Ultimate Rice Crispy Treats

Ultimate Rice Crispy Treats



Ive alwayz struggled w/ making good rice crispy treats. Always trying new recipes, hoping that maybe I'll finally land a decent one. Biggest complaint is that they usually end up very dry and won't hold together. Tonight I finally found whats honestly the best rice crispy treat recipe EVER! They're so perfect. The original recipe* calls for regular rice cereal but I used cocoa crispies; either would work. Also the original recipe calls for vanilla. I skipped the vanilla. But anyway, Here's the recipe Below (exact way I made it)...

Ultimate Rice Crispy Treats

1/4 C salted butter
4 C mini marshmallows
1 C mini marshallows
5 C crisp rice cereal 
1/2 small Jar Marshmallow cream (so that would be like 3 ounces)

1. Combine butter and 4 C marshmallows in a mircrowave-safe bowl. Cook for 1 1/2- 2 minutes or until the butter and marshmallow are just melted, no longer.
2. Add remaining 1 C of marshmallows and 5 C of cereal and stir until the cereal is well coated. (Gage the texture as you stir and you can add a tad more rice cereal and/or more marshmallows, if needed.)
3. Butter 9x9 glass pan and spread 1/2 of the cereal mixture into the pan, pressing with just barely buttered hands to make it easier.
4. Place spoonfuls of the marshmallow cream over the entire top of the layer of cereal and spread to cover.
5. Press remaining cereal mixture over the marshmallow cream and press into an even layer.
6. Let cool and set for about an hour and slice. I put mine in the freezer for apx 30 min. Then Cut.

*Original Recipe written by Heather from Heatherlikesfood.com. You can Click Here for the original Recipe (basically the recipe w/out my modifications)

best pie crust: click here

Strawberry Milk

Strawberry Milk

Strawberry Syrup:
1.5 c strawberries
3/4 c sugar
3/4 c milk

mash strawberries w/ sugar and milk in saucepan over med-high heat until boiling, (mashing/stirring constantly). Reduce heat to med and keep stirring/mashing 10 more min. Remove from heat. pour mixture into vitamix blender. blend/pulse on high till smooth. shouldn't take very long (apx 20 sec.) pour mixture into strainer and strain over container. discard whats left in strainer and keep the stuff that landed in the container... this stuff is your strawberry syrup. cover and store syrup in refrigerator.

Strawberry Milk:
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup strawberry syrup

Mix/blend milk w/ syrup. add more syrup if milk is not sweet enough.

Chocolate Chip Bars

Chocolate Chip Bars
original recipe source: What Meredith Makes

1/2 cup butter flavored cricso
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 cups flour
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup heath toffee bits

beat crisco w/ sugars till creamy. Beat in baking soda, salt, and vanilla. Beat in Eggs till thouroughly combined. Gradualy beat in flour. Mix in chocolate chips and heath bits. Spread dough into 9x13 baking dish. Bake at 350 for 18-22 min. "I like mine slightly undercooked. That way, they stay doughy when they’re cold!" (Meredith, whatmerrymakes.com)

1 XXL Death by Chocolate Cookie

Makes 1 Giant Cookie

2 T butter

2 T sugar

2 T brown sugar

2 T beaten egg

1/2 t vanilla

3/8 C flour

2 T cocoa

1/4 t baking soda

1/8 t salt

1/4 C + 1 T mini chocolate chips (divided)

Beat butter and sugars till creamy. Add egg, vanilla, soda, and salt. Beat till well mixed. Slowly beat in flour, cocoa, and then 1/4 C mini chips. Drop/spread/form dough in 1 mound on center of greased cookie sheet. sprinkle top of dough with remaining mini chips. Bake at 350 for 11 min.

The original recipe for this comes from Sally's Baking Addiction, however, i had to make a few minor modifications in order for my cookie to turn out right. Modifications such as more flour, less baking soda, and less salt. Nothing is worse to me than a flat cookie so I had to do more flour other wise the cookie definitely would have turned out flat. (might have to do w/ living in a high altitude location.) And then I chose to use less baking soda and salt because 1/2 t baking soda for just 1 cookie seems like way too much and then less salt because Im not a fan of salty cookies so it was my way of playing it safe. This cookie tastes like a molten lava cake, but in a cookie form. The inside is so moist and fudge-like. Its incredible. You just have to try it. I love the fact that this recipe make just 1 giant cookie (giant as in size of my face,) especially since my mom freaks out when I make a large batch. She hates when there are too many sweets sitting around, however she definitely wasn't mad about this one considering she pinned the recipe and ate half my cookie ): Its OK, i'll for sure be making this again 

Ashleys banana bread

Ashleys banana bread

1/3 cup butter softened
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup mashed overripe banana (apx 2.5 bananas)
1/4 cup beaten egg (apx. 1 XL egg)
1 1/4 cup flour

Beat butter and sugar till creamy. Beat in soda, salt, vanilla, and egg. Gradually mix in flour and banana. Pour batter into buttered glass loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 45 min.

