Spiked Monster Halloween Cocktail Recipe

Hola Amigos! This one is for mom and dad only. Once in a blue moon (no pun intended) I like to enjoy a cocktail while watching tv or just checking out other blogs. I like mine sweet, what a surprise, right? ..so this one fits the bill!

My little monster friend here is basically a White Russian with ice cream instead of cream. You could totally make the original version and then just call it a" ghost" if you wanted to, I just couldn't pass the opportunity of using this amazing Blue Moon ice cream I found at the store the other day and since is Halloween, why not!
Also at the store I found a new Cool Whip Topping Frosting! I really like it! it is thick, holds well just like frosting and you  just keep it in your refrigerator. I think is perfect for these kind of drinks.

It's sweeter than the traditional but don't be fooled by the sweetness, it's still spiked so be careful, lol!

"Too Friendly" Ghost

Spiked Monster

I think these guys  have a mild case of  hangover, look at those eyes, lol!!

It is Friday tomorrow so go ahead and  get what you need to make this delicious cocktail and enjoy! Have a happy pre-weekend and remember my friends everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

Spiked Monster Halloween Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

1 oz Vodka 

1 oz Kahlua
1 oz French Vanilla Coffee Creamer (to clean any residue of the dark Kahlua)

1/2 Cup Blue Moon Ice Cream (for the original or Ghost use vanilla bean ice cream or plain cream)

Whip Cream Frosting , Oreo Cookie and  Edible sugar eyes for decor

Directions:

Put everything on a blender (if using ice cream) and blend everything together until smooth. Top with whip cream frosting and sugar eyes. 
If using just plain cream put all in a shaker and shake your little heart out until everything is mixed. 

Prep time 3 minutes               Serves 1 (3/4 Cup)Cocktail

Bringing my "little guys" over to these Fa-BOO-lous Parties:

Creative Geekery, Made in a Day, Saving for Six, My Turn (for Us), The Girl Creative, Craftionary, The Best Blog Recipes, Love and Laundry, Home Maid Simple, Tidy Mom, My Romantic Home, Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons, 504 Main, A Simple Five, The Dedicated House, Practically Functional, Diana Rambles, Living Better Together, Shaken Together, Just Us Four, The Answer is Chocolate, Becoming Martha, 4 Little Fergusons, Not Your Ordinary Recipes, Today's Creative Blog, Cheerios and Lattes, Six Sisters's Stuff, Made from Pinterest, Call Me PMc, Frugal Foodie Mama, WOM, Under the Table and Dreaming, Carrie This Home, Between Naps on the Porch, The Velvet Moon Baker, Huckleberry Love, A Pinch of Joy, PandP Kitchen, A Southern Fairytale, The Gunny Sack, Coastal Charm, Home Stories from A to Z, Twigg Studios, Chef in Training, Hun...what's for Dinner?, Who Needs a Cape, Our Table for Seven, Sugar Bee Crafts, Pint Sized Baker, Memories by the Mile, Love Bakes Good Cakes, Cozy Little House, Lady Behind the Curtain, Ginger Snap Crafts, Smart School House, Mom's Test Kitchen, My Girslish Whims, SNAP, Kitchen Meets Girl, The Mandatory Mooch, Sweet Haute, White Lights on Wednesday, Polkadots on Parade, Housewives of Riverton, Delish, Sara Howe, Cassidy's Cooking Collection, Sewlicious Home Decor, Classy Clutter, Suburbs Mama, Life on Lakeshore Dirve, The Tablescaper, Navy Wifey Peters, Nifty Thrifty Things, My Mixing Spoon, VMG206, Craft-O-Maniac, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, The Chicken Chick, I Should be Mopping the Floors, Carrie This Home, Ms enPlace, DIY Home Sweet Home, Mad in Crafts, Jam Hands, Live Laugh Rowe, The Crafty Blogstalker, Lamberts Lately, My Personal Accent, Foodie Friends Friday, Will Cook for Smiles, Sew-Licious, Serenity You, The Stylist Quo, Kathe with an E

Graveyard Mud Halloween Brownie Milkshake Recipe

Hola Amigos! I woke up this morning with that "I need chocolate to start my day" feeling and I just knew how to get the job done! A milkshake...is milk after all right?
Recently I brought home a box of cosmic brownies. I just loved the way those little sprinkles looked against the fudgy icing. I'm not a big fan of store bought brownies or brownies in a box, but I couldn't resist, what can I say? lol

I've never put actual brownies on a chocolate milkshake before, but I didn't stop there,  I used my seasonal Butter Pecan Ice Cream..oh yeah! this is the season this ice cream pops in every store freezer!

