PB and J cupcakes

my medium baggage is that I bought 3 cupcakes and ate one in your bathroom

What you need:
For the cupcakes:
1 1/4 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cups sugar
6 tablospoons butter
1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup whole milk
(By accident I have baking soda in the pic, not sure why)


For the frosting:
Jelly
3/4 cups powdered sugar
3/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup heavy cream
6 tabloepoons butter

What you need to do:

1) Mix the butter and sugar on low for like 3 minutes till its fluffy,

2) Add the egg and egg white one at a time and mix it till its mixed well.

3)Then beat in the vanilllllla

4) Now mix the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl, and mix it into the batter. Mix it in 3 batches. In between the 3 batches of flour, add in the milk. 

So flour-> milk-> flour-> milk-> flour. Mix it on medium till its like creamy like batter.

(dry ingredients)

5) Heat your oven to 350 and divide the batter into a cupcake pan.

6) While there baking, make your frosting. Mix butter, peanut butter, powdered sugar, and heavy cream, on high, for like 2 minutes.

7) Cook for about 20 mins, till you can put a toothpick in and it comes out dry.

8) Let them cool for like 10 minutes, then take them out of the pan. Cut each cupcake in half.

9) Spread jelly onto the middel of each cupcake, the close them.

10) Frost the top of the cupcake with peanut butter frosting, and donne.

The best damn cheesecake ever

CHEEEEEESECAKE!
Thats what goes through my mind whenever I have the pleasure of being about to eat cheesecake.
Its my favorite.
Also, I love oreos and caramel.
So yeah, this was a bit too much for me to handle.
Really not any extra work then a regular cheesecake, cleanup was a bit annoying.
Make it for you, make it for a friend, take the entire thing to bed and polish it off in 10 minutes, no one will judge you.

What You Need:

Crust and topping:

20ish oreos 

Half a stick (4 tablespoons) butter (melted)

2 bags of caramel candies (werthers SOFT caramels)

a splash of milk (lol)

a pinch of salt (lol) 

1/4 cup melted semi sweet chocolate chips

Cheesecake:

3 8 ounce packages of cream cheese

3/4 cup sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla

3 eggs

What You Need To Do:

1) Put the oreos in a ziploc bag and crush em till there crumbs. Rolling pin usually gets the job done here.

2) In a small bowl mix the crumbs and the melted butter so it sticks together

3) Push the oreo crumbs onto the bottom of a spring form pan, making sure its even and covers the entire bottom. Useeee ya hands. Springform pan is the one where the side comes off, it like unhooks and you can slip it off of the bottom. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springform_pan)

4) Make your caramel. Put about 25 caramels, a splash of milk and a little bit of salt in a bowl. This is gonna come out to about half a cup of caramel. Microwave it for a minute at a time, sturring after each minute, until its yummy and smooth like caramel. Usually it takes 2 minutes. 

5)Pour the caramel on the oreo crust, and spread it out with a spatula. Put this in the fridge while you make the rest of the cake.

6) Now make the cheesecake!!! Put the cream cheese, vanilla, and sugar in a bowl, and mix till they combine

7) Add your eggs one at a time, mixing in between. Mix it all up for about 5 minutes, till there are really no lumps. You want it majorly smooth.

8) Pour the cheesecake onto the crust (HERES MY ENGAGED FRIEND ESTHER DOING THAT STEP CUZ SHES A SHATRA TO BE!)

9) Bake this on 325 for 65-75 minutes. I bake it on a tray with tinfoil just so the caramel doesnt drip onto my oven. Yup a whole hour and change. Once you can put a toothpick in and come out clean, your ready.

10) Let it cool for like 10 minutes, then just kinds run a knfe along the edges of the cake to detach it from the pan. Let it cool for another half an hour, then take the springform off.

11) You should really leave if for 1-3 hours in the fridge, but I dont find that step so necessary. Refrigerate for a little while, like half an hour, then top!! 

12) Make caramel the same way you did before, this tome with only 10 caramels, less milk and less salt. Microave for 1 minute 30 seconds, stirring once in the middle. Microwave 1/4 of a cup of chocolate for  alittle more then 2 minutes, till thats smooth like the caramel.

