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Football Friday # 14 – cake mix whoopie pies!

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Cake mix whoopie pies!

Cake mix whoopie pies are my week 14 “Go Bills” treat. (Tough game this week, Sunday night vs the Steelers). These treats are simple to make. You can use any flavor cake mix and frosting. I used white cake mix with a vanilla frosting colored green (for Christmas). And this recipe gave me an excuse to use my whoopie pie pan (one of my many baking items I have that are used for just one thing, like my churro maker, mini cake pop maker, twinkie pan, etc).

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Remember to preheat your oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes before baking to make sure your oven is at the right temperature for baking.

Yum!!
  • Ingredients
  • 1 cake mix
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 1/2 cup oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 cup flour

Directions – preheat oven to 350 for 20 minutes before baking. Spray a whoopie pie pan with baking spray, or line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or nonstick baking liners. Combine the ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Scoop 2 tbs batter into the whoopie pie pan or on the nonstick baking liners. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 2 tbs butter, melted
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/2 cup marshmallow fluff
  • Heavy cream or milk

Directions – combine ingredients and blend well. Spread between two whoopie pies. Store in covered container.

Go Bills!

Chocolate chocolate chip cake with chocolate frosting

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Go Bills!

Today is national comfort food day… But honestly, hasn’t every day kinda been like that since mid March? Nothing like a pandemic to make you crave all sorts of comfort food, as opposed to steamed broccoli. ☺ So today, I present a chocolate chocolate chip cake with chocolate frosting. It’s also my Buffalo Bills game day treat for the 49ers game on Monday Night Football.

Are you ready for some football? Yes, but I wish it was on at 6 pm and not 8 pm!

Couple of notes – this recipe uses buttermilk and cake flour. If you don’t have those, you can make them. For the buttermilk, add 1 tbs of white vinegar or lemon juice to 2 1/4 cups milk and let set for at least 5 minutes. For the cake flour, combine 2 1/2 all purpose flour with 2 tbs and 1 tsp Cornstarch and sift together. You can also use different kinds of chips or add nuts if you want. Remember to preheat your oven to 350 before baking to make sure the temperature is just right.

  • Ingredients
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp chocolate extract (or vanilla)
  • 2 1/2 cups cake flour
  • 1 cup baking cocoa
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 1/4 cups buttermilk
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 for 20 minutes. Spray a bundt pan with baking spray. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and extract. Fold in dry ingredients. Mix in buttermilk. Stir in chips. Pour into pan and spread evenly. Bake 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into cake comes out with just a few crumbs. Cool completely.

  • Frosting ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1 cup baking cocoa
  • 1 tsp chocolate extract (or vanilla)
  • 3 to 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1-3 tbs heavy cream or milk
  • 1 tbs cornstarch

Directions – Melt butter with water. Remove from heat. Add cocoa, powdered sugar and heavy cream.you may need to add more powdered sugar or cream, depending on the consistency you want. I also added some cornstarch to thicken it up a bit. Frost cake and store in covered container

Here’s to another good game by Josh Allen!

Cream cheese sugar cookies stuffed with carrot cake truffles

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Cream cheese sugar cookies stuffed with carrot cake truffles!

Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE to make stuffed cookies, using Oreos, candy, brownies, etc. I made a carrot cake and instead of bringing the leftovers into work, I turned them into carrot cake truffles, covered in melted white chocolate, and stuffed in cream cheese sugar cookies. I felt some sort of sugar cookie was the right way to go. These are my Thursday football treats! Yes, I know I usually make Friday football treats, but I have a zoom call with college friends tomorrow, so this week they are TFT (Thursday football treats)

Thursday football treats!
  • Ingredients
  • 1 carrot cake, baked, cooled and frosted (you can even use a cake mix and canned frosting)
  • 12 oz white chocolate chips
  • 1/2 stick butter, softened
  • 8 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda

Directions for truffles – smush the frosted carrot cake in a bowl and scoop out 2 tbs and roll into a ball. Freeze 1 hour. In a microwave safe bowl, microwave chips in 30 second intervals until you can stir smooth. Dip truffles in, place on wax paper or parchment paper and chill at least 1 hour.

Cookie directions – cream butter, cream cheese and sugar. Add egg and vanilla. Fold in dry ongredients. Scoop out 2 tbs tbs of dough. Flatten. Place a truffle on top. Tops with another 2 tbs of flattened dough.

Seal truffle.

Store in fridge at least a few hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Scatter on a cookie sheet lined with nonstick baking liners. Bake 12 to 15 minutes (bottoms will be light golden). Sprinkle with powdered sugar while warm. Store in covered container.

Go Bills!

