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Trix Krispie Treats

Trix Krispie Treats

 

These colorful Trix Krispie Treats are a real hit with kids.  I’ve made these with Reeses peanut butter chocolate puffs cereal too.

1 bag of mini marshmallows
10 cups Trix cereal
¼ cup butter

Place the butter and marshmallows in a glass bowl and pop in the microwave for about 2 to 3 minutes to melt.
Stir well.  Mix in Trix cereal and stir.  Dump into a large buttered 9 x 13″ pan and press down with a spoon or waxed paper.
Cut into squares. 🙂

Great treat to serve at a kids party or Easter egg hunt.

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Nutella Brownies

Nutella Brownies

 

Nutella Brownies

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup (2 sticks) butter
2 1/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup Nutella
4 large eggs
1 1/4 cups cocoa powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon espresso powder, optional
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
10 ounce package Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Baking Melts (or chocolate chips)

DIRECTIONS:

Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9×13 baking dish.
In small saucepan over low heat, melt butter completely. Stir in sugar and continue cooking for 1-2 minutes, stirring constantly. Do not allow sugar mixture to boil.
Remove from the heat and stir in the Nutella until well combined.

Pour butter mixture into a large bowl or stand mixer, beat in cocoa powder, eggs, salt, baking powder, espresso powder, and vanilla extract. Mix until well combined.
Stir in the flour and baking melts until just combined.

Spread into prepared pan (batter will be very thick and sticky) and bake for about 30-35 minutes, until a tester comes out mostly clean. The edges should be set and the center should still look slightly moist, but not uncooked. Cool on a wire rack.

This Nutella Brownies Recipe was one of the most shared recipes on Pinterest for 2013.

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Fudge Brownie Pie

Fudge Brownie Pie

 

Fudge Brownie Pie

¾ cup flour
1 cup sugar
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
4 oz butter, melted
2 large eggs, beaten
2 teaspoons vanilla
½ cup chopped toasted pecans
2 handfuls of mini marshmallows

For the Frosting:

¼ cup butter, melted
¼ cup cocoa powder
¼ cup evaporated milk
1 cup powdered sugar

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Butter a 9 inch spring form pan, set aside.

Whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt in a bowl.  Beat together the butter, eggs and vanilla.  Add to the dry ingredients and mix until smooth.  Stir in the toasted nuts.  Pour into the prepared pan.

Bake on a middle shelf of the oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.  Immediately sprinkle the marshmallows on top and return to the oven for a few minutes to melt the marshmallows. Remove from the oven and carefully spread the chocolate frosting over the top.

To make the chocolate frosting: mix all the ingredients together in a bowl, beating with an electric whisk until smooth and thick.  Spread on the hot marshmallows.  Let cool completely.  Cut into wedges to serve.

Fudge Brownie Pie

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Almond Joy Cake

Almond Joy Cake

 

Almond Joy Cake

To make this super delicious Almond Joy Cake, you will need:

1 dark chocolate cake mix, made with 2 eggs, 1/4 cup coffee, 1 1/4 cup water, 1/2 cup oil

Bake in a greased 9 x 13 glass baking dish according to the directions on box.

When cake is done, remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.  After 10 minutes, use the handle of a wooden spoon to poke holes in cake – at 2 inches apart.

In a mixing bowl, mix together a 5.1 oz box of vanilla pudding, 1/2 teaspoon coconut extract and 1 7 oz jar of marshmallow fluff.  Pour half over the top of the cake, spreading over the holes so the pudding goes down all the holes and covers the entire cake;  Mix into the other half of the pudding, 4 oz softened cream cheese and 8 oz. softened cool whip.  

Spread this over the top of the cake.  Sprinkle with shredded coconut and slivered almonds. Chill for 2 hours before serving.

Enjoy this delicious Almond Joy Cake!  I thought it was awesome, hope you do too!

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Easy Homemade Cake Pops

Easy Homemade Cake Pops

 

Here’s my recipe for making easy homemade cake pops.

This is a cute way to use a cake that got stuck to the pans and crumbled.  That’s where these came from.  I had two helpers in the kitchen, trying to help me make a cake (since I have a broken toe) and nobody floured the cake pans.  Therefore, the cake didn’t come out of the pans in one piece.  So, I just scooped it into a zip-lock bag and stuck it into the freezer and sent my hubby to Publix to buy his own birthday cake. 😉

Anyway, as soon as this kitchen disaster occurred, I already knew what I would do with the crumbled cake.  Great way to recycle, huh?

To make cake pops, you need:

A cake mix, baked according to package directions – or a cake make from scratch
1 container frosting
candy melts (chocolate coating wafers – Michael’s crafts sells them)
Lollipop sticks (also from Michael’s Crafts)
sprinkles

Here’s how you put together the cake pops:

Prepare your drying stands.  As you can see from the picture, I used egg cartons with holes poked in the top.  I used my meat thermometer to poke the holes.  They are centered over the depression for the eggs, spaced so the cake pops don’t collide.

Prepare a baking pan to cool the cake balls.  Take waxed paper and cover the bottom of a baking pan – a cookie sheet with sides.  Set aside for now.

Take your cooled cake and crumble it into crumbs in a very large mixing bowl.
Melt the frosting in the microwave for about 30 – 45 seconds and stir it until smooth and melted.  Pour the frosting over the crumbled cake and stir it in until all the crumbs are moistened with the frosting.  I only used 3/4 of the container of frosting.

I wore rubber gloves for this next step.  Scoop up a rounded tablespoon of cake mixture and form into a ball.  Make sure you compress it well, you do not want the cake balls to fall apart when you dip them in the chocolate.  Place the cake balls on the wax paper as you make them.  When you have made all the cake balls, place the pan in the refrigerator for about an hour for them to firm up.

When they’re thoroughly chilled, take out of the refrigerator.

Get a glass bowl or other microwave safe bowl out and place half the candy melts in the bowl.  Microwave at 50% for 1 minute, stir and if needed microwave for another 30 seconds, until it is melted and smooth when stirred.

Take a stick and insert it into a cake ball.  Then dip your cake pop into the melted chocolate, swirling it against the sides and all the way up to the stick.  When it’s completely coated, sprinkle with decorative sprinkles and place them in the stands to dry.  Carefully slide the sticks into the holes of your ghetto-cake pop stand. (I have also used a block of Styrofoam before but didn’t have one at home when I undertook this project today.)

Once they have dried and the candy coating is hardened, you can wrap them up in squares of plastic wrap and tie with curling ribbons.

You can display them in a bouquet fashion using a short vase or jar.

These can be made for any holiday, just switch up the colors of candy coating and the sprinkles.

These cake pops go fast, so hide a couple for yourself to enjoy later!  This batch of cake pops is dwindling quick!

Homemade Cake Pops

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