Frosting Friday

It's been a while since I've had a "Frosting Friday" post.  But it's the summer, the cookies are delicious and it's Friday!

I saw the recipe for these on Instagram from the Picky Palate.  The picture looked wonderful but the cookies taste even more amazing!

Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk S'Mores Cookies

• 2 sticks unsalted butter
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cups all purpose Gold Medal Flour
• 1/2 cup ground graham crackers, about 8 full crackers
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 cups mini marshmallows
• 2 cups chocolate chunks

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.

Place butter into small saucepan over medium heat. Let cook until bubbly and browned. Swirl pan often. Once removed transfer to a heat proof bowl. Let cool for 10 minutes.

Pour brown butter and sugars into stand mixer, beating until well combined. Add eggs and vanilla, beating until well combined. Add flour, graham crumbs, baking soda, salt, marshmallows and chocolate chunks. Mix on low until just combined. With a medium cookie scoop, place dough onto prepared baking sheet about 1 inch apart. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until cooked through. Marshmallows will ooze, immediately after removing from over use a plastic butter knife to push oozing marshmallows back around cookies. Let cookies sit on baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring. Serve.

When you take them from the oven they smell "oh' so delicious".  The marshmallows look a little crazy at first, but as they cool everything shapes up.

These were definitely a crowd pleaser.  They are so yummy that I would even make them again sans marshmallow as a yummy chocolate chip cookie!

Happy Baking!

Frosting Friday

It's has been a quite some time since I've posted a "Frosting Friday".  So this post is long over due!

I hosted Bunko in October and made this super sweet and delicious dessert.  It is very easy to make and it's a crowd pleaser!

Caramel Apple Pie

Ingredients

1 graham cracker crust

1/2 bag of mini-snickers candies, cut into fourths

8 ounces cream cheese, softened

1 cup powdered sugar

10 ounces sweetened condensed milk

8 ounces cool whip, thawed

carmel topping

1 apple, diced

Layer the bottom of the pie crust with the diced Snickers candy.  In a mixing bowl, mix cream cheese and powdered sugar until well combined.  Next add the sweetened condensed milk to the mixture, mixing well.  Finally fold in the cool whip.  Spoon this mixture over the candy.  Top with caramel topping, remaining Snickers, and apple.  Refrigerate at least one hour before serving.

I had a few other fun treats too!  Of course, I went for a Halloween theme!

Now that Halloween has kicked off the holiday season I am loving the decorations.  I love decorating for the holidays.  Now I'm ready to take down all the fall decor and decorate for Christmas!

My favorite decoration - The USM pumpkin I carved!  I found the stencil on Pinterest!

Tis the Season to be....BAKING!

I love Christmas and I love to bake.  So baking Christmas treats is one of my favorite things to do during the holidays.  I have been baking this week and giving away sweet treats to all my friends!  

I've posted most of the recipes before, so enjoy the pics!

Peppermint Kiss Sugar Cookies - These are very festive!

 These look so great all packaged and ready to give away.

 Ambrosia Crunch - Easy and delicious 

 Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies - with Christmas M&M's, chocolate chips and white chocolate chips.  So good!

 A family favorite and must have - Haystacks!

 This is a new addition to the holiday baking menu - Crinkle Cookies!  I got this recipe at Margie's cookie swap this year!

Crinkle Cookies

8 ounces cream cheese, softened

1 stick butter, softened

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 box Duncan Hines, Devil's Food Cake Mix

Powdered Sugar

Mix all ingredients well.  Refrigerate mixture for 2 hours.  Roll dough into balls, then roll in powdered sugar.  Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.  

 I make treat baskets for the men in my family, it's always their favorite gift!

 Margie hosted her 3rd annual "Cookie Swap" again this year.  I made Marshmallow Fudge Cake.  My mom has made this for years, it was my great-grandmother's favorite dessert.

1 cup butter, melted

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa

4 large eggs, lightly beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped pecans, toasted

1 (10.5 ounce) bag miniature marshmallows

Chocolate Frosting

1 (16 ounce) packaged powdered sugar, sifted

1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup butter, softened

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa

Whisk together melted better, sugar, cocoa, eggs, and vanilla in a large bowl. Stir in flour and pecans.  Pour batter into a greased and floured 15x10 inch jellyroll pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.  Remove from oven; top warm cake with marshmallows.  Return to oven, and bake 5 more minutes.  Drizzle with chocolate frosting.  Cool completely.

 Everyone brought such delicious cookies, I got so many great recipes!

 Margie's house was decorated so cute for Christmas.

 Cookie Swap Queen, Margie!

It's fun to see everyone and catch up!

Happy Baking!!!!

Frosting Friday

This is one of my favorite summer desserts, and it is one of the easiest ones to prepare.  It has been made at the request of friends and family at many a summer cookout!

FRUIT PIZZA

Step 1: Pat out softened sugar cookie dough on baking stone or pizza pan.  Bake at 375 degrees for 12-15 minutes.

Step 2:  Allow cookie to completely cool.

Step 3: Blend together cream cheese and powdered sugar.  Spread on cooled cookie.

Step 4: Chop fruit and arrange on cookie.

Step 6: Enjoy!!

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• Fruit Pizza
• 1 roll sugar cookie dough, softened
• 1 bar cream cheese, softened
• 1 box powdered sugar
• Blueberries
• Strawberries, diced
• Green seedless grapes, diced
• Kiwi, diced

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Pat out sugar cookie dough in a pizza pan or baking stone.  Bake for 12-15 minutes.
2. Allow cookie crust to cool.  Mix together the cream cheese and powdered sugar until smooth.  Spread mixture over cooled cookie crust.
3. Arrange fruit on pizza and serve.