Almond Butter Cups

Since my husband is allergic to peanuts I am always looking for peanut free spreads.  I've bought the cookie spreads, almond butter, hazelnuts... pretty much anything I can get my hands on.  The other day I was sitting here watching a Reese's commercial and was thinking how much I love them and how horrible it has to be to not be able to ever have them!  So I figured I needed to come up with a recipe and surprise him.  While the kids were napping I started coming up with this recipe.

Yield 24:

• 16 oz chocolate chips (I used semi-sweet since he loves dark chocolate)
• 1/2 cup Almond butter
• 1/4 cup plus two tbsp powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp butter (softened)

I started by lining a mini muffin pan with wrappers.  Then I melted half of the chocolate in the microwave 30 second intervals at 50% power.  Spread it evenly in the bottom of the wrappers then freeze for 15 minutes.

 Meanwhile I mixed the Almond butter, powdered sugar and softened butter together.  I ended up just kneading it with my hands until it was all mixed together and looked like a giant ball.  I broke it into 24 little balls and then placed them on top of the hardened chocolate.



Then I pressed the butter mixture down leaving space on the sides for chocolate.



Then melted the remaining chocolate and placed it on top of the butter mixture.  Place that back in the freezer for 15 minutes then enjoy!  I've found they are good both left in the freezer and left on the cabinet after that.  They won't last long so haven't had to worry about a shelf life!

Enjoy!!

3 Ingredient S'mores Pie

I was checking facebook Friday and realized that it was National S'mores day!  After I saw that I couldn't think about anything else besides s'mores.  I needed to come up with something quick and easy to fill my craving.  I had a premade graham cracker crust some chocolate chips and some marshmallow creme so I figured that could do the trick!

Graham Cracker Crust

1 cup Chocolate Chips

1 7oz container of Marshmallow Creme

I started by putting 1 cup of chocolate chips in the pie crust and putting that in a 375 degree oven for 5 minutes.  Then spread the marshmallow creme over the chocolate chips.  I put it back in the oven for 5 minutes.  Then flipped it over to broil for about 2 minutes to brown it make sure to watch it to get it to your liking.  Let it cool as long as you can and then dig in!  It was too easy to be as good as it tasted!

Enjoy!! 

Mini Cherry Pies

I'm all about the individual desserts then I don't have to waste time I could be spending with people cutting a cake or pie.  These would be excellent for a party!  I just made them for no reason at all.  But then decided hey my husbands birthday is tomorrow I'll send them with him to work so I don't eat them all!

All you need for this is refrigerated pie crust and pie filling.  If you want to make your own have at it.  I didn't I just used the store bought stuff.  It was amazing and felt even better that it took me less than a half an hour to make and have this awesome looking dessert!

Preheat the oven to 375.  I unrolled the two pie crusts that come in the box got a cookie cutter that is about 3 inches in diameter and cut out 24 of them.  The remaining dough I put together and rerolled out for the stars.

I used a mini muffin tin for this.  It made them about 1-3 biters.  Depending on how big your mouth is.  

Put the circles in each hole of the tin and fill with the cherry pie filling.  I'm sure it would work just as great with any other pie filling.  With the cherry I put two cherries in each pie.  Anymore than that would overflow it.






 I topped each pie with two stars and baked for 15 minutes checking at 10 minutes.  You want the crust a light brown and the filling will be bubbling when it is ready.  

Such an easy dessert I hope you enjoy!!