Sorry I'm late! I have been so busy lately! Teacher conferences are this week and I have been a busy brownie.Speaking of brownies, Ta-da!!!!! Talk about easy last minute brownies! I love my family more then anything!, but I've been busy so lets just say, I am making last minute desserts. These help! Thank you brownies! I owe my thanks to you! Love you!!!!!!!!!! So as you can see in the title, these are shaped like hearts!!!!!!!!!!!! They needed some Valentines up!!!!!!! If you don't have a heart cutter you have2 options, You can go bye one, Or just make squares. If you are an over achiever,you can put powdered sugar, Valentines sprinkles, or raspberries to give it more of a Valentines feel! WhenI first found the recipe I liked it but I didn't love it! Now I am not going to put a recipe up I don't love. That is just not how Delightful Delicious dinners works! I know it is a Wensday but since it is a holiday I put sweet recipes up all the time not just on Saturdays!!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw mixed review so I decided to try it for myself.Lets just say, they were kinda gooey and pasty and not very good. I changed them up a little and added some white chocolate chips Cut them out like hearts and BAM!!!!!!!! I loved it!!!! I hope y'all like fudge! These are a fudge madhouse. I have told you before my dad isn't the biggest rich fudge chocolate fan. So the white chocolate gives it sweetness and tiles down the richness! Then there are walnuts. These are optional. I am not the biggest nut fan. I never use them in my desserts. But I did this time. It gives it a needed crunch so its not all soft and fudge.Anyone else drooling over just hearing this? I am and I'm not liking this. I don't drool. Hold on y'all I will be back.............................I'm back! Y'all miss me? Of course you did, who wouldn't!!!!!! Isn't that awesome? I love those! There is one for everything!!!!!! I found one for farming! When I looked the brownie one up there was one. Isn't it weird how you can look up one thing and come up with others. Once I looked up dogs and pictures of noodles came up. NOODLES!!! Why nodles? That makes no sense!!!!!! Well g2g bye! Prep-15 minutes Cook-30minutes Ready in- 1 hour Makes 2 dozen Ingredients- 1 cupbutter 4 squaresunsweetened chocolate 2 cupswhite sugar 4eggs 1 cupall-purpose flour 1 tsp vanilla extract 1/2 tsp salt 2 cupschopped walnuts
2 cups white chocolate chips Directions- Preheat oven to 350 Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.In 3-quart
saucepan over very low heat, melt butter or margarine and chocolate,
stirring the mixture constantly. Remove from heat, and stir the sugar
into the chocolate. Allow the mixture to cool slightly. Beat in the
eggs one at a time, mixing well after each, then stir in the vanilla.
Combine the flour and salt stir into the chocolate mixture. Fold in the
walnuts and white chocolate chips. Spread the batter evenly into the greased pan. Bake in oven 30 to 35 minutes. Brownies are done when toothpick is put into center and can come out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack.Flip brownies onto a flat surface out of pan.Cut out into heartsQ Serve and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Malina Monday!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy birthday
Malina!!!!!!!! When me and Malina were kids we always made cookie dough.We wouldn't bake it.Wait!!!!!!!!!Don't worry! We substitute milk for the eggs. We we would dip them in chocolate and sprinkles.We loved doing it after Halloween.We would put a bunch of candy in it. Once we mixed the chocolate in the cookie dough so when it got hard the chocolate was in them. We would put then in the fridge till they got hard. Now and Malina have so many cookie dough recipes.Oh yeh just remembered, once we like died it colored. Not with food coloring. With m&ms!!! We mellted them with a little milk and it was chocolate color! That was awesome! We would always go to this frozen yogurt place. They had like 30 flavors and like 100 toppings. They had these little cookie dough bites. They were so good. We would go after volleyball. That is the yummiest stuff ever Not as good as these. Plus they have rainbow sprinkles to make it all birthday ish. didn't put the eggs in. Instead we put in milk. You might not know this but I have a cookie dough obsession with
cookie dough. My favorite ice cream and truffle. This is a chocolate
