Clean Chocolate No Bakes

This is great! This is for all you clean-eating-sugar-lovers! Its tastes great and is very healthy:)

3 Tbsp Olive Oil
1/2 Cup Truvia Sugar Substitute
2 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
1/4 Cup Skim Milk
1/4 Cup Natural Peanut Butter
1 tsp Vanilla
3 Cups Oats
1/2 Cup Flax Seed

Boil on high oil, Truvia, cocoa, and milk. Once its at a rolling boil, take off the burner and add the peanut butter and vanilla and stir until smooth. Next, add the oats and flax seed. Then spoon on some foil and enjoy:)

Brown Sugar Cream Cheese Frosting

This is a delicious cream cheese frosting recipe that would go great on lots of baked yummies:)

1/2 Pound Cream Cheese
3 Cups Powdered Sugar
1 Half a Stick of Butter
1/4 Cup Buttermilk
1 Tbsp Vanilla
1 Cup Brown Sugar
A Couple Shakes of Cinnamon

Make sure to mix this for a good couple minutes, until the frosting is nice and whipped. Then spread on your dessert with a spatula and enjoy:)

Holiday Buttermilk Spice Cake

Ok, so my goal is to start trying some more "daring" recipes for my blog. So, I'm starting with this one: Buttermilk Spice Cake, A delicious treat for Fall/Winter. I love spice cake and this is a pretty darn good recipe! Ok here it is:

First things first, preheat your oven to 350°.

Ok, here is the list of ingredients:

2 Cups All Purpose Flour
3/4 Cup Sugar
3/4 tsp Baking Soda
1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Pie Spice (this can be any of your choosing, I used Pumpkin Pie Spice in my cake, but I bet Apple Pie Spice would be delicious!)
1 Tbsp Ground Ginger
3/4 tsp Salt
3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
1 Stick of Butter, softened
3/4 Cup Buttermilk
2 Eggs

Directions: 
1. Mix all dry ingredients together.
2. Mix in the butter and buttermilk
3. Add the eggs and mix
4. Grease an 8x8 cake pan and line the bottom with parchment paper
5. Spray the top of the parchment paper grease
6. Bake at 350° for 45 Minutes

Let the cake cool, then take a butter knife and loosen the edges of the cake from the pan. Then grab another plate and put it on top of the cake pan and flip the cake over, so the cake lands upside-down on the plate. Then transfer the cake to another plate, right-side up. Frost with one of my signature frostings, and enjoy:)

Basic Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

Here is a basic cream cheese recipe for future reference. Its wayy easy!

4 Ounces of Cream Cheese
4 Tbsp Butter
4 1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar
1/4 Cup Milk
1 tsp Vanilla

*if you want your frosting more solid, put in only about 1/4 cup of milk. However, keep adding milk for a more runny consistency

Pumpkin Pie Cinnamon Rolls

So, Patrick's mistress is cinnamon rolls...he loves them! So for his birthday, he obviously picked cinnamon rolls as his birthday dessert and was awesome enough to let me try a pumpkin cinnamon roll recipe! I looked all over online for a recipe that didn't make me use odd ingredients that I probably won't use very much. This was a very simple recipe that made my apartment smell heavenly! I found this recipe for Pumpkin Pie Cinnamon Rolls on a blog and decided to pair it with a Cinnamon Ginger Cream Cheese Frosting. So, without further ado, here is the recipe! (P.S. sorry about the crappy picture, my camera's charger is MIA right now so I've resorted to using my phone)

Cinnamon Roll Dough

1/4 Cup Warm Water

1 Packet (or 2 1/4 tsp) of Dry Active Yeast

1/3 Cup Warm Milk

3/4 Cup Pumpkin Puree

1 Egg

1 Tbsp Melted Butter

3-4 Cups All-Purpose Flour

1/2 Cup Brown Sugar

1 tsp. Salt

3/4 tsp. Cinnamon

1/4 tsp. Ground Ginger

Filling

1/4 Cup Melted Butter

3/4 Cup Brown Sugar

Cinnamon

Pumpkin Pie Spice

Directions:

1. Combine water, yeast, and milk in a small bowl and let it sit for five minutes to activate the yeast

2. Combine all ingredients (including separate yeast mix) and only 1 1/2 cups of flour and beat until mixed

3. Gradually add the rest of the flour to the bowl and mix well

4. Knead the dough until its smooth and stretchy

5. Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl and turn the dough over until all dough is greased 

6. Cover with plastic wrap and let it sit somewhere warm for an hour

7. Roll dough into an 18-20 inch rectangle on a lightly floured surface

8. Bast the dough with the 1/4 cup of melted butter 

9. Sprinkle the brown sugar evenly on the dough

10. Sprinkle to cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice with the amount you'd like in your rolls.

11. Roll dough into a "log" and slice into 15 slices

12. Place the newly cute slices into an ungreased 9x13 cake pan and cover with a clean towel 

13. Let it rise for 45 minutes until doubled in size

14. Bake @ 375° for 20-30 minutes

The frosting recipe will be in the next post. Its a pretty basic cream cheese frosting recipe and can have your favorite ingredients added to it. Anyways, eat and enjoy:)

Healthy, Healthy Pancakes!

Hey ya'll!

