Heath Bar Blondies

We had some extra Heath Bar pieces left over from when I make Hello Dolly Bars so I decided to browse Pinterest to see what recipes were out there for Heath Bar cookies.  While searching the pins I found this super easy (and yummy) recipe for Heath Bar blondies.  Less time and less effort sounded good to me!! The recipe is from the blog Lovin' From the Oven.


1 cup All Purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped Heath Bars (I used 1/2 cup Heath toffee bits and 1/2 cup caramel chips)

1.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2.) Cream together the brown sugar and melted butter. Beat in the egg and vanilla. Add the dry ingredients to the batter and mix until blended.
3.) Stir in the Heath Bars and pour into a greased 8x8 pan.
4.) Bake for 30-35 minutes.

4th of July Strawberries and Strawberry Mojitos

At the end of my three week journey away from South Texas I stayed for a few days at my inlaw's house near Dallas.  My sister in-law wanted to make red, white and blue strawberries that she had seen her cousin make. My mother in-law wanted to make mojitos and I got really excited because I had JUST SEEN a recipe for strawberry mojitos on Pinterest.

The quick description for how to make these mojitos can be found here!  Blend together 1 can frozen limeade, 1/2 can (the one that held the limeade) rum, 2 cups frozen strawberries, and a muddled mixture of a few leaves of fresh mint and the pulp of two limes.

For the strawberries you need white chocolate melted with a tsp of oil, washed and dried strawberries and blue sugar.  Dip the strawberries in the white chocolate 3/4 of the way up the strawberry.  Immediately dip about half way up the strawberry with the blue sugar.  Place on wax paper to harden.  Afterwards I thought using some cream cheese frosting for the white would taste AMAZING!

Rosemary Focaccia Bread from Our Best Bites

I have returned from pretty much a month in MD (with a stop in Bermuda) and I have kind of gotten the house back in order and my blogging, cooking, crafting urge is at an all time high! I must have let that secret out of the bag because I now have 11 aviator winging banners to sew.  Anyway, at some point in the last month or so I made this Rosemary Focaccia bread from one of my favorite websites/cookbooks, Our Best Bites.  These ladies get it right EVERY time! This bread was so good that I took it out of the oven, stole a bite and immediately got on Facebook and left them a comment about how awesome it was (AND they "liked" my comment! SCORE!)

The recipe can be found at Our Best Bites.

Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream


If you like peanut butter in small doses this recipe IS NOT for you. Imagine taking some peanut butter, just adding enough milk to be able to stir it, throw in some Reese's and freeze.  That is pretty much what happened here. I LOVE peanut butter so this was amazing to me!! This recipe is from www.recipegirl.com.

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You can find the recipe for the ice cream here!

         
                                  

Sweet Successes Guest Cook Jamie...Stuffed Zucchini

While I was home in Maryland I made my sister Jamie make this recipe in case it didn't come out and I could blame her! But it came out great.  I found this recipe while I was pinning my life away on Pinterest. It came from the blog Kayotic Kitchen. The only change we made was that we added a few more tablespoons of sour cream once we had the veggies all mixed together.  It was a little runny so if you added some softened cream cheese in place of a tablespoon or two of sour cream it might thicken it up. Also you might want to precook or grill the zucchini before adding the stuffing and baking.

You can find the recipe here!