Easy Chocolate Croissants

Olivia had a sleepover last night, no school today due to a Jewish holiday. Her and her girlfriends were headed to the beach but I wanted to make them something quick and tasty. I remembered I had a can of crescent rolls in the fridge and some chocolate chips in the pantry....done! The girls gobbled these up so quickly and then headed out the door to the beach.

Ingredients
1 can crescent rolls
1 c milk chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350. Unroll dough into triangles, place a small handful of chocolate chips at large end of triangle. Roll up and place on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 12 minutes. Take remaining chocolate chips and place in small ziploc bag and melt in microwave for about a minute. Snip off one end of bag and drizzle melted chocolate over hot croissants!
Serves 8

Easy Cherry and Cream Cheese Danish

Cherry pie is my absolute favorite pie flavor...well if you don't count chocolate!! This is a fun and easy way to get your cherry fix in. These Danishes are quick and easy to make and boy do they taste good!

Ingredients

2 cans of crescent rolls
1 8oz package of cream cheese at room temp.
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
3/4 tsp vanilla
1 tsp sour cream
Cherry Pie filling (canned)

Icing

1 cup confectioner's sugar
1 tbsp milk
1 tbsp softened butter

Preheat the oven to 350.

Open the crescent rolls carefully to avoid unrolling or tearing the dough. You'll need to leave it in it's cylindrical shape. Slice the dough into pieces about 1/4 inch thick (as though you're slicing cookie dough). Place the slices on a cookie sheet and with your fingers press the center in to make an indentation for the cream cheese filling.

In a large mixing bowl, mix together the cream cheese, white sugar, lemon juice, vanilla and sour cream. Add a TBSP of pie filling, inside the indentation that you made to the dough, then add a TBSP of the mixture on top of the cherries.  Bake for 15 - 20 minutes.

While the danish are baking, you can make a quick royal icing to drizzle over the tops. Mix together the confectioner's sugar, milk and butter in a small bowl.  Use a spoon to drizzle it over the tops of the danish. Take the danish out of the oven and allow them to cool for 10-15 minutes before icing.

Ingredients

Slice crescent roll dough into 1/4 inch slices

Make a well in center with finger

Fill with a small amount of pie filling

Next add a tbsp of cream cheese mixture

Ready for the oven

15 minutes later they are golden  and ready

Mix up frosting

Drizzle over cooled Danishes

Enjoy!!!

Cinnamon Roll Waffles

My baby girl turned 16 today and so I made her a special breakfast, cinnamon roll waffles. They were super easy to make and Olivia and her girlfriends gobbled them up. You've got to give these a try! They taste just like the cinnamon rolls but take under 2 minutes to cook. I don't think I'll ever bake store bought rolls again, this is just way too simple!

Ingredients
Refrigerated Cinnamon Rolls
1 tsp Karo Syrup
1/2 tsp Water
Waffle Iron

Heat waffle iron, place 4 cinnamon rolls in waffle machine. Close and cook until done. While cooking take the packaged frosting and add karo syrup and water, mix. Drizzle frosting over the top of cooked waffles.

Ingredients

Spray waffle pan and place rolls on iron

Mix frosting, water and karo syrup for drizzling purposes

Ready to take out

So yummy!!

Enjoy! 

Iced Coffee

This past year I've been on a major diet and have lost 90 pounds..... I will wait for your applause... Everyone asks me what my secret is and I am about to finally share it....iced coffee! I've been drinking this during the day and it keeps my tummy full and since I'm using fat free creamer it is a delicious nonfat treat!

For Christmas my husband bought me one of these, and it changed my life! I started making iced coffee right away, but my problem was I was going through those little k-cups so quickly! I decided to make a large batch of coffee to store in the fridge and so far it's worked out great! I made a 1/2 gallon for the pictures, but this recipe makes a gallon.

Ingredients
1 bag ground coffee, any flavor, any brand
Cheesecloth
Coffee filters
1 gallon water
Creamer, any flavor...but remember fat free is awesome!!

Directions
In a gallon sized container filled with water add one bag coffee. Stir, cover and refrigerate for 24 hours.

The next day, remove coffee from fridge and set up a straining system. I used a strainer lined with cheesecloth and placed this on top of another pitcher. Slowly pour the coffee through the cheesecloth into the new pitcher; this takes a little bit of time and patience.


Once coffee is strained you are ready to make your iced coffee. Grab a glass and fill it with ice, next pour desired amount of coffee into the glass, top with creamer, stir and indulge! I like a lot of creamer in mine!! This coffee base can be stored covered in the refrigerator for up to a month.

