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8/17/13

Cookies and Cream Cannoli Cones Recipe

Cookies and Cream Cannoli Cones Recipe, can't find cannoli shells? don't feel like baking one? no problem how about waffle cones instead. Enjoy this sweet on the go treat this summer! Crunchy, Creamy and Sweet, yum
Hola Amigos! Another week comes to an end which brings us to the end of summer. I can't help to start getting in the mood for earthier  flavors on main dishes and desserts  even though the official start of fall is more than a month away (Sept.22) , do you feel the same way?
But...let's not rush it and have a few more rounds of fun and easy going summer treats! Just like this one!
I set my mind the other day to make homemade cannoli. Easier said than done. First,  I couldn't find cannoli shells anywhere and I didn't feel like baking any either, after all it's supposed to be an easy dessert. So I improvised and used waffle cones and then myy mix turned out a little softer than I wanted to fill the cones so I turned them into parfait by crushing almond cookies into the mix. Problem solved and a wonderful refreshing dessert was born!
Cookies and Cream Cannoli Cones Recipe, Creamy and Crunchy, the classic Italian dessert, takes a turn by the use of waffle cones and crushed almond cookies! Delicious summer treat!

I tell you, I think I like these better than if they were the real thing! Easy to handle, no forks or plates, Mobile, the kids took them outside right away.Crunchy, crumble cookies in the inside and crunchy waffle cone on the outside and Creamy...the cannoli filling just the way you like it!

I plan on doing this recipe for family gatherings for now on...I can see it already it would be a hit coming Thanksgiving...well it won't replace the pie...but, who knows!

Most of my ingredients I had at hand, I just had to buy the ricotta and it was on sale too! So it's an inexpensive dessert to feed at least 8, depending how generous you are with your cone filling.
Another summer dessert for you my friends. I hope you give this one a try! is worth every single calorie, I promise you that!
Cookies and Cream Cannoli Cones Recipe, treat your family to this sweet, crunchy and creamy treat tasting just like your traditional Italian Restaurant dessert but made from the comfort of your home, Waffle cones, almond cookies and creamy ricotta would make this dessert one of your favorite summer treats!

Oh one more thing, even though traditional cannoli is not a dessert that should be frozen by any means, my son couldn't finish his 3rd and froze his and had it like a real ice cream cone the next day...so seems to me it works as a frozen dessert too!



Thank You for stopping by! Put on your shades, go outside and enjoy the sunshine. Remember that no matter the season, everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!


Besitos,
Lizy

Cookies and Cream Cannoli Cones
Ingredients:
For the Filling:
1 Cup Milk
1/4 Cup Cornstarch 
1 (150z) Container Ricotta Cheese (drain your ricotta overnite if possible)
1/2 Cup Cookie Butter
1/2 Cup Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1/2 Teaspoon Almond Extract
8-12 roughly crushed almond cookies
Pinch of Salt
For the shells
Waffle Cones
Rainbow sprinkles, coconut, powder sugar.
Directions
In a saucepan on medium heat combine milk with cornstarch. Heat up  stirring constantly until it thickens. Add Cookie butter, sugar and pinch of salt. Stir until is all combined. Remove from heat. Set aside and cover with a damp cloth or plastic wrap until is room temperature.
When your mix is room temperature, add the Ricotta cheese to it, add vanilla and almond extracts and combine them until everything is uniform. Add crushed cookies and gently fold them in the cheese mix.
Place in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve dessert. In the meantime, decorate your cones by dipping them in chocolate and then on your rainbow sprinkles, coconut or sugar, your choice.
To serve, scoop and spoon some of the mix into each decorated cone and top with more crushed cookies. Enjoy!

Prep Time: 10 minutes                     Cooking and Cooling 30 minutes           Serves 6-8 cones

Cookies and Cream Cannoli Cones Recipe, make this classic Italian dessert your own by adding almond cookies to the sweet and creamy filling, Make it on the go, by serving it on waffle cones, Refreshing summer sweetness in a cone!

