Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Muffins

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Muffins

1½ cups flour (to be healthier, use Whole Wheat flour)
½ cup rolled oats
1/3 cup light-brown sugar, packed
1/3 cup sugar
cinnamon to taste
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup milk or water
1/2 cup oil
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1½-2 cups chopped apples

Preheat oven to 400°F and grease a muffin pan.
In a large bowl, stir together flour, oats, sugars, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, stir together milk/water, eggs, oil, and vanilla until blended. Make a well in centre of dry ingredients and add wet ingredients, stirring just to combine. Stir in apple.
Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups and bake for 15-20 minutes or until a muffins pass the toothpick test.
Allow muffins to cool on a wire rack for five minutes before removing from pan to continue cooling.
Serve warm or completely cooled. But they are best Straight out of the oven!
Muffins can be frozen.

Great for Breakfast, or a snack!

Way too yummy for words! And so easy to make!

Knock You Naked Brownies

 I took this recipe from my best friend's "new recipe" blog :) Thanks Jess!!

Knock You Naked Brownies

1 box German Chocolate cake mix
1 cup finely chopped pecans (optional)
1/3 cup and 1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/2 cup melted butter
50 whole caramels unwrapped
1/3 cup chocolate chips
Powdered Sugar

preheat oven to 350.

Mix together cake mix, *pecans, 1/3 cup evaporated milk and melted butter. Mixture will be very thick.
 Press half of mixture in greased 9X9 baking pan.
Bake 10 mins.
 Remove from oven. set aside.
Melt Caramels w/ 1/2 cup evaporated milk in saucepan on med. heat.
When melted pour over brownie in baking pan. Top w/ chocolate chips.
Use remaining brownie to make large square a little smaller than pan. set it on top of chocolate chips.
Bake 20-25 mins.
Once cooled sprinkle with powdered sugar.

This was SO GOOEY AND GOOD!!!

Lemon Butter Shrimp

Lemon Butter Shrimp

What you'll need:

• Shrimp
• 1 stick butter
• Italian seasoning
• 1 lemon
• 2 garlic cloves Minced

Preheat oven to 450
Melt butter with about a tsp Italian seasoning and garlic cloves, simmer for 1 minute.
Place uncooked shrimp in baking dish (I used a 9x13 baking dish). Poor butter mixture over shrimp. Squeeze 3/4 of lemon over everything.
Bake for 10 minutes.
Turn Shrimp and add lemon wedge to pan.
Bake until Shrimp is just done, about 5-10 minutes longer.

Serve with rice.

This was pretty good. Not the best ever, but pretty good. Very lemony!

Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cookies

What you'll need:

• 8 oz pkg cream cheese
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 cups Mini Chocolate Chips (or any would be fine)

1. Preheat oven to 375, grease cookie sheets with non-stick spray and set aside

2. Combine cream cheese, margarine and sugars. blend in egg and vanilla. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips.

3. Bake 13-15 minutes or until edges are slightly browned.

 I, once again, forgot to pick up the ingredients to make the new recipe I had planned on making, so I had to make something that I had on hand. These turned out really yummy!

Chicken Crescent Roll Casserole

Chicken Crescent Roll Casserole

What you'll need:

• 2 cans crescent rolls

Soup mixture:

• 1 can Cream of Chicken
• 3/4 cup grated cheese
• 1/2 cup milk

Filling:

• 4 oz cream cheese (very soft)
• 2 tbsp butter (very soft, but not melted)
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp minced onion flakes
• 2 large cooked chicken breasts, finely chopped
• 3/4 cup finely grated cheese
• 1/2 tsp seasoned salt
• 1/2 tsp ground pepper
• 2 tbsp milk
• 1-2 cups cheese for topping

1. Set oven to 350 and spray 9x13" dish
2. Mix together milk, cheese and soup in a bowl
3. In Separate bowl mix soft butter & cream cheese until very smooth.
4. add in garlic powder, chicken, onion flakes and cheese, mix well until combined.
5. add in milk and Salt & pepper, mix to combine.
6. Unroll crescents and place 1 heaping tbsp of chicken mixture on crescent roll then roll up starting at thicker end.
7. Drizzle small amount of soup mixture in the bottom of the dish. Then place Crescent rolls, seam side down, on top of soup mixture.
8. Drizzle the remaining soup on top.
9. Sprinkle with cheese.
10. Bake 350 for 30 minutes.

This was absolutely delicious! We loved it!!! I'll definitely be making this again! 

World's Best Snickerdoodles (or so they say)

I've never been a fan of Snickerdoodles, so honestly I have never made them! I had some a few years ago that were SO GOOD! So I found this recipe, on Pinterest, and it claimed to be the "World's Best Snickerdoodles" so I thought I'd give it a try!

What you'll need:

• 1/2 cup butter (1 stick) softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp cream of tarter

For rolling:

• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon

1. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars with an electric mixer on high speed. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.

2. In another bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda and cream of tarter.

3. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix well.

4. Preheat oven to 300 degrees while you let the dough rest for 30-60 minutes in the refrigerator.

5. In a small bowl, combine sugar with the cinnamon for the topping.

6. Take out about 2 tbsp of dough and drop into the cinnamon sugar mixture and roll into a ball. (mine was pretty sticky, but took the ball shape after rolled in the cinnamon/sugar) Press it onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Repeat for the remaining cookies.

7. Bake the cookies for 12 to 14 minutes, and no more. The cookies may seem undercooked, but will continue to develop after they are removed from the oven. When the cookies have cooled they should be soft and chewy in the middle.

Makes 16-18 cookies... unless you're like me and dropped WAY too much batter on the pan, then it makes about 12 cookies!

This lone cookie is the very last one! So I guess they were pretty good... As for the "Worlds Best Snickerdoodles" I'll let you decide :)

Chicken Roll-Ups

I am so SO far behind on my blog! I will try to be better! I have got 3 recipes to post tonight. I'm slowly, but surely, catching up!

Chicken Roll-ups

What you'll need:

• 1 pkg crescent rolls
• 2 chicken breasts cooked however you prefer then chopped thin
• 8 oz cream cheese
• 1 1/2 cups Cheddar shredded
• Salt & pepper
• melted butter & bread crumbs

1. Combine chicken, Cheese, salt & pepper.
2. Spoon onto crescents. Roll up making sure they are sealed around the chicken mixture.
3. Brush tops with butter and sprinkle with bread crumbs
Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes

Now, I cannot honestly say this was my favorite recipe. It just seemed to be missing something.