Peanut Butter Moose Pie with Oreo Crust

This pie is even more DIVINE then it looks! If I wasn't trying to eat healthy I would make it often enough that I had some on hand in my fridge at all times. And it is SO easy to make. For our anniversary back in November my husband and I spent a weekend in Park City. We ate at Squatters Roadhouse one of the nights for dinner and decided to splurge and get desert. We ordered a chocolate moose pie and it was AMAZING!! If you ever go to Squatters ORDER IT, if not, its ok because this tastes exactly like it!

Ingredients:

      Crust:

            1/2 C. (About 20 cookies) crushed Oreos

            3 Tbs. melted butter

     Filling:

           8 oz. Cream cheese

           3/4 C. Powdered Sugar

           3/4 C. Peanut Butter

           8 oz. Whipped cream

Put the Oreos in a zip lock bag and crush them with a rolling pin(Or anything else you can find to crush them)

Home Made Pizza and Cheesey Bread

I know that its a little ironic that this blog is called "My Sweet Teeth" and I am posting about pizza. But I really wanted to share this recipe. So, I will be posting some normal food in the midst of all this sweetness. Don't worry, I know that the sweets are most important!

This is THE BEST pizza recipe ever! I make it once a week at my house. It has all the goodness of pizza, minus the extra grease you pay for when you order it from the pizza place in town. 

I am just putting down the recipe for the dough, because everyone likes different things on their pizza. We like pepperoni and hamburger, and when I have them I like to put bacon on it as well. But honestly the possibilities are endless! You could do a combination, Hawaiian, or just plain cheese!

Put yeast and sugar in the bottom of your mixing bowl

Pour warm water over them and let sit til it gets frothy. (I usually like to let it get a little more frothy then whats in the picture, but I was trying to hurry a little bit!)

Add flour and salt

Using your dough hook, mixed until it makes a soft dough. (Use the oil to put around the bowl and on the dough to sit on it while it rises. I don't use oil. I just spray my dough and the sides of my bowl with olive oil cooking spray)

Let sit covered for 15-20 min. 

Remove dough from bowl and need until its a little more smooth. Split into two separate pieces. 

Using one piece, press out onto a pizza pan. I use a pizza stone that we got as a wedding gift and I LOVE IT!

Using the other piece of dough, press out onto a small cookie sheet

Melt a tablespoon of butter and spread over the entire dough for your cheesey bread and sprinkle with garlic salt to taste, I also like to put a little around the edges of the dough for the pizza 

Top as desired. I used cheese, pepperoni, and hamburger. But you can use anything you want. I really want to try and do a BBQ chicken, or chicken Alfredo one of these days.

Put desired amount of cheese on the dough laid out for the cheesey bread.

Bake at 450 for 12-15 min, until the cheese is browning.

ENJOY!!

Dough Ingredients:

1 tsp. sugar

1 1/4 tsp. active dry Yeast(I use Saf Instant)

1 1/2 C. warm water

1 tsp. salt

3 1/2 C. Flour

1/4 C. Oil

Directions:

1. Put sugar and yeast in the bottom of your mixing bowl, pour water over mixture and let sit until it get frothy.
2. Mix in salt and flour
3. Cover dough and sides of bowl with oil and let sit, covered for 15-20 min
4. Take dough out of bowl and knead until you have a soft dough.
5. Press dough into pan and top it as desired
6. Bake at 450 for 12-15 min

You can also use the dough to make one big pizza or pan of cheesey bread on a cookie sheet. This is such an easy recipe and there are so many things you can do with it to make it your own. I hope you enjoy it! 

"Easier Then Pie" No-bake Cheesecake

I am sure you are all familiar with the phrase "easy as pie", well I don't know about you, but the only easy thing about pie is eating it! Its not the filling that I have a hard time with, it's the crust! I SUCK AT PIE CRUST! However even though this isn't technically pie, this Cheesecake is AWESOME! And it is so so easy!

Last Wednesday was my husband birthday, and he would rather eat a bar of soap then eat a piece of cake with frosting gobbed all over it! So I have had to get creative. This year I made this cheesecake. He was the one who found this recipe the first time and had me make it. The first time I made it we just used a store bought graham cracker crust, this time I made my own.

Crunch Up one package of graham crackers until they are as crunched up as you can get them. 

Melt 4Tbs. of butter

Mix crumbs in with the butter, it's easiest to do it with your hands. I tried a big wooden spoon, but I just made everything spill over the edge of the bowl.

Fill a pie pan with your crumbs, and put it in the freezer while you are mixing the filling.

Using your paddle attachment, beat cream cheese til smooth. 

Add sweetened condensed milk, and whipped cream and mix. 

Add lemon juice while mixer is still going. If you stop it and add it in the lemon juice hardens the cream cheese up again and makes it chunky.

Immediately fill your crust with filling and refrigerate for an hour and a half. 

NOTE: When you are pouring your filling into the crust DO NOT scrape the sides. There will still be cream cheese built up on the sides up the bowl and scrapping the bowl will just give you chunks.

