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Pillsbury Bake-Off’s Peanut Butter Layer Brownies Recipe #BakeOff

April 23, 2014 by Stefani Tolson 12 Comments

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I love to bake sweets and was excited to receive a box full of goodies to make one of the recipes in the Pillsbury Bake-Off 100 Winning Recipes book that was in the box. I chose to make the Peanut Butter Layer Brownies but there are 99 more recipes in this book that look amazing.

For those that know how to bake, you are going to want to enter Pillsbury’s 47th Annual Bake-Off Contest! The grand prize is 1 MILLION DOLLARS! Can you imagine your recipe that you enjoy making earning you a prize that could change your life forever? If you have a recipe you know the crowds will love, be sure to enter before it is to late. Entries for the Weekend Breakfast Wows and Amazing Doable Dinners categories are due May 8, 2014 by 11:59a.m. Central Time. Here is a list of the prizes:

1 Grand Prize: $1,00,000 and $10,000 in GE Appliances
3 Recipe Category Prizes: $10,000 and $3,000 in GE Appliances
Special Awards (valued at $5,000 each), including the GE Imagination at Work Award, Jif® Peanut Butter Award, Crisco is Cooking TM Award, Eagle Brand® Signature Recipe Award, Pillsbury® Gluten Free Award, Pillsbury® Clever Twist Award, WatkinsTM Vanilla Award and Reynolds® Baking Magic Award
100 Finalists Prizes, including a trip to the Contest Finals in Nashville

Now back to the brownies. I have a copy of the Pillsbury Bake-off 100 Winning recipes and chose to make the Peanut Butter Layer Brownies. It was so hard to choose one recipe so I actually bought ingredients to make a few of them.

These brownies came out delicious. I even brought some of them over to my grandparents for sweet surprise! Ready for the recipe?

Here is the original recipe from the Pillsbury Bake-Off 100 Winning Recipes book:

Pillsbury Bake-Off’s Peanut Butter Layer Brownies Recipe #BakeOff

Recipe Type: Dessert

Author: Pillsbury Bake-Off 100 Winning Recipes

Ingredients

12 tablespoons Crisco Baking Sticks All-Vegetable
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 eggs
2 cups Pillsbury Best All Purpose Bleached Flour
2 cups instant hot cocoa mix
1 can (14oz) Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk
1 cup Jif Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 13×9-inch pan with Crisco Original No-Stick Cooking Spray.
In large bowl, beat shortening and sugar with electric mixer on medium speed until well mixed. Add eggs; beat until smooth. Add flour and cocoa mix; Beat, scraping bowl occasionally, until blended. Spread half of batter in pan.
In large microwaveable bowl, mix sweetened condensed milk and peanut butter. Microwave on High 1 minute, stirring once or until softened. Carefully spread peanut butter mixture over brownie layer. Spoon and carefully spread remaining half of brownie batter over peanut butter layer.
Bake 35 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted 1 inch from edge comes out almost clean. Cool completely, about 2 hours. Store covered.

The recipe does call for extra crunchy peanut butter but I used the creamy kind. I also accidentally grabbed hot cocoa with marshmallows but it worked out just perfect!

Now to get in the kitchen to come up with that 1 million dollar recipe!

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Pretty Peeps Chicks In A Nest

April 18, 2014 by Stefani Tolson 3 Comments

I have a bunch of Peeps on hand so I thought I would get creative this week and surprise the kids. While they were visiting their great grandparents for the day, mom was at home making them some pretty Peeps Chics in nests made out of rice crispie treats along with some Whopper Robin Eggs.

These are pretty easy to make. First you are going to make some Rice Krispie Treats. You can find the directions on the back of the marshmallow packages. Basically if you never made them, you just need the cereal, marshmallows and a little butter. I made half a batch since I only wanted to create 8 of them. Once you got your Rice Krispie Treat mixture made, put equal amounts into a muffin tin.

Once in the muffin tins you will want to let the mixture sit for about 5 minutes. Once cooled, remove from tin and use fingers to create a nest.

Next use some green frosting and make some grass in the nest. I only used a little bit of frosting because once I add the Peeps, they are going to have enough sugar.

Next is the fun part. Add the eggs and add your Peeps Chick.

