Dessert Archives • Couponing to Disney

Giant M&M Cookies

By brandyvasquez14 on April 9, 2017 at 11:30 am

The only thing better than an M&M cookie is a GIANT M&M cookie! Serving a plate of giant cookies makes a great impression at parties and gatherings. The colorful M&M’s make the cookies fun, festive and nearly irresistible!

Ingredients

2 sticks of butter

1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup light brown sugar

2 eggs

1 ½ tsp vanilla extract

2 ¾ cups all purpose flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 ½ cups M&Ms

Optional: 1 cup of nuts, milk chocolate chips or white chocolate chips

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
In a large bowl, using an electric mixer blend together butter and sugars
Mix in eggs and vanilla extract
In a separate bowl mix together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt
Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients
Stir in M&M’s and any additional mix-ins.
Using a ½ cup measuring cup as a cookie scoop to make your large cookies
Bake for approximately 15 minutes

Allow your cookies to cool slightly on the cookie sheet before removing to cool onto a wire rack. Enjoy these gooey and decadent cookies with a big glass of milk! Makes approximately two dozen cookies, so there is enough to share!

Jessica Shockney is a mother of two and a Baltimore City Firefighters’ wife. Jessica is passionate about writing, photography, baking and gardening. She’s a busy mom trying to keep up in a Pinterest world of successes and fails.

Fruity Ambrosia Salad

By brandyvasquez14 on April 2, 2017 at 11:30 am

Sweet and fluffy Ambrosia salad has been a party favorite for decades. This recipe is different from most Ambrosia recipes since it calls for fruity marshmallows and some vanilla yogurt. These ingredients add some extra sweetness and an extra fruity kick. This no bake dish can be assembled quickly using affordable ingredients, making it a creative and fun salad to bring to your next pot luck!

Ingredients:

8 ounces whipped topping

½ cup vanilla yogurt

1 cup shredded sweetened coconut

1- 15 ounce can of mandarin oranges, drained

1- 8 ounce can of papaya or pineapple chunks, drained

1- cup of maraschino cherries, drained

1 ½ cups of mini fruit flavored marshmallows

Stir together the whipped topping and vanilla yogurt. Gently fold in the remaining ingredients. Chill the salad until ready to serve. Some optional toppings are chopped pecans, toasted shredded coconut, graham cracker crumbs or lime zest.

Jessica Shockney is a mother of two and a Baltimore City Firefighters’ wife. Passionate about writing, photography, baking and gardening. She’s a busy mom trying to keep up in a Pinterest world of successes and fails.

Cereal Dump Bars Recipe

By brandyvasquez14 on June 15, 2016 at 6:00 pm

Every couple of weeks my pantry is suddenly full of disserted cereal boxes with less than a full bowl left in them. No one seems to want last month’s cereal when there is a fresh box ready to go, and so these poor boxes accumulate quickly. When that happens I turn the remaining cereal into a new treat, Cereal Dump Bars. The combination of different cereals is what makes these bars so much fun and delicious too, and the once untouchable cereal remains are once again irresistible. Even better, these come together with no baking and just a few ingredients!

Ingredients

1 cup peanut butter

½ cup honey

3 cups of mixed cereal

In a large bowl mix together your variety of cereal. Larger, chunky cereals brands may need to be chopped up a little bit so that they blend well and are able to stick together. In a medium saucepan combine the honey and peanut butter. Heat over low heat until melted and thoroughly combined and smooth. Pour the mixture over the cereal and gently stir to coat. Push the mixture into an 8X8 square pan that has been lined with wax paper and greased. Refrigerate until firm, approximately 1 hour. Once firm lift out of the pan and cut into bars. Enjoy!

Jessica Shockney is a mother of two and a Baltimore City Firefighters’ wife. Passionate about writing, photography, baking and gardening, she’s a busy mom trying to keep up in a Pinterest world of successes and fails

Hot Milk Cake Recipe

By brandyvasquez14 on March 25, 2016 at 6:00 pm

Hot Milk Cake is deliciously moist, dense and slightly sweeter than pound cake. This cake is great to serve as is with some hot tea for brunch or dress it up with some whipped cream and strawberries for dessert. This recipe is slightly different because it calls for almond extract which gives the cake a unique nutty flavor. It can be made quickly with ingredients you probably already have on hand.