chip cookie dough bite that is sweeter then sugar. You have the chocolate
chips inside the sweet cookie dough covered in chocolate I think of
one word Yum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then its colorful and pretty with
some rainbow sprinkles. I know you want this but you are probably
thinking one thing RAW EGGS. In this you do not have to worry cause
there are no raw eggs. So you can have a a sweet snack before or after a
delightful delicious dinner. ENJOY (makes about 50). Okay 50 is a lot.But I made these, I went upstairs for 10 minutes to do something. Came down,they were all gone. OMG, so I turned to my family and was like"guess there good". So I made another batch. 100 OF THESE IN ONE DAY!! That is a lot of cookie dough bites, not for my family at least.When I was younger, me,my sisters, my mom, my moms BFF, and her daughter would go out to lunch.My mom and her BFF used to say, they would buy cookie dough ice cream,but only eat the cookie dough and give the ice cream to there families . I guess I come from cookie dough lovers!LOL!!!!!!!!!!!Well g2g. I am going to the Mall with Malina for her birthday!!!!!!!!!!bye!
Ingredients-
3 – 8 ounce packages of cream cheese, at room temperature 1 1/3 cups sugar 5 eggs, at room temperature 16 ounces sour cream, at room temperature ¼ cup flour 2 tsp vanilla extract 2 tsp fresh lemon juice
For the Pops:
Chocolate Melts
Graham crackers, crushed in the food processor, about 1 sleeve for a whole cheesecake
Lollipop sticks or paper straws
Sprinkles or other decorations, if desired
Ingredients-
In a medium bowl, using a stand mixer, cream together
peanut butter and butter until it is smooth and lightens in color
Add in brown sugar, powdered sugar, and vanilla and mix until smooth.
Add oats and mix to combined.
Place M&M's in a small bag and use a rolling pin to break into smaller pieces.
Add this and the 6 oz. of semi-sweet
chocolate chips to the the dough and mix well.
Use a 2 tsp. cookie dough scoop, scoop out truffle centers onto foil lined cookie sheet.
Roll the centers in your hands to make smooth balls.
Place in freezer for 1 hour to chill
Melt the semi-sweet chocolate chips in the microwave for 30 seconds then another and continue stirring in between until melted and smooth.
Using a fork, roll the chilled truffle centers in the melted
chocolate. Remove using a fork to lined
cookie sheet.
Chill in fridge until the chocolate has set
Sprinkle the rainbow sprinkles on top
Malina Monday!!! So let me tell you about the layers because the title can be confusing. So there is one layer of brownie,chocolate pudding, whipped cream,Then Reese's peanut butter cups!!This screams my BFF Malina!!!! So she loves chocolate trifles, then she loves chocolate pudding, cool whip everybody loves, and we both share a passion for Reese's peanut butter cups!!!!!!! When I texted her to ask her what her favorite dessert is. She said Chocolate trifle and Reese's peanut butter cups. So I decided to add them. My original plan was to do a chocolate cake instead of a brownie. But then I decided to do a brownie. I think that this would be better with a brownie. The brownie goes better with the pudding then cake would. I love trifles. Litterally of flavor.You get one spoonful with one taste and you want to scream. The texture rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have the crunch of the Reese's and creamy part with the pudding and cool whip then the brownie. I am probably boarding you right now! So I will tell you something interesting. Well, I got nothing so.......... Lets talk about birthdays!
Birthdays. This is the best birthday dish ever!!!! When I was 9 I made a chocolate chocolate birthday cake. After the cake was done baking I flipped the cake out of the pqn. It went bad! It crumbled completly. So using my smart brain I decided to make a trifle. I just put cake,icing,cake,icing,cake, icing! It was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It taste just like the cake, since it was, it was just crumbled.My sisters good friend was with us and she liked it to. So that was my birthday cake. For your birthday this should be your birthday cake!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and guess what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can change the candy. Say you want mint, do peppermint paddies, for color,m&ms, for cookies do a cookies&cream bar!! You can make this your own. For a birthday look, Put candles in it!!!!!!!! Well g2g bye!!!!!!!
