Frozen S'Mores Cupcakes

I hope you're enjoying the last bit of our summer months, I know I sure have been. This recipe is perfect to enjoy during our last few weeks of this weather! S'Mores scream summer around the campfire to me, but this new twist allows them to help you beat the heat!

You'll need:
18 graham cracker squares (9 sheets)
1/3 cup butter
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup whipping cream
12 square flat S'Mores marshmallows
1 1/2 cup cold milk
1 box (3.9 oz) instant chocolate pudding
1 (8 oz.) container Cool Whip
1/4 cup mini chocolate chips

To Make:
Crush the graham crackers into fine crumbs, melt butter and add to the graham crackers. Place cupcake liners in your cupcake pans and evenly divide and press mixture into the bottoms.

Melt milk chocolate chips by adding whipping cream and heating in a small bowl in the microwave for 30 second icrements, stirring in between. Evenly disperse the melted chocolate on top of the graham cracker crust.

 Top each blob of chocolate with one marshmallow.

Mix the cold milk with the pudding, fold in 1/2 of the Cool Whip container. Top marshmallows with the mixture and freeze for a couple hours.

Take the pans out of the freezer 15-20 minutes before serving, top with remaining cool whip, crushed graham crackers and mini chocloate chips.

Enjoy!

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

I did start baking for Christmas in the midst of baking for Thanksgiving.  I made a batch of sugar cookies, my favorite sugar cookie recipe can be found at Bake at 350.  I also made a batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.  I'll put the recipe below.

Want to know how they were?  Just ask him....

While we were sleeping he polished off two dozen of the cookies, then was sick from 5 am-7am and then finally scared us so much the night before Thanksgiving we had to call the Vet at home at about 8 pm.  So, Keisel, I hope the cookies were well worth it.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup butter softened

1 cup sugar

2/3 cup brown sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

--cream the above ingredients together--

--add--

2 cup flour

1 cup oats

2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1-12 oz. bag chocolate chips

--chill dough, then drop onto cookie sheet--

--Bake 10-12 minutes at 350*--

More Drop Cookies

Remember these?  Well I told you there would be more experimenting to come!  Here are chocolate cherry cookies!  Mmmm, they were good.  I followed the recipe from before, this time I used a chocolate cake mix and maraschino cherries  They were fantastic!

Two for One Desserts!

Saturday evening my husband wasn't feeling well, so since I was pretty bored I did some baking.  I had a dozen left-over frozen cookie dough balls so I made a dozen Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes.  I just got my Pampered Chef Medium Scoop and it was the perfect size for the cupcakes!

Note:  The above photo is from Pampered Chef

I still had some batter left over so I drained a can of pineapple (saving the juice) and added it to the mixture.  I beat it with my standing mixer to puree the pineapple.  Then I placed the batter into tiny loaf pans.

I baked them at 350* for 20 minutes and got four of these...

I used the pineapple juice I saved to make a glaze...1/4 cup of powdered sugar and 2 TBS of juice.

They were really moist and yummy...It's been requested by my sampling committee to make full size loafs.

Enjoy!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes

Yesterday I made the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes from Kevin & Amanda.  They are even more delicious than they look!  Below is the recipe, I made my cookie dough balls Saturday afternoon and froze them overnight.

For the cookie dough (there are no eggs, so no worries about eating raw dough, YAY!)
2 sticks softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
4 tbsp milk
1 tbsp vanilla
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup mini chocolate chips

I filled my cupcakes with 3 TBS of batter and it was a little bit too much, next time I'll put a little less.  You just plop the frozen cookie dough balls in the center and follow the baking directions for your cake mix.

I cheated and went the easy way with a plain yellow cake mix and chocolate frosting, but you can get more creative with your own recipes for cakes and icings or check out what Kevin & Amanda did, maybe some other day I'll be that ambitious!

It may not look like it, but there is a center of ooey gooey cookie dough deliciousness hiding in there!