Make It Yourself: Sweetened Condensed Milk
Have you ever been in the mood for something sweet and you decided to make it at home only to discover that you needed sweetened condensed milk and had none in your pantry? Well there is an alternative that you can make from scratch. It’s easy, quick, and cost much less than the store bought kind, even the generic. Most homes probably have all the ingredients in their pantry already. So why not try making some of your favorite desserts with homemade sweetened condensed milk and save some money.
Ritter Sport for Chocolate Lovers
Four (4) lucky winners will win a box of Ritter Sport mini bars (84 mini bars to a box). This giveaway is open to the U.S. and will end on February 10, 2010.
Easy Blueberry Sauce for Blueberry Topped Treats
This easy blueberry sauce recipe can be used in any of a number of ways–stirred into yogurt, as a topping for pancakes, waffles or ice cream, dribbled over cheesecake, puddled in cottage cheese…the options are endless. I particularly like it over vanilla ice cream on top of a brownie or drizzled over lemon frozen yogurt. Whatever you choose, you’re bound to want to make this sauce over and over again
Blueberry Lemon Frozen Yogurt
Frozen yogurt is an easy way to get another serving of dairy and fruit into your diet in the guise of a treat. Making your own allows you to control everything from the fat and sugar content to the flavorings used. Because of this, you can just about get away with calling it a healthy food and eating it for breakfast–a treat if ever there was one. In this version I use low-fat greek yogurt as a base and flavor it with blueberries, lemon and vanilla.
Pumpkin Cake
This pumpkin cake is one of my absolute must-make recipes for most of fall and winter, no matter what the occasion. It’s a great dessert to have on hand during the holidays, and is a way to get your pumpkin fix if you’re not a huge fan of pumpkin pie as well. The cake itself is super moist and can be enjoyed simply topped with powdered sugar, plain, or dressed up with a cream cheese icing. Make it early, make it often and it will always get eaten.
Homemade Caramel Apples: Easy, Inexpensive, and Taste Better!
It’s Halloween time and what’s better than a Caramel Apple oozing with all that wonderful tasting caramel! I have always made caramel apples with the little squares that you just melt in your pan. Well, this year I found a recipe from Crystal that I decided to try. I had everything in my pantry except for the apples which all seemed to be on sale right now at my grocery. I also made my own sweetened condensed milk since I had those ingredients on hand too. So, this recipe was pretty cheap for my. It also taste so much better than the caramel squares! I promise you that you will never go back to those squares again! Hope you enjoy these and have a Happy Halloween!
Cool Treats Don’t Have to Freeze the Budget
It’s July and it’s HOT! What do you and your kids want most? Well, if they are like mine they want cool treats like slushies, milkshakes, ice cream, and Blizzards from Dairy Queen. The only problem is if I go out and buy these items they will freeze my budget. So, how do I give my kids these cool summer treats but not freeze my budget? Well, the thing I came up with is to make my own at home. Not only are they cheaper, but you can also let your kids help you make them. My kids love to make summer treats at home. When I make Blizzards at home, I can make at least a dozen for the same cost as one at the fast food restaurant. I have to buy 6 for my family when I go out, so for me making them at home is the best option right now. So, if your kids are craving those expensive cool treats this summer, try some of these homemade recipes. I hope your family loves them as much as mine does!
Peaches & Cream Dessert
This beyond easy and super fast dessert is another recipe inspired by what I dub “Grandma food.” The exception compared to other Grandma recipes is that this one wasn’t super special, just her response to just about always serving some form of dessert when we were visiting and this one showed up when she spent her effort on the actual dinner dishes. As I was running through a grocery store gathering the last few things I needed for dinner I stumbled on a pile of angel food cakes on sale and decided to use her mixture of pudding and cake as the base of my own variation, this one inspired by the big can of peaches I already had in my basket. Necessity can be the mother of invention and this peaches and cream dessert turned out to be a keeper.
Chocolate Tofu Pudding
This is about as instant as instant pudding can get and tastes better than commercial pudding cups. Chocolate covers the relatively mild soy taste of the silken tofu, so even the tofu haters tend to eat this one without complaint. This pudding is excellent straight out of the blender or ice cold from the fridge, and would also lend itself well to being frozen in popsicle molds for a pudding pop treat.