So, I've been surfing around Pinterest and keep hearing about these "so called" healthy pancakes. The only ingredients are eggs and a banana, SAY WHA? Anyways, I decided to give them a go, but only change the recipe a little bit to my liking. So here it is:

Mix:

2 Eggs
2 Bananas
1 Tbsp Vanilla
A couple shakes of Cinnamon

After these are mixed, pour the mixture (how much you pour at a time is up to you) onto a griddle. While you do have to watch normal pancakes and flip them when the start to bubble, you have to wait for these pancakes to bubble A LOT (Mine took about 6 minutes to bubble). Flip 'em and wait another {6 minutes or so} then they are ready to eat.

Whats awesome is that they taster just like banana bread! And there are so many different topping options that you can add to it that are healthy, like greek yogurt and fruit! So good:)

Enjoy:)

Please don't leave me!

Hey lookers!

I am stranded (HA!) in Hawaii this summer and will probably not bake at all until I get back to the mainland! I will get back to good old baking in no time!

Heart/Ashley

Reese's Puffs Treats

Hey. This Recipe is delicious. So delicious. This recipe was created by me and my handsome fiance, Patrick...so this recipe just has a lot of love in it. Here ya go!

1st Layer

1/2 Cup of Butter

1 Cup Peanut Butter

10 oz Marshmallows

6 Cups Reese's Puffs cereal

2nd Layer

16 mini Reese's Cups, Chopped

3rd Layer

1/4 Cup of Butter

1/2 Cup Peanut Butter

1 Cup of (smashed into bits!) Reese's Puffs

First layer first (obviously!): Melt the half cup of butter into a large sauce pan. Once melted, add your 10 oz of marshmallows and melt until the mixture is nice and smooth. Next, add the peanut butter and stir until all is mixed together. Then you add the 6 cups of Reese's Puffs. Mix well and make sure the puffs are mixed in well. Then pour mixture into a 9x9 cake pan and spread evenly.

Second Layer: This is easy. All you've gotta do is cut the mini Reese's however you want (big or small) and sprinkle them all over your first layer.

Third Layer: Melt the butter, then add the peanut butter. After you've mixed those together, take your cup of finely smashed Reese's Puffs and add them to the concoction and stir. Then, pour over your masterpiece and let it sit for a bit. Then cut your creation into squares and enjoy:)

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

So, I'm super excited for this particular recipe because its my very own! That's right, I've created my first recipe, and if you couldn't tell, I can't wait to share it with you:)

1/2 Cup Butter
3/4 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1 Cup Peanut Butter
1 tsp Vanilla
2 Eggs
3 Cups Flour
3/4 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 Bag Peanut Butter Chips
1/2 Bag Milk Chocolate Chips

Mix butter, sugar, and brown sugar together until soft. Next, add the peanut butter, vanilla, and eggs and beat until smooth. When mix is smooth, add flour, salt, and powder. Mix well until you have your dough, which should be almost clay-like. Next, add the chips together (I highly recommend using Resse's Peanut Butter Chips...yum) and make sure you stir by hand. Then, roll cookies into a one-inch ball and place on an ungreased cookie sheet and stick in the oven at 375 degrees for 8 minutes. Let cool and enjoy:)

No Bake Energy Bites:)

Sounds healthy, right? Well, that's cuz it is! These No Bake Energy Bites are super easy to make, super easy to enjoy, and a super snack! They would be great to take hiking, biking, camping, or...just plain eating. Ready for the recipe?

1 Cup Dry Oats

1 Cup Shredded Coconut

1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips

1/2 Cup Peanut Butter

1/3 Cup Honey

1/2 Cup Flax seed

1 tsp Vanilla

Mix all ingredients together at one time. Then cover the mix and let it chill in the freezer for half an hour. Once chilled, take the mix out. Roll into little balls. Set on some foil or parchment paper and enjoy:)

Rolled Suga Cookies

Since yesterday was Valentine's Day, I, of course, had to bake sugar cookies, with the help of my awesome boyfriend (super romantic, right?). We made these sugar cookies with the whipped cream frosting using berry cream cheese, and it tasted amazing! Here's the delicious and simple recipe:

1 1/2 Cups Butter

2 Cups Sugar

4 Eggs

1 tsp Vanilla

2 tsp Baking Powder5 Cups Flour

1 tsp Salt

Stir together butter and sugar until smooth. Next, beat in eggs and vanilla. Then add flour, powder, and salt. Once mixed, cover up your creation and stick it in the fridge. Let it chill for an hour or so. Once chilled, roll it out on a floured surface until the dough is about 1/2 thick. Here comes the fun part, use cookie cutters to cut them into cute shapes! Bake at 400 for 6-8 minutes on an ungreased cookie sheet. You can set the cookies pretty close together on the pan, just don't let them touch. You Let 'em cool, frost, and enjoy:)

Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting

First things first: I wish that I had more recipes on here...I've been doing bad at blogging lately! I will get on that because I have TONS I am dying to try!

Second: This frosting recipe will drive you wild!

16oz of Cream Cheese (room temperature)

1 1/2 Powdered Sugar

1 tsp Vanilla

1 Cup Heavy Cream, Cold

Mix the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla together until smooth. In a separate bowl, give the heavy cream a good mixin'. Then add it to the cream cheese mix and mix well! Enjoy:)

TIP: Use this frosting recipe with my cinnamon roll recipe! You won't be sorry!

TIP #2: Try it with different flavors of cream cheese, like strawberry...mmmm:)