2 containerfrozen whipped topping, thawed ( one 8 one 12 oz)
6 reese's peanut butter cups
Directions-
Prepare brownie mix according to package directions and cool completely. Cut into 1 inch squares.
In a large
bowl, combine pudding mix, water and sweetened condensed milk. Mix until
smooth, then fold in 8 ounces whipped topping until no streaks remain. Crumble the Rees'e to desiered size
In a trifle
bowl or glass serving dish, place half of the brownies, half of the
pudding mixture ,half of the 12 ounce container of whipped topping,put Reese's on top
Repeat layers.Refrigerate 8
hours before serving.Serve and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another pick from my Best BFF Malina's Malina Monday. A day where all dishes are picks from Malina because its her birthday!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MALINA!!!!!!!!!!! So I asked what her favorite dinner would be and she picked crab cakes and orzo. When we were kids(we still do a lot) we were on a competitive travel volleyball team. We were very good not to brag. I was short but I was good! We were on the same team so we would carpool. One day I went to her house like a half an hour and she was eating dinner. She had orzo. A few weeks later we had a sleepover. I ate dinner at her house and they made orzo. So I figured since I have seen it at their house a few times they most like it. Me and Malina have been Best friends since we were like 3. We like the same foods. So I tried it and I LOVED it!!!!!! I ate so much. I must of had 4 full bowls of it! It was amazing!!!!! So when ever I went to their house early before volleyball, I would pray that they would be eating it for dinner! I would walk in the door and be like" it smells good in here, did you have orzo for dinner" Then if she answered yes, I would run to the kitchen get a bowl and fork and eat. If not I would be sad. We were are still are, as close as friends can get so I didn't really hesitate to do this. We both grew up in Laurel Maryland outside if Baltimore. I used to go u to Annapolis a lot so we were used to good crab cakes. I only order crab cakes in Baltimore and Annapolis. I never order it in Florda or California. Anyway not the point, I know good crab cakes and these are higher then the bar. WAY higher. I'm loving it!!!!!!!!
So lets talk about birthdays a little bit. After all the reason I am putting this up is for Malina's birthday.I love birthdays!!!!!! There are presents,cake, a ton of goodies and good foods,balloons, and a bunch of good stuff!
Isn't that cute? I love that! I love how the happy birthday gets bigger. It wraps up the whole birthday feel don't you agree? The cake and the presents the balloons! It makes me so happy when I see it.Hold on let me find another one.....
This one is really cool too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would write just normal on the left hand side but I can't find out how to with this long of a picture. When I type its going backwards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This is annoying.Aw-well. Anyway! Lets get back to talking food !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well Actually, I have to go! I just texted Malina to ask what her favorite lunch is since I forgot that before! So now I have another dish to put on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This dose not sound like a lot but I have work today. Actually we are going on a field trip. So bye!!!!!!
Prep-15 minutes
Cook- 30 minutes
Ready in 45 minutes
Ingredients for crab cakes-
4 poundscrabmeat
1egg
1 tablespoonlemon zest
1/8 teaspoonOld Bay Seasoning
2 tablespoonsfresh basil, chopped
1 cupsaltine crackers, crushed
1 cupmayonnaise
1 3/4 cupsvegetable oil
In a large
mixing bowl, combine crabmeat, 1 egg, lemon zest, Old Bay Seasoning,
chopped basil, crushed crackers, salt,pepper, and mayonnaise. Mix thoroughly.
Form crab patties out of the crab mixture and chill until cold before cooking.
