BYU is giving away some of their secrets and this is one of them. Anyone who went to BYU can remember buying these at the bakery counter. Well, anyone except my husband. All he can remember buying is Taco Bell.
BYU MINT BROWNIES
1 c. margarine
1/2 c. cocoa
2 Tbsp. honey
4 eggs
2 c. sugar
1 3/4 c. flour
1/2 Tbsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. chopped walnuts
12 oz. chocolate icing (Use your own icing recipe or purchase some chocolate frosting.)
MINT ICING
5 Tbsp. margarine
dash of salt
3 Tbsp. milk
1 Tbsp. light corn syrup
2 1/3 c. powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. mint extract
1-2 drops green food coloring
1. Melt margarine and mix in cocoa. Allow to cool. Add honey, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix well. Add nuts. Pour batter into a greased 9-by-13 baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Cool for 1 hour.
2. Prepare mint icing: Soften margarine. Add salt, corn syrup, and powdered sugar. Beat until smooth and fluffy. Add mint extract and food coloring. Mix. Add milk gradually until the consistency is a little thinner than cake frosting.
3. Spread mint icing over brownies. Place brownies in the freezer for a short time to stiffen the icing. Remove from the freezer and carefully add a layer of chocolate icing.
Monday, December 22, 2008
For Jenn:
Here is the amazing chocolate chip cookie recipes my sister-in-law has been requesting. And since she called me tonight to announce that she is finally making her own blog, I will post this for her. Enjoy it, it is the best I have ever found.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 C butter, softened
1C brown sugar
3/4 C sugar
2 eggs
1 T vanilla
3/4 t baking soda
3/4 t salt
3 cups flour
1 pkg. Milk Chocolate Chips
1/2 pkg. Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips
In mixer, cream butter, brown sugar, and sugar until smooth. With mixer on low, add eggs, one at a time. Pour in vanilla. In separate bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. Slowly add flour mixture to mixer on slow speed. Mix until all ingredients are incorporated. Stir in both kind of chocolate chips. Scoop out cookie dough on ungreased pans and bake at 350 degrees for 11 minutes.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Sweet Pork
I randomly found this recipe by accident on the internet and have been pleasently surprised at how good and easy it is. It tastes very similar to the sweet pork at Costa Vida or Cafe Rio.
Sweet Pork
1 pork roast
2 small cans of tomato sauce
1 can of El Pato hot sauce
1 cup brown sugar
Spray your crock pot with non-stick cooking spray (you will be glad when you are cleaning it later). Cut pork roast in to 4-6 smaller pieces and place on the bottom of your crock pot. In a bowl whisk together the tomato sauce, El Pato, and brown sugar and pour over the top of the roast. Let slow cook in crock pot all day on low. When the pork can easily pull apart with a fork, remove it from the crock pot and shred with a fork and knife. Pour as much as the sauce over the top as you desire and let it soak back in. I always seem to have extra sauce. We eat this in tacos, taco salad, burritos, etc.
Sweet Pork
1 pork roast
2 small cans of tomato sauce
1 can of El Pato hot sauce
1 cup brown sugar
Spray your crock pot with non-stick cooking spray (you will be glad when you are cleaning it later). Cut pork roast in to 4-6 smaller pieces and place on the bottom of your crock pot. In a bowl whisk together the tomato sauce, El Pato, and brown sugar and pour over the top of the roast. Let slow cook in crock pot all day on low. When the pork can easily pull apart with a fork, remove it from the crock pot and shred with a fork and knife. Pour as much as the sauce over the top as you desire and let it soak back in. I always seem to have extra sauce. We eat this in tacos, taco salad, burritos, etc.
Easy Hot Fudge Sauce
This is so easy anyone can make it and it can been stored in the refrigerator or given away as a cute gift in a jar.
Hot Fudge Sauce
¾ cup semisweet chocolate chips
¼ cup real butter
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup evaporated milk (about 5 ounces)
In a saucepan melt the chocolate and butter together. Add the sugar; gradually stir in the evaporated milk. Bring mixture to a boil; reduce heat. Boil gently over low heat for 8 minutes stirring frequently. Remove pan from heat. Cool slightly before serving. Makes about 1 ½ cups of sauce.
