Seven Deadly Sins Bars

There a so many things I could have called this recipe. The Lazy Recipe, for the most part, no measuring (yay!), The Breakup Dessert (guaranteed to make you feel better after a breakup) or Satisfy All Your Cravings Bars. These bars are quick and easy to make and are delicious. The perfect salty and sweet combination.

Layers 1 and 2

Ingredients:

3 1/2 cups of pretzel sticks

1 stick butter, melted

2 Tablespoons sugar

1 bag semisweet chocolate chips

1 bag toffee bits

1 bag peanut butter chips

1 cup roasted peanuts, chopped

lightly crushed potato chips

1 bag white chocolate chips

1 14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk

Later 3

Line a 9 x 13 pan with foil. I used nonstick foil but you can also use regular foil, just spray it with nonstick cooking spray. Let the foil hang out over the edge so it can be lifted from the pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a food processor or blender, crush the pretzels in to crumbs. Add sugar and melted butter. Press pretzel crumbs on top of foil to form the bottom crust.

Sprinkle chocolate chips on top of pretzel crust. I used about half a bag.

Next, sprinkle toffee bits on top of of chocolate chips. I used about half of a bag.

Layer 4 and 5

I sprinkled a half bag of white chocolate chips on top of the toffee bits and then I sprinkled peanuts on top of the white chocolate chips.

Layer 6

Layer 7

I covered the peanuts with a half bag of peanut butter chips and the last layer was crushed potato chips. The glue that binds everything together is the sweetened condensed milk. Drizzle the sweetened condensed milk over the chips. Bake for 25 minutes. Let cool in pan 10 minutes. Lift out of pan and cut into squares. Enjoy!

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Burger Month 2019

May 1st is the start of my favorite month – It’s  #NationalBurgerMonth – which means the annual burger party STARTS TODAY! There are 100 new burger recipes coming and 30 more Keto inspired ones on Instagram! — > be sure to follow along with #burgermonth or hop over to the site and subscribe so that you get every one right to your inbox.

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Cabot Cheese:
Cabot Gift box: Cabot Creamery Centennial prize contains assorted Cabot cheeses, a wooden cutting board, and cheese knife

Char-Griller Grills: 

Super Pro Prize Packs including: A Char-Griller Super Pro Charcoal Grill and Cover, a Charcoal Chimney, and a 12 oz bottle of Char-Griller Original Rub

Crow Canyon Home: 
2 x Pasta Plates in Red Marble, 2 x 10oz Short Tumblers in white with Red Rim, 2 x Small 6” Spoons in Red Marble

Melissa’s Produce:
Grilling Veggie Box 

Porter Road:
Burger kit for the 4 prizes including our dry aged ground beef, our beef vs bacon, ground lamb, and ground pork

Red Duck :
Quite Traditional Sauce set: One each of Red Duck Original Ketchup, Smoked Applewood Molasses BBQ Sauce and Approachably Mild Taco Sauce

Spiceology: 
Ultimate Rub Collection – 12 Mini Rub Jars

Western BBQ :
Week 1: Western Premium BBQ Products hat and Western Premium BBQ Products BBQ Smoking Chips Variety Pack.
Week 2: Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Barrel Smoking Chips, Jack Daniel’s Beef Rub, Jack Daniel’s Pork Rub, Jack Daniel’s Steak Seasoning, Jack Daniel’ Chicken Rub and a Jack Daniel’s apron
Week 3: Cowboy Range Style BBQ Sauce, Cowboy Smokehouse BBQ Sauce, Cowboy Prairie Fire BBQ Sauce, Cowboy Apple Wood Chips and Cowboy Mesquite Wood Chips
Week 4: Western Premium BBQ Products hat and Western Premium BBQ Products BBQ Smoking Chips Variety Pack

The following bloggers are participating in Burger Month.  Please make sure you check their pages for burger recipes.  I will be sharing as many burgers as possible on my page.

