Food Friday: Chocolate Eclair Squares

Happy New Year guys! How did you spend your New Year's Eve? I was up making some desserts for us, a little bit of experimenting, if you will. This is a quick and easy recipe that anyone can do. It's very delicious, too!

Ingredients
2 cups cold milk
2 pkg. (3.4 oz each) Jell-O Vanilla Instant Pudding
1 tub (8 0z) Whipped Topping, thawed
64 Nilla Wafers
2 squares semi-sweet chocolate

Directions
Beat milk and pudding mixes with whisk for 2 minutes. Stir in whipped topping.
Arrange 16 wafers at the bottom of an 8-inch square dish; cover with one-third of the pudding mixture. Repeat layers twice.
op with remaining wafers.
Refrigerate for 4 hours.
Melt chocolate squares. Drizzle over dessert.
Enjoy!

Makes 16 servings, one square each.

Food Friday: Chocolate Chip Muffins

This entry is special to me because I actually baked these muffins! Check out the recipe HERE.

Food Friday: Cappuccino Mousse Cake

Hey Food Friday peeps, I'm back! After a few weeks of hiatus, I have come up with a sweet treat for you: Cappuccino Mousse Cake! Yummy!

I have a hankering for sweets these days and I just couldn't help myself. I also found a recipe online for this delicious treat (It's not the recipe for this one though).

Recipe
Ingredients

• 4 ounces white chocolate
• 2 1/2 teaspoons instant coffee
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream, divided
• 1 tablespoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1/4 teaspoon McCormick® Gourmet Collection® Saigon Cinnamon
• 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate morsels
• 1 tablespoon shortening
• 1/4 cup sugar
• chocolate curls for garnish

Directions

1. Chill clean mixing bowl and balloon whip in freezer for whipping cream.
2. Heat white chocolate in a medium microwaveable bowl, uncovered, on High 1 minute; stir. Microwave 30 seconds at a time until mixture can be stirred smooth. Dissolve instant coffee in 1 teaspoon hot water. Add dissolved coffee, 1/4 cup heavy cream, vanilla, and cinnamon to chocolate and stir until smooth. Set aside to cool completely.
3. Place semi-sweet chocolate and shortening in a small microwave-safe bowl, and microwave as described in step 2. Place foil muffin liners in eight muffin tins. Working on one chocolate cup at a time, spoon about 1 tablespoon melted chocolate into foil liner, and, using a small pastry brush, "paint" chocolate about half-way up each liner. Chill in refrigerator or freezer until hardened, about 10-15 minutes.
4. While chocolate cups are chilling, whip remaining 3/4 cup heavy cream in chilled bowl until soft peaks form. Add sugar gradually and whip to very stiff peaks. Very gently fold whipped cream into the cooled chocolate mixture, taking care to maintain the fluffiness of the whipped cream.
5. Remove chocolate cups from refrigerator and carefully peel off foil liners. If chocolate becomes too soft, return to refrigerator for a few minutes. Fill each chocolate cup with about 4 tablespoons whipped cream mixture. Garnish with chocolate curls, if desired. Refrigerate; let stand about 5 minutes at room temperature before serving.

Recipe: allrecipes.com

Weekly Fest: Mayang's Ice Cream Cake

I am a sucker for dessert. I mean, who isn't? This week, PMC's theme is about, you guessed it - DESSERT!

Here's my quick and easy dessert that I made (a few years back) and aptly named Mayang's Ice Cream Cake. What's more, you don't need to be Julia Child to whip up this little heaven of sweetness.

Credits

What You'll Need
3 T butter or margarine
2 quarts different flavored Ice Cream (your choice. I prefer vanilla and mocha)
15-25 pieces Oreo cookies
12 oz whipped topping
Rainbow Sprinkles, Almonds, Peanuts (take your pick)
Chocolate syrup

What You Need To Do

1. Thaw ice cream.
2. Crush Oreo cookies (seriously, use a food processor!)
3. Melt butter (go ahead, use the microwave)
4. Mix 1-2 cups of the crushed Oreo cookies and butter.
5. In an 8 inch cake pan, press cookie mixture to the bottom, freeze for about 15 minutes.
6. Spread thawed ice cream (pick the first flavor of your choice) over the cookie crust.
7. Spread remaining crushed cookie mixture on top of ice cream.
8. Spread thawed ice cream (other flavor) on top of the cookie mixture.
9. Cover with foil and freeze for about four hours.
10. Attached a star tip to an icing decorator. Fill with thawed whipped topping and decorate.
11. Sprinkle with rainbow sprinkles, almonds/peanuts.
12. Freeze for about an hour.
13. Serve. Enjoy!

Simple? Yes, it is! Try it!

This weeks' fest is brought to you by Praning's Shoutout, Ivory Tasks, & I Play Mom

Food Friday: Tiramisu

It is quite obvious that I have one gigantic sweet tooth. It's one of my sinful pleasures that I relish even though I am always dieting constantly.

This is one of the reasons why I loathe going to the supermarket because these blasted places always display their bakery or cake isle at the ENTRANCE! Sheesh! Can't they give us a break?

I caved and bought a slice of yummy Tiramiso. I love it!

Food Friday: New York Cheesecake

One of my favorite deserts has to be Cheesecake. Well, New York Cheesecake, that is. This is because I haven't tried the other varieties of cheesecakes available. I still cringe at the thought of trying a Bleu Cheese Cheesecake but I am all for trying them!

American cheesecakes generally rely on cream cheese and were invented in 1872 as an alternative to French Neufchâtel. French Neufchâtel is a soft, slightly crumbly, mold-ripened cheese made in the region of Normandy. French Neufchâtel has aroma and taste of mushrooms and is usually sold in heart shapes.

Cheesecake that tastes like mushrooms? I'll have to pass up that one! It is very interesting to note how different food where invented, and indeed, they have to be invented. Most of them seem to have been invented by accident; like potato chips and leavened bread.

Let's go back to the cheesecake. New York-style cheesecake (image above) relies upon heavy cream, cream cheese, eggs and egg yolks to add a richness and a smooth consistency. Some recipes use cottage cheese and lemon for distinct texture and flavor or add chocolate or strawberry to the basic recipe.

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