Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheesecake

Recipe found here.

For some reason, the uploaded photo rotated and I don't know how to rotate it back...

 

Oreo Cupcakes

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Follow my chocolate cake recipe here to make the batter. 
Place one broken Oreo in each cupcake cup.
Pour batter into each.
Bake for about 18 minutes.

For the frosting:
2 cups heavy cream
4 tbls. confectioner's sugar
2 tsp. v. extract
3/4 c. crushed Oreos

Whip heavy cream until peaks are about to form.  Add in sugar and extract and whip until peaks form.  Fold in crushed Oreos.

Delicious!

Vegan Vanilla Pudding

Recipe found here.

I think this turned out alright... my vegan friend liked it so I guess so!

Walnut Clusters

Ingredients:
Dark Chocolate
White Chocolate
Salt
Caramel
Milk
Vanilla extract
Walnuts

Directions:
I don't have exact amounts for the ingredients.  This was a test run.  The caramel in the clusters hardened and didn't become gooey like I thought they would.  But basically, when melting the caramel, add in extra milk and a dash of vanilla extract to decrease the hardness of the caramel.  The amounts of each ingredient varies based on your preference.

Basically, I melted some dark chocolate, placed walnuts on the melted dark chocolate and then melted the caramel with milk and vanilla extract and drizzled that over the walnuts.  Next, I melted the white chocolate and drizzled that on top and then sprinkled salt over that.  Cover the tops with more dark chocolate.  Refrigerate or freeze the clusters between each layer.

Peppermint Bark

Something festive for the season.... and also incredibly easy to make.

The white chocolate is beige in this because I got lazy and used the pot I had used to melt the dark chocolate for the white chocolate without washing it.

Ingredients:
12 oz. dark chocolate
12 oz. white chocolate
3 tblsp. crushed peppermint

Directions:
Melt chocolate (microwave or double boiler)
Spread over wax paper to desired thickness.
Place in fridge or freezer to harden.
Repeat with white chocolate.
Before cooling the white chocolate, sprinkle with crushed peppermint.

Lemon Chiffon Cake

Another birthday cake!  I didn't have lemon zest or tartar sauce so I made some modifications to the original recipe.  Instead of lemon zest, I used cardamon (completely different flavor) and add the toasted coconut to the cake batter instead of using it for the icing.  For the tartar sauce substitute, I used lemon juice.  Anything to keep the egg whites stiff will do.

Bell Pepper Salad

Ingredients:
1 yellow bell pepper julienned
1 green bell pepper julienned
1 red bell pepper julienned
1 orange bell pepper julienned
1 (large) red onion sliced
1/2 c. olive oil
1/4 c. balsamic vinegar
1 tsp. celery seeds
black pepper and salt to taste
2 cloves garlic minced

Directions:
Mix together

Note: I did not have green peppers when I made this... thus none in the picture.