Sharing some colorful cannoli cones at these fabulous parties:
WCFS, Dessert Now, Dinner Later, The Tablescaper, Life on Lakeshore Drive, A Pretty Life in the Suburbs,Rain on a Tin Roof, Huckleberry Love, Jembellish, A Southern Fairytale, Mad in Crafts, Between Naps on the Porch, Coastal Charm, Cupcake-n-Bake, Who Needs a Cape, BoogieBoard Cottage, The Blackberry Vine, Say Not Sweet Anne, My Mixing Spoon, Feeding Big, Setting for Four, Hun...what's for dinner?, Home Stories A to Z, Handmade Cuddles, Ladybugs Blessings, Mandy's Recipe Box, Nap-Time Creations, Kathe with an E, Pint Sized Baker, Adventures of a DIY Mom, Summer Scraps, The Princess and her Cowboys, Sugar Bee Crafts, Our Table for Seven, Memories by the Mile, Not Just a Housewife, Bebetsy, Clean and Scentsible, Mom's Test Kitchen, The Lady Behind the Curtain, The Everyday Home, Smart School House, Kitchen Meets Girl, Ducks'n a Row, The Shaddy Porch, Sew Much Ado, Thank You Honey, My Girlish Whims, Handy Man, Crafty Woman, This Silly Girl's Life, Someday Crafts, Polkadots on Parade, Real Housewives or Riverton, We Like to Learn as We Go, 733 Blog, Real Coake, 52 Mantels, The 36th Avenue, The Brambleberry Cottage, A Handful of Everything, Katherine's Corner, CrazyLou, House of Hepworths, The Mandatory Mooch, I Gotta Create, Lamberts Lately, Chocolate, Chocolate and More, The Crafty Blog Stalker, The Best Blog Recipes, Jennifer Rizzo, Do Small Things with Love, Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons, The Answer is Chocolate, The Inspiration Network, My Turn (for Us), Simple Living and Eating, The Pin Junkie, Simply Designing, Tidy Mom, The Shabby Nest, A Simple Five, A Peek Into My Paradise, Living Better Together, One Tough Mother, Happy and Blessed Home, Five Days Five Ways, Shaken Together, Not Your Ordinary Recipes, Four Little Fergusons, Just Us Four, Esskunst, Made from Pinterest, The Wondering Brain, Cheerios and Lattes, Classy Clutter, A Little Claireification, Spatulas on Parade, Too Much Time on my Hands, Angels Homestead, What's Cooking with Ruthie, Serenity You, Frugal Foodie Mama, Claire Justine oxox, Craft-O-Maniac, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Flour Me With Love, Jam Hands, Keeping it Simple, Alderberry Hill, Ms. enPlace,The Gunny Sack, Chef in Trainning, The Trendy Treehouse, SNAP, Glitz and Gold, My Romantic Home, Tatertots and Jello




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7/29/13

Oreo & Cookie Dough Brownies Recipe

Oreo & Cookie Dough Brownies Recipe, these brownies will have you come back for more, Oreo Cookies, Cocoa Butter Spread, White Chocolate M&M's, to name a few of the tasty ingredients.
Hola Amigos! A few days ago looking for tips on how to bake the best brownies and  I found  a lot of good recipes but one site talked about the criteria of a good brownie,  taste, level of difficulty and creativity. I agree, I like my brownies tasty, easy to bake and with a twist. That's how I came up with this recipe, which is nothing but a combination of all the good things I like in a brownie, in just one batch.
I like Original brownies...nothing but chocolate and more chocolate! Heated up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream..yum! My element of creativity, a layer of Trader Joe's Cocoa Almond Spread! I love that stuff...do I dare say, more than Nutella?..please don't hate me now, lol


My hubs likes his frozen, this is his batch, topped with a white chocolate pudding glaze (lots of it) to go along with the white chocolate M&M's in every bite of the brownie!


The kids like their with the works, and I mean "the works" mini oreos, melted chocolate and caramel and more M&M goodness! Pass the milk!

Oreo & Cookie Dough Brownies Recipe, what is not to love about a brownie with cookie dough, cocoa butter spread and white chocolate M&M's to name a few of it's ingredients! Delicious!

So as you can see..you can make your whole family happy with only one batch of brownies by adding a few ingredients and a Pinch of Love,  turning your everyday brownie into the best brownies ever!

