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Oreo Stuffed Brownies

April 10, 2014 by Kay 2 Comments

Oreo Stuffed Brownies are made with a home made brownie recipe that is stuffed with Oreo’s and topped with frosting and sprinkles.

These brownies are layers of pure bliss. You bite into the frosting, then comes the soft brownie bite and then you hit the crispness of the chocolate cookie and finally the creaminess of the cookie center. I love it when desserts give you layers of different textures.

The brownie mix in Oreo Stuffed Brownies is very thick so it will take a little bit to spread it in the pan and to cover the layer of Oreo’s. I used a canned frosting that come with the sprinkles but you could easily use the frosting recipe I used in this recipe, Espresso Brownies with White Chocolate Frosting.

This is a great item to make for a bake sale, the chocolate layers and frosting are really appealing and it’s hard to say no to a brownies, especially one with frosting and Oreo’s mixed in.

Layer half of the brownie batter in the pan.

Layer the Oreo’s

Add the rest of the brownie batter.

Love the color of the frosting with the sprinkles.

Don’t they look delicious?

Serve them along side a big glass of milk.

Enjoy!

Oreo Stuffed Brownies

Rating: 51

Yield: 9 x 13 Pan, 15 Bars

Oreo Stuffed Brownies

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter
2 ¼ cups sugar
4 eggs
1 ¼ cups cocoa powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
1 ½ cups flour
15 Oreos

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9 x 13 pan with foil or parchment paper, this is optional. Spray with cooking spray.
In a saucepan on low heat, melt the butter and sugar. Heat just until boiling, the mixture will be glossy. Remove the pan from the heat and set aside.
In a mixer, beat the eggs, cocoa, salt, baking powder, and vanilla in a mixer until smooth. Add the hot butter/sugar mixture, mix until smooth. Add the flour and mix until combined.
Spoon half of the batter into the greased pan. Place the Oreos in even rows, 3 across and 5 down. Pour the remaining batter over the Oreos and gently spread to the edges of the pan.
Bake for about 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Notes

Use your favorite kind of Oreo in this recipe.

http://www.lovefoodwillshare.com/oreo-stuffed-brownies/

Italian Sugar Cookies

April 9, 2014 by Kay 8 Comments

Italian Sugar Cookies are tender morsels of delicious sugar cookies with a light glaze and pretty sprinkles added to the top.

These cookies pretty much melt in your mouth, they are so soft and sweet. Trust me when I say you won’t be able to eat just one.

I usually make these Italian Sugar Cookies Christmas but I thought this would be a nice Easter treat as well. Adding the bright colored sprinkles reminds me of spring colors. These would be great to bake with kids or grand kids, they can help decorate the cookies with their favorite sprinkles.

I used a 1 tablespoon cookie scoop to form the cookies and I baked them for 8 and a half minutes in my oven. They had just started to turn golden on the bottom of the cookie. You might notice some slight cracking on the top of the cookie, this is normal.

This is the dough after I mixed it in my Kitchen Aid mixer.

Here are the cookies before I baked them.

Here they are fresh out of the oven.

Love the color of these cookies.

I found a use for my cute Easter Egg shaped plate.

Italian Sugar Cookies

I had a lot of colored sprinkles on hand.

Italian Sugar Cookies

Enjoy!

Italian Sugar Cookies

Yield: Approx. 3 dozen cookies

Italian Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

Cookies:
3/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
Icing:
1/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
Colored sprinkles

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
In your mixer cream together the shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla and the eggs one at a time until fully incorporated.
In a separate bowl sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Turn your mixer on low and add the flour mixture 1 cup at a time, turn the mixer up one speed and mix for a minute or two until well combined.
Using a 1 tablespoon cookie scoop form the cookies and place on the baking sheets or you can form the cookies by hand. Bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.
For icing, in a small bowl, combine milk, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar until smooth. Dip the top of the cookie in the icing and sprinkle with colored sprinkles.

http://www.lovefoodwillshare.com/italian-sugar-cookies/

Adapted from Taste of Home

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Peeps S’Mores Bars

April 3, 2014 by Kay 10 Comments

I am going to give you a reason to go out and buy Peeps and that reason is my recipe for Peeps S’Mores Bars.

