monkey bread... the cassandra version

What you need:

Sugar, Cinnamon, Brown Sugar, 1 stick butter, 1 can of buttermilk biscuits.

Step 1: Make Cinnamon Sugar Mixture, to taste.. (pretty much put 2 teaspoons of cinnamon in a 1/2 cup of sugar and then stir it and keep adding one or the other until it tastes good to you).

Step 2: take biscuits out of can and cut each one into 4 pieces.

Step 3: melt butter in pan and add 3/4 cup brown sugar, blend, and let boil for 5 minutes and let cool a little.
Step 4: Shake cut up biscuits around in a little bag or a little tupperware container until they are covered in cinnamon sugar.
Step 5: put the biscuits layered on top of each other in a greased pan


Step 6:
Pour brown sugar mixture over the biscuit pieces...

Then bake at 350º for 35-40 minutes.


after that, pull them out and turn pan upside down onto plate/platter/serving tray.. dump the monkey bread out.. pull apart to eat.


Aaron says, it's sinful.
I agree, as I have eaten about 1/2 of the pan now. hah.

chocolate cream pie in the easiest fashion

after my recent cinnamon roll flop i have decide to start making things my younger brother could make they are so easy.. (no offense Micah)..

This is a delicious, summery cream pie and it's also low in calories.. and did I say, it's delicious?

okay..

You need 1 and 3/4 cup Milk, 2 boxes of chocolate pudding, 1 oreo cookie, 1 graham cracker crust from store (I got the chocolate kind), and a thing of cool whip.

1. Put pudding mix in bowl with milk and mix (this is easier with hand mixer, than with wire whisk.. as you might imagine)..


Mix until it looks like this:


2. add 1/2 container of cool whip and mix



3. pour into crust, and smooth out..


4. then add the rest of the cool whip topping


5. and crumble the oreo around the edges for artistic affect. =D hah.

no bake deliciousness

EASIEST....

COOKIES.....

EVER....

and one of my all time favorites..
Here I have step by step No Bake Choco-Peanut Butter Cookies.... just for you!

First put 1 3/4 cups sugar, 1 stick butter, 1/2 cup milk and 4 TB of cocoa in a pan.. stir it around a little and LEAVE IT THERE, until you have measured out..




3 cups of oatmeal and 1/2 cup of peanut butter..You'll see why later.
Set these aside.


Bring chocolate mixture to a boil, ensuring that ingredients are mixed in. When it gets to a full boil.. Time 1 minute (exactly... and don't start before it boils.. Start WHEN it's at a full boil), and then..
turn off heat and remove pan... quickly (rapidly... this is where having pre measured ingredients means the world).. add peanut butter and oatmeal.


Stir it around... mix it in.. it should be wet.. but not super drippy... Moldable.. seeming


then drop Tablespoon full heaps of this deliciousness onto wax paper, plates, foil... or your countertop, so you can lick it off later.

let them cool for a few..
then enjoy with MILLLLLK. =D

My It's Spring, so Where's the good weather.. dinner

This really has nothing to do with baking, but as of late this typeractive compunicator has become rather obsessive about putting up every food item cooked. hah.
And I sit around thinking of what my next thing will be.
I'm thinking.. a EASY chocolate cream pie... heh..
anyway.. here's my dinner.. Garlic Butter pasta, grilled zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, and yellow peppers.... with a side of strawberries..
I was so happy to get fresh fruit and veggies on the street. It's the first sign that spring is really here.
chopping the veggies...
the beginning of the grilling
pouring the garlic butter on

the finished plate. I guess the noodles weren't as done as I had originally thought.. but I still ate some.

Tomato Soup: Easy and yummy

This is what you need:

3 cups milk
1 stick of butter
1/2 of an onion
3 TB of garlic powder
pepper
salt
tomato paste
2 cans stewed tomatoes
1 TB sugar
1/4 cup red wine


Put wine, onions and butter into pan, and simmer for 10 minutes ish.. while you do other things

Like gather ingredients
Dice up real or stewed tomatoes, or if you have diced.. then use those
add them into the mix

Then add milk, all spices and an inky bit of flour

lastly, add the tomato paste


Stir it, let is simmer for a few more minutes and serve =D
I made grilled cheese and it was perfecto!

Jean's Famous Oatmeal Cookies 1 & 2

Recipe 1 Soft Cakey Oatmeal Cookies:

BOWL 1
3 eggs
1 stick butter/margarine/shortening
1 cup sugar

BOWL 2
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda, baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp all spice


Waiting backstage: 2 cups Oatmeal, 1/2 cup milk and Raisins

STEP 1
Mix ingredients in Bowl 1

Then mix ingredients in Bowl 2 and gradually add, alternating with milk



After this is mixed, add oatmeal

Then add raisins (or other ingredients of choice) and drop onto cookie sheet.
Then bakc 8-10 minutes at 350º or 10-12 at 325º

and you get:
Aaron gives these cookies the thumbs up, and I think I know many people who would like them.

After making these cookies, I asked Jean and google what I could do to make these cookies less soft, and more chewy and thin. The consensus brought me to the altered version below. KEY: less soda and baking powder, substitute white sugar for brown, press down cookies after dropping on sheet and bake less time.


Recipe 2: :
BOWL 1

Melted Butter 1 stick
3/4 cups Brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla

BOWL 2
3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 cup oatmeal

STEPS
Melt Butter and mix in first bowl with brown sugar and eggs (like above, but you get a darker looking mixture.


Mix Flour, Baking soda, salt, cinnamon in another bowl

Then add to wet mixture

Add oatmeal, then raisins

and put on cookie sheet, flattened down after dropping
I baked mine at 300º for 10 minutes. and they were almost exactly what I was looking for, and yummy none the less
Somewhere, sometime I had an oatmeal cookie that changed my life. I can't recreate it, and for that reason, I'm quitting the oatmeal cookie search/fiasco, I'm going to leave the oatmeal cookies to other people.

next week: Monkey Bread

commenting and future baking

Hello everyone. Just so you know, anyone can post a comment on my blog postings. You don't have to have an account, so don't be scared.

Later today I think I'll take a stab at oatmeal cookies, since I have spent much time using multiple recipes and never had any that i thought were 'the best' oatmeal cookies ever.
So, I'm working on it.

Also, later this week I think I'm going to try Monkey Bread.
ta ta.