Brownies

I am the kind of person who makes brownies that come in those nice little boxes. Well not anymore! I decided to try making brownies from scratch. I looked up a recipe and found one I liked, but did a little tweaking.

Ingredients: 1 cup softened butter, 2 cups brown sugar, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons vanilla, 1/2 cup AP flour, 1 pinch salt 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder. (The original version called for 1 cup AP flour and 1 cup cocoa powder, you can try it that way if you want too. My brownies came out greasy but I think its because I greased the pan to much.)

Mix together butter and brown sugar until creamed. Beat in eggs one at a time, then add vanilla. Min in flour, salt and cocoa powder. Spread batter into a greased pan. Bake for 20 min. at 350 degrees.

Variations: Add Mint extract to make mint chocolate brownies, mix in or add on top caramel syrup for rich caramel brownies.

Enjoy!

As always, I found this recipe at www.allrecipes.com check it out sometime!

Apple Pie

This pie is so good! I have never made a pie before and found this recipe to be fun and easy. Let the pie rest for a while before cutting or else there will be lots of liquid. This was one of my 8:30 P.M. "Hey I want something moods" So the pie was done at about 10:30 You can of course make it much faster than I did.

Pie Filling: 6 cups apples, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, Dollop of flour.

Double crust pie: 2 cups AP flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt. 2/3 cup butter or shortening, 6 -7 tablespoons cold water

Prepare apples and slice thinly. Combine Sugar and cinnamon you can add as much as you want. Mix together apples and cinnamon sugar mixture in a bowl. Make sure they are covered evenly. Sprinkle flour and mix. (The flour will help control the liquid.)

Crust: Stir together flour and salt cut in small squares of butter. til mixture has little "peas" in it. Mix in 1 tablespoon of water. Keep stirring. Keep adding water til it dough is moistened. Divide dough in half and roll each half into a ball. Lightly flour the surface and ball and roll into a circle. Wrap pastry around roller then slide into pie plate.

Add apples and then add top crust. Cut slits into pie for the steam to escape. Flute edges.

Bake for 10 min. on lowest rack at 450 degrees then lower temperature to 350 and bake for 30-35 minutes.

Enjoy!

Cinnamon Rolls (Muffins)

3/4 cup milk

1/4 cup butter (softened)

3 1/4 cup rice flour

.25 ounce instant yeast

1/4 cup white sugar

1/2 teaspoon butter

1/4 cup water

1 egg

1 cup brown sugar (Packed)

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1/2 cup butter(softened)

Raisins & Nuts (optional)

Heat the milk until it bubbles, remove from heat and add butter. Stir until melted and let cool.
In a mixing bowl, add 2 1/4 cup of the flour, yeast, sugar and salt. Add water, egg and milk mixture. Add the rest of the flour 1/2 cup at a time. (I found that while using rice flour, I had to add more flour because it was kinda soupy.) Stir well. When the dough pulls together, pour onto a lightly floured surface. Knead until smooth. (About 5 minutes) Cover the dough with a damp cloth and let it rest for 10 minutes. In the mean time, preheat oven to 375 and mix together brown sugar, cinnamon and softened butter. Roll out dough into a rectangle. (You don't want it to thick or thin and remember to spread more flour down. It can stick to the surface when you try and roll it.) Spread the sugar mixture on the dough add nuts and raisins if desired. Roll dough up into a log and pinch to seal. Cut into slices and put in a slightly greased pan or muffin cups. Let rise until doubled. (I didn't) Bake for 20 minutes or until brown. ( also forgot to put flour down when rolling it. It became a big mushy mess hence the reason they are now muffins.)

Frosting
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon milk
2 tablespoon butter (Melted)

Mix all ingredients together. If it sticks together, add more milk until it is at the consistency you like. Spread over rolls.



P.S. These Cinnamon rolls are named Clancy. You can use wheat flour if you want to, I just used rice flour because of family allergies.

3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:
1 Cup Peanut Butter
1 Cup White Sugar
1 Egg

Preheat oven to 350, mix together all ingredients and spoon onto an ungreased cookie sheet. You can fork criss cross patterns if you want to. Cook for 8-12 minutes or until done.

Note: These do not make very many so you may want to double the recipe. A big glass of milk goes well with these. *Found recipe on allrecipes.com*
Enjoy!