🍔 Girl Carnivore 🍔 A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures 🍔 A Simple Pantry 🍔 Abra’s Kitchen 🍔 AcadiaTwo’s Kitchen Antics 🍔 An Affair from the Heart 🍔 Bakersbeans 🍔 Betsi’s World 🍔Caroline’s Cooking 🍔 Cindy’s Recipes and Writings 🍔 City Living Boston 🍔 Cluttercafe 🍔 Cooking With Carlee 🍔 Convos with Karen 🍔Daily Dish Recipes 🍔 Dance Around The Kitchen 🍔 Dixie Chik Cooks 🍔 Dizzy Busy and Hungry 🍔 Doodlecraft 🍔 Everyday Eileen 🍔 Family Around the Table 🍔 Family Food on the Table 🍔 Family Spice 🍔Farmwife Feeds 🍔Food Above Gold 🍔 For the Love of Food 🍔 Grillax.com 🍔 Grilling Montana 🍔 Grumpy’s Honeybunch 🍔 Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks 🍔 Honeybunch Hunts 🍔 HORNS BBQ 🍔 Intelligent Domestications 🍔 It Is a Keeper 🍔 Jolene’s Recipe Journal 🍔 Jonesin For Taste 🍔 Juggling Act Mama 🍔 Karen’s Kitchen Stories 🍔 Kate’s Recipe Box 🍔 Krazy Kitchen Mom 🍔 Life Anchored 🍔 Life of a Ginger 🍔 Mildly Meandering 🍔 Miss in the KItchen 🍔 Palatable Pastime 🍔 Pastry Chef Online 🍔 Perspective Portions 🍔 Plowing Through Life 🍔 PNW Eats 🍔 Pook’s Pantry 🍔 Real Life With Dad 🍔 Sarah’s Cucina Bella 🍔 Seduction In The Kitchen 🍔 Simple and Savory 🍔 Souffle Bombay 🍔 Spiced 🍔 Spoonabilities 🍔 Strawberry Blondie Kitchen 🍔 SueBee Homemaker 🍔 Sumptuous Spoonfuls 🍔 Sweet ReciPeas 🍔 Swirls of Flavor 🍔 Take Two Tapas 🍔 Tampa Cake Girl 🍔 Taste And See 🍔 The Baking Fairy 🍔 The Beard and The Baker 🍔 The Complete Savorist 🍔 The Crumby Kitchen 🍔 The Heritage Cookbook Project 🍔 The Keto Guy 🍔 The Redhead Baker 🍔 The Rowdy Baker 🍔 The Schmidty Wife 🍔 The Shirley Journey 🍔 The Spiffy Cookie 🍔 This Farm Girl Cooks 🍔 Thyme for Cocktails 🍔 We are not Martha 🍔 Well Fed Baker 🍔 West Via Midwest 🍔 Who Needs A Cape? 🍔 Wildflour’s Cottage Kitchen 🍔 Wok & Skillet 🍔

 

Choctoberfest 2018

Welcome to #Choctoberfest 2018 with Imperial Sugar!

I am so excited to share this with you! This is one of my favorite weeks of the year, because #Choctoberfest is finally here! From now until the end of the week, I am joining forces with over 100 other bloggers from around the world to post delicious chocolate recipes. Every day, #Choctoberfest bloggers will be celebrating all things chocolate – milk, dark, white, bittersweet, semi-sweet, and cocoa!

We are starting with a #Choctoberfest prize pack from our generous sponsors. Scroll down to learn how you can enter to win. One lucky winner will receive the following:

• A 100-Piece Cake Decorating Kit from our blog sponsors The PinterTest Kitchen. This set includes a cake turntable, piping bags, piping tips, flower nozzles, scapers, and more.
• An Instant Pot and a 40-Pound Case of Granulated Sugar from our gold sponsor Imperial Sugar. Imperial Sugar provides high-quality sugar and sweetener products and over 100 years of time-tested recipes. Sweet things happen when people come together in the kitchen, and that’s why Imperial Sugar has been at the heart of family traditions and celebrations for generations.
• Coconut Oil and Chocolate Silk Greens from our silver sponsor Barlean’s, your trusted source for chocolatey goodness superfood nutrition. Barlean’s has a commitment to staying ahead of the innovation curve in providing the absolute highest quality product.
  
• A Chocolate Gift Pack from our silver sponsor Forte Chocolates. You’ll receive 12 of their most popular chocolate bars. With Forte Chocolates, you can celebrate life through chocolate. They also have a line of chocolate developed specifically to use in savory recipes.
• A Chocolate Gift Pack from our silver sponsor Divine Chocolate. You’ll receive one of each of their baking bars, a white chocolate bar, and their top 5 everyday bars. Divine Chocolate is the only Fairtrade chocolate company in the world that is owned by cocoa farmers. Their baking bars are also a delicious vegan option.
• A Selection of Sprinkles from our silver sponsor Sprinkle Pop. Sprinkle Pop’s bespoke sprinkle creations are one of a kind, just like you! At Sprinkle Pop, you can also order a custom sprinkle mix; there isn’t a sprinkle mix that you can dream up that they can’t create.