Hot Fudge Sauce
¾ cup semisweet chocolate chips
¼ cup real butter
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup evaporated milk (about 5 ounces)
In a saucepan melt the chocolate and butter together. Add the sugar; gradually stir in the evaporated milk. Bring mixture to a boil; reduce heat. Boil gently over low heat for 8 minutes stirring frequently. Remove pan from heat. Cool slightly before serving. Makes about 1 ½ cups of sauce.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Pizza Dough
Okay, so this recipe will change your life. That's what it did for me. I no longer buy frozen pizzas. They are just disgusting to say the least and we rarely go out for pizza any more because we just like this pizza better. We live not to far from a Pizza Hut and when Josh learned how to read in Kindergarten, he noticed the Pizza Hut sign and kept asking me why we never go to Pizza Hut. Because it is gross, that's why. I got this recipe from a chef that ran a pizzeria in Manhattan. I wish I could say I got it from him in Manhattan myself, but instead through the beauty of Food Network, like 6 years ago. That's when my life changed. Enough said. Enjoy!
1 cup of really warm water (between 100-120 degrees F)
2 1/4 teaspoons or 1 pkg. of fast acting yeast
2-3 cups flour
1/2 t salt
Olive oil (for greasing the pan)
Cornmeal for dusting (optional)
Okay, so heat up some water to the right temperature. Temperature is key in this recipe. The water really needs to be between 100 and 120 degrees F or the dough will not rise fast enough. Place water and yeast in the bowl of your Kitchen Aid mixer with the dough hook attached. If you don't have one, I'm sorry, this is the way I do it. I know no other way. Leave the yeast in the water for 5 to 10 minutes undisturbed while you do laundry. Turn mixer on low and slowly add the flour a 1/2 cup at a time and throw the salt in there too. I stop adding flour when the dough comes together and stops sticking to the sides of the bowl. It is a different amount of flour every time, but somewhere between 2 and 3 cups. There you go that's all the ingredients. Let the mixer continue to run on like speed 4 or Low/Med for about 5 minutes. Take the dough out and smooth it into a round shape. Spray a bowl with non-stick cooking spray and place your dough inside. I then spray the top of the dough too, so it does not stick to the plastic wrap when it rises. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit 30 minutes. That's right, only 30 minutes. That is less than any other recipe I have seen. That is why your water needs to be so warm.
So while the dough is rising, get out either a heavy baking sheet or pizza stone. Grease the bottom with a light about of olive oil or cooking spray (if your on a diet). If you like the texture of cornmeal on the bottom of your pizza, sprinkle that on top of your oil. It works just fine without it, though. When the dough is ready, roll it out on your stone or just finger press it out. It does not matter. This recipe will make one large pizza or two small. Add what toppings, sauces, or whatever you like on the top. Move you oven rack to the lowest level possible and heat your oven to 500 degrees F. Likely the hottest its ever been to simulate a wood burning stove. That's where the best pizzas are made. Place your pizza in and in 10 short minutes you will have pizza perfection.
1 cup of really warm water (between 100-120 degrees F)
2 1/4 teaspoons or 1 pkg. of fast acting yeast
2-3 cups flour
1/2 t salt
Olive oil (for greasing the pan)
Cornmeal for dusting (optional)
Okay, so heat up some water to the right temperature. Temperature is key in this recipe. The water really needs to be between 100 and 120 degrees F or the dough will not rise fast enough. Place water and yeast in the bowl of your Kitchen Aid mixer with the dough hook attached. If you don't have one, I'm sorry, this is the way I do it. I know no other way. Leave the yeast in the water for 5 to 10 minutes undisturbed while you do laundry. Turn mixer on low and slowly add the flour a 1/2 cup at a time and throw the salt in there too. I stop adding flour when the dough comes together and stops sticking to the sides of the bowl. It is a different amount of flour every time, but somewhere between 2 and 3 cups. There you go that's all the ingredients. Let the mixer continue to run on like speed 4 or Low/Med for about 5 minutes. Take the dough out and smooth it into a round shape. Spray a bowl with non-stick cooking spray and place your dough inside. I then spray the top of the dough too, so it does not stick to the plastic wrap when it rises. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit 30 minutes. That's right, only 30 minutes. That is less than any other recipe I have seen. That is why your water needs to be so warm.