In a skillet, heat 4 tablespoons of oil over medium heat. Saute the crab patties for 4 minutes on each side ,until golden brown.
Ingredients for orzo-
garlic powder
salt and pepper
1/2 cupgrated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cupbutter
1 cup uncooked, orzo pasta
1 cup water
Directions-
Melt 1/2 the butter in a
skillet over medium heat. and cook until golden
brown. Mix in orzo, and remaining butter. Cook and stir 5
minutes, until butter is melted
Pour water into the
skillet, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Season with garlic
powder, salt, and pepper. Cook 7 to 10 minutes,
Stir in Parmesan cheese
Malina Monday continues!!!!!!( these are more of a lunch thing but i am putting it up now because i have work)So I asked her what her favorite lunch is and she said chicken salad. I decided to put it up as a sandwich. What I like about this is, you can put what ever you want on your sandwich on whatever bread. I put it on whole wheat bread with lettuce and tomato!!! But some people but other things on theirs. Lots of people put it on rye bread! What ever you like! My myself, I am a pretty big chicken salad fan. I love all the textures. The onions and celery add a nice crunch and a amazing flavor. This way you don't just have chicken and mayo. You know what is nice about this? Go on think, I can wait. Its healthy. Ask yourself, how can something this good be healthy? Well the chicken has protein, the onions and celery are veggies, the bread gives you wheat, and the things you put on the sandwich with the chicken salad is good to!!!! This is a great dish to serve at a party. Put a bowl on the table full of chicken salad, then put out lots of breads and vegetables and have people make their own sandwich. This is great for a picnic to. So try it!!!!!!! You now the best way to make this. With left over chicken. It helps so much. I love making big roast chicken with gravy,potatoes, onions, and bread. But we never finish all the chicken in one dinner. So I make it into chicken salad, everybody loves and we finish it all so we have room in the fridge for other stuff!
This is the best chicken salad. As soon as Malina texted me I knew I had to put this one up!I was so excited to put it up to! Malina is the best and so is this and the best deserves the best so it fell into place like a puzzle! Well its getting late and I still have 2 or 3 more recipes so g2g by!!
Prep-5 minutes
Ready in- 5 minutes
Ingredients- 1 (4.5 ounce) canSwanson® Premium Chunk Chicken Breast in Water, drained 1/4 cupchopped celery 1 tablespoonfinely chopped onion 3 tablespoonsmayonnaise Ground black pepper
Slices of your favorite bread
Any veggie you want to put on(I put on lettuce and tomato)
Directions-
Mix all ingredients in a medium bowl
Put on bread along with any other ingredients you want to put on
Serve and enjoy!!!!!!!!
Malina Monday Continues with a twist. Malina didn't pick this, I did. When my And Malina were 11 we made these gingerbread houses for Christmas! I was at her house doing this and her WHOLE family was there! It was a cold day so we made hot coco!!!!!! At sleepovers we make hot coco. We both LOVE hot coco!!!!!! So I remembered all the memories and said hey lets make hot coc. You probably herd, if you are not in, there is a HUGE blizzard. Its cold so I need my hot coco!!!!!!!!! Malina's favorite candy (and mine) is peanut butter cups! So I decided to stir in peanut butter cuos, top it off with whipped cream and BAM!!!!!!!!!!!1 Best hot coco I had ever had!!!!! It is amazing and will warm you up on a freezing cold day!!!!!!!! Its so nice and cozy to be sitting in a blanket next to a fore place with some hot coco. I turn on the T.V and fall asleep!!!!!!!! Its so warm and cozy, unlike Monday mornings. Except for this Monday!!!!!!!!! I am seriously tasting hot coco right now, not just because I am drinking it. OMG this is good!!!!!!!!! Funny how you can get a simple thing like hot coco and make it into this out of this world thing.Don't you agree? I have seen some interesting things!Like how you can take a simple pizza and put so many things on it, or make a dessert pizza which is good to!!!
