Pumpkin Filled Peanut Butter Cups

November 13, 2012 By

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Who doesn’t love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?  And, who doesn’t love pumpkin? What about pumpkin filled peanut butter cups!?

Even if you don’t love pumpkin, I’m going to force you to love it (for now) because it’s November.   To be honest, I thought that mixing peanut butter and pumpkin sounded kind of disgusting, but I decided to try it just in case it did work, and it did! Yay… I’m very thankful!

Speaking of that, I don’t know if you’ve been following the “What I’m thankful for” posts on every social media outlet, but I’ve noticed them and, although I have many things I’m thankful for, today I’m thankful for my animals.  That may seem like a minor thing to be thankful for, but I loooove my animals.

cute miniature sheltie portrait

Sunny, my miniature sheltie

siamese cat glares at sheltie dog

Francis, my Siamese kitty, glaring at Sunny

pretty siamese cat with piercing blue eyes

Francis… isn’t he pretty?

cats lounging together on porch in summer

Francis and Chloe, my Persian with two different colored eyes

black and white tabby cat winking at owner

Tabby, my old Tabby cat

I have so much to be thankful for that the short amount of days in November could never do them all justice, but I’ll continue to post things I am thankful for throughout the month.

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center of a pumpkin peanut butter cup

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stack of homemade pumpkin peanut butter cups

This delicious recipe is adapted from One Good Thing by Jillee.

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Pumpkin Filled Peanut Butter Cups
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Serves: 48
 

Ingredients
  • ½ cup creamy peanut butter
  • ½ cup pumpkin
  • ¾ cup powdered sugar
  • 3 cups chocolate chips
  • 1 tablespoon oil
  • Cooking Spray
  • Mini Cupcake Papers

Instructions
  1. Melt peanut butter in microwave.
  2. Empty the peanut butter into a bowl and beat in the powdered sugar and pumpkin puree.
  3. Melt the chocolate chips and oil together and stir until smooth.
  4. Drop one tablespoon of chocolate into a mini cupcake liner and spread around the bottom and edges.
  5. Place in freezer for 5 minutes, or until frozen.
  6. Take out and place one tablespoon of pumpkin peanut butter mixture in each liner.
  7. Freeze for 5 more minutes.
  8. Take out and spoon the rest of the melted chocolate evenly over each peanut butter cup.
  9. Place in freezer until hardened.

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A little spin on the original peanut butter cups. Can’t go wrong with pumpkin peanut butter cups!
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No Bake Cake Batter Oatmeal Fudge Blondies

July 8, 2012 By

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This heat is gettin’ crazy.  It’s been over 100 degrees for the past 2 weeks!

They tell you to stay out of the kitchen if you can’t take the heat, but I prefer to just turn the heat off in the kitchen.

Katie ain’t bakin’ no mo’.  Ever since the sun started blazing, I started testing recipes for “no bake blondies.”  I searched and searched and searched but could not find a single recipe that wasn’t a healthy date/fig/etc. mixture, so I thought I’d make my own.

It’s hard work, let me tell you.  I still haven’t found the perfect recipe, but these are my favorite so far.

If you’re sick of the heat like me, but still want to make some tasty treats, these are the ones for you.

What have you been making since it’s been so hot?  Have you still been baking or does it kill you to turn the oven on?

 

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No Bake Cake Batter Oatmeal Fudge Blondies

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups cake mix of choice (I used Funfetti, duh.)
  • 6 blocks of vanilla almond bark
  • 1 1/2 cups oats
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted

Directions:

  1. Melt butter in a medium sized microwave safe bowl with white chocolate, about 1-2 minutes.
  2. Mix in cake mix and oats.
  3. Press mixture into a 9×13 inch baking dish.
  4. Chill until hardened.
  5. Cut and eat. Yum.

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Nutella No-Bake Cookies

May 21, 2012 By

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When I was a kid, I used to love when my mom would make no-bake cookies.  She rarely ever made them, so they were an awesome treat when she did.  Since she rarely made them, I thought they were some magical treat that was really hard to make.

I didn’t realize how easy they were to make until the first time I made them on my own.  Even though they still tasted great, it kind of ruined the “magical, really hard to make” feeling I had for them as a kid.

Which is why I had to switch them up to make them taste better.  Adding Nutella shouldn’t make that big of a difference, but it really did.  When you add Nutella, they kind of taste like fudge.  Fudgy oatmeal cookies that take 10 minutes to make… what gets better than that?  The magic was back for me after I made these!

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What was your magical treat as a kid?

Nutella No-Bake Cookies
Adapted from: Food Network 

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 4 tablespoons cocoa
  • 1 stick butter
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 cup Nutella
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 3 cups oatmeal

Directions

  1. In a heavy saucepan bring to a boil, the sugar, cocoa, butter and milk.
  2. Let boil for 1 minute then add Nutella, vanilla and oatmeal.
  3. On a non-stick surface, drop mixture by the teaspoonfuls, until cooled and hardened.

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