think my way is better. Then again my way always feels better! My mess-free method (what’s up alliteration) is where you take a muffin tin, lay a piece of saran wrap across and stick it down in the crevices, fill muffin tins with ice cream, freeze, pop ice cream out of muffin tins, stick a cookie on each end of ice cream, EAT your face off! Of course you can get fancy and dip them in chocolate (drooool!) or roll in chocolate chips and other goodies. This is hardly even a recipe, pretty much just a method :)

Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches

Cookies, I used this chocolate chip cookie recipe from Kitchen Misfit

Ice Cream (any flavor will do, of course, but I used good ‘ol vanilla)

  1. Be sure cookies are baked and cooled before assembling. Soften ice cream
  2. Line muffin tin with saran wrap, scoop ice cream into muffin tins. Be sure ice cream gets into crevices and smooth the top. Lay a sheet of saran wrap on top of muffin tin when done before putting muffin tin in the freezer. Freeze ice cream until firm.
  3. After about 2-3 hours, take ice cream out of freezer and unwrap ice cream from muffin tins. Sandwich ice cream between two cookies, wrap in plastic wrap and keep in freezer until ready to eat. Enjoy! :)

Random Fact of the Day: When painting the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo used both hands to paint.

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