Boy baby shower cake

Triple chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream.

Blue ombre coloring with edible jungle animal decorarions and non edible letters.

Wedding cake

I made a wedding cake back in March.

Top layer pink champagne with vanilla buttercream and bottom layer cookies and cream with cookies n cream filling and vanilla buttercream.

Handmade fondant roses on top and pearl candies along sides of cake.

Apple cake crumble cobbler

So we went apple picking a few weeks ago and I have the age old problem: what to do with all those apples?!?

So i decided to make something a little different. I made an apple crumb cobbler. "Oh, whats so different about that?" You may ask, oh doubting one. One...I made it! Hahahaha. And two, I used cake mix in the crumb mixture and dark rum in the apples.

BOOM!

Ok ok, don't get jealous over the deliciousness that is this creation. Just go make it. Now.

Ingredients:
6 apples (any variety), sliced
1c white sugar
1/2c brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 c dark rum

Crumble ingredients:
1/2 pkg yellow cake mix
1/2 c flour
1/2c brown sugar
1c oatmeal
1T cinnamom
1t nutmeg
1/2t salt
1/2 stick butter

Heat oven to 400°.

Mix all the ingredients for the apples together on bowl.

Mix all the dry ingredients for the crumble together until it resembles course crumbs.

Put apples in a deep pan and top with crumble mixture.

Bake for 45 mins and thank me later.

Caramelized onions grilled cheese with bacon

So, do I really need to say anything? Dont these pictures make you drool?! 

Go ahead, wipe the screen off and get ready to write me thank you emails for the rest of your life.....I'm serious...its THAT good. Dare i say- GREAT?

Ingredients:

1 large onion

1t olive oil

2T butter

1t sugar

2T dark rum (optional)

4 slices bread

2T butter

6 slices provolone cheese

4 slices of bacon

Go ahead and cook bacon in microwave while you start to caramelize the onions.

Heat olive oil and butter in pan and when hot, put onions and sugar in. Cook until softened and add rum. This IS optional, but adds a nice flavor. 

Continue cooking onions for 20 mins or so until browned and caramelized. If they start to stick to pan add a little water until evaporated.

Once onions are cooked,  remove from pan and set aside.  By now, your bacon should be cooked and set aside also.

Place half of remaining butter in pan and toast one side of bread.  Flip bread over and place remainin butter in pan. Layer bacon and cheese and onions on bread with cheese being right on outter layers. Then press together and keep flipping until cheese is melted.

Once again, I will wait for your thank you emails.

Crescent Taco Pie

This was the yummiest dish ever!!!!  I must make this again. My Crescent Taco Pie.

Lets get the ingredients together:

 Ingredients:
2 Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
2 lbs Ground beef or Ground turkey
shredded cheese of your choice
1 can of refried beans
1 jar of chunky salsa
1 pkg of taco seasoning


So lets get started:
1. Brown your ground meat along with the taco seasoning pkg.
2. Add the salsa to the ground meat.

3. Open one pkg of crescent rolls and roll out into your pan.
4. Once the meat mixture is cooked, add to the pan with the crescent rolls.

5. Add your shredded cheese on top.

6. Roll out the other crescent roll on top.

7.Bake at 350 or until crescent roll is brown.

Dont mind the chicken wings. Thats another recipe.  I think its on here, if not I will post later.

Enjoy and let me know how it goes. I think it would be great to do ahead and freeze without baking for a meal later on.

Gumbo

Made gumbo today.

Ridiculously delish!
Ingredients
3 large boneless skinless chicken breast halves
Salt and pepper
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 pound smoked sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
5 tablespoons margarine
1 large onion, chopped
8 cloves garlic minced
1 green bell pepper, seeded and chopped
3 stalks celery chopped
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1/4 bunch flat leaf parsley, stems and leaves, coarsely chopped, plus chopped leaves for garnish
4 cups hot water
5 beef bouillon cubes
1 (14-ounce can) stewed tomatoes with juice
2 cups frozen sliced okra
4 green onions, sliced, white and green parts
1/2 pound small shrimp, peeled, deveined and cooked
Directions
Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Heat the oil in a heavy bottomed Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Cook the chicken until browned on both sides and remove. Add the sausage and cook until browned, then remove. Sprinkle the flour over the oil, add 2 tablespoons of margarine and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until brown, about 10 minutes. Let the roux cool.

Return the Dutch oven to low heat and melt the remaining 3 tablespoons margarine. Add the onion, garlic, green pepper and celery and cook for 10 minutes. Add Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper, to taste and the 1/4 bunch parsley. Cook, while stirring frequently, for 10 minutes. Add 4 cups hot water and bouillon cubes, whisking constantly. Add the chicken and sausage. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat, cover, and simmer for 45 minutes. Add tomatoes and okra. Cover and simmer for 1 hour. Just before serving add the green onions, shrimp and chopped parsley.

I didn't add okra. Yuck.

Great corn bread

Want great Corn bread? What? Yummmm..

I'm going to share my recipe.

You see the ingredients in the picture?

I made a big batch. This would be times three. So i will give it you for one batch.

1 box jiffy Corn bread
1egg
1/3 c milk
1/3 stick butter, melted
1/3 c flour
1 can of corn
1/3c evaporated milk

Mix all ingredients together and put in pan and bake at 400° for 25-30 mins.

Enjoy!