Ingredients

1 cup milk

4 eggs

2 cups of sugar

1 tsp almond extract

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 stick of butter

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease and flour a bunt pan. In a medium saucepan heat butter and milk, keep hot but do not boil. Beat the eggs and gradually add sugar and almond extract. In a separate bowl mix your dry ingredients, slowly add to the butter mixture until evenly mixed. Pour in the hot milk and butter stir to combine. Empty the mixture into your bunt pan and bake for 1 hour. Allow pan to cool before flipping the cake out of the pan. Enjoy!

Dyed Hard Boiled Eggs

By brandyvasquez14 on March 25, 2016 at 5:00 pm

Using food dye to color hard boiled eggs can be a fun way to add some color to your favorite recipes. The process is fast and simple and the colored eggs are safe and fun to eat. First you have to hard boil your eggs; this process has been the most effective for me.

*Place your eggs in a large pot and cover with water

*Bring the uncovered pot to a boil

*Remove the pot from heat and place a lid on the pot

*Set timer for 7 minutes

*Drain the water and rinse the eggs in cold water

Once your eggs are completely cool they should peel easily. Your eggs are now ready to be dyed.

Assemble a few glasses or bowls of water. Add a few drops of your favorite food coloring to the various bowls creating different colors.

Submerge the eggs into the colored water. Allow the eggs to soak in the water until they have reached the desired color.

The pastel eggs shown in the pictures soaked in the water for approximately 10 minutes each. Remove the eggs, dry and add to your favorite recipes. I love making deviled eggs with these around Easter. They would also make fun toppings on a salad.

Leprechaun Cookies

By brandyvasquez14 on March 17, 2016 at 3:00 pm

These super easy leprechaun cookies are the perfect kids craft for Saint Patrick’s Day. Adorable little leprechaun Nutter Butter cookies are as much fun to make as they are to eat! They are no bake and only have 4 ingredients.

Ingredients
Nutter Butter Cookies
1 package of CandiQuick Vanilla
Food Coloring
Black decorating gel

Melt the CandiQuick according to package directions. Divide into two bowls. Color one bowl green and one bowl orange adding one drop at a time to your color darkness preference. Dip one side of the Nutter Butter cookie into the orange coating and drag some up the sides of the cookie to make sideburns using a spoon or a toothpick. Dip the other end of the cookie into the green coating to make a hat, covering the top of the sideburns. Place the candy covered cookies onto a piece of wax paper and allow to dry completely, about 20 minutes. Once dry use the gel to draw in a hat brim and a face. For added fun dress your leprechauns up with sprinkles or candy eyes!

Nana’s Banana Bread Recipe

By brandyvasquez14 on February 17, 2016 at 6:00 pm

A crumble topping on moist homemade banana bread would make any Grandma proud! But you don’t have to spend all day to make a sweet loaf of homemade bread. In my home we either go through bananas like crazy or a few lonely bananas get forgotten and start to get overripe. Once that happens I know its banana bread time!

Ingredients
Bread:
2 cups of flour
1 cup of sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 mashed overripe bananas
½ butter cut into pieces
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp ground ginger
Optional 1 cup of chopped nuts of your choice
Crumble Topping:
½ cup flour
¼ sugar
¼ melted butter
¾ tsp cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together the topping ingredients until crumbly and set aside. For the banana bread, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in the butter until evenly distributed. Stir in remaining bread ingredients and pour into a greased loaf pan. Top with crumbled topping and bake for approximately 70 minutes or until and inserted toothpick comes out clean. Serve warm with a glass of milk just like Nana did!

Tip: Use leftover banana bread to make French toast!

Key Lime Pie

By Kristin from Couponing to Disney on January 13, 2016 at 6:00 pm

Key Lime Pie is a refreshing and creamy dessert inside a crumbly graham cracker crust. This is a rich and creamy from scratch recipe with a tart, sweetened sour cream top layer. If you are short on time a premade graham cracker crust will work perfectly and the top layer can be omitted, giving you a quick and easy key lime pie but if you are feeling decadent use the full from scratch recipe and impress your guests!

