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!

Easter Treats!

Happy Palm Sunday!

Easter is almost here, so I've been doing some baking over the weekend.  I have several little events that need some sweet treats this week.

Easter nest - These are fun to top off with a Peep chick!

I saw these on Pinterest and they are SUPER easy!  "Carrot" cupcakes!

"Bunny Bait" - Popcorn, pretzels, M&M's (I used milk chocolate and white chocolate M&M's), cover in white chocolate and sprinkle with Easter sprinkles.

Easter sugar cookies - These are always so pretty but TAKE.SOME.MUCH.TIME!

The eggs are my fav!

Last week I hosted Pokeno at my home.  I made this strawberry lemonade from Pinterest.  It was pretty good!

Here's the recipe - 

Strawberry Lemonade: Homemade strawberry lemonade recipe, made in the blender using lemons, strawberries and honey. Replace lemons with limes for strawberry limeade.

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ lb strawberries, washed & cut in halves, about 4 cups
• 2 lemons, washed and quartered (use limes to make strawberry limeade)
• ~ ½- ¾ cup honey or sugar to taste, adjust based on your preference and sweetness of strawberries
• 6 cups of water
• Ice
• Garnishes: Strawberry slices, lemon slices and/or fresh herbs

Instructions

1. Blend the strawberries, lemons and honey with 2 cups of water
2. Strain the strawberry lemon mix, add the additional 4 cups of water through the strainer
3. Taste and add additional honey/sugar if needed
4. Serve cold over ice and garnished with strawberry slices, lemon slices and herbs

And it taste even better with cute polka-dot, paper straws! 

Chicken salad sandwiches

Yummy fruit salad

The bunny dropped off some candy for all of us to enjoy at Pokeno!

Few pics of my decor - 

Love these egg placemats!

While I am posting food and recipes I had to include this one.  I also found this on Pinterest and these brownies are DELISH!

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter

1/2 cup cocoa

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups sugar

4 eggs

4 teaspoons vanilla

Melt butter.  In mixer, add melted butter and coca, blend until smooth.  Add flour and sugar.  After mixed well, add eggs and vanilla.  Mix until combined, do not over mix.  Pour into a greased and floured 9x13 inch baking pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. 

While they are baking, make the frosting -

1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened

1/4 cup milk

1/4 cup cocoa

3 cups powdered sugar

Mix all ingredients.  Allow brownies to cool about 10 minutes then frost.  Frost brownies while they are still warm.

After brownies are completely cooled.  Cut into squares.

Enjoy!!