Besitos,
Lizy

Oreo Cookie Dough Brownies
Ingredients
1 Box (18oz) Ghirardelli Triple Fudge Brownie Mix
1 1/2 Pound Chocolate chip Cookie Dough
1/2 Cup Almond Cocoa Butter or Nutella
1 Box (15.3 oz) Oreo Double Stuff Heads and Tails (or your favorite)
For Toppings
Mini Oreo Cookies
Caramel Topping
Philadelphia Dark Chocolate Snack Delights (melted) 
White Chocolate Instant pudding mix
Directions
Preheat oven at 350F. Line a 9x13 pan with parchment paper. Spray with non stick spray or oil. 
Lay your cookie dough on the parchment paper shaping it into the baking pan. 
Spread the Cocoa Butter or Nutella on the cookie dough, this would be the "cement' for the Oreo Cookie rows to come. 
Place Oreo cookies on rows on top of the Cocoa Butter. About 5 per row until your baking pan is covered with the Oreo cookies.
Drop your M&M's trying to fill in the Oreo gaps with the candy. 
Prepare the box brownie mix according to the instructions on the box.
Pour in your mold and bake for 40-45 minutes, until your toothpick comes out clean
Remove from oven and once your brownies have cooled, lift  the entire batch from the pan  by the parchment paper and cut into squares. Decorate and enjoy. 



Prep time:30 minutes    Baking time: 40-45 minutes (or baking time in your brownie mix box)  
Serving 16-30


Sharing a Batch of Oreo Cookie Dough Brownies at these Fabulous Parties:
The Princess and her Cowboys, I Gotta Try That, Between Naps on the Porch, Who Needs a Cape, Creative Blog, Love Grows Wild, Mandy's Recipe Box, Nap-Time Creations, Home Stories A to Z, Pint Sized Baker, Adventures of a DIY Mom, Sugar Bee Crafts, Our Home Away from Home, The Blackberry Vine, Feeding Big, Chef in Training, Love Bakes Good Cakes, Homemade Ginger, Smart School House, Made to be a Momma, Ducks'n a Row, Daisy Cottage Designs, All She Cooks, The Lady Behind the Curtain, The Shady Porch, My Girlish Whims, Handy Man, Crafty Woman, Fluster Buster, The Shabby Creek Cottage, 52 Mantels, What's Cooking Love?, A Handful of Everything, Chocolate, Chocolate and More, Lamberts Lately, Live,Laugh,Rowe, Designed Decor, The Mandatory Mooch, Real Coake,com, Posed Perfection, The Crafty Blogstalker, Consider Me Inspired, Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons, Sparkles and a Stove, MommiFried, Somewhat Simple, My Turn (for Us), Home Maid Simple, Rattlebridge Farm, Blissful and Domestic, Do Small Things with Love, French Country Cottage, Artsy Fartsy Mama, Living Well Spending Less, The Brambleberry Cottage, 504 Main, The Pin Junkie, The Pin Junkie, My Romantic Home, This and That, The Best Blog Recipes, Love and Laundry, Chic on a Shoestring, The Shabby Nest, The Answer is Chocolate, Tidy Mom, One Tough Mother, A Simple Five, Craftionary, Liz Marie, Simply Designing, Becoming Martha, Simply Sweet Home, Living Better Together, The jenny Evolution, My Personal Accent, Krafty Card Set, 4 Little Fergusons, Tatertots and Jello, Cooking with Curls, Happy and Blessed Home, Five Days 5 Ways, Just Us Four, Whipperberry, Lydia's Flexitarian Kitchen, The Wondering Brain, Lovely Crafty Home, Dear Creatives, Dessert Now, Dinner Later, Angel Homestead, Serenity You, Cheerios and Lattes, Too Much Time, Classy Clutter, Flamingo Toes, Life on Lakeshore Drive, Suburbs Mama, The Foley Fam, Twigg Studios, Spatulas on Parade, VMG206, Nifty Thrifty Things, Rain on a Tin Roof, Huckleberry Love, Cupcake-n-Bake, The Plaid and Paisley Kitchen, A Southern Fairytale, Mad in Crafts, Making the World Cutter, Say Not Sweet Anne, Ms.enPlace, BoggieBoard Cottage, Kitchen Meets Girl, Le Chateau des Fleurs, Six Sister's Stuff, The Stylist Quo


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7/2/13

S'mores Pizza Recipe

S'mores Dessert Pizza, a Cinnamon Crust covered in Chocolate and Marshmallows done in 3 minutes!
Hola Amigos, as you can see, I just couldn't stop with the Apple Pie Pizza, but had to do a S'mores one too! So without further ado, here are the easy steps...(there is really not a recipe here)

S'mores Pizza

1 Cinnamon Crust with Icing
1( 3.5oz)  Chocolate Candy Bar of your preference
Mini Marshmallows
Crushed Candy'n Cookies or your favorite
All my ingredients are  from the Dollar Store


Heat up your oven at 450F. Remove the cinnamon pizza from the wrap. 
Cut the chocolate candy bar and spread the squares and pieces on top of the pizza. Put in the oven for 3 minutes. Remove and with a plastic spatula spread the melted chocolate over the Pizza. Top it with marshmallows and crushed candy cookies.