So while the dough is rising, get out either a heavy baking sheet or pizza stone. Grease the bottom with a light about of olive oil or cooking spray (if your on a diet). If you like the texture of cornmeal on the bottom of your pizza, sprinkle that on top of your oil. It works just fine without it, though. When the dough is ready, roll it out on your stone or just finger press it out. It does not matter. This recipe will make one large pizza or two small. Add what toppings, sauces, or whatever you like on the top. Move you oven rack to the lowest level possible and heat your oven to 500 degrees F. Likely the hottest its ever been to simulate a wood burning stove. That's where the best pizzas are made. Place your pizza in and in 10 short minutes you will have pizza perfection.
Now to prevent the need for gross frozen pizzas from the store, I make two small pizzas and let them cool and then slip them right into a gallon size Ziploc bag and stack them in my freezer. So, when I make this recipe, I always double it and make 1 large pizza for dinner that night and two small pizzas for the freezer.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Pancakes/Waffles
Here is my usual pancake recipe. It is easy and simple, so I love it and it makes one of Carter's favorite meals. I usually replace half of the white flour with ground white or red wheat flour and add a tablespoon of ground flax seed. It adds a bit of fiber and protein, but you can make it how you like.
Homemade Pancakes and Waffles
Ingredients:
2 C flour
5 t baking powder
2 t salt
3 T sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 C milk
5 T oil
Combine dry ingredients and stir in liquids. Stir just until blended. Batter will be lumpy. Bake on a hot, greased griddle. Makes about 12 pancakes.
Pancake variations: Prepare pancake batter as above. Stir in 1 cup blueberries or chopped apples, ½ cup raisins or chopped nuts.
Waffles: Add only egg yolks to better, beat egg white until stiff and fold into batter last. Bake on a hot, greased or sprayed waffle iron. Makes 12 waffles.
Homemade Pancakes and Waffles
Ingredients:
2 C flour
5 t baking powder
2 t salt
3 T sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 C milk
5 T oil
Combine dry ingredients and stir in liquids. Stir just until blended. Batter will be lumpy. Bake on a hot, greased griddle. Makes about 12 pancakes.
Pancake variations: Prepare pancake batter as above. Stir in 1 cup blueberries or chopped apples, ½ cup raisins or chopped nuts.
Waffles: Add only egg yolks to better, beat egg white until stiff and fold into batter last. Bake on a hot, greased or sprayed waffle iron. Makes 12 waffles.
Banana Bread
I got this recipe at least seven years ago from Dave's cousin Karen. It is truly the moistest banana bread I have ever tasted. It probably has the most calories of any banana bread I have ever made, but we won't worry about that.
Karen Brooks’s Banana Bread
5 large bananas
4 eggs, beaten
1 c shortening
2 c sugar
4 c flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
In a bowl, mash bananas until they are liquid. Add the 4 eggs and mix thoroughly. In a separate bowl, cream together the shortening and the sugar. Add the egg and banana mixture and mix until combine. Add flour, baking soda, and salt and mix slowly until barely combined. Bake in 2 well greased and sugared loaf pans at 250 degrees for 1 ½ to 2 ½ hours (or until a toothpick comes out clean).
Karen Brooks’s Banana Bread
5 large bananas
4 eggs, beaten
1 c shortening
2 c sugar
4 c flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
In a bowl, mash bananas until they are liquid. Add the 4 eggs and mix thoroughly. In a separate bowl, cream together the shortening and the sugar. Add the egg and banana mixture and mix until combine. Add flour, baking soda, and salt and mix slowly until barely combined. Bake in 2 well greased and sugared loaf pans at 250 degrees for 1 ½ to 2 ½ hours (or until a toothpick comes out clean).
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