Peanut Butter Squares

Okay...these are sooo delicious, and sooo easy. Honestly, they're just as easy as Rice Krispie Squares, and they taste like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, I'm not kidding.

Here's the ingredients:
1/2 cup margerine
3/4 cup smooth peanut butter
2 cups icing sugar
1/4 cup graham crumbs
1 cup chocolate chips (I did half milk chocolate, half semi-sweet - Chipits, of course!)
2 Tbsp. margerine

Here's what you do:

Melt in a saucepan (on medium heat):
1/2 cup margerine
then add 3/4 cup smooth peanut butter

Melt and stir until smooth. Remove from heat.
Then add: 1/4 cup graham crumbs and 2 cups of icing sugar.

Stir until combined, and pour into foil-lined 9x9 inch pan. Smooth out (if you're slightly anal, as I am.)

Melt:
1 cup milk chocolate chips and 2 Tbsp. margerine in microwave for about 1 minute at 50%, then stir...if not completely melted and smooth, do another 20-30 seconds...Pour and smooth over top of squares, and refrigerate for a little bit...

Sooooo yummy. and so easy, right?! :)

Enjoy!! ~ K~

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Well. Yum. Really. And very red, but -- these pretty little things were supposed to be for a birthday party for a friend for a party for tonight, BUT - we had some really messy, snowy roads...so we are...stuck with a whole batch of these little treats...which. We WILL share. Tomorrow. Tonight they will enjoy just being pretty, and tomorrow: they will be devoured by my family.

Red Velvet Cupcakes

1/2 cup margarine

1 1/2 cups white sugar

2 eggs

2 Tbsp. cocoa

3 Tbsp. red food coloring

1 tsp. salt

2 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup buttermilk

1 tsp. baking soda

1 Tbsp. vinegar

Cream margarine; add sugar gradually.  Add eggs, one at a time; beat well. Make a paste of cocoa and food coloring in a small bowl, then add to the sugar mixture.  Mix flour and salt in a small bowl, and add alternately with the buttermilk, beating well after each addition.  Add vanilla. Sprinkle soda over vinegar in small bowl, then add to the batter. Stir with a wooden spoon until mixed.

Put in a well greased muffin pan or muffin liners (I use a silicone muffin pan - they are super easy to clean and get out!)  and bake at 350 for about 22 minutes. Leave in the pan 'til a bit cooled so they don't fall apart.

Icing

1 pckg. cream cheese, softened

6 Tbsp. butter, softened

1 tsp. vanilla

2 cups icing sugar

I also had whipped cream - and that was equally as yummy on top in place of icing!

Enjoy! ~ Kristi



THE MOST delish Apple Pecan Caramel Cheesecake

Get Prepared!
1 cup Graham Crumbs. I think for cheesecake it is ALWAYS best to get
the crackers, and mash them up in a zip lock baggie. The store bought
crumbs are to fine and you end up with a grainy crust plus we are adding
delish  chopped pecans to this crust  so you'll be happier with  the
texture of the banged up crackers.

3/4 cup pecans, chopped up a bit, divided into ½ and 1/4
3 Tbs white sugar
1 tsp Cinnamon
1/4 cup butter, melt that puppy for 20 seconds!
2 packs of cream cheese. I used whatever is on sale.. no name is just
fine.
½ cup more of white sugar
½ tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1/3 cup more of white sugar
4 cups peeled apple, sliced thin.

Lets Bake!

Oven gets turned on at 325* and you will bake this bad boy for 90
minutes.. I know that seems long.. but the temp is low and we want  that
low temp long cook time taste.(I actually don't know what this means..
It just sounds good.. BUT do cook for 90 minutes at 325*)

Mix it up:
Mix banged up crackers, ½ of the chopped pecans, 3Tbs sugar, ½ tsp
cinnamon and the melted butter. stir till everything is coated and press
into a 9' springform pan. Bake at 325 for 10 minutes.You are going to
LOVE how this smells.

Beat the softened cream cheese, ½ cup white sugar and the vanilla until
it's mixed well.Add the eggs one at a time.  Pour over the cooked crust.


Mix the other ½ tsp of cinnamon with the 1/3 cup of white sugar .. then
toss over the thinly sliced apples.  Lay the apples over the cheesecake
however you'd like them to look. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup of
chopped pecans over the apples.
Now Bake for the 09 minutes. Cool on rack  for 3 hours.. or do as I
do.. Bake  it at 10 Pm .. remove from Over at 11:30 pm and leave on the
counter over night with a little wax paper on top. But you do what you
like.

This is SERIOUSLY a BIG HIT.. One of my best Cheesecakes.. I wish I
could take credit for it's yummy goodness but I can't.. Im  big fan of
all things Kraft and this is one of their delish recipes.

Invite a friend over for coffee (or pepsi ;) and happy eating.

Cheers!
Amanda

maybe the best ice cream you'll ever eat...

So...last week, I was sick, and my little sister brought me one of my favorite treats: Farmer's Bay of Fundy Mudslide ice cream. Delicious, creamy chocolate ice cream, with swirls of caramel, and delightful little peanut butter cups - and I mean: a ton of them!! Its soooo yummy. If you live anywhere other than Canada...I'm sorry, but: you probably won't be so lucky as to try this yummy treat unless you come to Canada. And more specific: the Maritimes. Which really, is the best place in Canada, in my opinion. ~ Kristi