I am the worst blogger ever!

Yet again, a huge span of time has gone since I updated.  You know that I have had to have been eating and experimenting since then. So, here is yet another long update.

Almost Weight Watchers Chocolate Cake

1box devil's food cake mix
1/2 cup water
1 can pumpkin
2 T cocoa powder
3 T sugar
instant coffee (enough to make an 8 oz cup - I used a package of starbuck's via)

Topping: powdered sugar, milk and dark chocolate chunks (I used a Hershey bar and part of a dark chocolate Easter bunny!)

Preheat oven to 350F. Grfease 9x13 pan. Mix all cake ingredients for 2 minutes. Bake according to box instructions.  While still warm, top with milk and dark chocolate chunks.  Once cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Refrigerate. 

This recipe is quite versatile.  I made a "Fall Cake" with the basics.  1 vanilla cake mix, 1 can pumpkin, 1/2 cup water, 2 medium apples pealed and chopped, 3 T sugar (I didn't add this, but should have!), 1 1/2 T each almond extract and pumpkin pie spice.  Bake according to instructions.  Top with slivered almonds and drizzle made of milk, almond extract, and powdered sugar!

Comfort food chicken bake:  Is it pot pie or is it chicken and dumplings?

3 cups diced potatoes
2 cups diced chicken (canned is very easy!)
1 bag frozen mixed veggies
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can milk
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Topping:
1 1/2 cups bisquick
1/2 cup milk

In a 9x13, mix top ingredients.  Bake at 350 until warm.  Poor bisquick on top. Bake until fluffy and warm.  Serve.  Eat.  This goes fast!

Personal Pie:

Filling:
2 medium apples or peaches pealed and cored/pitted
1/4 cup blueberries if desired
3 T sugar substitute
1 t sugar
1/4 t cinnamon
1 T cornstarch

"Crust"
1/2 cup bisquick
3 T sugar substitute
1 t sugar
1 T butter or margarine

Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 6" pie pan.  Using a fork, combine crust ingredients.  Press half of the crust into pie pan and bake for 10 minutes.  While baking, toss filling ingredients together.  Place all of filling in pan and top with remaining crumble.  Bake 45 minutes, until fruit is soft and bubbly.  Refridgerate until cold.  Enjoy!

I have been making far too many mini pies recently, thanks to the bountiful apple and peach crops!


Krispie Kream Bacon Cheeseburgers

My sister, Heather, takes the credit for getting me to do this one.

2 Krispie Kream original doughnuts
1 burger patty (cooked to your heart's desire)
1 slice cheddar cheese
several slices bacon
burger toppings as desired: lettuce, tomato, onion, mushroom
pickle (we forgot it!  Major error)

Layer all and eat.  Be sure to have an AED nearby... 

Pizza Buns

I had this semi genius idea for a new way to eat pizza!  Rolled up like a cinnamon bun and dipped in pizza sauce!  Why not? :)

Cinnamon roll dough - I used this one
3/4 cup softened butter
1 cup Parmesan cheese
1/2 T garlic powder
3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
Pizza toppings as desired

Follow cinnamon roll dough instructions including rising times.  Roll out dough.  Mix butter, parm, and garlic.  Spread over the dough.  Add mozzarella and other pizza toppings.  Roll and slice in 1.5 inch slices

Place in greased pans.  Allow to raise until doubled.  Bake at 350F for 30 minutes or until no longer doughy. 

Serve with pizza sauce for dipping!  Enjoy!!!!

Playdough Ice Cream

They said it couldn't be done! 

Come to find out, blue moon ice cream is only sold in the Great Lakes Region.  While in North Carolina, I got the craving to eat some, and none was to be found. After much research, I was not having any luck for a recipe.  So, I went to the store, bought some extracts, and hoped for the best!

Vanilla Ice Cream
Lemon Extract
Raspberry Extract
Almond Extract
TONS of blue food coloring
(For Playdough Ice Cream, you will need sugar cookie dough and food coloring. Add food coloring to dough and combine. Your hands will change color. Roll into little balls and freeze)

Now, this is no where near how a real ice cream place does it, but in a pinch it will do!  In a large bowl, empty a carton of vanilla ice cream.  Start mixing ice cream to soften it.  Add several drops blue food coloring and equal parts of each extract, starting at about a teaspoon.  Mix until ice cream is a unified color. Taste test.  If it is not there, continue adding equal amounts of extracts and blue food coloring. Trust me, it will get there.  Then, once it tastes like blue moon, drop in sugar cookie bits and stir. Freeze immediately.  Once firm, enjoy!  This is not going to be soft and fluffy. It will be very dense. But, it is still good and will do in a pinch!