Frozen Strawberry Pie

I made this the other day hoping that CT would finally see some warmer weather…not so much! 😦

I made this a couple times last summer and tried a couple different recipes that I have found but this one combination was the best I came up with!

It is very easy and oh so good with only a couple ingredients!

Frozen Strawberry Pie

Ingredients:

2lb Strawberry Yogurt (big container)

1 8oz cool whip

1 pint strawberries sliced

2 oreo pie crusts

Directions:

Whip together the yogurt and cool whip until it is well mixed

Add the chopped strawberries

Pour the mixture into the two pie crusts

Place in the freezer for a couple hours depending on how frozen you want it. (I like to have it in no longer than two hours because I prefer it not too frozen, I tend to let it sit out and soften a little too when it comes out of the freezer)

Here is a picture before the pie was “frozen” i can eat it just like this, it is that good!

I hope you guys enjoy this and I hope the warmer weather tends to get her soon and stick around for a little while!

**Warning** this pie mixture is so good you might want to just it it as is! 🙂 🙂

White Chocolate Oreo Cookies

I am feeling some what better but sorry no pics 😦

Here is a one of the first cookies I created way back when and I hope you enjoy them!

White Chocolate Oreo Cookie

Ingredients:

1 1/2 sticks of butter (softened)

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 1/2 cups flour (sifted)

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp salt

1 bag White Chocolate Chips

2 Cups chopped up oreo’s (I normally place them in a large zip loc and use a wooden spoon and whack them hahaha so that they are in small chunks and pieces)

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 375°

Mix butter & sugars

Add eggs & vanilla

Add sifted flour, salt & soda

Add White chips and cookie pieces and mix until well blended

Place teaspoon full drops of dough on a greased cookie sheet and bake for 10 mins.

Enjoy these heavenly creations!

Man what a slacker!

1. I have not made anything new in a while (since Easter)

2. I  have been sick and very lazy and have not wrote a single post in prob 3 days!

I promise some good, fun stuff will come back soon, but please bare with me as I recover from this awful cold!

For the time being here are some funnies to keep us entertained while I struggle to get over this awful cold!

Here are some short people and lazy problems that I encounter:

How the realistic world is…we all think we look so much different then we really do to other people hahaha…so awesome!

Something that just makes me laugh out loud! I don’t do instagram and the hash-tag thing kind of drives me nuts so this is what I prefer to think of 🙂

And i know this one will prob get me in trouble but it reminds me of my Memere, I can see her doing something like this hahaha! Love you!

Enjoy your day and I hope you all are feeling better than me 🙂

 

Flat Jess Adventures :-)

So on the Dominican trip, flat Jess found a friend Flat Steph! Here we are enjoying our time on our beautiful vacation! We had an absolute blast and were really bummed to have to go home!

Up bright and early at the Airport heading to the Dominican

Arrived safely and enjoying some pool time 🙂

Relaxing in these amazing Cabana’s that they had!

Enjoying some Candy of course on one of the rainy last days of our trip 😉

Well I can’t speak for flat Steph but I, Flat Jess had a blast! I’m sure there will be more journey’s to show in the near future! 🙂

Butterfinger Pie

Here is another dessert I made for Easter. I found it here from Pinterest a long time a go and I have made it a couple times and love it! I love everything about it, the fact that it has 4 ingredients, that it is so easy and quick and that it has butterfingers…YUM!

INGREDIENTS:

1 bag bite size butterfinger candy bars, crushed (I put it in a food processor and made it really fine)
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese (softened)
1 (12 ounce) carton Cool Whip
1 graham cracker crust

DIRECTIONS:

Cream together the cream cheese and cool whip

Then add the crushed butterfinger (reserving a little to sprinkle on top) and mix until well blended

Put it in pie crust

Sprinkle the reserved crushed butterfinger on top

Then Chill until you are ready to enjoy!