When I was younger my dad used to drink tea after dinner( still does). I never drinker tea. When I was such the doctors recommend honey tea. I wouldn't drink it. Anyway, when my dad boiled the water me and my sisters would make hot coco. Growing up we were healthy. Never had that many desserts or chips all over the place. But one day my dad brought home a can of whipped cream!!! Best got coco ever!! Now y'all realize, this was before I had this!
I am making my own hot coco And whip cream! I'm not using the powder or buying whip cream! Pretty bill ha! I know I rock!
So y'all know how today is my BFF Malinas birthday. So y'all know birthdays, they are for partying!! Well when I drink this I want to party do it goes well for me!! If you are a creative type person, you can put the whipped cream on the put a peanut butter cup on top for extra glam. Well enjoy g2g bye!!!!!
Ingredients-
1 cup milk
1/3 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons coco powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 squares semisweet baking chocolate broken into pieces
1 cup heavy cream
A pinch of salt
2 Reese's peanut butter cups
Directions- Heat milk in a saucepan over low heat until the milk begins to steam. Whisk in the sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, and salt until dissolved. Stir in the chocolate until melted. Take saucepan from heat, and allow to cool slightly. Put in the peanut butter cups Beat the heavy cream in large mixing bowl with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Put whip cream on coco Serve and enjoy!
Malina Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today is my best BFF Malina's birthday!!!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MALINA!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank the Lord that her b-day is on a Monday. Since it is a birthday post I am putting a bunch of clip art pictures. Think of what I would do if it was like on a tuesday(name wise). So Malina if you are reading this you know the story but, This morning (Sunday) I texted Malina and said"I need toknow your favorite breakfast,snack,dinner,dessert. But I didn't tell her why. You can probably see why(its so I can put up recipes for that). So look around this post and try to find out what she said for breakfast(hint-look in the title) Go on guess, I'll wait. You done? GREAT!!!!!!! She said pancakes!! JUST KIDDING!!!!!!!! She said waffles things like strawberries, blueberries, and apples, stuff like that. I decided to do blueberries. But these aren't just any waffles! They are blueberry waffles!!! I know, I know, hold the applause! These are blue blueberry waffles. Well actually they are blueberry waffles with blueberry sauce. But they are the BEST blueberry waffles you will ever have! OMG they rock!!! When I went to Charelston I got french toast with a blueberry sauce. OMG, it was the best blueberry sauce ever! It was sweet and went great with the french toast. But this is waffles not french toast. Lets go back to birthdays! Isnt this cute?(the picture)
Its a clip-art birthday cake. I love clip-art these days. You can find anything even a picture of oven. There is so many cool/cute pics. I use them for work and presentations. They are awesome they help so much! You have probably realized but I have been putting a lot of little pictures these days on my newest post.
So lets talk about the actual dish here, shall we? We shall! So the waffles are light and fluffy, and they are the best waffles ever. I like light fluffy waffles so you bight into it and it is all , I don't know thw word. Maybe because it is so good you have to taste it to believe it! I'm loving it! Well like I said before I have a few birthday dishes of Malina's choice so g2g,bye!!!!!!!!!!1
*Note to Malina I hope you have an amazing birthday and enjoy the recipes I put up!
Directions- In a medium-large
bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and milk. Stir in the flour, baking powder
and salt. Stir in butter, and set mixture aside for about 30 minutes. Preheat a lightly greased waffle iron.Fold egg
whites and 2/3 cup of the blueberries into the mixture. Scoop portions of the
mixture into the prepared waffle iron, and cook until golden brown. To prepare
the sauce, in a medium saucepan over medium heat, mix 1 1/2 cups
blueberries, honey and 1/4 cup orange juice. Bring to a boil. Mix
remaining orange juice and cornstarch in a small bowl, and stir into the
blueberry mixture. constantly until thickened. Serve warm
waffles.Serve and enjoy!!!!!!!
