Because it was just too hot out this weekend to do anything, I stayed in and worked in my planner gathering holiday decorating ideas, to-do craft projects, and dessert recipes. Boy do I have a list of goodies to bake this year! One dessert I am excited to make, I made for a 4th July cookout. Not to brag but I did pretty darn good. They devoured it!!! It's called "Red Velvet Trifle". I found the recipe through Pinterest on a blog called Artsy Chicks Rule and here is where you can find this AMAZING recipe.
My masterpiece
I tweaked it a little. The recipe called for white chocolate kit kat candy bars. However I could not find any in the stores (Not a fan of white chocolate anyway). I usually don't see them til around Halloween. So I used the regular milk chocolate kit kat bars. Artsy Chick also had a choice between using white chocolate or cheesecake pudding to mix with half of the whipped topping. I think she used the white chocolate, but like I said, I really don't like white chocolate. It tastes too sweet to me. So I went with cheesecake.
When I make this for Christmas I will increase the amount of whipped topping used with the cream cheese and pudding mix (may have to increase the amount of cream cheese and pudding as well). I ran short when I got to the top and so you can see some of the cake peaking through. I think it's because the bowl I used is larger than the pretty bowl Artsy Chick used. If you look at her trifle, none of the cake is showing through on top.
For the topping I crumbled cake and kit kat bars I had leftover. Artsy Chick mentioned she did this when she made the trifle again. This is going be the centerpiece of my dessert table and probably the first thing to go. lol
Besides the trifle I have my tried and true cookies on the list. You know the chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, sugar, and gingerbread cookies...But there's also some new cookies, an ugly sweater cake and a new way to make oreo balls recipes added to the list. Can't wait to get started.
Well, here's my list. The ones with an * are new:
- red velvet trifle *
- banana balls*
- brown sugar pecan cookies*
- ugly sweater cake*
- cheesecake thumbprint cookies
- red velvet peppermint cookies*
- chocolate cookies
- egg nog cookies
- fun-fettie cookies*
- gingerbread cookies
- gingerbread reindeer balls* (as opposed to the regular oreo balls)
- chocolate chip cookies
- peanut butter cookies
- almond/cinnamon cookies
- oatmeal/raisin cookies, and
- sugar cookies
I will come back throughout the remaining months to share the results of the new recipes as well as give links on where you can find them. Some if not all of these could be done now and frozen. With this heat though the baking bug won't hit me until sometime next month. But you never know (wink).
So on that note I will stop here. Be back soon. BYE!!!
1 comment:
That is quite a list of cookies! I have been cutting down on my list every year as people seem to eat less dessert every year. Can't wait to see how you liked the new recipes.
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