Food for Thought: Fall Baking

Food for Thought: Fall Baking: I was in the mood to bake this morning, so I ran to the grocery store for some baking supplies. I got home and made pumpkin bars, no-bake c...

Fall Baking

I was in the mood to bake this morning, so I ran to the grocery store for some baking supplies.  I got home and made pumpkin bars, no-bake chocolate peanut butter bon-bons and cinnamon chocolate snowballs.  The pumpkin bars made my house smell so good while they were baking, made it really feel like a fall day.  While the bars were baking I made up the peanut butter bon-bons, which are so easy to make...you just mix 1 cup each of peanut butter and powdered sugar and 1 stick of butter...for the chocolate you just melt 1/2 a bag of chocolate chips.  When you have done all of that you roll the peanut butter mixture into bon-bons and then dip them in the melted chocolate and place them on waxed paper to set up.  The cinnamon chocolate snowballs are delicious.  It is like having mini french toast bon-bons.  They are so easy to make as well and only take 10 minutes to bake and then when you take them out of the oven you roll them in powdered sugar.  I can't wait for my husband, David, to get home and try all of the delicious goodies that I made today.

Homemade Apple Pie

David brought home red delicious apples from his parents house this morning...so I thought that I would make a homemade apple pie...I hope it tastes as good as it looks!

Homemade Chocolate/Chocolate Chip Muffins

David asked me to make these, which is surprising, because he isn't much of a chocolate fan.  While we were on our Honeymoon, we stayed at a hotel in Gardiner, Montana that had these muffins for breakfast.  The two days that we stayed at this hotel, he ate them and kept telling me how good they were.  I told him when we got home that I would find a recipe for them and make them for him.  Today was the day for me to make them.  They were actually really easy to make and smelled fantastic.  After he ate his lunch, he tried one and told me they tasted just like the ones from the hotel.  I also asked him whether they tasted like cupcakes or muffins and he said the top tasted like cake and the bottoms of the muffins tasted like muffins.

Leftover Smokies

We made little smokies and nachos the other night for supper and we had leftovers of the smokies.  What I like to do with them is make David a sandwich with them, if I have french bread.  What I do with the leftover smokies and french bread, is I cut the french bread in half and then slice it open.  I add provolone cheese to the bread halves and broil them to melt the cheese.  Once the cheese has melted a little bit, I take it back out of the oven and put the leftover smokies on one half of the sandwich and cover the smokies in shredded mozzarella cheese.  I then put it back into the oven and broil it until the mozzarella has melted.  Once it is toasted enough, I cover the smokies and cheese in BBQ sauce.  It looks and smells delicious!