The mom in me started to feel guilty for preaching one thing and practicing another (no ice cream for breakfast),  I gave in an added some cereal, just to top it off.

Voila! Breakfast was served. And believe me, after having this I was bouncing off the walls, lol
I love it! It's thick, rich and delicious, but of course if you have to much of the good thing...eventually you will join "Bones" here...so everything with moderation!

I hope you are enjoying all the Halloween recipes so far. As I mentioned a while back, I like to do all my Halloween decorations in the month of September, and now that I'm blogging. well why not tie my blog to what I'm doing doing here in my house. Everything you see here is exactly what we are eating or is displayed in my house at this very moment.

If you don't celebrate Halloween, I hope you don't get discouraged or offended  by my posts, I will be sharing Fall related recipes on October plus celebrating the blog's 1st anniversary, which happens to be on October 31st!

Thank You for stopping by the blog today! Have a Fantastic week my friends! Remember everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

Graveyard Mud Halloween Milkshake
Ingredients:
1 Cup Milk (Chocolate Milk will make it even sweeter)
2-3 Frozen Cosmic Brownie Bars
1 Cup Butter Pecan Ice Cream
Pinch of Salt
1/2 Cup Cocoa Puff for topping
Whip Cream for topping (optional)
Skeleton Candy (optional)
Directions:
Put milk, brownies, ice cream and a pinch of salt in a blender. Pulse a few times since you want to keep some chunks of brownies.
Serve on a tall glass, squirt some whip cream, top it with Cocoa Puff and some powder cocoa (mainly to give it the dusty effect). Place some skeleton candy pieces on top of the "dirt". Grab a spoon and Enjoy!

Prep Time: 5 Minutes                                                                                  Serves 2 (8 oz glasses)

Sharing "Bones" and his Mrs at these Fa-BOO-lous Parties

Twelve' O Eight, My Mixing Spoon, Bowdabra, Cupcake-n-Bake, Jembellish, Keep It Simple, Alderberry Hill, Under the Table and Dreaming, Ms. enPlace, Between Naps on the Porch, Rain on a Tin Roof, The PandP Kitchen, The Tumbleweed Contessa, Claire Justine oxox, Cozy Little House, Made in a Day, The Blackberry Vine, Mad Skills, Love Grows Wild, Home Stories A to Z, Hun...What's for Dinner, Table for 7, LadyBug Blessings, I Gotta Create, Chef In Training, Mandy's Recipe Box, Nap-Time Creations, A Southern Faiy Tale, Huckleberry Love, Jam Hands, Not Just a Housewife, This and That, Ducks 'n a Row, Lady Behind the Curtain, Made to be a Momma, Ginger Snap Crafts, Mom's Test Kitchen, The Shady Porch, My Girlish Whims, Crystal and Co, The Well Crafted Home, The Everyday Home, Kitchen Meets Girl, Thank You Honey, The Trendy Treehouse, Dream a Little Bigger, White Lights on Wednesday, Smart, School House, Polkadots on Parade, Real Housewives of Riverton, SNAP, 733 Blog, This Silly Girl's Life, Someday Crafts, We Like to Learn as We Go, Handy Man, Crafty Woman, Memories by the Mile, The 36th Avenue, 52 Mantels, Sweet Haute, A Handful of Everything, Katherine's Corner, The Mandatory Mooch, What's Cooking, Love?, Lamberts Lately, The Crafty Blog Stalker, Live Laugh Rowe, Gingerly Made, The Brambleberry Cottage, Recipes for my boys, Kitchen Fun with my 3 Sons, The Best Blog Recipes, Craftionary, The Answer is Chocolate, My Turn (for Us), Simply Sweet Home, Living Better Together, The Pin Junkie, Tidy Mom, Just us Four, Home Maid Simple, Home Maid Simple, Dear Creatives, Diana Rambles, Tatertots and Jello, Angels Homestead,  a Little Claireification, Sewlicious Home, The Thriftiness Miss, Craft Dictator, Sara Howe, Cheerios and Lattes, Six Sisters Stuff, Be Different Act Normal, It's Overflowing, Twigg Studios, WCFS, Your Homebased Mom, Dessert Now, Dinner Later, Pink When, Who Needs a Cape, Nifty Thrifty Things, Flamingo Toes, Spatulas on Parade, I Should Be Mopping the Floors, The Casual Craftlete, Cooking for the Seven Dwarfs, This Gal Cooks, Titi Crafty, Suburbs Mama, A Pinch of Joy, Townsend House, The Inspiration Network, My Love 2 Create, Made from Pinterest

