This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! You may have noticed on my past posts, I've been having tons of fun in my garden this year. One of my best crops so far has been the beets! They are so beautiful when they are harvested! I've pickled some and I have to say that my Pickled Beets recipe is delicious. While delicious, you can only make so many pickled beets without wanting to branch out. You may remember that I do not love the taste of beets all by themselves, but they are so healthy, I find ways to eat them. (read about it here) So, today I'm sharing with you a great way to sneak these babies into your diet in a way that everyone will love! That's right, in cookies! Chocolate Beet Cookies to be exact! The beets in these cookies keep them moist and keep these cookies moist, the color is rich and dark and with a shmear of buttercream frosting they are the perfect snack and no one is the wiser that they contain the secret ingredient, beets! They are good without frosting as well, but I couldn't resist the frosting shmear and a few sprinkles. I based this recipe on our family favorite Fudge Mound Recipe. The batter comes out a bit thinner with the addition of the beets. I increased the flour by a bit, as well as the butter. Enjoy!
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Just the words Molten Lava Cake make me want one, even if I'm not hungry. The idea of that creamy warm chocolate, flowing out of a moist chocolate cake sets my makes my mouth start to water.
Unfortunately, I rarely allow myself to eat one because I know that they are not the healthiest things in the world for me. Then, I heard about a Molten Zucchini Cake and realized that if I made a Molten Lava Cake in a healthier way, I could enjoy the chocolatey goodness way more often! Plus, there is a bonus! This cake is a great way to use up the zucchini from your garden! Here are more great reasons why it is okay to eat this cake:
Here are a few tricks to making this cake successfully the first time. (It is pretty easy anyway!)
Here is the recipe:
Don't forget to sprinkle on the powdered sugar like you mean it! Enjoy!
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In my last post, I shared my first experience making yogurt. One of the great things about making yogurt is that you can use it for so many things. One of the things that I wanted to do first was to make cream cheese from the yogurt and make a cheesecake. Just like making the yogurt, turning it into a cream cheese substitute is very easy.
The first thing that you have to do is drain the yogurt until it is much thicker than the yogurt that you would normally eat. Since I needed about 2 cups of cream cheese for my cheesecake, I measured out about 2.5 cups of yogurt into a clean flour sack towel and put it into a strainer sitting over a bowl. The bowl will catch the extra whey that will drain out. Leave the yogurt to drain in the refrigerator over night. You could also use your regular yogurt strainer. I didn't because my yogurt amount was so small that I could take up less room in my fridge by using a smaller bowl and strainer.
When your yogurt is finished draining, it will look like this. Next you use it just like cream cheese and make your recipe as you normally would.
I decided to make a Lemon Blackberry Cheesecake by baking the lemon cheesecake base and then topping it with a stabilized blackberry whipped cream. I used lemon oil and lemon zest to flavor the lemon cream cheese base. It came out pretty awesome. Here is the recipe:
There will be more yogurt product recipes to come, so come back and see!
Here are some other cheesecake recipes you will enjoy:
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I recently have seen ads for Cracker Barrel restaurant advertising their Cinnamon Roll Pie. That sounded intriguing to me, so I got on line and checked out just what this thing is. Surprisingly, it turns out that their pie is actually cinnamon rolls baked in a pie crust. Interesting and probably good but it sounds very starchy to me. The idea got my wheels turning though and I thought, "What if the Cinnamon Rolls were the crust of the pie?"
Well, obviously, I didn't want to go to all of the trouble of baking a batch of cinnamon rolls just to mash them into a pie crust. I went to the store and bought some canned cinnamon rolls and smooshed them into the bottom of my pie dish. It took 2 tubes of them to cover the bottom and the sides. Sometimes you have to cut the cinnamon rolls in half to fit them around the sides of the dish.
I prebaked my cinnamon roll crust by placing another pie dish in the center and adding weight. You a can get pie weights, or use beans or something. I didn't want my cinnamon rolls to rise up and get puffy. They did puff a bit, but that was okay, they still had the crust shape with room to add a filling. I baked it at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.
When the crust was out of the oven, I filled it with some of my home canned pie filling, just one jar.
Then, I topped the pie filling with a cinnamon streusel topping!
Next, I popped the pie back into the 400 degree oven for another 15 minutes until the streusel was brown and toasty.
But, there was one thing missing! You can't have cinnamon rolls without the ooey, gooey frosting! So, I used the frosting from the cinnamon roll tubes to drizzle on top of the pie!
Finally, we ate it for dessert after a great chicken dinner with roasted vegetables! This seems like such an All American Meal to me and the pie was the perfect ending. Everyone pronounced the pie a success! I think it will be a terrific breakfast pie as well! It is kind of like a breakfast apple streusel or coffee cake. it would be perfect on Christmas morning.
Let me know if you give this pie a try! I hope you love it!
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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