Welcome to my kitchen!

My love of cooking started when I was 11 years old. For my 12th birthday my Aunt gave me a cookbook. Breakfast has always been my favorite meal, so with that the first meal I ever made was cinnamon french toast with maple butter. It was a huge success and I have been cooking ever since. With this blog I hope to share my love of cooking by publishing recipes that I have tweeked and experimented with as well as recipes that have been in my family for centuries.
Showing posts with label Dessert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dessert. Show all posts

Monday, September 6, 2010

Oreo Cookie Pudding

Oreo Cookie Pudding inspired by Dustin

My boyfriend absolutely loves oreo cookies, so for our labor day family picnic he asked me to make an oreo cookie dessert similar to one he had at a fourth of July picnic. Needless to say, we came up with this recipe and it was a big hit! The cream cheese is key to giving the pudding an extra sweetness. I also reccomend instant pudding because it sets and chills faster.

Ingredients

1 sm. pkg. Oreo cookies


1 lg. pkg. instant vanilla pudding

1 lg. pkg. instant chocolate pudding

1 (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened

1 container Cool Whip

Directions:

Crumble cookies and place in bottom of a large bowl. Make puddings following package directions and add 4 ounce cream cheese to each kind of pudding. Layer one pudding on top of cookies, then the other. Follow with layer of Cool whip. Top with whole or crumbled Oreo cookies. Chill and serve.


Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Crisps, simple yet versatile!

Blueberry Crisp a la Mode


Yield: 8 servings


I absolutely love crisps! They are simple to make and extrememly versatile. You can basically make them in every season. I particulary love berries, but as we all know berries can be very expensive so I usually stick with blueberries, this way if I have extra I can make them in pancakes the next morning or add them to a salad.



Ingredients

6 cups blueberries

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1 tablespoon all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

2/3 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup regular oats

3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

4 1/2 tablespoons chilled butter or stick margarine, cut into small pieces

2 cups vanilla low-fat ice cream

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375°.



Combine first 4 ingredients in a medium bowl; spoon into an 11 x 7-inch baking dish. Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup, and level with a knife. Combine 2/3 cup flour, 1/2 cup brown sugar, oats, and cinnamon, and cut in the butter with a pastry blender or 2 knives until the mixture resembles coarse meal. Sprinkle over the blueberry mixture. Bake at 375° for 30 minutes or until bubbly. Top each serving with 1/4 cup frozen yogurt.



Note: Topping may also be made in the food processor. Place 2/3 cup flour, 1/2 cup brown sugar, oats, and cinnamon in a food processor, and pulse 2 times or until combined. Add butter; pulse 4 times or until mixture resembles coarse meal.



Nutritional Information

Calories:288 (26% from fat)

Fat:8.3g (sat 4.8g,mono 2g,poly 0.9g)

Protein:4.2g

Carbohydrate:52g

Fiber:3.8g

Cholesterol:22mg

Iron:1.3mg

Sodium:96mg

Calcium:77mg