Rum and Coke Mocktail Milkshake Recipe

Hola Amigos! Where did Summer go? We're about to have the last unofficial BBQ and summer party of the season and I'm saying goodbye with a great mocktail, Rum and Coke turned into a shake, no alcohol here, BUT if you wanted to say bye with a Bang..why not, it's your party, you can do what you want to, or so the song goes, lol.

It's refreshing and rich, better than the actual highball since could have as many as you want without a hangover the next day...well, maybe a few extra minutes at the gym but that's always a good thing.

I was checking Wiki for the origins of Rum and Coke aka Cuba Libre and I found a whole variety of cocktails derived from this popular one, Cuban Missile Crisis, Midas, "Hot" Cuba Libre and my favorite name so far, Witch Doctor, sounds perfect for Halloween don't you think.

What are your plans for this last week (kind of) of summer? Some good fun family get together, last minute picnic? a labor day parade? whatever it is, I hope you think of including this delicious drink in your menu! It is good and even better when you add a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

Rum and Coke Mocktail  Milkshake
Ingredients:
6 oz Coke
1 TBSP Lime Juice
1 Pint Vanilla Bean or Good Quality Vanilla Ice Cream
1/4 Cup Heavy Whipping Cream
2 tsps Imitation Rum Extract (or the real thing if you choose to)
Directions:
Put all the ingredients on a blender and mix until smooth. Serve and Enjoy

Prep Time: 5 minutes          Serves 2 (6 oz glasses)

Sharing one last drink at these Fabulous Parties:

Love Bakes Good Cakes, The Everyday Home, All She Cooks, Thank You Honey, Smart School House, Ginger Snap Crafts, Lady Behind the Curtain, Made to be a Momma, My Girlish Whims, The Shady Porch, Creations by Kara, Kitchen Meets Girl, Homemade Ginger, Memories by the Mile, Funky Polkadot Giraffe, Not Just a Housewife, Powerful Mothering, Hope Studios, Fluster Buster, Twin Dragonfly Designs, The Trendy Tree House, White Lights on Wednesday, Food Done Light, Sweet Haute, A Handful of Everything, Katherine's Corner, What's Cooking Love?, The Crafty Blog Stalker, Saving 4 Six, Ducks n' a Row, Handy Man, Crafty Woman, Pink Recipe Box, Real Coake, SNAP, The Real Housewives of Riverton, Creative Geekery, The Brambleberry Cottage, Lamberts Lately, House of Hepworths, Live Laugh Rowe, We Learn as we Go, Jennifer Rizzo, Create Craft Love, Glitz and Gold, The Best Blog Recipes, My Turn (for Us), My Personal Accent, Home Maid Simple, One Tough Mother, Tidy Mom, A Simple Five, 504 Main, Kitchen fun with my 3 Sons, My Romantic Home, Liz Marie Blog, Simply Designing, Simply Sweet Home, The Answer is Chocolate, Living Better Together, The Jenny Evolution, The Pin Junkie, In the Kitchen with Jenny, Not Your Ordinary Recipes, A Peek into my Paradise, Chic on a Shoestring, Sunny Simple Life, Diana Rambles, Tatertots and Jello, The Wondering Brain, Nap Time Crafters, 30 Handmade Days, Just Us 4, Five Days 5 Ways, Six Sisters Stuff, It's Overflowing, A Little Claireification, B Different Act Normal, What's cooking with Ruthie, Serenity You, Funkie Junk Interiors, Angels Homestead, Sewlicious Home Decor, Spatulas on Parade, Life on Lakeshore Drive, Twigg Studios, Flamingo Toes, Suburbs Mama, EMM, Twelve O Eight, Under the Table and Dreaming, VMG 206, My Mixing Spoons, Titi Crafty, The Chicken Chick, Pursuit of Functional Home, Lines Across, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Say Not Sweet Anne, Flour Me With Love, DIY Home Sweet Home, Alderberry Hill, Boogieboard Cottage, Sew Can Do, This Gal Cooks, Jembellish, A Pinch of Joy

Other Soda Drinks You Might Enjoy

Cherry Cola Smoothie

Cookies and Cream Cannoli Cones Recipe

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!