Graham Cracker Crust
18 whole graham crackers- crushed
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup melted butter

Filling
2 tablespoons lime zest
¾ cup key lime juice (regular lime juice will work as well)
4 egg yolks
2- 14 ounce cans of sweetened condensed milk

Topping
½ cup sour cream
2 tablespoons powdered sugar

Stir together all of the crust ingredients and press into a 9” pie plate. It will look like a lot of crust at first but just keep pressing into the bottom and up the sides of the pie pan. Bake the crust for 5 minutes. Cool while preparing the filling. Mix together the filling ingredients and blend with an electric mixer until think and well combined, pour into the pie crust and bake for 30 minutes or until the pie is no longer “jiggly” do not brown the filling. Cool the pie for at least one hour before spreading on the top layer. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Enjoy!

Super Easy Acorn Cookies

By Kristin from Couponing to Disney on November 10, 2015 at 6:00 pm

These little Acorn Cookies are as easy to make as they are adorable. With just four delicious ingredients, these chocolate peanut butter treats will be a hit at your fall gatherings and will only take a few minutes to assemble. Get the kids involved in making these fun treats, but be careful, they are so good they’ll disappear as easily as they are created!

Ingredients

Hershey Kisses
Mini Chocolate Chip Morsels
Peanut Butter
Nutter Butter Bites

Assembly is a cinch, use the peanut butter as “glue,” dab some peanut butter on one side of a Nutter Butter Bite and attach a Mini Morsel. Then, smear some more peanut butter on the Hershey Kiss and attach it to the other side of the Nutter Butter Bite and you’re finished! Chill these bites until you are ready to serve to ensure that your peanut butter has hardened keeping your little Acorns intact. If you’re not a peanut butter fan a fun variation could be made using Mini Oreos, Hershey Kisses or Hugs and melted chocolate “glue” or even delicious hazelnut spread!

Healthy Date Balls

By Kristin from Couponing to Disney

I love Dates. I call them God’s little candies. To make healthy Date balls, you just need dates, cocoa powder and walnuts. You will also need a food processor.

Healthy Date Balls

Author: couponingtodisney.com

Prep time: 10 mins

Cook time: 2 hours

Total time: 2 hours 10 mins

Serves: 8

Ingredients

6 dates with the pits removed
1/4 cup of walnuts
2 tbsp cocoa powder
water

Instructions

Place the walnuts in the food processor and process until they form a powder. Remove and place on a plate or other solid surface. Place the 6 dates in a food processor with 1 tbsp of water and process. If they are not smooth enough, add another tbsp of water until they reach a paste like consistency. Add in the cocoa powder and process. Scoop out the dates and mold them into balls with your hands. Once formed, roll them in the powdered walnuts and place in fridge for 2 hours or until firm.

Kristin’s Kitchen: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

By Kristin from Couponing to Disney

Reese’s Cups are delicious. The combination of sweet chocolate and salty peanut butter just melts in your mouth. Try this cake and you’ll fall in love. The wonderful flavor of the devil’s food cake and sweetened peanut butter frosting is so yummy. You will want to put this in your favorite recipe box!

Kristin’s Kitchen: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

Recipe Type: Dessert

Author: couponingtodisney.com

Ingredients

1 box Devil’s Food Cake
2 eggs
Milk
Stick Butter
For icing: 1 stick butter, 1 stick margarine, 1 c, peanut butter, 1 tsp vanilla, 1 1/2 c. powdered sugar

Instructions

Prepare devil’s food cake according to the directions with these exceptions: Add 2 additional eggs, use milk instead of water, and use melted butter instead of oil.
When the cake is finished, remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
In the meantime, cream together first 4 ingredients of the frosting together.
Slowly add in the powdered sugar and mix together until all of the ingredients are combined and is the consistency of normal frosting. (If needed, you can add in 1-2 tsp milk if the frosting is too thick.)
When the cake is cooled, spread frosting on top.

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(Thanks Tammy!)