This recipe was developed through my years of making banana bread and trying and modifying many different recipes. Its absolutely perfect. It has a lot more banana content compared to most other banana bread recipes.

peanut butter mini cup cookies

Bought a box of krusteaz peanut butter cookie mix and used it as i followed the krusteaz recipe for "peanut butter mini cup cookies." My mom made cookies like these for us when we were kids. only difference is hers were 100% scratch (because they didn't have krusteaz mixes 20 yrs ago.) these turned out truly amazing! Click HERE for recipe. 

Martha Stewart No.2 Sugar Cookies

Martha Stewart essential recipe no.2 sugar cookies holds its shape far better than any other sugar cookie recipe. roll dough thick and bake only 8 min and they will be soft and perfect.

Give each kid their own cookie and a cup of frosting w/ a plastic knife for safe decorating. They love this. Gives them a sense of autonomy.

Click HERE for the recipe

Rice Pudding

Best Rice Pudding Ive EVER made or tasted. It Has a Custard-like Flavor. I followed the recipe to the letter. Only change I made was I added 2t cornstarch to the simmering milk & rice (just to enhance thickening) also I recommend using whole milk (makes for a creamier texture and richer taste) Click link for Recipe: Creamy Rice Pudding

Fried Peanut Butter Jelly

this isn't the best picture so i'll try and get a better one next time i make this but its pbj dipped in pancake batter and then fried in a ton of butter. AMAZiNG. saw the idea on eat street and had to copy

Cake Batter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Everyones gonna LOVE this Post! These cookies have 3 super fun ingredients: cake batter, sprinkles, chocolate chips. Found the recipe on Sally's Baking Addiction and was somewhat skeptical because I don't LOVE cake mix cookies. I like they're flavor but its sometimes just a little too strong. But when I saw that these cookies had equal part flour to cake mix I realized that this is not the traditional "Cake mix cookie" Also there is less egg and more butter in this recipe than in the traditional cake mix cookie recipe, therefore these cookies are more shortbread like, which I definitely prefer. Below is the recipe. It is written pretty much identical to sally's. Only difference are: I omitted the baking soda. (I don't like what leavening agents do to my cookies. They offer no benefits and make the cookies taste bitter and cause the cookie to lose its shape, so ya, why bother?) I used crisco instead of butter. Im definitely bias towards crisco, always have been. I used mini chips instead of regular chips (its because mini chips are what I had on hand and the cookies turned out great so I think I'll use mini chips next time as well. I one time made some cookies using white chocolate mini chips and they were so cool. I just can't find mini white chips at the store anymore): I also used christmas sprinkles (but thats not a switch up, thats just a variation. The blue christmas sprinkles Made these turn out soooo pretty!!!)


Cake Batter Chocolate Chip Cookies
3/4 cup crisco
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 t vanilla
1 egg
1-1/4 cup cake mix (white or yellow)
1-1/4 cup Flour
1 cup mini chocolate chips (white chocolate and/or semi-sweet chocolate)
1/2 cup sprinkles

Beat crisco and sugars till creamy. Add egg and vanilla. Beat till thoroughly combined. Gradually mix in flour and cake mix till cookie dough forms. Fold in sprinkles and chocolate chips. Scoop rounded tablespoons of cold-chilled dough onto cookie sheet. Bake cookies at 350 8-12 min (depending on size of cookies and also whether you like them more doughy or more golden.)

I baked mine for 10 min. Normally I would do 8min but Im bringing these to work and as much as I love doughy cookies I probably shouldn't serve raw doughy cookies to co-workers.

