Smores in a Cone

Smores in a Cone? Yep! On Father's day, we had the grill going, and any time we have the grill going... we always make smores! My mother in law mentioned that she heard someone talk about making smores in a cone! So, we tried it out!

I'm so bad at taking picture of what we used. So, I meshed pictures together! Hahaha, I know So classy!

Here are the items that we used:

So, take one piece of the Hershey rectangle, and break it in half. Put it in the sugar cone, and tear the marshmallow in half, put the first half in, then two more Hershey chocolate piece. then put the second half of the marshmallow on top of the chocolate pieces.

Wrap it up in a foil.
Put it on the grill!

It depends on the heat of the grill, we put it on for about 8 minutes. 

When you open it, be careful because the top marshmallow that we put on top is going to be all over the foil.

The kids loved it. I did too... so much that I ate two! :)

I think next time, I'll use the mini-marshmallow, so I wouldn't need to tear any large marshmallows apart.


Let me know if you gave it a try!

low fat cheesecake brownies

I'm more of a cupcake-baker-kind-of-girl. But for the new year, I wanted to make something when we go over to my sister-in-law's. My husband and I have been going over to play with her husband and her this steve jackson game called munchkin. I think we've played 4 nights this week! My sister-in-law and I are on weight watchers, so we need to watch the numbers... and for me, I have hard time getting the "good" oils in (such as canola, olive, sunflower, and safflower). Each brownie bar is 3 points (if you are on ww too). This is what I used for the brownies, and I'm sure you could substitute any part of it.

I snagged this recipe from Cooking Light Magazines, but changed a few to make it even more "lighter".

Low-Fat Cheesecake Brownies
[2 dozen (unless you want smaller bars)
Supplies: hand mixer, 13 x 9 inch pan (I used a pyrex), large, medium, and small bowls, and measuring cups & spoons.

Brownies:

non-flavor canola oil cooking spray
1/2 cup light butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large egg whites
1 large egg
2/3 cup unsweened cocoa
1/2 cup skim milk
1 1/2 all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Topping:

8-ounce 1/3-less-fat cream cheese
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
14-ounce fat-free sweetened condensed milk
1 large egg

***

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Coat the bottom of a 13 x 9 inch pan with cooking spray (just don't coat the sides, if you do, just take a paper towel and wipe it off once).

To start preparing for the brownies, beat the butter in a large bowl at medium speed until fluffy, it took me about 5 minutes to fluff this butta!

Add the sugar (which I added half cup at a time) and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until well mixed.
Add egg whites and 1 egg, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Add cocoa (be careful here, pour it in slowly, or you'll have a dust of cocoa in your face!), mix well, then add the 1/2 cup of milk. Your mix will have the water down effect when you add the milk. In the small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Use a fork to combine it together. Slowly add it to the cocoa mixture in low speed until blended (see picture below). Spoon the batter into the pan.

Now, for the topping!! Place the cream cheese in the medium bowl, beat with a mixer until smooth. Gradually add cornstarch, then the rest of the ingredients. Beat until smooth. Spread evenly over batter.

Bake at 350 for about 40 min, or until set. Cool in pan on a wire rack.

We let it cool for about 15 min, and ran over to my sister-in-law's to play the game!

Everyone enjoyed them very much, I'm more of a chocolate person (and my husband is not), when I make this again, I'm going to put about 1/2 cup of mini chocolate chips in the cheesecake batter. Yum-Yum!

Enjoy! :)

Nicole

black bottom!

Couple of weeks ago, a co-worker had suggested that I should try to make "black bottom cupcakes" ... i gave him a confused look, probably because I had never heard of it! He looked it up for me online... and they seem to be pretty popular.

So, I said I'll give it a try, and he has to bring the milk (since many people who commented on the receipe said that it is good with milk because of it's creamy richness.




























It was delicious! So chocolatey and rich.... you should definitely give it a try! I used the receipe on allreceipe.com. -- it didn't come out to be 24 for me. Next time, I'm going to make double chocolate batch.

cupcakes

Another one of my favorite things to do are to make cupcakes... i usually just make it from those ones in the box... but i decided to make some from scratch.

I made red velvet cupcakes for a get together that we had on Saturday. These were the only four left... It was my first time making them from scratch. they disappeared so fast! I had to make sure that we were able to eat some! I aslo made the icing, which was had enough to make another batch of cupcakes... the next day... ... ...



On Sunday, I made carrot cupcakes... I didn't want to go out to get more carrots, so I grated the baby carrots... I'm never doing that again! i think in only got like 3 grates, and then poof, the carrot was gone! The icing didn't turn out as defined when i put them on the cupcakes... they just looked like they were drooping on top. I waited till they cooled. I'm not sure if it made a difference if they were used the next day. Either way, they turned out really, really good. I took majority of them to work today, they disappeared there too!

cupcakes are so delicious!