Cookie Dough Truffles

These truffles are amazing!!! I love cookie dough and chocolate so this was the perfect candy recipe to me! The inside seriously tasted like an awesome cookie dough, but it was great cause there is no egg inside, so no worries!

Cookie Dough Truffles

1/2 C butter
3/4 C brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 C flour
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 C mini chocolate chips
1/2 C chopped walnuts
1 1/2 lbs melting chocolate

1. In a large bowl cream butter and sugar til light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Gradually add the condensed milk alternately with the flour, beating well after each addition. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts. Drop onto a cookie sheet lined with wax paper. Refrigerate 2 hours, then shape into balls.

2. Melt the melting chocolate and dip the balls into the coating. Place back on waxed paper and cool in fridge 15 minutes. Store in the fridge.

Chocolate Bliss Cheesecake

Can you say YUM?! I can!!!

I made this for my mom and sister (with my new spring form pan that my grandma gave me). It was the dessert after a very girly, frilly dinner that we made. It was rich and delish!!!

Chocolate Bliss Cheesecake

18 crushed Oreos (about 1 1/2 cups)
2 T butter
3 packages (8 oz each) cream cheese, softened
3/4 C sugar
1 tsp vanilla
8 oz (1 package) melted semi-sweet baking chocolate (I used dark chocolate chips which was just fine) and cooled slightly
3 eggs
powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 325 for a 9 inch silver pan or 300 for a dark pan. Mix cookie crumbs and butter, press firmly into pan.

Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in large bowl until wells blended. Add melted chocolate, mix well. Add eggs one at a time and mix well after each addition. Pour over crust.

Bake 55-60 minutes or until almost set. Run knife around cake to loosed edges. Store in fridge. Cool completely before removing from spring form pan. Refrigerate at least 4 hours.

Cut a heart out of wax paper, place on top and sprinkle powdered sugar on top.

Pineapple, Cherry and Walnut Cookies

So I wanted to try a new recipe since my mom is visiting. I picked this one out because it sounded good and summery. They had a good, soft, fluffy texture but they were lacking in flavor. I decided not to bother typing out the recipe cause it really wasn't all that fabulous, but I'll still share the pictures...

Peanut Butter and Almond Granola Bars

Here's another batch of granola bars I came up with. I used almond extract instead of vanilla and added chopped almonds. I also did more cereal and left out the oats, and I switched the brown sugar for a no calorie sweetener. They were tasty but didn't hold together as well and I was missing the chocolate factor.

Father's Day Requests

For Father's Day I wanted to make something delicious for Travis. This was his request...

Cinnamon raisin bread in the afternoon...

Then I used some of the same dough to make hoagies for Philly cheese steak sandwiches for dinner...And those yummy, soft, chewy cherry macaroon cookies for dessert!

M&M Granola Bars

Remember those granola bars I made a while back? I did them again using the basic recipe and just added M&Ms. Super yummy! They were gone fast.

Monkey Banana Cake

My little boy turned two this weekend! And the same day also happens to be two of his cousin's birthdays too. So, I figured we could have a funky monkey party! And monkeys eat bananas so...I went with banana cake! I used Travis' grandma's recipe and added dried bananas on the side for extra effect. And more banana chips and chocolate covered banana chips were on the side.

Grandma Doreen's Banana Cake
2 1/2 C flour
1/2 C shortening
1 1/2 C sugar
1 C mashed bananas
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
2/3 C buttermilk
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

Grease and flour pans (I used two 9 inch rounds for my layered cake). Mix dry ingredients. Add shortening and bananas. Beat on low speed. Add buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla. Beat 2 minutes. Bake at 350 for 3o minutes.

Frosting
6 T soft butter
4 1/2 C powdered sugar
1 egg (optional-I left it out)
1 1/2 ts vanilla
milk to desired consistency

Beat all together, slowly add milk until you get the consistency that you want.