That’s a prize pack worth over $400! Open worldwide, except where prohibited. Must be 18+ to enter (21+ in some locations). See terms and conditions for more details.

To enter, simply follow our sponsors using the widget below. You can gain additional entries by following me and the other participating bloggers. A winner will be drawn on October 21, 2018 and contacted via email. Good luck!

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Don’t forget to come back to my blog for more chocolatey goodness between now and October 20.

Check out our participating bloggers:

The PinterTest Kitchen ♥ 2 Cookin Mamas ♥ 27th and Olive ♥ A Day in the Life on the Farm ♥ A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures ♥ A Little Fish in the Kitchen ♥ addicted 2 recipes ♥ Amy’s Cooking Adventures ♥ An Affair from the Heart ♥ April GoLightly ♥ At the Table with R and R ♥ Baking Sense ♥ Blade & Barbell ♥ Blogghetti ♥ Body Rebooted ♥ Books n’ Cooks ♥ Bottom Left of the Mitten ♥ Canning and Cooking at Home ♥ Cheese Curd In Paradise ♥ Chef Sarah Elizabeth ♥ Cindy’s Recipes and Writings ♥ Coconut & Lime ♥ Cook With Renu ♥ Cook’s Hideout ♥ Cookaholic Wife ♥ Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt ♥ CopyKat.com ♥ Daily Dish Recipes ♥ Everyday Eileen ♥ Fairyburger ♥ Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice ♥ Family Around the Table ♥ Fix Me a Little Lunch ♥ Frankly Entertaining ♥ Frugal & Fit ♥ Get the Good Stuff! ♥ Growing Up Gabel ♥ Hardly A Goddess ♥ Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks ♥ Home Sweet Homestead ♥ House of Nash Eats ♥ Intelligent Domestications ♥ jenniferbakes ♥ JoAnn’s Food Bites ♥ Join Us, Pull up a Chair ♥ Jolene’s Recipe Journal ♥ Jonesin’ For Taste ♥ Karen’s Kitchen Stories ♥ Kate’s Recipe Box ♥ Kelly Lynn’s Sweets and Treats ♥ LeMoine Family Kitchen ♥ Life on Food ♥ Life, Love, and Good Food ♥ Lisa’s Dinnertime Dish ♥ Little House Big Alaska ♥ Long Distance Baking ♥ Maria’s Mixing Bowl ♥ Moore or Less Cooking ♥ Must Love Home ♥ Norine’s Nest ♥ Our Good Life ♥ Our Sutton Place ♥ OVENTales ♥ Palatable Pastime ♥ Prettysweetblog ♥ Red Cottage Chronicles ♥ Restless Chipotle ♥ Reviews, Chews & How-Tos ♥ Sarah Cooks the Books ♥ Sarah’s Bake Studio ♥ Savory Moments ♥ Seasonal and Holiday Recipe Exchange ♥ Seasoned Sprinkles ♥ Seduction In The Kitchen ♥ Simple Family Crazy Life ♥ Simply Inspired Meals ♥ Snacks and Sips ♥ Soulfully Made ♥ Stephie The Happy Mom ♥ Sumptuous Spoonfuls ♥ Sweet Coralice ♥ Take Two Tapas ♥ Tampa Cake Girl ♥ That Recipe ♥ The Baking Fairy ♥ The Beard and The Baker ♥ The Food Hunter’s Guide to Cuisine ♥ The Gingered Whisk ♥ The Heritage Cook ♥ The Mad Scientist’s Kitchen ♥ The Olive Blogger ♥ The Pajama Chef ♥ The Redhead Baker ♥ The Saucy Fig ♥ The Spiffy Cookie ♥ The Weekday Gourmet ♥ This is How I Cook ♥ Trampling Rose ♥ Turnips 2 Tangerines ♥ Walking Fruitfully ♥ Wendy Polisi ♥ Wildflour’s Cottage Kitchen ♥ Zesty South Indian Kitchen

Cinnamon Chocolate Cake

I have enjoyed many meals with our family friend Georgia. She is an excellent cook and she is an excellent baker too. I have had this cake many times at her home and love it. I have had several requests for her recipe. It is similar to a Texas Sheet Cake but not the same. I thought about calling Mexican Hot Chocolate Cake because it reminds me of Mexican Hot Chocolate. The cake is very moist and I love the fudgy frosting. As promised, here is the amazing recipe.

