Chocolate and cashew oatmeal bars

Hellooooo!!!!!! heheheheh

Okay, today I bring to you a perfect picnic recipe, I made this bars for a day at the beach with my mom and my grandma, of course they were also our breakfast before we left home and our dinner dessert and if they weren't too hot the night before they had been our bed time meal... This bars are really delicious and yet simple and easy to make.

Chocolate and cashew oatmeal bars

Ingredients:

• 10 oz (280g) flour
• 6.7 oz (190g) rolled oats
• 5.6 oz (160g) light brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 7 oz (200g) butter, room temperature
• 3.5 oz (100g) cashew
• 7 oz (200g) chocolate, broken to pieces
• 1 can – 14 oz (400g) condensed milk
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch

Directions:

1. Preheat  the oven to 347ºF. Line a brownie pan and spray it.
2. In the electric mixer, mix flour, oats, sugar, baking soda, salt and butter, until you reach a lumpy dough. Divide it in two equal parts.
3. Press the first part of dough in the pan, spread the cashew and the chocolate on top. Mix the cornstarch and the condensed milk and pour it over the cashew and chocolate.
4. Press (but not too hard) the rest of the dough on top of everything in the pan.
5. Bake for 40-42 minutes until the top is golden-brown. Let it cool in the pan and then take it to the fridge. Cut it in bars and serve.

The hardest thing about this bars is to stop eating them, or maybe not to eat the hole pan ... WARNING: they are really addictive!

Chocolate chip and peanut cookies

Hey guys! Did u miss me? Probably not… oh well xD! Hahaahahaha

So this is probably my first completely successful cookie recipe, you know, I’ve tried many times before and they get tasty but they never had got the perfect size, texture, shape, or whatever that this unbelievable amazing cookies did. They got just perfect and I ate waaaayyyy to many than I should.

I made these cookies for a road trip and I gave some to my colleagues that liked them much more than their supermarket packed cookies, yet, as I have said, I ate the most of them specially because we were doing windsurf, paddle surf and canoeing in the afternoon so we didn’t had much for lunch and as a result after all this activities we were starving…

Peanut and chocolate cookies

Ingredients:

• ½ cup + 1 tablespoon (125 g) butter softened
• ½ cup +2 tablespoons (125 g) light brown sugar
• 1 egg slightly beaten
• 1 + ¼ cup (150 g) flour (not self-raising)
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ cup (75 g) oat flakes
• 2 cups chocolate broken into pieces.
• 1 cup peanuts chopped

Directions:

1. Line baking sheet and spray it with cooking spray. Preheat the oven to 360ºF.
2. Cream butter and sugar together. Stir in the egg.
3. Add the flour, baking powder and oats and mix until smooth.
4. Fold in the chocolate pieces and the peanuts.
5. With a teaspoon make small balls of dough in the baking sheet and flat them with a fork.
6. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Let them in the sheet for 2 min. and then remove them to a kitchen net for better cooling.

Well, there isn’t much I can say, my mom was glad that I left two or three cookies at home for her and daddy (and I was glad two cause if I had more with me I probably had ate them… Oh Rita…). Enjoooooyyyyyy!!!!!

Triple chocolate muffins

Hello cuties ;)!! I feel like I am remembering you that I’m in holidays in every post and I really hope that doesn’t bother you… but guess what? I’m in holidays! So last week I invited some friends over, ordered some pizzas, unpacked some chips but I shore had to do something on my own. So besides some lovely dips that I will share with you later, I did the most chocolaty muffins ever! I couldn’t even tell if they came from heaven or from underneath because they were so heavenly good but they were SUCH A TEMPTATION! Migohsss…. My girls were like “Jesus, I want to have another, but I’m just so full!!!!!” Yeah they liked them.

These muffins are chocolate flavored plus they have chocolate chips, white and milk, mixed in. In the recipe there are milk chocolate chips, but I used dark, it’s also really good… Who knows? Maybe next time I’ll use the three! Just making shore next time I won’t eat so much uncooked batter… Oh Rita…

Triple chocolate muffins

Ingredients:

• 2 cups chocolate cut into pieces
• ¾ cup milk (you’ll need more)
• ¼ cup butter
• 2 + 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 1 cup chocolate powder
• ¼ cup sugar
• ¾ cup warm milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• ¼ cup hot water
• 1 cup white chocolate chips
• 1 cup milk chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 390ºF and place 24 liners in the muffin tin.
2. In a small pan set over low heat melt the chocolate pieces with butter and the first ¾ cup of milk.
3. Mix the flour, baking soda, chocolate powder and sugar.
4. Beat the egg with the warm milk and the vanilla.
5. Add the egg mixture to flour mixture, stir to combine, then add the chocolate mixture, stir again and finally add the hot water and stir until smooth.
6. Involve the chocolate chips and spoon the batter into the muffin tins filling them almost until the top.
7. Bake for 10 minutes then reduce the oven temperature to 360ºF and bake for another 10 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

This recipe is great, it’s not too difficult (actually it’s kind of easy) and in a short time you’ll have the perfect muffins for chocolate lovers! They’re really good, I’m missing them right now… Have fun!

