Chocolate Ice Cream With Reese’s White Chocolate Cups

Easy to make at home chocolate ice cream with white chocolate peanut butter cups. We love making ice cream at home and it always tastes better than store-bought of course, because you made it yourself. It takes maybe 10-15 minutes to make and then you simply put it in the freezer for a couple of hours.

Ingredients:

Heavy cream – 2 cups
Sweetened condensed milk – 14oz ( 1can)
Cocoa powder-1/2 cup(60gr)
White chocolate peanut butter cups- 6 pieces, cut up
The heavy cream and condensed milk should be cold before you make the ice cream. Pour heavy cream and mix on medium high until stiff peaks. Then add the condensed milk and cocoa, mix well. Pour the ice cream in a container and top with the peanut butter cups, fold them in carefully. Transfer in the freezer for 2 to 4 hours.

Upside-down Orange Cake

I have to say that I love the orange flavor in holiday treats and desserts. That’s why this year for Thanksgiving I made an Upside-down Orange Cake.
Recipe:
1. Zest from 2 navel oranges
2. Orange juice 1/2 cup, 1 orange
3. All-purpose flour – 2 cups
4. Sugar – 160gr.
5. Unsalted butter – 1/3 cup, room temperature
7. Plain yogurt – 1/3 cup (or sour cream)
8. 3 eggs

For the oranges:
1. Navel oranges – 2
2. Water – 1 cup
3. Sugar – 3/4

Cream Cheese Frosting:
1. Cream cheese – 8oz, soft
2. Heavy cream – 1 cup
3. Powdered sugar – 1 cup
4. Lemon Extract – 1,5 tsp

Cut the oranges in thin slices and set aside. In a medium sauce pan, over medium heat add 1 cup water and 3/4 cup sugar. Stir until the sugar has dissolved. Put the orange slices in and bring to a simmer, cook for about 20 min. Save the liquid for spreading on top of the cake.

Butter a 9 inch cake pan, or two 8 inch( you’ll have to divide the oranges and the batter after ). Sift the flour and the baking powder in a bowl, set aside. Cream together the butter, the yogurt and the orange zest. Slowly add the sugar and scrape down the sides of the bowl if needed. Add the eggs one at a time. Add the dry ingredients and the orange juice and beat well on low speed.
Arrange the orange slices at the bottom of the pan. Pour the batter over the oranges. Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for about 35 minutes for an 8 inch cake and 40 min for a 9 inch cake, or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Let the cake cool 10-15 minutes before inverting onto a dish. After cooling invert the cake onto a dish and spread some of the water/sugar mix.
In a stand mixer whip the cream cheese and powdered sugar on medium speed until we’ll combined. Add lemon extract and then heavy cream slowly. Make sure it’s well combined. Turn the mixer on high and whip for about a minute.
You can decorate the cake or just drop a spoonful of frosting on top. If decorating make sure the cake is cold and you work fast because it doesn’t hold for long very well in warm temperature. You can also place the frosting in the fridge for an hour or more before decorating.

Parmesan Breadsticks

These snacks are sooo yummy, they will disappear in minutes. This recipe doesn’t have milk or water in it, just melted butter and egg. We all love them so much, I always have to make a double batch. You should really try making them.

Recipe:

1. All purpose flour – about 3 1/2 cups

2. Salt – 1 tsp

3. Yeast – 2 tsp

4. Baking powder – 1/2 tsp

5. Eggs – 1 egg

6. Plain yogurt – 150 gr

7. Butter – 1 stick( 113 gr), melted

8. Feta – 150 gr

9. Parmesan cheese – to your liking

Egg wash -1 egg + tbsp milk for spreading on top

Mix all ingredients and make a soft dough, oil the bowl and the dough lightly and cover, let it rise for about an hour. Then on a floured surface roll the dough to 1/4″. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Cut strips with a pizza cutter. Whisk the egg with the milk and set aside. Twist the strips as much as you can, when done spread the egg wash and sprinkle Parmesan cheese. When the oven is ready bake for 20-25min.

*The dough won’t rise a lot.

* I’ve made these also without leaving the dough to rise and they’ve turned out just as good.

Cranberry Muffins

These cranberry muffins are simple and easy to make. They are a perfect fall snack or breakfast. Don’t waste time and make them really quick, then enjoy with milk, hot cocoa, or coffee.

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup light brown sugar (200g)
1/2 cup butter, 1 stick unsalted and melted
3/4 cup milk
2 eggs, large
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup dried cranberries

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add milk, butter and eggs and mix until well incorporated. Add the cranberries and fold them in with a spatula. Preheat oven to 350°F. Use a pan for 12 cupcakes, fill them and bake for about 25 min.

Fruit Bars

These really tasty treats were supposed to be fig newtons, but since I didn’t have figs, I simply used apricot jam mixed with cinnamon and they came out really good. This simple and easy recipe made perfect fall treats. Recipe is with apricot and cinnamon, but you can use any jam or fruit filling.

Ingredients:

1.All purpose flour – about 1 1/2 cups

2.Light Brown Sugar – 1/2 cup(110g)

3.Baking Powder – 1/2 tsp

4.Salt- 1/4 tsp

5.Cinnamon – 1/2 tsp

6.Butter, softened – 6 tbsp

7.Egg -1, large

8.Vanilla extract – 2 tsp

9.Apricot – 1/2 cup mixed with 1/2tsp cinnamon

In a bowl mix flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and set aside. In a bowl beat butter, add sugar and beat again. Next add the egg, vanilla and beat. Add the dry ingredients slowly and blend well to make dough. Make a rectangle about an inch think and put in the fridge for 30min. Take dough out of fridge and cut in half. Roll to about 0.3 mm thick , cut in half, spread the apricot jam in the middle leaving some space on both sides, then fold the sides, flip over and set on a baking sheet. Preheat oven to 350° and bake for about 25 min.

• Every oven is different, so check on them and when you see the bottom is light brown take them out of the oven.