Breakfast Sandwich

If you're looking for an easy and delicious breakfast, or a simple and healthy afternoon snack, I highly recommend these.

You need: whole wheat mini-bagels (or bagel of your choice), cream cheese (or peanut butter), thinly sliced apple.

Split your bagel, spread both sides with cream cheese and top with apple slices. 

My girls really liked these and using the mini-bagels made them just the right size for them. 

Enjoy!

Semi-Homemade Apple Blueberry Cobbler

 

Life with a new baby doesn’t leave me much time for creating new things, like dessert for instance. So, I was happy that I could just throw this together last minute.

What you need:

• 2 cans apple pie filling
• 1 pint fresh or frozen blueberries
• granola
• just add water instant pancake mix

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Add cans of pie filling and blueberries to 9x13 dish.  Mix pancake mix according to directions for lowest serving size.  Drop pancake mix by spoonfuls into pie filling.  Top with granola.

Bake for 30-40 minutes, or until pancake mix has cooked through.  Serve warm with ice cream.

Strawberry Trifle

This is a great dessert to use up some of those summer strawberries.
Ingredients:
1 box strawberry cake
2 tubs whipped cream
1 1/2 pints strawberries

Bake cake according to package directions in a 9x13 in. pan.
While cake is cooking, thaw whipped cream and slice strawberries in half lengthwise.
When cake has cooled cut in half across middle and down the length, then cut each section into 1 in wide pieces about 3 in long (think lady fingers). Next use half the cake to layer the bottom of your trifle dish. Using a rubber spatula, spread the whipped cream over the cake, trying to get it into the crevices of the cake. You should not be able to see the cake on top through the whipped cream. Next top with strawberriess. Add a thin layer of whipped cream. Add another layer of cake, then whipped cream, topping it off with the strawberries.

This dessert looks beautiful and tastes delicious. I wish I had a picture, but I set it on the table and turned around to get my camera and in the moment I had my back turned, it had been divided down to the last dollop of whipped cream and everybody was eating. Maybe next time, or you could just make it yourself to see.

(repost from 3/14)

Crustless Blackberry Cheesecake

This is a good and easy summertime dessert. It's much simpler than regular cheesecake.

Take 1 can sweetened condensed milk, 1 package cream cheese, 1/3 cup lemon juice and a teaspoon vanilla extract. Mix all ingredients together until smooth.

We topped with blackberries, but you could use any fruit or pie filling. It can also be served in waffle bowls, but we just used regular bowls.

Peach and Pineapple Cobbler

I picked up some fresh peaches at the store on sale so last night I made a peach and pineapple cobbler. It was the first cobbler I've made and it turned out quite nicely. I was looking for a peach cobbler recipe, but I could only find ones using canned peaches, so I decided to just wing it.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Peel and cut up peaches (about 2 cups fresh). Then add a can of pineapple chunks with half the juice. Add 1/3 cup sugar and 1/4t. vanilla. Stir and let sit. Place 1/2c. butter in a 9x13 in dish and put in oven to melt.

Mix 1c. flour, 1c. sugar, 1c. milk, and 1t. baking powder in bowl.Once butter has melted, add fruit.

Spread fruit in pan and then add batter. Do not stir.

Sprinkle top with cinnamon and nutmeg and place in oven for 50-60 min to bake.

I don't have a picture of the whole cobbler, because it got attacked the moment it came out of the oven.