Kristin’s Kitchen: Cake Mix Cookies

By Kristin from Couponing to Disney

I’ve bought several BOGO cake mixes in the past couple of months. Between my kids’ birthdays, the Cake Walk at the Fall Festival at church, and several other holidays in between, I knew it would be smart to get a few boxes. However, who knew you didn’t have to use cake mix only for cakes!? This is so simple that I can whip these up for the kids any time!

Kristin’s Kitchen: Cake Mix Cookies

Recipe Type: Dessert

Author: couponingtodisney.com

Ingredients

1 box of cake mix (the kind with pudding IN the mix)
1/2 c. vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 c. chocolate chips (or peanut butter chips… or any other type of gummies or candies you want)

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350.
Mix all of the ingredients together.
Bake for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.

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(Thanks Tammy!)

Kristin’s Kitchen: Peach Cobbler

By Kristin from Couponing to Disney

Here in the south, we love our cobblers. My friend Tammy was visiting a few weeks ago, and she made this peach cobbler that was her grandmother’s recipe. She was sweet enough to let me share it with all of you!

Kristin’s Kitchen: Peach Cobbler

Recipe Type: Dessert

Author: couponingtodisney.com

Ingredients

1 c. of sugar
1 c. of flour (self rising)
1 c. of milk
1 regular can of peaches (in heavy syrup)
1/2 stick of butter

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350.
In a square pan, place the 1/2 stick of butter in the pan and leave it in the oven while it preheats.
Mix the sugar, flour and milk until most of the lumps are gone – but they won’t all be gone. (Tammy’s note: I just use a whisk, not even the mixer.)
When the oven is preheated, remove the pan. Pour the mixture into the butter – DO NOT STIR! You want the butter to kind of bubble over the mixture.
Pour the peaches into the mix. Again, DO NOT STIR. you can move the peaches around a bit so they are spaced out, but don’t mix everything together.
Bake for 30-40 minutes or until the top is golden brown.

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(Thanks Tammy!)

Kristin’s Kitchen: Lemon Drop Cupcakes

By Kristin from Couponing to Disney

These little cupcakes are so good, you’ll have to force yourself to stop eating them! They’re tiny but so full of flavor. The icing is just the perfect amount of sweet to balance out the tart of the lemon flavor. Trust me, you’ll definitely want to make this one of your favorite desserts.

Kristin’s Kitchen: Lemon Drop Cupcakes

Recipe Type: Dessert

Author: couponingtodisney.com

Ingredients

1 box lemon cake mix
1 cup confectioners sugar
2 tsp lemon extract
1 tbsp Caro syrup
1 stick butter

Instructions

Preheat oven to temperature on the cake mix box.
Mix cake batter according to the directions.
Using a mini cupcake pan, fill each one 1/2 full.
Bake for 8-15 minutes or until completely done.
Remove from oven and cool completely.
For the icing, cream together Caro syrup, butter, and lemon extract. Slowly add in sugar until everything is completely mixed together and is the consistency of regular icing.
Add a little icing to the top of the cooled cupcakes.
Refrigerate for an hour and serve cold.

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(Thanks Tammy!)

Kristin’s Kitchen: Oreo Dirt Cake

By Kristin from Couponing to Disney

Recently we had a birthday party for my son who turned 6. I made him an Oreo dirt cake instead of a regular cake because it went along well with our “construction” themed party. Look how cute it turned out when we put construction vehicles on top! It was a huge hit at the party, too!

Kristin’s Kitchen: Oreo Dirt Cake

Recipe Type: Dessert

Author: couponingtodisney.com

Ingredients

1 package of Oreo cookies
2 packages of vanilla instant pudding
3 c. milk
16 ounces of cool whip
1 c. confectioners sugar
8 oz.cream cheese, softened

Instructions

Place Oreos in a large ziploc bag and crush.
Combine instant pudding, milk, cool whip, and cream cheese together until smooth. (You can hand stir it but I suggest using a mixer to get all of the lumps out.)
Slowly add confectioners sugar and mix well.
Place a layer of Oreos in the bottom of a pan, then pour in the pudding mix.
Top with crushed Oreos.

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(Thanks Shawn Scarb0rough!)