How simple is that! Now go ahead and give it a shot! You have no excuse not to 😉

Rolo Bars

Like promised I made my Rolo Bars for Easter and if I do say so myself, they came out pretty well!

Rolo Bars

Ingredients:

3 Cups finely chopped graham crackers

1/2 cup sugar

1 stick butter (melted)

1 package of caramel squares

1 bag chocolate chips

1 bag mini rolo’s

Directions:

1. Once the graham crackers are all chopped up, mix in the sugar and then the butter and mix until the graham crackers are all moist.

2. In a sprayed 13 x 9 pan, press the graham cracker mixture into the bottom of the pan, Then bake at 350 degrees for 10 mins and let completely cool (I saw a tip for making bars to put non stick aluminum foil in bottom so you could just pull it out and it would make it easier to cut…i did not do this but If I were you, I would, the caramel makes it difficult to cut in the pan!)

3. While the crust is cooling, Following the directions on the caramel bag, unwrap and melt the caramels on the stove (I believe it was just the caramels and 2 tbsp of water), once it is all melted, just pour it over the graham cracker crust and spread all over evenly.

4. Next melt the chocolate chips and then spread that over the caramel layer.

5. Take the mini Rolo’s and sprinkle them on top of the chocolate while it is still wet ( I chopped up the rolo’s so they were smaller pieces, but it wasn’t so easy so feel free to do them how you prefer 🙂

6. Once the bars are dry and hardened, cut them up into bars and enjoy!

The Bars drying after I poured the chocolate on and sprinkled them with Rolo pieces:

One of the Rolo Bars, with a layer of Graham Cracker, Caramel and Chocolate 🙂

On a plate and ready to be brought to Easter Brunch!

Reese Peanut Butter Bark

Here is an awesome quick bark that I am sure you all will love!!! It is a recipe I found a long time ago in a Hershey magazine.

Here is the bark hardening:

Here is the delicious bark all broken up and ready to enjoy!

Reese Bark Recipe

Ingredients:

1 bag chocolate chips

1 bag Reese chips

1 Tbsp shortening

1/2 cup chopped peanuts

Directions:

Melt the Chocolate chips in the microwave

Then melt the Reese chips in the microwave with the shortening

When the Reese chips come out all melted, add the chopped peanuts and stir until well combined

Now is the fun part! Just spread the melted Reese and chocolate all over a wax paper covered cookie sheet, alternating and using a knife and making swirls (I just kind of dump some chocolate in spot and some Reese in spots then spread it out and swirl it around)

Once it is all spread out, just put it in the freezer to harden, then you can take it out and break it up and start enjoying it.

**after you break up the bark, it tends to soften if left out to room temp, so I tend to leave it in bags in the fridge 🙂

I hope you enjoy! Happy Hump Day!

March Book Club

This month we did a breakfast book club, where we all made tasty book club breakfast foods, we had my mini crescent danishes, little quiche, monkey bread and Noelle made homemade cinnamon raison bagels, that were pretty awesome!

The book choice for last month was The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton.

The Goodreads description: During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy.

Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London. She returns to the family farm for Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by questions she has not thought about for decades. From pre-WWII England through the Blitz, to the fifties and beyond, discover the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds—Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy—who meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined.

Goodreads average rating is 4.11 stars

Our average rating was a 3 stars!

Our thoughts summarized and beautifully said by Jess: Kate Morton’s long winded tale of a mother with a mysterious past and a daughter determined to uncover it was a journey. A 481-page long journey.
The story is sprawled throughout two World Wars and present day, following monotonous Laurel, Dorothy in all her narcissistic dysfunction, and Vivien with her surprisingly soft demeanor.
Overall, the story- in terms of execution- was 200 pages too long with redundant scenes from different points of view and these inner dialogues (specifically Laurel) that went forever. However, in the last 100 pages or so, Morton was able to pick up the pace within the plot a bit and deliver some remarkable twists to the story as Dorothy’s mysterious past fell into place. That being said, would we as a book club read another Kate Morton novel? Probably not.

Happy Monday!