13) Top the cake with caramel!! I love caramel so i put alot (guilty emoji). Doesnt need to look so clean, I think it looks kinda cool when its a mess.

14) Put the chocolate on top of that, and voila, done.

ITS SO GOOD.

Twinkies- Cuz how are we gonna live without them??

Okay let's be honest; no one cares the slightest bit that Hostess is out of business. Twinkies aren't good. There I said it. If you were searching food blogs for recipes last week, you'd have found at least one Twinkie recipe, since all the ghettos are so devastated that there gone. I found one, and had a few hours to kill before Homeland started at 8, so i decided to try it out.

It was alot of fun, since I had Esther Chera, the Silvers (Margeret AND Renee), and Daniel around to help out. I personally dont care for the taste, and dont even try if you dont have a pastry bag and a piping head, but if your a Twinkie person, then by all means get er doneeeeeeee.

Heres where I found this recipie: http://leitesculinaria.com/71100/recipes-homemade-twinkies.html

I''m not going to type this whole recipe over, because I posted it up there, but I wil include some pictures of my process. If you do this, make sure you have some time because filling these things isn't easy! good luccccck

My "single use twinkie pans". They were actually really cool

Melting the butter and milk!!! so exciting

Peaking the egg whites with my mixer from the year of the flood. If anyone would like to donate some dinero for my kitchen aid, Cheech is collecting

The batter in the pan. C'mon thats cool!!

Voilà, sponge cakes in a very strange shape

Poking the holes in the Twinkies to fill, while Daniel makes the frosting. How cute are we!!

Last but not least, some major weirdness going on with the mixer and the frosting while my back is turned. Enjoy it ya'll, Happy Thanksgiving. (I wont be cooking, instead I'll be doing school work)

Potatoe Gnocchi (yeah I spell it with an "e" at the end)

What You Need:
1 large potatoe or 2 small potatoes
1 beated egg
1/2-3/4 of a cup (this depends on how sticky the dough is)

What you need to do:

1) microwave the potatoe for 7-8 minutes on a microwave safe plate (I use paper)

2) Let it cool for 5-10 minutes, till it's a little cold. You dont want the potatoe to scramble the egg.

3) Peel the potatoe and break it up into like 4 small pieces. Put it in a strainer over a small bowl.             

4) With a wooden spoon, push the potatoe through the strainer, into the bowl. You want to break the pieces up realllly good. 

5) Put a sprinkle of salt into the potatoe, then add an egg. Mix it gently with a fork.

6) Add 1/2 a cup of flour, and continue mixing with a fork. You want to mix it till it becomes like a dough. You can add more flour if its not sticking, but dont put too much, or else it will be too flakey. 

7) Put a small pot of water to boil.

8) Take your ball of dough and break it into two. Dust your counter with flour and roll each part out with your hands, into about half an inch thick pieces. 

9)  Cut the pieces into small bite sized pieces. 

(look margaret is cutting!!) 

10) Once the water is boiled, turn the heat down and throw the gnocchi pieces in. They'll stick to anything you put them on so if your transferring them from the counter to the pot in a plate, use some flour.

11) After about 30 seconds the gnocchi will start to float. let it float for 15 seconds, then take it out.

DONE!!

Now for the sauce:

I like a nice spicy tomatoe sauce, so thats what I always make.

1) in a frying pan, put some olive oil to get hot. Add in some fresh chopped garlic, or some frozen garlic like I use.

2) Once its hot, lower the fire and add in a can of tomatoe sauce. Mix it up, and add spice and herbs. I use red pepper flakes, oregeno, basil, cayenne pepper, salt, black pepper, garlic powder and cinnamon. Just a few shakes of each, and you can taste it to add whatever else you need.

3) For spice, I add in Sriracha chili sauce. Its amazing. If you dont know it, and dont use it, START. I also add parmesean cheese to the sauce, but some people dont like that.

4) Stur that all up, and let it simmer. When the gnocchi is done throw it straight into the sauce, and serve it hot. YUM

Here's Esther and Margaret eating their gnocchi

& Daniel eating a later batch that I'm gonna take for lunch