Bake for another 3 minutes.
This cinnamon pizza comes with a little container of sugar glaze, so I put it in the microwave for a few seconds for it to melt and then drizzled it over my baked and ready to eat pizza.

Listo!

Ohhh no need for a grill here! This is just a sweet and good as the original stuff!

Watch it when you take the first bite...Hot, Sticky Sweet and Oozing Hot Chocolate!


This was just a quick idea for you to do with and for your kids my friends, in days when it might be too hot to go outside or no desire to grill at all! In 7 minutes you have a perfectly good S'more!

Thank You for visiting today, remember that everything tastes better with Chocolate and a Pinch of Love!
Besitos,
Lizy

Bringing some sweetness to these Fabulous Parties:
Golden Reflections
Bowdabra
Sweet 2 Eat Baking
Spatulas on Parade
A Little Claireification
VMG206
Rattlebrige Farm
Simply Designing
Living Better Together
My Turn (for Us)
Love and Laundry
Handy Man, Crafty Woman
Ducks'n a Row
Adorned from Above
Dragonfly Designs
Clean and Scentsible
The Plaid and Paisley Kitchen
Cozy Little House
Memories by the Mile
Hun...what's for dinner
Pint Sized Baker
I Gotta Try That
Our Home Away from Home
Love Bakes Good Cakes
Opulent Cottage
Fluster Buster
Mom's Test Kitchen
Family Home and Life
This Silly Girl's Life
Real Coake.com
Sparkles and a Stove
French Country Cottage
My Romantic Home
Do Small Things with Love
Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons
Dear Creatives
Diana Rambles
The Mandatory Mooch
Kreative Creationz
Let's this Mind be in You
The Home Girl
Just Us Four
Desert Now, Dinner Later
The Wondering Brain
Sew Licious Home Decor
Debbiedoo's
Classy Clutter
Serenity You
Life on Lakeshore Drive
Nap time Creations
Love Grows Wild
Feeding Big
Chef in Training
The Princess and Her Cowboys
Home Maid Simple
The Answer is Chocolate
It's Overflowing
Be Different, Act Normal
Chocolate Chocolate and More
I Should be Mopping the Floors
Designed Decor
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Something Swanky
This and That

4/12/13

Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie

My Very First Cookie
Well it was time I guess...for me to bake my first cookie...and boy, did a bake a Big One! I didn't want to risk it by baking individual ones, or fancy shaped glazed ones, pretty but way high level for this beginner, so I played it safe, went to dear ol' auntie Martha Stewart and tried her recipe, I mean...coming from Martha is gotta work right?...and It did! With of course a little tweak here and there, so this is what worked for me, not quite Martha's but it worked.
Here is the recipe for this giant Cookie!

Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie


Your favorite Seasoned Skillet...mine weighs a ton! I need to pick it up with both hands!

2 Cups Flour
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
3/4 Cup packed Brown Sugar
1/2 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Unsalted Butter, softened
1 Large Egg
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
1 1/2 Cup of Mixed Chocolate Chips, I had white, semi-sweet, sweet and a few M&M's

 Heat your oven at 350 degrees. In a bowl mix dry ingredients. Set aside.
Cream the butter and sugars for about 2 minutes. Add egg and vanilla. Mix until they fully mixed.
Add flour mixture and mix until everything is combined. Add chocolate chips.

Bake for 40-45 minutes until edges are brown and cookie golden.
I baked mine for 35 minutes because I like my cookies on the soft side.




How do you like your cookies...
With Ice Cream?

With Milk?

Or you just dig in and enjoy?
It was a hit, and I have pictures to show, but out of fear for the privacy of my little one I would just tell you it was little fingers licking good!

No matter how you choose to enjoy your cookie when you make it remember to add a Pinch of Love!
Thank You for coming today to see and "virtually" taste my first baked cookie ever! Yeah!


Besitos,
Lizy