Ingredients

Pour coffee grounds into pitcher of water

Stir and refrigerate, loving the S

Make sure to cover pitcher

The next day you will strain the coffee grounds

I used cheesecloth, super cheap and can be found at the grocery store

 Pour coffee through cheesecloth

The grounds all end up in the cheesecloth and not the pitcher

Ingredients for the good part

Pour creamer over ice and coffee, stir

Enjoy!!

Strawberry and Cream Filled Crepes

When I was growing  up my mom would make us a treat on Sunday nights, Dutch pancakes, aka crepes. We would beg her to make these and then gobble them up so quickly, they were the perfect nighttime treat. We would put some butter and white sugar on ours and then roll them up and stuff them into our mouths. As an adult my tastes have changed just a bit, I prefer fresh fruit and cream in mine instead of granulated sugar, lol.

My daughter had a sleepover last night and I woke up to four hungry 15 year old girls, I was shocked that I had everything in the house to make these tasty treats for the girls. They loved them!

Ingredients 
1 1/2 c Flour
1 TBSP Sugar
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
2 c Milk
2 TBSP butter, melted
1/2 tsp Vanilla
2 eggs
Fresh Strawberries sliced and sprinkled with 1 tsp sugar
Whipping Cream

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients. Beat with hand mixer until smooth. Lightly butter 6-8 inch skillet; heat over medium heat until butter is bubbly. For each crepe pour a scant 1/4 c batter into the skillet; immediately rotate skillet until thin film covers bottom. Cook until light brown. Run wide spatula around the edge to loosen; turn and cook other side until light brown. Stack crepes with wax paper in-between each.

Place cooked crepe on a plate, spoon strawberry mixture on top, add whipped cream and roll.   Top with additional strawberries and cream. Serve immediately.

Enjoy!

Source; Betty Crocker's Cookbook

Happy Halloween

Halloween is always a night where I make food that easy to eat on the run. Tonight we are having
some of my favorites, Sausage Ring , Taco Soup, and Avocado Dip. I hope you and yours have a safe and Happy Halloween!

Enjoy!

Cinnamon Rolls Stuffed with Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Yes, you read the title correctly, these sweet little nuggets of yumminess are just that, yummy! My mother makes incredible cinnamon rolls yet I've never been able to master them. My dough always seems flat and doesn't rise like I'd like it to. This recipe, based on the Pioneer Women, is so easy and tasty. I love how it raised up nice and high and the rolls came out of the oven nice and fluffy. The whole stuffing them with cookie dough was brought to my attention by my son's girlfriend. She read about it here and I thought I'd give it a whirl.... I wasn't disappointed. The unique taste and smell that these rolls offer is worth the effort it takes to make them. For the cookie dough I used Toll House's recipe. 

Ingredients for Cinnamon Rolls
2 c Whole Milk
1/2 c Vegetable Oil
1/2 c Sugar
1 pkgs Dry Yeast or 2 1/4 tsp
5 1/2 c All Purpouse Flour
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
Melted Butter
Cinnamon 
Sugar


Mix the milk, sugar and oil in a large pot. Scald the mixture, then let cool for one hour. When it has cooled, but is still a little warm, sprinkle the years into the milk mixture and let sit for a minute. Add 4 cups flour and mix until dough forms, cover and let rise for at least an hour.

Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough 
2 1/2 c Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Salt
2 Sticks Butter, softened
3/4 c Sugar
3/4 c Brown Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla
2 Large Eggs
2 c Milk Chocolate Chips


Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels


After an hour, add the remaining 1 1/2 c flour, baking soda, baking powder and mix. Flour the workspace and roll the dough with rolling pin until thin and rectangular shaped. Cover dough with melted butter and cinnamon and sugar. Next drop spoonfuls of chocolate chip cookie dough over the dough. Roll dough into a long roll and slice into 1 inch thick pieces. Lay in butter brushed 9 inch cake pans. Let rolls rise for 30 minutes, make sure to cover bowl with clean dishcloth.  I made two pans worth and then placed the remaining sliced dough on to a silicone covered cookie sheet and froze. I then was able to place the individually frozen rolls into a ziplock bag for future baking. 


Bake at 400 degrees for 12-15 minutes

Ingredients for Vanilla Glaze 
2 C Powdered Sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 fat free half and half


Mix until smooth. Pour over rolls once they are out of oven.

Scalding the milk

Add the yeast

Mix

Rise

After rising, add additional flour and baking powder and soda

Roll out and cover with butter

Sprinkle cinnamon and sugar

Dot with chocolate chip cookie dough

Roll up

Can you spot the lumps of cookie dough?

Doesn't this look great?

Place in a 9 inch cake pan, let rise 30 minutes

Fresh out of the oven

Drizzle with glaze

This is what the outside looks like

Yummy inside!

Enjoy!!`

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