Happy Birthday Hubbs (belated post)

The Hubbs Birthday was early in May and I totally forgot to post about the absolutely insanely delicious birthday cake that I made for him. His favorite is Red Velvet. We both LOVE the Ultimate Red Velvet Cheesecake at The Cheesecake Factory. I can bake Red Velvet Cake and I can bake a cheesecake-how hard could it be to put the two together? Not hard at all-just really time consuming!

But sooooo worth the time and effort! I started this cake at around 6ish and here is The Hubbs blowing out the candles at around 11ish! You may be wondering about the candles, I goofed and got an 8 instead of a 9! Dork move on my part! But I used 9 singles instead (hehehe)

Doesn’t that look delicious?!! I didn’t feel like shaving white chocolate so I took a short cut and used white chocolate chips. Both cakes (cheese and red) were made from scratch.

Got the recipe from Erin’s food blog see the link below.

Red Velvet Cheesecake from Erin's Food Blog

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Carmely Apple Pie {recipe}

This is one of my favorite pies….easy to make and so yummy with French vanilla or vanilla bean ice cream. My apple recipe is from my Gran Gran who measures by, “a pinch of this, a dollop of that, and about a 1/2 cup of…” and I’ve learned to bake the same way. I can tell you what to use just not reeeeally how much-sorry, my bad!

When I first started baking I wanted to learn to make crusts from scratch,so I called my Gran Gran and asked her for the ingredients and her reply was, “Baby, I don’t know, every since I discovered Pillsbury I just use that”. Gran Gran’s Apple Pie’s are to die for! She bakes big GINORMOUS 15”x18” ones.

One of my favorite kitchen tools is this Apple Peeler/Corer/Slicer. Helps me and Gran Gran whip up pies in almost 1/2 the time.

Their handy dandy Baker's Roller is perfect for my pie making needs. I got to check to see if Gran Gran has one of these.

Mix in the sugars

and a little flour, then add apple mixture to your pie pan, top with Carmel and about 2.5 – 3 Tbsp. of butter.

After topping with your 2nd crust don’t forget to brush it with a little egg white/water mixture. Bake at 375 degrees until golden brown and when you tilt it no juices run out.

Ingredients:

3-4 Large Granny Smith Apples

I box Pillsbury refrigerated pie crust

1 tsp. lemon juice

About 1/2 C white sugar

About 1/2 C light brown sugar

1 TBS flour

2.5-3 TBS butter

                                                                  2 TBS Carmel sauce

                                                               1/2 -3/4 TBS cinnamon

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**Deep Fried OREOS**

This past summer my family and I went to a Renaissance Festival and at this festival I experienced DEEP FRIED OREOS! I’d never knew such a delicacy existed! They made them to order HOT and fresh sprinkled with powdered sugar!  I kept saying I was going to give it a try but I thought they’d be too difficult to make at home- NOT. You need five ingredients (well 6 if you count the water needed to make the pancake batter)

I googled “fried Oreo recipe” and found this recipe at Allfoods.com one of the reviewers suggested just using pancake batter! Hey I’m all for quick and easy.

I poured vegetable oil in sauce pan and heated until it was around 350 degrees. Takes about 10-15 minutes.

Dip the Oreos in the pancake batter

I got this egg separator from my days as a Pampered Chef consultant, I’ve only ever used it to separate eggs-look what else it can do!

YUMMY!!! The cookie becomes soft and the icing in the middle melts a little and I love the little bit of crunch from the pancake! I thought about trying fried marshmallow’s-Maybe next time.

I made whole bag of Oreo’s and shared with two neighbors and a coworker.

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CHOCOLATE CAKE!

Hello friends! So not only do I love scrapbooking, but I also love to cook and bake. I get a ton of recipes from Jenny @ Picky-Palate. This women has some serious skills in the kitchen. I frequent her site because she is sure to have a new ooey gooey dessert recipe that includes CHOCOLATE! Today I made her Ice Cream Sundae 4 Layer Chocolate Cake. There was a lot of mmmmmming and eye rolling going on during dsessert today.

This cake is SUPER easy and fast to make. Jenny used chocolate shaving's as on the outside of the cake but took a short cut and used chocolate chip frosting this time.

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