Cooking the chocolate sauce on the stove for the cake batter.

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 cups sugar

1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup water

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup butter

1/4 cup chocolate baking powder

2 eggs, room temperature

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon baking soda

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease a 9 x 13 pan. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon and salt. In a saucepan, combine water, oil, butter and chocolate baking powder. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Pour over dry ingredients and mix well. Add eggs, buttermilk, vanilla and baking soda and mix well. Pour into prepared baking pan and bake 35-40 minutes until cake tester comes out clean.

Check out this fudgy frosting! 😋

Frosting:

1/2 cup butter (1 stick)

1/3 heavy whipping cream

1/4 cup chocolate baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

3 cups powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

While cake is baking in the oven, make frosting. In a saucepan, combine butter, cream, chocolate baking powder and cinnamon. Cook over medium heat until butter is melted. Remove from heat and add sugar and vanilla and beat until smooth. Spread over hot cake. Cool completely. The frosting will harden on top of the cake as it cools. Enjoy!

Blueberry Cheesecake Tart

I love tarts. For those of you who are intimidated by making cheesecakes, this is a great simple alternative. The crust only bakes about 10 minutes, otherwise it’s an easy no bake dessert.

Crust Ingredients:

1 package of shortbread cookies, plus one sleeve of another cookie package, crushed. I used Keebler Sandies

4 Tablespoons butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a food processor or put cookies in a large ziplock bag and use a rolling pin to crush them. Mix butter with cookie crumbs and press into a tart pan with a removable bottom. My tart pan was 10 1/2 inches. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Cool completely before adding cream cheese filling.

Ingredients for cream cheese filling:

1 8 ounce plus 4 ounces of another package of cream cheese

3/4 cup heavy whipping cream

1/3 cup sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

Refrigerate mixing bowl and attachment(s) in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Beat cream cheese, sugar, and extracts together until smooth. Add whipping cream and beat until soft peaks form. Spread evenly into tart shell.

Blueberry topping:

2-4 cups of blueberries, mine were frozen but thawed it was about 2 cups*

1/2 cup blueberry preserves

3 Tablespoons honey

Melt preserves and honey in a sauce pan. Let cool completely. Arrange blueberries on top of tart. Stir preserve/honey mixture and lightly brush or spoon over blueberries. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve. Enjoy!

*make sure if you are using frozen blueberries that they are thawed and drained well

Cinco de Mayo Burger #Burger Month

This post is part of a kick-butt burger grill giveaway hosted by GirlCarnivore but the Cinco de Mayo burger epicness is all my own.

I have always loved Mexican food and cheese hamburgers. For National Burger Month, I combined my two favorite foods, cheeseburger and Mexican food.

Ingredients and Preparation:

Season meat with cumin, garlic salt and pepper and grill to your liking.

Sauté onion slices in a pan with a pat of butter and a teaspoon of sugar to caramelize them. The caramelized onions add a sweet taste. Keep warm.

Grill poblano pepper until charred. Place pepper in a plastic bag to steam skin. Remove most of charred outside. I like to leave some char on the pepper. Cut open and remove seeds and cut into pieces to fit on your burger. This grilled pepper adds a delicious smoky taste.

Add your pepper jack cheese and watch it melt. Assemble your burger with the toppings.

Add a dollup of your favorite refried beans. I can’t enjoy Mexican without them. Yum!

Put a generous spoonful of fresh pico de gallo. This replaces all of your condiments.

Sponsors and Giveaway Swag!

American Lamb Board –  Ground lamb, cutting board, and apron

Anolon – Anolon SureGrip Cutlery Bronze 3 Piece Chef Set & Anolon Advanced Bronze 11″ Deep Square Grill Pan w/ Pour Spouts

Cabot Cheese – $25 Cabot Legacy Gift box – Includes eight bars of Cabot Cheddar, cheese knife, and a wine opener. Award-winning cheese brought to you by the 1,000 farm families who own Cabot Creamery Co-operative.

