Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Chocolate Bundt Cake

Ingredients:

1 Betty Crocker Devils Food Cake
1 small box Devils Food instant chocolate pudding
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup veg oil
1 bag (11oz) milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup warm water (hot)
4 eggs


Directions:

Blend all ingredients
Bake at 350 degrees for 40-42 minutes
It can be a little gooey when you pull it out. 
Don't over cook! 
Cool, remove from pan and sprinkle with powdered sugar.


Recipe from Merrilee Gottfredson

Rolls

Ingredients

1/3 cup water
1 cup milk (1%)
3 Tbsp. honey
4 Tbsp. unsalted butter, softened or melted
2 tsp. salt
____________
3 1/2 cups bread flour
2 1/4 tsp. rapid rise yeast. 


Put into bread maker to that ingredients can mix and dough can rise. 

Take dough out of bread maker and make into rolls. 
Bake in oven. 


Recipe from Lisa McCoy

Cookie Salad

Ingredients:

1 small vanilla instant pudding box
1 cup buttermilk
1 8oz coolwhip
1 can mandarin oranges
1 can pineapple chunks
1 package Fudge Striped cookies


Directions:

Empty vanilla pudding box into large bowl. Add buttermilk and coolwhip. Mix well. 
Drain mandarin oranges and pineapple. Add to coolwhip mixture. 
Last, break apart each cookie into 6 pieces. Add to mixture.

I make this ahead of time and refrigerate till we eat that night. 
Enjoy! 

Cinnamon Caramel Corn w/ Pecans & White Chocolate

Ingredients:

12 cups popped popcorn
1 cup pecans chopped
1 cup brown sugar
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 cup Karo syrup (or honey)
1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. baking soda

3 squares almond bark (4oz) or white choc. chips 
*I use 4 squares almond bark


Directions:

Preheat oven to 250 degrees

Place popcorn and chopped pecans in a large bowl and set aside.

Combine brown sugar and cinnamon in a 2 liter capacity microwave safe bowl. Mix well. Chop butter into chunks and place on top of sugar mixture. Pour Karo syrup over the top of everything. Microwave on high for 30 seconds and then stir to combine. Return to microwave and heat for 2 minutes. Remove and stir and then microwave for 2 minutes more. 

Remove from microwave and add vanilla and baking soda. Stir to combine. Mixture will foam and rise. Pour caramel mixture over popcorn and pecans and stir very well so everything is well coated. 

Spread popcorn mixture onto a foil-lined jelly roll pan (cookie sheet). Place in oven and bake for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes. 

Remove from oven and spread out on a large piece of parchment, waxed paper, or foil. 

Melt almond bark according to package instructions. Drizzle over popcorn mixture. When almond bark is hardened and popcorn is cool, break into chunks and enjoy!

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Baked Fried Chicken

I just copied and pasted this recipe from Facebook, I haven't tried it yet.

{Baked Fried Chicken}
I am pretty sure someone has discovered the KFC secret recipe! It is DEAD ON! It is also baked...not fried and there isn't any skin! So you get to enjoy the taste of the seasoning, instead of pulling it off because of the slimy skin!

This is super easy and you are TOTALLY going to love it!

Place thawed chicken breast tenderloin strips in a bowl of milk. Let soak for 20-30 min.

Mix in a Gallon Size Ziploc or Large Bowl: 
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 T Season All
3/4 tsp Pepper
1 c. Flour
2 tsp. Paprika

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut 1/2 stick of butter into a few pieces and place in a 9x13 pan. Melt butter in pre-heated oven.

Spread melted butter around the bottom of the pan. Lightly spray the pan, if needed, to make sure that there are no dry spots.

Shake excess milk off of chicken and completely coat each piece with the seasoning mix. You can either shake the chicken in the bag, until coated, or dip each piece in the bowl until coated.
Place each piece of chicken in the pan.

Cook for 20 min. Turn each piece of chicken and continue cooking for 20 more minutes, or until cooked through.

ENJOY!

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

"Healthy" German pancakes

Here's the recipe I texted you guys about. They are really good! My friend just came up with it.

So simple:
4 eggs
1/3 c cottage cheese
1 scoop vanilla protein powder

Blend it all in the blender then pour into a pan and cook like you would a pancake (you will have to experiment with the cooking spray/batter ratio and make them kind of thin) but once they are cooked they seriously taste just like German pancakes!

You can top with fruit and sugar free whipped cream or baked apples and cinnamon... Yum!


Paul and I are making a big effort right now to eat healthier and count calories to get summer-ready and in better shape... And it's not easy! I think this blog could be a great way to share any healthy tips or recipes we have with each other because I know varietybis hard for me, so ill post anything I come across and hopefully you guys can do the same (of course we can still post other yummy stuff too)