Recipes from Pintrest

I joined Pintrest a few months ago so I could view a recipe to use at my after school program.  After looking at a few pins every once in a while, usually clothes and cool geeky things, I found these.

(This picture is from luluthebaker.blogspot.com)

What was this gooey bar of decadence?  I had to find out.  So I clicked on the picture and it took me to a blog called luluthebaker.blogspot.org.  I found the recipe there and decided to give it a try!

This is a double recipe, so feel free to cut in half as needed.

In a large bowl combine 1 1/2 cups brown sugar

2 cups flour

2 cups rolled oats

2 tsp of baking soda

and 1 1/2 cups melted butter.

In a sauce pan melt 2 packages of soft caramels with 1 cup of heavy cream.

Pour half of the oat mixture into a lined pan and bake in a 350 degree oven for 10 minutes.

Remove from oven, sprinkle 1 bag of chocolate chips on top.

Pour the caramel mixture over these.

I looks like it's going to overflow...

Then crumble the rest of the oat mixture on top and pop it back in the oven for another 20 minutes.

I let this cool for a few hours.  I let it sit for 5 hours before tasting some of it.

The caramel was still molten even 2 hours after it was taken out of the oven.  However, the resulting dessert was ridiculously awesome!

Thanks to Melissa from luluthebaker.blogspot.com for allowing me to present this recipe on my blog!

Enjoy!

Blueberry Cup Cakes

I had made banana cup cakes before, and I wondered if altering the recipe by switching out the fruit would work.  I used the same recipe from this post but with blueberries.

Combine butter and shortening on high speed.

Mix in sugar and vanilla.

Eggs.

Mix in mashed blueberries.

And then mix in all the dry alternatively with butter milk.

Bake in a 350 degree oven for 25 minutes.

Let cool.

Apply cream cheese frosting.

They might not have been the prettiest cupcakes I've made, but these tasted so good, and were much appreciated by the birthday boy they were intended for.

Enjoy!

Bread Pudding

I love bread pudding.  It's a decadent comfort food, and I've had my fair share of it.  I have never made it before, so I decided to look up a few recipes and make one up on the fly.

I combined 5 eggs

with 1 cup of brown sugar

1 cup of whole milk

and 2 cups half and half.

Whisk together.

Next I whisked in 1 tsp of cinnamon

and 1  tsp of nutmeg, fresh nutmeg.

Now for the bread.  I go to the Troy Farmer's Market every Saturday, and there's a bread vendor that sells some of the best bread and pastries I have eaten.  I bought a very special loaf just for this recipe, a lemon cranberry bread.  So sweet, and tart, I personally like to toast it up with butter.

I cut it up into chunks and put it into my custard mix.

After a few stirs I let it sit for 30 minutes at room temperature stirring it so the bread soaks up the goodness.

Pour into a baking dish and bake for 45 min at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, or until the center is set.

This is gorgeous, and it smelled heavenly.