Melissa’s Produce – Grilling Veggie Box

Microplane – Herb And Salad Chopper, Microplane Elite Series Extra Coarse Grater, Microplane Spice Mill

New York Beef Council  – Beef, It’s What’s for Dinner Swag Bag including a tote, knives, oven mitt and apron

Red Duck – Gourmet Ketchup Variety

Spiceologist –  4 Rub Grilling Spice Set

Veal Made Easy – 5 lbs Veal and grilling gear

Weber Grilling Pack – Weber Tumbler and Weber Grill Hat

1 winner will be drawn for every week of burger month!

All winners will be entered to win a Weber Spirit II E-310 gas grill!

Grand prize grill  winner will be announced June 4th

A huge thank you for their generous contributions to the #BurgerMonth sponsors,  American Lamb Board, Anolon,

Cabot Cheese, Melissa’s Produce, Microplane, New York Beef Council, Red Duck, Spiceologist,

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Burger Month Week One

Spicy Keto Burger by A Southern Fairytale
Baja Seafood Burger OR Mexicali by Everyday Southwest
Spicy Lamb Burger by The Suburban Soapbox
Catalina Taco Salad Burger by Sweet ReciPEAs
Kentucky Derby Lamb Burger by Butcher Betties
Cinco de Mayo Burger by Tampa Cake Girl
Kurobuta Pork Burgers by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
Beef Cordon Bleu Bacon Apple Fritter Burgers by Wildflour’s Cottage Kitchen
Jalapeno Yum Yum Burger by Adventures of Frugal Mom
Pierogie Burger by Seduction In The Kitchen
Mexican Burger by A Day in the Life on the Farm

A Day in the Life on the Farm
A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
A Southern Fairytale
Adventures of Frugal Mom
An Affair from the Heart
Bread Booze Bacon
Brocavore
Butcher Betties
Cluttercafe
Comfortably Domestic
Cookie Named Desire
Courtney’s Sweets
Culinary Adventures with Camilla
Eating Richly
Everyday Southwest
Family Around the Table
Family Food on the Table
Fearless Dining
Food Above Gold
Gimme Some Grilling
Girl Abroad
Grilling Montana
Grumpy’s Honeybunch
Hall Nesting
HORNS BBQ
Jolene’s Recipe Journal
Kecia’s Flavor Breakthrough
Kudos Kitchen by Renee
Life of a Ginger
Love and Confections
Mildly Meandering
Miss in the Kitchen
Moore or Less Cooking
My World Simplified
Palatable Pastime
Pastry Chef Online
Pook’s Pantry
RDelicious Kitchen
Sailrockland
Sarah’s Cucina Bella
Seduction In The Kitchen
Sumptuous Spoonfuls
Sweet ReciPEAs
Tampa Cake Girl
The Beard and The Baker
The Complete Savorist
The Crumby Kitchen
The Farmstand Market
The Farmstand Market
The Redhead Baker
The Schmidty Wife
The Spiffy Cookie
The Suburban Soapbox
Thyme for Cocktails
Wildflour’s Cottage Kitchen
Wok & Skillet

Rafflecopter Week One :

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Easy Peasy Homemade Banana Cake

So many times I hear people tell me that they can’t bake or decorate cakes. I wanted to create a recipe so easy, everyone can make this cake and be a rockstar. This is one moist and flavorful banana cake and that was my goal. Mix up the ingredients, cool and spread on the frosting. Easy Peasy.

Look at all of the yummy bananas in this recipe.

Ingredients:

4 large ripe freckled bananas, mashed

2 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup butter, softened

3 eggs, room temperature

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 1/2 cups buttermilk, room temperature*

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 9 x 13 pan with butter or your favorite baking spray.

In a separate bowl, combine dry ingredients, flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Set aside.

In your mixing bowl, combine sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Mix in eggs one at a time. Add in vanilla. Add dry ingredients and alternate with buttermilk until all is incorporated together. Mix in bananas. Bake for 50 minutes to an hour until cake tester comes out clean. Cool completely and frost.

Cream Cheese Frosting:

1 stick of butter, room temperature

1 8 ounce block of cream cheese

1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla

1 pinch of salt

1 pound of powdered sugar

Blend cream cheese and butter together. Add vanilla and combine. Mix in powdered sugar until combined. Frost cake. Cover and store in refrigerator. Set out about 30 minutes before serving. Easy Peasy. Enjoy!

*About buttermilk. Buy it. You cannot make buttermilk with lemon juice or vinegar. You only make sour milk and that my friends is not buttermilk. Buttermilk is the best thing about how delicious this cake is.