TWO WAY TWIX BARS

original chocolate + caramel  twix bar:

recipe via bakers royale

cinnamon shortbread + white chocolate:

SHORTBREAD

1 cups unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups flour
¼ cup powdered sugar
¼ cup granulated sugar
¼ salt
1 teaspoon vanilla

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line 8×8 pan with parchment paper.
3. Cream butter until smooth.
4. Slowly add sugars and vanilla and mix until incorporated.
5. Gently fold flour + cinnamon into mixture until incorporated.
6. Flatten dough into parchment lined 8×8 pan. Using a fork pierce holes into dough. Place pan in fridge to chill for an hour prior to baking.
7. Bake 8-12 minutes.
8. Return pan with baked shortbread layer to fridge for one hour before adding white chocolate mixture.

WHITE CHOCOLATE LAYER

1 1/2 cup white chocolate chips

1 tablespoon heavy cream

1. Place heat proof bowl with chocolate and heavy cream in a skillet or sauté pan over barely simmering water until thick and creamy.
2. Pour chocolate on top of shortbread.
3. Cool for about 1 hour.

summer desert

 you know it's officially summer when you've been invited to a barbeque. i volunteered to bring deserts, but i'm oh so indecisive...

1. mini strawberry shortcakes

from snappy gourmet

2. olive oil cake with candied oranges

from food babbles

3. blue berry streusel bars with lemon cream filling

from tracey's culinary adventures

4. strawberry cream cake

from everyday occasions

5. chocolate tart with creme and blood orange

from our kitchen

6. strawberry upside down cake

from joy the baker

7. citrus cake with lemon curd filling and orange lemon icing

from apollinas

gimme gimme more

gimme sweet nostalgia, backyard campfires, burnt marshmallows, sticky fingers. gimme s'mores.

1. s'mores bars

from cherry tea cakes

2. s'mores cake in a jar

from home sweet eats

3. s'mores graham cookies

from budding baketress

4. chocolate covered s'mores grahams

from sarah cucina bella

5. peanut butter s'mores turnovers

from recipe girl

6. s'mores cupcakes

from annie's eats

7. chocolate covered s'more cookies

from simmer down

cookie brownies

during the school week i was craving something sweet and something majorly chocolatey. i was torn between chocolate chip cookies and brownies. im the worst decision maker, so combined the two!

chocolate chip cookie brownies

i didnt really like the recipe, but it was a cool idea!

from the family kitchen

bananas

mother's day is coming up and my mama's favorite desert always incudes bananas. last year i made her banana crumble top muffins, but this year i want to be more creative:

1. banana nutella shortbread cupcakes with caramel frosting

 

from  tony a doughty

2. chocolate banana spring rolls

from simply delicious

3. frozen banana bites (vegan)

from namely marly

4. baked banana chips

from naturally ella

5. raw banana nut squares with coconut cream cheese frosting (vegan)

from pride and vegudice

6. banana ice cream sandwhiches

from veggie-wedgie

easter weekend

i spent the whole weekend in the kitchen:

 fettucini with homemade alfredo and sauted mushrooms and broccoli by request of my brother

 cherry cheesecake by request of my dad. and because april 23 is national cherry cheesecake day!

 my sister's really cute easter eggs that i'm envious of. mine were pretty cool but transformed into egg salad sandwhich feeling befor i could snap a picture.

shortbread cookie bars with strawberry preserves (and no pecans) from baking bites. i was on desert control for easter dinner.

peanut butter!

i L.O.V.E. peanut butter. peanut butter and jelly. peanut butter and bananas. peanut butter and chocolate. peanut butter fluffernutter, sweet lord. back in the golden days of my youth (middle school) i would pack a peanut butter fluffernutter sandwich everyday for lunch. and i'm still not sick of them. this post is an ode to peanut butter, who has helped me through my omnivore, vegetarian, and vegan days and i'm positive will help me through my college and motherhood days. peanut butter, you will be with me always.

*links torecipes are italicized under each picture.

1. peanut butter fluffernutter sandwhich

2. peanut butter chocolate micro tarts(vegan)

from clean green simple


3. peanut butter ice cream and mini fluffernutter sundaes
 
from bakingdom

4. peanut butter pretzel bites

from 17 and baking

5. peanut butter and jelly cupcakes with peanut butter buttercream

from carrots n chocolate

6. nutella and peanut butter granola bars

from pass the sushi