Red Velvet Cool Whip Cookies

Posted in DESSERTS, Sweet and Easy by Katherine

Total Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients
1 box Red Velvet Cake mix
1 tub of Cool Whip (8 ounces)
1 egg
1/2 – 1 cup powdered sugar

Instructions
1.Preheat oven to 350F. Spray Cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray.

2.In a large bowl, mix together cake mix, cool whip and egg. The mix will be VERY fluffy. Just keep mixing until well combined.
3.Use a small cookie scoop or two spoons to drop rounded cookie dough into powdered sugar. Roll dough ball until completely covered. Set cookies on cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart.

4.Bake at 350F for 8 minutes or until very lightly golden around the edges. Let cool on the cookie sheet for a couple of minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.

5.Store at room temperature in airtight container. These are best eaten within a day or two of baking.

14Dec2014

Festive Smores Brownie

Posted in DESSERTS, Sweet and Easy by Katherine

prep time 20 min

total time 1 hr 30 min

makes 16 servings or 8…..ha ha ha

What You Need
1 pkg. chocolate cake mix
2 pkg. Jell-O Chocolate Instant Pudding
2 cups cold milk
1-1/4 cups cold water
3 cups Jet-Puffed Miniature Marshmallows
3 oz. Baker’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate
red, green, brown smarties

HEAT oven to 350°F.

PREPARE cake batter as directed on package; pour into 13×9-inch baking dish sprayed with cooking spray. Beat dry pudding mixes, milk and water with whisk 2 min.; pour evenly over batter. Place dish on rimmed baking sheet.

BAKE 55 min. to 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean. Cool 10 min. Meanwhile, heat broiler.

TOP cake with marshmallows. Broil 30 sec. to 1 min. or until marshmallows are golden brown. Gently place Smarties on top of marshmallows. Melt chocolate as directed on package; drizzle over marshmallows and smarties. Cool cake 15 min.

15Oct2014

Microwaved Apple Peach Quinoa Crumble

Posted in DESSERTS, Sweet and Easy by Katherine

I use my microwave to reheat beverages only. Many of my friends no longer use it for various reasons.
However I had some apple and peaches to use up and I’m a little tired of fruit salad and muffins.
So I decided a crumble but I didn’t have the time to bake it. In the end this only took me 15 minutes!

Ingredients
4 Apples not peeled, chopped
3 Peaches not peeled, chopped
3/4 Oats
3/4 Quinoa Flakes
4 TB Flour
3/4 Brown Sugar
3/4 melted butter

Directions
Spray a 9×9 glass bakeware and place apples and peaches in
In a bowl combine all dry ingredients
Melt butter and add to dry ingredients and mix until crumbly
Spread over fruit and pat gently
Microwave on high for 6-8 minutes or until fruit is tender

12Aug2014

Orange Vanilla Cream Jello

Posted in DESSERTS, Sweet and Easy by Katherine

Ingredients
Makes 4 servings Change Servings

1 pkg. (4 serving size) JELL-O Brand Orange Flavor Gelatin
1 cup boiling water
2 cups vanilla ice cream softened

Directions
1.Dissolve gelatin in water. Gradually add ice cream, stirring with wire whisk until well blended.
2.Spoon evenly into 4 dessert cups, then refrigerate for 20 minutes or until chilled.

6Aug2014

Caramel Banana Nutella Pie

Posted in DESSERTS, Sweet and Easy by Katherine

Ingredients

1 ready made frozen pie crust- follow preparation instructions
5 TB chocolate hazelnut spread (we used Nutella)
3 TB melted butter
3 TB brown sugar
2 TB water
4 ripe bananas, thinly sliced on a diagonal

Topping- whip cream or favourite ice cream

Directions

Preheat oven to 400°F (230°C).
Spread chocolate hazelnut on bottom of pie crust
Melt butter on low heat in a fry pan then add brown sugar and water
In the meantime slice 4 bananas, once the brown sugar has dissolved, add bananas to fry pan and coat all over. Keep in fry pan for 5 minutes
Transfer caramelized bananas to pie crust

Bake in preheated oven until pale golden, about 10-12 minutes
Serve with whip topping or ice cream.

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31May2014

Dad’s Blueberry Pie with Lattice Crust

Posted in DESSERTS, Sweet and Easy by Katherine

Just dropped by my parents place and my dad was pulling this out of the oven!
Impressive Dad! Here it is:

Fresh Blueberry Pie with Lattice Crust

Fresh Blueberry Pie
6 cups fresh blueberries
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour
1 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
1 Tbsp. butter

Best pie Crust ever

Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup shortening
1/2 cup water

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in water until mixture forms a ball. Divide dough in half, and shape into balls. Wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
2. Roll out dough on a floured counter. Don’t over work it.

Place bottom crust into 9-inch pie plate letting the crust hang over the edges. Mix together the blueberries, sugar and flour. Pour into the crust. Sprinkle the blueberries with lemon juice and dot with butter. Top with lattice crust. Seal and crimp edges of pie.

Bake in a preheated 425 degree oven for 35-45 minutes until the crust is golden brown and the juices are bubbly.

28Mar2014

Cake Pops

Posted in DESSERTS, Sweet and Easy by Katherine

I came across this and thought I would share this creative yummy idea.

Kochis Kitchen Corner

I baked double chocolate cake for my kid’s birthday, both my kids did really enjoy the cake, but they could not able to finish 🙂 Had more left over, that they can not finish in a day or two.

To utilize the left over, I thought of making them pops. Here is how I did..

Bake Cake (I used the left over cake).
Crumble the cake with hands after cooling down, mix with frosting (I mixed 1 and 1/2 teaspoon of frosting for 12 pops) and make like balls. Let it set in room temperate for 10 minutes.
Melt few candies (microwave or stove top), dip an inch of lolly pop sticks, and insert into the pops.
Keep the pops in fridge for 30 minutes.
Melt colored candies, dip the pops, sprinkle nuts/candy sprinkles when the pop is wet.
To decorate with different colors, let the dipped pop set for…

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