Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Happy Holidays from Matt's Delights!

Hello Everyone!!!!

I know its been awhile since I last posted, but I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Mine was fantastic. I visited family, cooked a ton and laughed a lot.

As for the holiday baking extravaganza..I did it and it was fantastic! I made a ton of different cookies and bars and will be sharing which ones I made very shortly.

I am checking in and will be posting very soon. Enjoy your day and keep checking for recipe coming up!

Friday, December 9, 2011

Butter Pecan Cookies-so easy!


Hello. How is everyone doing?  I’ve made two cookies on my holiday extravaganza list. So far I am going good, and different from what I normally do. So exciting! 

 I wanted to wish everyone a great weekend and if you are doing any baking I have such an easy cookie you can make. If you like soft and moist cookies this is the one for you. And the best part of it all it only takes four ingredients, but you can add more if you would like.

Cake Mix Cookies. Yes that is right cake mix cookies. For me it’s a little bit of cheating, but sometimes its nice to take a shortcut, especially during this busy time of year. This is what you need

1 Box of Cake Mix (any flavor you feel)
½ cup of oil
2 eggs

Yep. That’s it. That’s all you need. Now the fun part. You can mix in anything you would like to this. Do you want chocolate chips? Add them. Want nuts? Add them. The possibilities are endless. Here are my Butter Pecan cookies. (I actually got the recipe from my Grandmother. This is her favorite type).


Ingredients 

1 Butter Pecan cake mix
½ cup of oil
2 eggs

Place all ingredients in a bowl. Mix until combined. Bake in a oven preheated to 350 for 8-10 minutes.

I added Christmas sprinkles to mine. These are buttery and delicious and easy. Enjoy!

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies

Did I ever tell you I am the self proclaimed King of Christmas? I am a little behind in all my Christmas activities, but I will hopefully get it all together this week. I almost have all my baking needs, and I am starting to write out my Christmas shopping list for others.  

I always love the Christmas time and all the Christmas commercials, all the holiday shows, which I have recorded a TON! My dvr is going to be filled, mainly with Food Network Holiday Shows.  I normally bring out all my DVDs of all the holiday movies, and play Christmas music, I love it!

On to the bars. This Bar is great for parties or your cookie tray this Christmas.  I recently made these for a few people as a thank you and it is from Betty Crocker and you really can’t go wrong with her lol. These are moist and chewy and really rich but so worth it. If you don’t make the frosting homemade just buy the canned stuff. I used a cocoa frosting from Everyday with Rachael Ray and it was amazing! I hope you guys try this and enjoy!

This is what it looks like after baking, pre frosting, these would be really good like this too.

Here they are covered with the frosting OMG soo amazing, check out the link to see what they look like inside

Here is the Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Dough Brownies

Here is the frosting from Everyday With Rachael Ray

These were soo good and rich theres are a must try!

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Happy December 1st, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies


Can you believe it is December 1st already?! I am still getting my decorations up! Talk about the holidays being overwhelming. I feel like my list to do is getting longer and longer. What I really need to do is get on the ball and start my holiday baking, which still needs to be done. I am really trying to get my Christmas decorations up, so hopefully after this weekend I will start. 

Since we are talking about baking here is a cookie I tried during the summer. This is the cookie I made for my Mint chocolate chip cookie ice cream. I found the recipe from one of the blogs I visit Brown Eyed Baker and I really loved them. They stayed moist and chewy and I even messed up. I was adding just an egg yolk when I noticed the white got into the batter because I was taking the yolk out wrong. I also didn’t weight my ingredients ( I don’t have a scale) and I made them into normal size cookies. They still came out great and here is my version!



Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Original recipe found here

2 cups plus 2 tablespoons (10 5/8 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm
1 cup packed (7 ounces) light or dark brown sugar
1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces) granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1-1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper or spray them with nonstick cooking spray.

2. Whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl; set aside.

3. Mix the butter and sugars until blended. Beat in the eggs, and vanilla until combined. Add the dry ingredients and beat at low speed just until combined. Stir in the chips.

4. Roll about 2 tbs of dough into a ball or scoop out with a cookie scoop.

5. Bake until the cookies are light golden brown and the outer edges start to harden yet the centers are still soft and puffy, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool the cookies on the sheets. Remove the cooled cookies from the baking sheets and enjoy but in a tightly sealed container.

Enjoy