Ingredients:

Crust:

I package graham crackers

4Tbs. butter (melted)

Filling:

1 8oz cream cheese (softened)

1 8oz. whipped cream

small can sweetened condensed milk

1/3 C. lemon juice

Directions:

1. Crush up graham crackers until they are as coarse as you can get them; melt butter and mix with graham cracker crumbs. I have found its easier to use my hands to mix it all. Press into a pie pan and refrigerate while mixing the filling.
2. Using your paddle attachment, beat cream cheese til smooth.
3. Add sweetened condensed milk and whipped cream til mixed.
4. DO NOT turn off mixer, and add the lemon juice. If you add it without the mixer still going it hardens your cream cheese and makes it chunky.
5. Immediately fill pie crust and refrigerate for an hour and a half.
6. Note: When filling the crust, DO NOT scrape the sides of your mixing bowl. There will still be a little cream cheese on the sides of the bowl and scrapping will just give you chunks.

I hope you find this to come as easily as I did. The best part about making something yourself is getting to enjoy it when its all done!  

  

  

Grandma Mary's sugar Cookies

With Valentine's Day next week, I thought it would be fun to make some heart shaped sugar cookies. Yes I know that yellow isn't considered a "Valentine color" but I had yellow icing from Christmas in my freezer so I just used what I had. This recipe is THE BEST sugar cookie recipe out there! It was my husbands' Grandmas' recipe. She passed away four years ago this Wednesday. So making these cookies is also a good reminder of her. Don't worry, I made sure it was ok with the family before I put this recipe up for the whole world to see:)

In your mixer, use the paddle attachment to cream the shortening and sugar together. 

Until it looks like this

Add eggs, and milk; Mix

Add vanilla, lemon extract, salt, and baking powder; Mix 

Add Flour

You want it to look like this when you are done.

Put in the refrigerator to cool for one hour.

Roll out onto a floured surface

Cut your shapes,

Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 min

Decorate as desired and enjoy!

These cookies are awesome, with or without icing. My husband doesn't care for icing so unless I have icing already made to ice one when I want one, we just eat them plain. And they are just as good!

Ingredients:

2 C. Sugar

1 C. Shortening

3 Eggs

1 C. Milk

1 tsp. Salt

3 tsp. Vanilla

1 tsp. Lemon Extract

3 tsp. Baking Powder

5 C. Flour

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Cream shortening and sugar together.
3. Add eggs and milk
4. Add vanilla, lemon extract, salt, and baking powder
5. Add flour and mix well
6. Cool in the fridge for at least an hour.
7. Remove from fridge and roll out onto floured surface
8. Cut into desired shape and place on a cookie sheet(greased or lined with parchment paper or silicone baking liner)
9. Bake for 8-10 min
10. Remove from oven, let cool, and decorate as desired. Enjoy!

Welcome to my Blog

Hey there! I am so excited to start this blog. I love baking and I hope to spread the love! I have been married for almost five and a half years, and I will admit, when I first got married I hated to cook anything! Especially bake something that was going to take me FOREVER to clean up when I was done. We were living in my husbands grandmas' basement, and I had to hand wash all of my dishes. And being so smart, I would let them pile up until they were about to fall out, instead of just washing them right after I was done. For dinner we would have frozen pizza, frozen chicken strips, frozen french fries...are you seeing the pattern here? Basically, I didn't cook unless I could pull it out of the freezer and put it in the oven. So cookies, cake, cup cakes etc. were out of the question. I would buy cookies from the store rather then bake them so I didnt feel like I was depriving my husband.

Our second Christmas together my mother-in-law gave me a Kitchen-Aid mixer. Now, you are probably thinking, "That's when she started getting into baking!" NOPE! I found a place in my kitchen where it looked really nice, and it sat there for almost a year! Eventually I would make the occasional peanut butter cookie, or throw a store bought brownie mix into the mixer. But nothing to fancy, or that required to much effort. Remember, I still had to clean all of these dishes my hand, and that ruined all the fun!

It wasn't until we moved into our current home(3 years later), and Pinterest came out(what in the world did we ever do without it!), that I started really enjoying baking! I felt so accomplished the first time I made cup cakes that looked like watermelons. Or when I made my first batch of "Home made Texas Roadhouse Rolls". To me, that kind of stuff tastes so much better when you make it yourself, from scratch. I am now to the point that I feel silly when I hurry and throw a box cake mix together. Like I didn't put any effort into it at all.

Here are just a few things that I have done and taken pictures of. I will admit that there are sometimes that I use a box mix because I want to put all of my effort into the decorating aspect. Now keep in mind I am no expert. I have never taken a class. I just follow instructions, or look at pictures and this is what I get.

For my little guys' second birthday party we did a cow theme with cookies and milk.(He LOVES cows!) I found a tutorial on Pinterest to make this cute cow cake. You use one round cake pan for the body and cup cakes for the ears, face, and feet. I used decorative icing for the pink on the ears, coco puffs for the spots, candy eyeballs for the eyes, a brown M&M for the nose, and pink sprinkles for the mouth. My sister thought it was a PIG! I didn't think so...but like I said, I am no expert so, maybe it is a pig looking cow:)

I made all of the cookies from scratch, (except for the chocolate chip. There will be a post about why soon:)) I made sugar cookies shaped like cowboy boots, cake batter, no bake, and cookies and cream. They were all a little TOO delicious!

For his first birthday we had a monkey themed, banana split party. I found a tutorial for this cake on Pinterest, and I actually baked the cake for the monkey head in a bowl! The ears are a cup cake cut in half.

I also couldn't resist these adorable cup cakes! They were so easy! The eyes are mini chocolate chips. The ears and mouths are vanilla wafers, and the mouth is gel icing. I was so happy with how they turned out!

Again I am not a professional! This is just something I enjoy doing and I do the best that I can at it! I hope that people can enjoy my blog and maybe learn tricks to help them enjoy baking a little more.