It has been a while I know....gooey cookie bars

No excuses it has been too long. Work and life just got the best of Betty and haven't baked as much (been branching out a bit more) I will be making up for it though.  Tried something new with cookie bars today. Enjoy :)


INGREDIENTS:
1 cup pastry flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
a pinch of salt
12 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 cup dark brown sugar
½ cup white sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
hearty pour of vanilla extract
1 dark chocolate bar chopped and shaved ( I used a Trader Joe's one)
about one cup of the salted caramel morsels



DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees and line a 7 x 11 baking dish with parchment paper. 
2. In your mixer, beat together the butter and sugars until combined. Leave to the side.
3. While that is mixing in a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
4. TO the butter and sugar mixture: Add the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla extract and mix until combined.
5. Slowly add the dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
6. Fold in the chocolate chunks.

7. Press 3/4  of the cookie dough into the prepared dish.

8. Add the salted caramel morsels to the top of the layer of cookie dough.

9. Drop the remaining cookie dough in spoonfuls over the morsels.

10. Bake for 30 minutes, or until the top of the bars are light golden brown

11.Let cool and then cut into squares and enjoy.

recipe adapted from: http://www.browneyedbaker.com/salted-caramel-chocolate-chip-cookie-bars/#.V-aBHCFtp6c.facebook

Hallmark Holiday

Hallmark Holiday and snow. Of course that means baking. I am not going into my feelings on Valentine's Day. If you know me you know them. If not....infer them. It gives me a reason to bake more. :) Enjoy!

frosted sugar cookies:

Ingreidents:

1 cup butter (room temp)
1 and 1/2 cup white sugar
hearty pour of vanilla (1-2 tsp)
1 egg
2 and 3/4 cup cake flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder

recipe for you favorite icing / buttercream frosting
--sorry I do not really measure this
this time I did about 1/4 stick softened butter, 1 and 3/4 cup powdered sugar, pour of vanilla, and 1 tbsp of milk. (mix butter and powder sugar together . Then add vanilla and milk. Add more powder sugar if needed. Mix until you reach the consistency you would like. )

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees f and line cookie sheet with parchment WHEN READY TO BAKE YOU WILL NEED TO CHILL DOUGH. I DID NOT FOR THE FIRST BATCH AND THEY WERE NOT AS FLUFFY.

1. In your mixing bowl, mix together butter and sugar until well combined.
2. Add in the egg and vanilla until combined.
3. In a seperate bowl combine the dry ingreidents.
4. A bit at a time, add the flour mixture to the butter and sugar mixture. Mix unitl all is incorporated.

5. Shape into balls using a cookie scoop or your hands. Place in freezer for 30 mins or fridge of an hour.

6. When ready place on cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 8-12 minutes. Let cool on pan for 1-2 mins and move to wire rack to cool.

7. When completely cool frost and decorate as you wish :)

snow day=baking day.

The title says it all. Snow day=baking day. I really wanted to bake a cake I had made a couple of years ago but did not have all the ingredients. I had a couple overripe naners that I needed to use so made this spin on a naner bread. You can never have enough naner bread recipes right? Enjoy!


raspberry naner bread

 Ingredients:

2 ripe medium sized naners, mashed
⅓ cup  nut butter (I used homemade almond butter--make sure it is smooth enough and not too dry. Needs to be drippy.)
1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
1 tablespoon coconut melted coconut oil
2 eggs
¾ cup oat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ cup frozen raspberries (can be fresh but might change consistency)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a loaf pan with parchment paper.
2. Mix together wet ingredients with your mixer.
3. In a separate bowl mix together dry ingredients add to wet ingredients.
4. Mix until just combined.
5. Fold in raspberries

6. Pour batter into lined loaf pan.

7. Bake for 35-40 minutes ( tooth pick/knife should come out clean)
8. let cool and enjoy!

recipe adapted from: http://rachlmansfield.com/strawberry-oatmeal-banana-bread/

Chocolate Oat Breakfast Protein Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup old fashioned  oats

¾ cup chocolate slap protein powder

1 ½ tsp baking powder
1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
pinch of salt
2 tbsp melted coconut oil, cooled slightly
1 egg

1 tsp pure vanilla extract
¼ cup pure maple syrup

¼ cup milk

1 of the snack pack cartons of raisins

Directions:

1. Preheat your oven to 325. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

2. In a bowl,mix together the oats, protein powder, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.


3. In your mixing bowl, mix together the coconut oil, egg, and vanilla until combined.
4. Mix in the maple syrup and milk.
5. Add in the protein powder mixture, mixing until just combined

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6. Fold in the raisins. Chill the cookie dough for 30 minutes.
7. Scoop cookies onto pan.

8. Bake at 325°F for 10-12 minutes.

9. Cool on the pan for about 1-2 mins and then transfer to a wire rack.

Enjoy!

recipe adapted from:http://amyshealthybaking.com

chocolate and lots of it.

   

It's been too long. I have wanted to bake the past couple of weekend but like to try new recipes and just couldn't decide what to make. I was in a very chocolatly mood so created these. The texture is a combo of a fudge brownie, a chocolate chess pie and a truffle.

Gooey chocolate walnut brownie pie bars

Crust:
½ cup unsalted butter, softened
½ cup dark brown sugar
1½ cups pastry flour
¼ cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder
( I used Hershey's)

Pinch of salt

Filling:
¾ cup granulated sugar
¾ cup pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
1½ teaspoons vanilla
3 large eggs
2 tablespoons unsweetened dark cocoa powder

Pinch of salt
1 dark chocolate bar chopped up (I used the Trader Joe's ones)

1 and ½ cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

For the crust:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Line a baking dish ( I used 11x7 you can use 9x13 but baking time might be shorter) with parchment paper.
3. In your mixing bowl, mix together butter and brown sugar until well combined.
   
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4. Add in flour, cocoa powder, and salt and mix until just combined.
   
5. Press dough down into bottom of pan. Bake crust about 10-12 minutes or until slightly browned around edges.               
   
   
   
      
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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6. 7. mix together granulated sugar, maple syrup, butter, vanilla, until combined 
   
   
   
   8. Add in the eggs, cocoa powder, salt and mix until well combined.
   9. mix in chocolate chips and walnuts.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   10. Pour batter over crust.
   
   
   
   11. Place back in oven for another 30-40 minutes (and I turned oven up to 340 after about 25 mins) or until slightly browned and crackly on top ( will be very gooey).
   
   
   

Let cool to cut and enjoy!

Recipe adapted from: http://snappygourmet.com/dark-chocolate-hazelnut-pie-bars/#zKg7H6szs8Sl03go.99

coconut flour peanut butter cup cookies

No huge story or into here. Bottom line is I went on Instagram and someone had posted a picture of her cookies using this recipe (with a few differences) and they just looked so tasty not to make myself. Enjoy!

Coconut flour peanut butter cup cookies 

Ingredients:

3 eggs 

3 tbsp dark brown sugar

1/2 tbsp pure vanilla extract 

1/2 cup coconut flour 

Pinch of salt 

1/4 tsp. Baking soda

1/3 cup melted coconut oil 

1 bag of justins dark chocolate peanut butter cups cut up into fourths. 

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 and cookie sheet  with parchment paper. 

2. Mix eggs, brown sugar and vanilla in a bowl. 

3. Add in the dry ingredients and mix together. 

4. Add in coconut oil mix until all well combined. 

5. Fold in cut up pb cups. 

6. Bake 10 minutes (bottoms will brown a bit) 

7. Enjoy guilt free 😍😋