These bars have an oatmeal & graham cracker crust, a layer of chocolate/butterscotch chips, Peeps marshmallows and some more oatmeal & graham cracker mixture tossed on top.

Peeps S’Mores Bars start with a mixture of butter, brown sugar and karo syrup (yum) and then you add in oatmeal, flour and graham cracker crumbs. Press this into a baking dish and cover it with chocolate and butterscotch chips.

Now it gets fun, you line up the Peeps in rows, they look like they are standing at attention. Add the last of the oatmeal mixture to the top of the Peeps and bake. You kind of feel bad putting the Peeps in the oven knowing they won’t be coming out the same as when they went in…poor Peeps.

Melt the brown sugar, butter and corn syrup.

Add in the flour, graham cracker crumbs and oatmeal.

Line up the Peeps.

Fresh out of the oven.

Gooey Goodness

Enjoy!

Peeps S’Mores Bars

Rating: 41

Yield: 12 Bars

Peeps S’Mores Bars

Ingredients

6 Tbsp. salted butter
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
6 Tbsp. corn syrup
2 & 1/4 cups rolled oats (not instant, not steel cut)
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 & 1/4 cup chips, I used semi-chocolate and butterscotch chips
15 Peeps

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350. Grease an 8x8 pan. Set aside.
In a medium saucepan, heat the butter, brown sugar and corn syrup over medium heat, until the butter is melted and sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat and stir in the oats, flour, salt and graham cracker crumbs.
Press a little more than half of this mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan. Place on a wire rack and let cool completely.
Sprinkle the chocolate chips evenly over the cooled crust. Top with the Peeps, making 3 rows of 5 Peeps. Cover with the remaining topping/crust mixture. Bake for 20 minutes; the Peeps will look slightly misshapen under the topping.
Place on a wire cooling rack and let cool for 20 minutes. Serve warm.

http://www.lovefoodwillshare.com/peeps-smores-bars/

Adapted from Bake at 350.

Delicious Chip Bars

March 26, 2014 by Kay 2 Comments

Delicious Chip Bars are a base of brown sugar and buttery goodness with a mixture of chips thrown into the mix that is baked to a soft and chewy sensation.

I call this chip bars because you decide what flavor of chip you would like to add in the recipe. Milk or dark chocolate, white chocolate or butterscotch are favorites of mine. I like to mix it up when making these bars.

What I love about making a cookie into a bar is the time you save. Rather than scooping out tablespoons of cookies, just dump the batter into a prepared cake pan, bake and a short time later you can enjoy these bars.

I like to line my cake pan with foil. I do this so I can lift the baked bars out of the pan and cut them on a cutting board. They are easier to cut this way and I don’t have a dirty pan to clean.

Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pan.

Fresh out of the oven.

Once they have cooled you can lift the bars out of the pan.

Slice the bars.

Delicious Chip Bars.

Enjoy!

Delicious Chip Bars

Rating: 51

Yield: 20 bars

Delicious Chip Bars

Ingredients

2 ¼ cups unsifted flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 ½ sticks softened butter
¾ cup granulated sugar
¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 cups chips; milk, semi-sweet, butterscotch or white (you can choose the kind & ratio)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Line a 9 x 13 pan with foil, letting the excess hang over the edges of the pan by about 1 inch so you can grab those edges and pull the bars from the pan after they have baked. Spray the foil lined pan with non-stick cooking spray.
Mix the flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Set aside. Beat the butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract until combined. Add the eggs one at a time and mix until combined. Gradually add the flour mixture until combined. Fold in the chips. Turn the batter into the greased pan, smoothing the top with the spatula.
Bake until the top of the bars is golden brown and slightly firm to the touch, 24-28 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Remove the bars from the pan by lifting the foil overhang and transfer them to a cutting board.

Notes

You can skip adding the foil to the pan if you like, just spray the pan directly with nonstick cooking spray.

http://www.lovefoodwillshare.com/delicious-chip-bars/

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