Blue Diamond Nut Thin Confetti Cake Cookies

October 29, 2012 By

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Have you all tried Blue Diamond’s Nut Thins?  They’re pretty delicious.  I was lucky enough to receive samples of the Almond Nut thins, Pecan Nut Thins, Smokehouse, and Cheddar Cheese.
My favorite were the Cheddar Cheese and the Pecan.  I just love the flavor of pecan and I really love cheddar cheese.  I really love these nut thins because they’re like a hybrid of chips and crackers so you can dip them in any dip… cheese dip, cracker dip, anything!  They kind of have a tortilla chip taste, but also cracker-y at the same time.
Anyway, when I received the nut thins, I promised I would come up with a recipe.  You don’t usually associate crackers/chips and dessert, but really all it is is a sweet and salty combination.  Which is why I put these in cookies and it tasted delicious.  I made mine pink for Breast Cancer Awareness. 
For more Blue Diamond recipes click here.

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Nut Thin Confetti Cake Cookies
Recipe type: Cookie
Cuisine: Dessert
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Ingredients
  • 1 cup frosting
  • 1 ½ cup funfetti cake mix
  • 1 cup Nut Thins, finely crushed.
  • 1 egg
  • Optional- a couple drops red food coloring

Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Beat together the egg, food coloring, and frosting until fluffy.
  3. Slowly beat in the cake mix and nut thins until fully incorporated.
  4. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until slightly golden colored.

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Cake Batter Almond (or any other nut) Butter

February 27, 2012 By

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Hooolllllyyyy mooollllyyy!!

I’ve been on an intense search for Biscoff Spread the past two months.

It all started when I was reading a food blog and read about Trader Joe’s “Cookie Butter” about two months ago.  I was intrigued, so I went to the nearest Trader Joe’s (which is about 30 minutes away). My search was cut short when they told me the had just run out of their newest shipment.  My hopes weren’t completely shot; I kept looking online and realized pretty much everyone’s store was sold out.

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That’s when I found out about Biscoff Spread because they’re pretty much the same thing- peanut butter, only not.  Lol.  It’s just a spread that can be used for all of the same things peanut butter is used for and it’s made up mostly of cookies, so it’s definitely not a health food like peanut butter, but it’s worth the health risks! ;)

Anyway, I looked everywhere for Biscoff Spread only to be disappointed again and again.

I’ve actually been looking for the last month and have probably checked a total of 10 stores for this stuff.  I live in a bigger city now, so I obviously checked here, but I also checked in my podunk little hometown.

I went home this weekend to go to see a comedy show– Josh Wolf  and Colin Jost– which was amazing, but that’s a story for another post…ANYWAY, I went home and I was at the store getting ingredients to make a mock Biscoff spread, and Kellen and I turned the corner and Kellen said “Look!” and I screamed (embarrassing) because:

…there it was!

Thank you, LORD!  What are the odds of that happening?  I grabbed two, and it’s been one day and half of the jar is gone.   I’ve had it on oatmeal, ice cream, bananas, and pretzels. I’m pretty obsessed, and that’s saying a lot because my standards for this stuff were extremely high.  There ya have it, my unpaid Biscoff review.

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I still wanted to recreate this for anyone who was like me two days ago (poor, poor people… I can sympathize), but I failed.

Don’t be sad though, because I came up with an even better idea– cake batter butter!

If you’re looking for Biscoff Spread, this is not it, but it is still super delicious.  It tastes like it sounds…awesome and cake batter-y.  I made mine with cinnamon almonds and gluten free cake batter, but you can use any combination you want.  Let your imagination soar!  I’ve been going back and forth between this almond butter and Biscoff Spread all day.  I’m gonna overdose, probably.

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Cake Batter Almond (or any other nut) Butter

Ingredients:
1 cup almonds
1/2 cup cake mix
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:
1. Super simple- mix all ingredients in a food processor until smooth and creamy.

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Filed Under: Almond, Birthday, Biscuits, Cake, Cake Mix, Cake Mix Cookies, Cookies, Frosting, No Bake, Nut Butter, Nuts, Oatmeal, Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter Frosting, Sugar Cookie, Vanilla



Cake Mix Cookie Balls

April 16, 2011 By

The other day, my dearest friend Brandon tried some homemade cake mix cookies that I made and proceeded to tell me that he couldn’t decide if he liked those better or the cake balls I make… so I made a combination.  Plus, these are one of my best friend JORDAN’S favorite desserts and she’s home from college this weekend! :)

It kind of lead to a series of disasters in the kitchen. 

I was trying to make granola at the same time as these cookie balls and I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

First of all, my cake mix cookies definitely didn’t turn out as well as last time.  They turned out more like cake, so although the finished product was delicious, it kind of defeated the whole purpose of my little experiment.  I’m not even really sure what I did wrong because they turned out great last time!  I’m thinking I used too much milk…

Then, while trying to multitask, I spilled my granola alllll over the floor and counter!

I also didn’t realize how many cake balls I was getting myself into… yiiikes!  It took probably an hour and a half to coat all of them.  Wooo!! Quite the day, but, like I said, these turned out really well and they’re made completely from scratch!

They also turned into a delicious trifle that I’ll be posting soon… :)

What are your worst disaster stories in the kitchen?

Cake Mix Cookie Balls

*The recipe obviously needs a little tweaking since mine turned out cakey-er than I would’ve preferred, but this is my recipe I used. 

Ingredients

1 recipe Homemade White Cake Mix
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup oil
1 batch White Chocolate Frosting
1-2 packages almond bark (I used one vanilla, one chocolate)  depending on how much you use
2 tablespoons oil, depending on how much almond bark used


Directions

1.  Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2.  Mix all ingredients until incorporated.
3.  Drop by tablespoonfulls onto a greased baking sheet.
4.  Bake for 6-8 minutes.
5.  Wait for cookies to cool, then break them all apart and put them in a large mixing bowl.
6.  Mix frosting with cookies.
7.  Roll into your choice of size balls (I used a small melon baller) and place in freezer for about 30 minutes.  This will help the dipping process.
8.  Melt one package chocolate with 1 tablespoon oil.
9.  Dip chilled balls in melted chocolate.

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