The Baked Brownie – topped with milk chocolate ganache

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#GoBills

This is treat #2 for Bills victory Monday. A stressful game, but I had to behave for a half hour and not use bad words because we were have our internet changed and the tech was in our house during the first half. I made up for that lack of swearing on the second half. A lot of stress and frustration. But they won, and that is all that counts. This treat is the Baked Brownie.. I think I found it reading something online regarding Oprah a long time ago. I used dark chocolate chips, but you can use semisweet if you want. I added some chocolate chips to the batter and topped them with milk chocolate ganache!

  • Ingredients
  • 1 cup butter
  • Just under 2 cups dark chocolate chips
  • 1 1 /2 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 1 tsp chocolate extract
  • 1 1/4 cups flour
  • 2 tbs baking cocoa
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 for 20 minutes. Line an 8-8 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. In a microwave safe bowl, melt butter with just under 2 cups dark chocolate chips in 30 second intervals until you can stir smooth. Add sugar. Mix in eggs, one at a time, and extract. Fold in flour, baking cocoa ans salt. Add 1 cups chips. Spread into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few crumbs. Sprinkle hot brownies with powdered sugar. Cool completely. In a microwave safe bowl, microwave 1/3 cup heavy cream for one minute. Add 1 cup milk chocolate chips. Stir until completely blended. Let sit at least 20 minutes and then frost brownies. Store in covered container.

Do brownies need frosting? Why yes!

Victory Monday treats – xl chcolate chip cookies topped with melted dark chocolate

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Go Bills!

So these are treat #1 for Bills victory Monday – extra large triple chip cookies and topped with melted chocolate (Rob requested that part). I know the win was ugly, but the end result was all that mattered! One quick note – these use bread flour. I would not substitute another flour. I have other chocolate chip cookie recipes if you want to search my blog.

  • Ingredients
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup Crisco
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tbs vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 cups bread flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/3 cup chocolate chips
  • 1/3 cup white chips
  • 1/3 cup milk chocolate chips

Directions – cream butter, Crisco, sugar and brown sugar. Add vanilla and egg. Blend in dry ingredients. Add chips. Scoop out 1/4 cups of dough. Chill a few hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Bake 12 minutes. There will be golden spots on top and cookies may seem gushy in the middle. Cool completely. Top with melted chocolate (I microwaved 1 cup of chocolaye chips in 30 second intervals until I could stir it smooth). Frost cookies. Store in covered container.

8-3!

Caramel pie with an Oreo crust

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Carmel pie with an Oreo crust!

Thanksgiving week is here. 2020 has been so awful for so many people. Terrible things have happened to a lot of people. And the burdens some of you carry are immense. My hope is that the burdens are eased and that better days are ahead. I wish you love and peace and joy. One of my favorite quotes when life gets hard is from one of the greatest songwriters, Bruce Springsteen “tomorrow there’ll be sunshine and all this darkness passed.” May it be try for any of you suffering or struggling.

Today’s treat, a request from my husband – caramel pie, with an oreo crust and a chocolate ganache topping. I used both golden and regular oreos for the crust. I made the caramel filling (not difficult at all) and let’s face it – ganache is really a fancy word for melted chocolate. The Oreos for the pie crust need to be crushed. You can use a food processor, or a rolling pin on a countertop.. Or you can put them in a freezer bag and smash them with a rolling pin (I may or may not have done this, in anger after a particular sports competition outcome).. Or you can use a ready made Oreo, or graham cracker crust.

  • Crust ingredients and directions
  • 40 Oreos, finely crushed
  • 8 tbs butter melted
  • Combine and press into a pie pan
Oreo and golden Oreo crust
  • Caramel filling and directions
  • 8 tbs butter
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • Whisk and melt butter and brown sugar to a boil. Boil 1 minute. Remove from heat. Blend in cream. Let set for 15 minutes. Pour into crust. Chill 1 hour in fridge.

Ganache ingredients and directions

  • Ganache ingredients and directions
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 2 cups chocolate chips
  • Heat cream in a microwave-safe container in 2, 45 second increments in microwave. Pour over chips. Let stand 5 minutes. Stir smooth. Pour over Caramel filling. Chill 1 hour. Store covered in fridge.

“Reese’s” pie in an Oreo crust

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Part two of my Thanksgiving dessert post features a peanut butter pie in an Oreo crust. I opted to use butter, peanut butter, brown sugar and powdered sugar for the filling. I used crushed Oreos (courtesy of my food processor). You can also put them in a freezer bags and smash them with a rolling pin. 🙂

  • Crust ingredients and directions
  • 40 Oreos, crushed
  • 8 tbs butter , melted
  • Combine and press in a pie plate. Chill 1 hour.
  • Filling ingredients and directions
  • 2 cups peanut butter
  • 8 tbs butter
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 3 cups powdered sugar
  • Milk
  • Cook and stir peanut butter, butter and brown sugar over low heat, just until it starts to boil. Remove from heat. Add powdered sugar. You can add milk 1 tbs at a time until you get the consistency you want. Press on top of crust. Top with melted milk chocolate. Store in fridge.