Recipe adapted from HERE 

American Girl Dolls

2 Videos to justify me wanting to buy just ONE American Girl doll (I do not own these videos)

Disney Store Tangled Toddler

Something Ive never mentioned: I LOVE dolls!! Always have, and always will. I definitely have my favorites: Bratz dolls, Bratzillas, Blythe dolls, American Girl Dolls, and just random dolls I happen to come across and fall in love with. This Tangled Doll (from Disney Store) is my most recent and she's absolutely adorable. 2 yrs ago my mom boughs my nieces chloe and Ella one each for christmas and I instantly fell for her, so I went to the Disney Store to get my own but they had sold out within like 1st day of selling them (which is why my mom had initially bought the 2.) So I found her on Ebay (new in a box) and she arrived yesterday. So thrilled(:

Salt Dough Ornaments

Salt Dough Ornaments

Ingredients
2 cups Flour
1 Cup Salt
1 cup Water
1/2 teaspoon vegetable oil
Food Coloring

Materials
Parchment Paper
Cookie Cutters
String or ribbons
Paints and Glitters
Straws

Mix Flour and Salt in Medium Sized Bowl. Gradually add Water and mix until dough Forms. Dump Dough onto clean Counter Top. Sprinkle dough with 1/4 or 1/2 teaspoon veg oil. Knead Dough 10 minutes. Let Dough Rest 20 min. Add Food Coloring to the dough (if you'd rather not paint.) Use cookie cutters and hands to make/mold whatever shape ornaments you want. Use a straw to poke a hole in the top so you can hang them with a string or ribbon. Bake 40 min (over parchment) at 200. Once they are baked and dry, you can paint them bedazzle with glitter or whatever you want!!

Gingerbread Cookies

Pillsbury Gingerbread Cookies
(Using Pillsbury Gingerbread Cookie Dough)

Selma's Cookies

Selma's Cookies

Yesterday I ordered the worlds most amazing cookies EVER created. They are called Selma's Cookies. They are so amazing that both Disney World and Disney Land sell them at Disney bakeshops all throughout and around the 2 theme parks, which is why Selma's is located in only Florida and California. I wanted these as fresh as possible, so I had Selma's Overnight them to my house via FEDEX and luckily they arrived in even less than 24 hrs from when I had placed the order and tasted better fresher and doughier than I had even remembered. http://www.selmas.com/

Parker House Rolls

Parker House Rolls
The Pioneer Woman 

As Ive mentioned before, I grew up in Cincinnati Ohio. We didn't have any relatives out East so we always spent holidays with our good friends from church "The Butlers." They lived just a few doors down the street from us and Kim Butler was my best friend so I was at their house almost every day. On thanksgiving, Helen Butler (the mother,) always made homemade rolls. I didn't care much for all the other thanksgiving food, but I was in love w/ Helens rolls; Either because she made them extremely well or because my mom NEVER made rolls. I would hide in a corner and eat one roll after another. I think one thanksgiving I ate like 9 of them ): So this year, I decided I would try making homemade rolls. I didnt want to use Helens recipe because it calls for eggs. I stopped eating breads that have egg in the dough. Thats a whole different story. ANyway, so I figured my best bet would be Pioneer Womans Parker House Rolls. Keep in mind, this was my 1t time EVER making homemade rolls, so no way could they have turned out perfect. They were definitely good though and much easier than I expected, except for the kneading part (we don't have a kitchen aid, so I had to do it by hand.) My moms going to buy a kitchen aid (or Bosch) within the next few days so as soon as she does, I'll for sure be trying this recipe again. What I loved most about the rolls was that they are Extremely Buttery. I knew that they would be based upon just having read the recipe ingredients, which is one of the main reasons I initially chose to use this recipe. They're also more of a sweet roll, so IMO they taste best plain or with butter and Jam (smucker's seedless strawberry.) Click HERE for full recipe and instructions

Cookie Brownies

Betty Crocker Supreme Bars: Cookie Brownie 

I made these tonight with Caleb. He sits on the counter and pours the ingredients into the bowl and then  also does the mixing. He likes helping for about 5 min and then off he goes. I'm just glad he's somewhat learning how to bake even if its just to a small degree. So about this Dessert: I don't feel its really even necessary to review this product in terms of taste. I mean, its a Betty Crocker dessert mix. Of course its gonna taste good. Instructions were accurate. Baking time and temp was spot on. Just make sure you use an 8x8 glass or silicone pan. definitely not a bigger one. 

Pumpkin Pie Bars

KRUSTEAZ Pumpkin Pie Bar

I made these Bars using the Krusteaz Pumpkin Pie Bar Mix. They definitely taste amazing. Especially the gingerbread Crust. The only thing that might bother someone abut these is that theres no canned pumpkin and  definitely no real Pumpkin. The Pumpkin filling is made from some dry Pumpkin flavored powder the you mix with eggs, butter, and water (I used Milk.) So if your into "all-natural," these bars are probably not for you. I was just in the mood for a pumpkin Flavored dessert and these definitely worked for me. And once again, the gingerbread crust is the best part.

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