I like that there are so many colorful peeps that you can make an pretty tray of these pretty Peeps Chicks in their nests.

Check out my other Peeps related posts:

For more fun Peeps ideas, visit: www.marshmallowpeeps.com

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Easy Angel Food Cupcake Recipe

April 14, 2014 by Stefani Tolson 5 Comments

For those looking to put a little twist on the angel food cake, here is a yummy angel food cupcake recipe that is sure to be a hit with the kids or perfect for that lunch date at the park.

Ingredients:

1 box angel food cake mix
Strawberry Lemonade Sparkling ICE

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Line muffin pan with paper liners.
Replace water with Sparkling ICE, continue to follow recipe on box as listed.
Beat the cake mix and Sparkling ICE on low speed for 30 seconds.
Raise the speed to medium and beat for an additional minute. The batter will be pale pink and foamy.
Add batter to the liners and fill approximately ¾ full.
Bake according to directions on the box, approximately 15-20 minutes, or until tops of muffins are golden brown.

You can serve these cupcakes with fresh strawberries and even whip cream!

What would you add to this angel food cupcake recipe?

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Nutty Ranch Chicken Strips

February 24, 2014 by Stefani Tolson 44 Comments

One of my favorite appetizers when I go out to eat is chicken strips. I also like to make them at home for the family. There are so many different and creative ways you can make chicken strips.

Below is a yummy recipe for some nutty chicken strips that are healthy and gluten free!

Nutty Ranch Chicken Strips

Ingredients

1 (4.25-oz.) box Blue Diamond Almond Nut Thins
1/4 cup Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds, finely chopped
1 (1-oz.) packet dry Ranch Dressing Mix
1/3 cup light ranch dressing
1 tablespoon melted butter
1 1/4 lbs. chicken tenders or 1 1/2-inch cubes boneless, skinless chicken breast
Olive oil cooking spray

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400°F and spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
Place Blue Diamond Nut Thins in a gallon-size bag and fold over the top. Crush with a rolling pin until chips are in tiny pieces.
Add Blue Diamond Almonds and dry ranch dressing mix to bag and shake well to mix.
Stir together ranch dressing and butter in another medium bowl. Dip each chicken tender in ranch dressing and shake off excess.
Roll in chip mixture, pressing into the surface to coat well; place on prepared baking sheet.
Coat with nonstick cooking spray and bake for 10 minutes. Coat with cooking spray again and cook for 10 minutes more.
Quick tip: Any of the coating mixture that falls off the chicken after cooking is great sprinkled over a tossed green salad or mashed potatoes.

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Sweet Valentine’s Day Edible Bouquet

February 7, 2014 by Stefani Tolson 20 Comments

I was provided with the supplies to make this bouquet. This is NOT a paid post and all opinions are 100% my own!

One thing that can make a table pretty is a bouquet of flowers. I love flowers but I hate when I have to throw them out. This month I am liking the bouquets that are pretty and sweet enough to EAT!

Last weekend for the SuperBowl we went over to a friends. I thought I would be the cool one and bring an edible bouquet. I knew at least the kids would be excited.

Let’s just say this edible bouquet made with Entermann’s donuts was a hit. The arrangement was GONE before the Halftime show. Not only are these good to eat, they are also pretty easy to make! I saved time with my bouquet and used the Entermann’s Pop’ems and the Softee donuts instead of making my own cake.

Here is the other supplies that I used. A vase, candy melting wafers, lollipop sticks, Valentine’s Day candy and some white icing.

You basically stick stick the lollipop sticks in the donuts, put them in the freezer for 15 minutes and dip them in melted candy. You can use sprinkles to make them pretty or even icing to decorate them like flowers.

I didn’t realize until I started writing this post that I did not take no pictures of me dipping the donuts in the melted candy. I guess I didn’t want to get my camera messy.

For those that have a good imagination, you could get really creative with these. I know mine don’t look that impressive but they tasted delicious. How does the bouquet look with Mr. Rich Frosted and Ms. Crumb?

For those that one to make one of these fun bouquets, here is the instructions:

I am hosting a giveaway so that one of readers can try to make one of these yummy bouquets too! See below for more information on the prize and how to enter. …

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