Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Sweet Sliders and Fries!

Would you like a slider and some fries?
They perfect idea for a picnic. Since there are so many steps to this I don't do it from scratch, that would be to time consuming for me.
Sliders: Make yellow cupcakes, i do not use any liners, and just use some pam. After the cook i slice the cupcakes in half. the patty is made from a brownie, not to thick, just use a round cookies cuter. For ketchup, mustard and lettuce i use the same frosting divided up in to there portions dyed with food coloring. I place each color in a zip loc bag, snip a corner and add "condiments". Use a tooth pick to hold it together and it looks cooler.
Fries: snikerdoodle  cookies, I dont get why but a lot of people like snickerdoodles. I made large rounds and slice the cookies when they were still hot from the oven, let them cool then removed from cookie sheet. Ketchup is just red frosting. 

Monday, April 25, 2011

Soft Cookies!!


Are you ready for the softest cookies? 

Cream the butter, white and brown sugar!!

Yeap putting pudding into the mix. I know I say 3.4 oz, i could only find 3.5 oz, close enough, right? 

Nice and fluffy! before adding flour

To flatten or not to flatten? well lets see what happens to the 3 i flattened

no difference between flattened and not but all are nice a fluffy out of the oven, they do flatten as they cool. 



I half the the ORIGINAL RECIPE this gives you about 20 cookies. What are you waiting for make these! 

Ingredients

  • 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup white sugar
  • 1 (3.4 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift together the flour and baking soda, set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat in the instant pudding mix until blended. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Blend in the flour mixture. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips and nuts. Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
  3. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Edges should be golden brown

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Egg cake "pops"

Well I have made Cake Pops before, so yummy for thanksgiving...spice cake mix with cream cheese frosting dipped in chocolate! I decided to make some for easter...what shape to make? Eggs!! well i was being lazy and decided not to dip them just coat the top with chocolate, that created problem number 3, the cakes got a little soggy and they should really be fully dipped so you get crunch on the out side and soft center, it just ruined the whole thing. Problem number 1 was my cake was cooked! how is the bad? i let it brown a little to much so i had to really break it apart. problem number 2 was the icing i made to decorate with was runny!!!

Easter Cake "Pops" semi-fail
 So if you don't know how to make cake pops it is easy get a cake mix, frosting, and chocolate, in my case i use white chocolate

You cook the cake as directed on the package, when hot crumble the cake and mix in the container of frosting. After I mixed it i added the extra sprinkles, why not. Then form in a shape, like eggs. I freeze mine for an hour. Then dip in chocolate, I coated i don't recommend it.  

Coated eggs

Notice my running icing :( so sad, so ugly oh well they still taste good.