Nutella filled muffins

Hi again! So here I was wondering if two posts in the same day would be too much, but then I was like: “noooo, you really need something to fill your blog” hehehe…

OK so, picking up again that lovely pool party, as we were too many for one single pan of brownies I also did some amazing molten chocolate centered fluffy perfect muffins. (and I could add some more positive adjectives…) And once again my friends ate them all, but this time it was really them, I only ate like one because this was the second time I made this muffins and the first had been just the day before for a nice family day at the beach… 

 It was weird because I made the double of the recipe but instead of yielding 24 muffins I only got enough batter for 23... (wtf right!?)

Yeah and so as an odd number would be stupid (and as the last one also got smaller) I had a cute idea and put a tiny paper flag in the 23º muffin and gave it to my mom. Admit it, it IS cute.

(the flag says: "For mommy because she is beautifull!")

Nutella filled muffins

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup butter
• 1 + ¼ cup flour
• 1/2 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg                   
• 1/2 cup warm milk
• 1/4 cup warm water
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 cup Nutella

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 390ºF and line a muffin tin with 12 liners.
2. Melt the butter in a microwave-safe bowl or in a small pan.
3. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
4. In a separated bowl beat the egg with warm milk and then stir in the butter.
5. Add the egg mixture to flour mixture and stir until smooth, then add the water and beat for a while. The batter should be fluid but not too liquid, if you wish don't add all of the water.
6. Spoon the batter into the muffin tin but only 2/3 of its capacity then add 2/3 teaspoon of Nutella to each muffin.
7. Bake for about 12-15 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle (be careful not to reach the Nutella ;)) comes out clean.

Once again this is a really simple, easy and quick to make recipe, this muffins are good at room temperature and they will last for a week in a box (if you don’t eat them before)

They are good for breakfast or  for a snack with some tea or milk J Enjoyyyy!!!

Oreo Funfetti Brownies

Hey peeps! What up?

Today I bring you a nice recipe for brownies, this time, topped with Oreos and rainbow sprinkles (Omigoshhh).

I made them a week ago for a pool party at a friend’s place and there was nothing left of it… Seriously, my friends loved it so much that they asked me to make them for another dinner party last Saturday (yeah cause were young and in holidays so we party a lot ;) jkd). This time for my mom’s happiness there was like two pieces left heheh…

Well I have to admit that I was kind of the one that ate most of the pieces but who cares they were so d… good! They really taste like chocolate and they got just the perfect amount of moistness right before gooiness (which can be hard because brownies sometimes get dry if well cooked) but these were just sugary goodnessssssss… Humm…

The original recipe asked for cocoa powder but I only had chocolate powder, which is only 32% cocoa and mostly sugar, so I kind of change the quantities in the original recipe. It was adapted from the blog Sing for you supper.

Oreo funfetti brownies

Ingredients:

• 4 large eggs
• 2 cups chocolate powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon espresso powder (optional)
• 1tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 8-10 Oreos, chopped
• Rainbow sprinkles (about 1/4cup)

 Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9” x 13” pan.
2. Beat the eggs with the chocolate, salt, baking powder, espresso powder and vanilla until smooth.
3. Meanwhile, in a saucepan set over low heat, melt the butter, then add the sugar and stir to combine. Return the mixture to the heat briefly, don’t let it start bubbling, just until it is shinny. Add it to the previous mixture and stir until combined.
4. Slowly add in the flour, again stirring until smooth. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Top with chopped Oreos and sprinkles. 
5. Bake for about 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let it cool before cutting.  Serves 12.

I delighted myself liking the bowl and having the last Oreo in the package (:o). It's a really simple recipe easy and quick to make with the everyday ingredients (lol but I did not had cocoa...). They are good at room temperature but you can refrigerate them if you wish, I kept those pieces left in a Tupperware in the fridge and they are still awesoooomeee. Have fun and good luck trying it out!