Heavenly Pumpkin Bars

Heavenly Pumpkin Bars

~from Martha Stewart

• 1 tablespoon pumpkin-pie spice
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 c. flour
• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
• 1 package (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease bottom and sides of a 9-by-13-inch baking pan. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, pie spice, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
• With an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar on medium-high speed until smooth; beat in egg and vanilla until combined. Beat in pumpkin puree (mixture may appear curdled). Reduce speed to low, and mix in dry ingredients until just combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
• Spread batter evenly in prepared pan. Bake until edges begin to pull away from sides of pan and a toothpick inserted in center comes out with just a few moist crumbs attached, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool completely in pan.
•  Cut to desired size.  Devour.

Snickers Cake

Snickers Cake
This was so wonderful!!!  I doubled the recipe, but really, unless you are having a ton of people over, you don't need to.  They are super rich!  Even for me!!!  I hope you enjoy!  :)


-1 stick of butter, melted
-1 c. of crushed chocolate teddy grahams (or any chocolate cookie will do)
-1 c. of caramel bits (if you can't find the bits and use the cubes you'll need to pre-melt and pour)
-1 c. of chopped roasted peanuts
-1 c. of chocolate chips
-1 c. of sweetened condensed milk
Layer ingredients in this order in an 8x8 baking pan.
Bake @ 350 for a glass pan, 325 for a metal one for 20 minutes.
Cool and cut into squares.
You can thank me later ;)


P.S.-It's not really a cake.  It's more like cookie bars.  So, not need for ice cream....but definitely have milk on hand!!!

Blackberry Cobbler

*This is a Pioneer Woman recipe and it's so easy and fabulous!  One of the greatest things about it is that you can use any fruit on hand!

Patsy's Blackberry Cobbler

1 stick butter, melted

1 1/4 c. plus 2 Tbs sugar

1 c. self-rising flour

1 c. milk

2 c. fresh (or frozen) fruit

1.  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a 3 qt. baking dish with butter.

2.  Melt butter.

3.  In medium bowl, whisk 1 c. of sugar w/ flour and milk.

4.  Whisk in melted butter.

5.  Rinse blackberries and pat them dry.

6.  Pour the batter into the baking dish.  Sprinkle the berries evenly over the top of the batter.

7.  Sprinkle 1/4 c. sugar over the blackberries.

8.  Bake for 1 hour, or until golden brown and bubbly.  When 10 minutes of cooking time remain, sprinkle the remaining 2 Tbs. sugar over the top.

9.  Serve w/ whipped cream or ice cream.