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!

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

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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Bananas Foster Milkshake Recipe

Hola Amigos! You all know how much I am in love with chocolate, but I think I've just found the second best thing in life (well at least for this week). Bananas Foster!!! Oh goodness...that is the most decadent dessert not involved with chocolate in the planet...just think about it...buttery, fruity sweet, cinnamony spiced and spiked??? Oh Mama!!! lol...Well you know me...it had to be taken to the next level on  a milkshake!

This was fun to make but even tastier to drink! It has all the components of the bananas foster you love! Even the flaming part believe it or not! Banana Rum, Brown Sugar, Tumeric among other goodies!

I love mine topped with a few banana chips and sprinkle some extra sugar on top, and let's not forget cinnamon sugar in the rim of your cup just to give it that extra sparkle!

Too good to have just one I tell you guys, but we better because it's rich, like your triple thick 'restaurant" milkshake, only way better! 

Thank You so much for your visit today, before I forget you can make this kid friendly by skipping the ingredient that makes the bananas "flame"! It will still be delicious! Remember everything tastes better with your imagination and a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

Bananas Foster Milkshake

Ingredients

2 Ripe Bananas

4 Tablespoons of Butter

1/4 Cup Brown Sugar

1 shot Banana Rum or any Rum you have

1 TBSP Lemon Juice

Pinch of Cinnamon

Pinch of Tumeric

1/2 Milk

1 Pint Vanilla Ice Cream

1 tsps Vanilla Butter

Cinnamon Sugar for garnish

Banana Chips for garnish

Directions
In a large skillet melt butter and sugar in low-medium heat to avoid burning, stir.

Add the bananas ( I prefer to add them  cut). Cook them for about 4 minutes. 

Very carefully add the rum and with a long match or lighter flambe your banana mix. ***Very important, make sure the vents of the stove are off while you do this, since the flames might shoot. 

Let the flame die down.

Add lemon juice, cinnamon and tumeric, cook for another 2-4 minutes.

Let it cool at room temperature and add to your blender with the milk and ice cream. Blend until smooth and enjoy!

Prep Time: 8 minutes     Cook Time: 8 Minutes     Serves 4 (4oz) Glasses

Sharing some Fiery Spiked Bananas at these Fabulous Parties:

The Lady Behind the Curtain, Daisy Cottage Designs, All She Cooks, The Shady Porch, My Girlish Whims, 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, 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 Less Spending Less, The Brambleberry Cottage, 504 Main, The Pin Junkie, Jennifer Rizzo, 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, 4 Little Fergusons, Tatertots and Jello, Cooking with Curls, Happy and Blessed Home, Five Days 5 Ways, Just Us Four, Whipperberry, The Wondering Brain, Lovely Crafty Home, Dear Creatives, Dessert Now, Dinner Later, Angel Homestead, Classy Clutter, Too Much Time, Cheerios and Lattes, Serenity You, Flamingo Toes, Life on Lakeshore Drive, The Foley Fam, Spatulas on Parade, VMG206, Nifty Thrifty Things, Rain on a Tin Roof, Huckleberry Love, Still Being Molly, Cupcake-n-Bake, The Princess and her Cowboys, The Plaid and Paisley Kitchen, A Southern Fairy Tale, Mad in Crafts, Making the World Cutter, The Chicken Chick, Say Not Sweet Anne, Ms.enPlace, BoggieBoard Cottage, I Gotta Try That, Who Need a Cape, The Blackberry Vine, Ladybug Blessings, Our Home Away from Home, Pint Sized Baker, Kathe with an E, Mandy's Recipe Box, Chef in Training, Love Grows Wild, Home Stories A to Z, Nap-Time Creations, Sugar Bee Crafts, Adventures of a DIY Mom, Feeding Big, Homemade Ginger, Memories by the Mile, Not Just a Housewife, A Peek Into my Paradise, Six Sister's Stuff

Other Banana Milkshakes you might like:

Choco Banana Shake