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Custards and Puddings

Hocus Pocus Billy’s Grave Pudding Cups – #HalloweenTreatsWeek

October 14, 2021

Hocus Pocus Billy’s Grave Pudding Cups- a fun treat with layers of chocolate pudding, cookie crumbs, shredded coconut, & a cookie headstone.

Pudding cup with chocolate pudding layers, cookie crumbs, and coconut grass

This post and recipe was created for #HalloweenTreatsWeek! A fun Halloween themed blogging event that is sponsored by Dixie Crystals. Check out the great giveaway below!

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Halloween, Recipes

Creamy Stove Top Chocolate Rice Pudding

June 1, 2020

This Creamy Chocolate Rice Pudding is soft and luxurious because it’s made slowly on the stove top. It’s a delicious way to use up leftover rice.

When you have leftover rice from dinner, be sure to transform it into this Creamy Chocolate Rice Pudding. You’ll love that you used up your leftovers and make a delicious dessert. A total win!

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Recipes Tagged With: chocolate rice pudding, creamy rice pudding, rice pudding

Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding with Crumble Topping

March 31, 2020

This Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding with Crumble Topping is the perfect bread pudding that will satisfy your sweets cravings with the chocolate and the buttery texture from the crumbly topping.

I love bread pudding because it’s a great dessert. Plus, it’s a great way to transform some old bread into a delicious treat. 

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Recipes Tagged With: Bread Pudding, chocolate chip bread pudding, chocolate chips, crumbly topping bread pudding

Baked Rice Pudding Using Leftover Rice

December 18, 2019

Baked Rice Pudding using Leftover Rice is the perfect dessert to enjoy when you’ve made too much rice or ordered too much with your take out. Delish!

Rice pudding is a comforting dessert made with rice, milk, sugar, eggs, and spices. It’s a comforting dessert that you can enjoy warm or cold. It’s topped  No matter how you like it, you’ll love this Baked Rice Pudding Using Leftover Rice.

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Recipes Tagged With: baked rice pudding, leftover rice, rice pudding

Caramel Filled Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes- #HalloweenTreatsWeek

October 12, 2019

Say Boo! Caramel Filled Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes are yummy chocolate cupcakes filled with a frightfully delicious surprise caramel filling.  A spooktacular treat.

This post and recipe is part of the week-long event, #HalloweenTreatsWeek where I have posted some great Halloween recipes along with other wonderful bloggers. 

Caramel Filled Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes are simple chocolate cupcakes that have a fun surprise in them. They are definitely not a tick but a great Halloween treat!

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Recipes Tagged With: cupcakes, halloween, halloween cupcakes

Frankenstein’s Monster Pudding Cups

October 1, 2018

Frankenstein’s Monster Pudding Cups are the perfect treats for kids! Your kids can help make them and then gobble them up!

Ugh! I have a cold! I just want to lay in bed, but, instead, I bring you HALLOWEEN TREATS WEEK!!!!!

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Halloween, Recipes Tagged With: frankenstein, halloween, pudding

S’mores Dessert Hummus

September 20, 2018

S’mores Dessert Hummus is for the S’mores addict that loves a good treat, but wants it to be healthy too. You really won’t believe it’s a hummus! Yum!

Last month I binged on Suits, watching the whole series to date. This month, I am addicted to The Americans. Have you seen it?

Yes, I know that The Americans recently wrapped up their 6 season series, so I am really behind with the times. I guess, better late than never!

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Recipes Tagged With: dessert hummus, hummus, s'mores

Chocolate Cherry Dessert Hummus

August 29, 2018

Chocolate Cherry Dessert Hummus is your delicious summer treat for when you’re craving something sweet but still want to maintain that bikini body! Dig in!!

It feels like summer is never going to end here in FL.

I know that everyone is like “OMG! Pumpkin Spice Lattes are HERE!!!!!” But I’m still trying to keep cool because the daily temps are in the 90’s and heat index temps in the 100’s. I love it because summer is my favorite season, but I also can’t wait to have temps back in the 80’s. Maybe in November? ha!

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Recipes Tagged With: cherry, chocolate, dessert hummus, healthy dessert, hummus

Cake Doughnut Bread Pudding

July 1, 2018

This Cake Doughnut Bread Pudding is the best way to bring new life to some old doughnuts. The sugary top has a nice crunch for the perfect bite. 

We have bikes!!!!

Well, I had a bike before, that I got earlier this spring off our community Facebook “For Sale” group. A blue cruise with a cup holder, where I stash our garage door opening and my phone when Autumn and I go bike riding.

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Recipes Tagged With: Bread Pudding, dessert, donut, doughnut, stale donut, stale doughnut

Ricotta Cheesecake Parfaits

February 22, 2016

Ricotta Cheesecake Parfaits

So, it’s been one week since Autumn, Bunny, and I have moved to the Tampa area from Boston.

It’s been a whirlwind of a week but has gone pretty dang well!

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Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Recipes Tagged With: dessert, no bake dessert, Secret Recipe Club

Apple Cider Donut Bread Pudding with Apple Cider Caramel

November 24, 2015

Apple Cider Donut Bread Pudding with Apple Cider Caramel

We’re just a few days away from Thanksgiving!!!!

Are you ready?!?!?!

I can’t wait!!!

Apple Cider Donut Bread Pudding with Apple Cider Caramel

Well, we basically did our Thanksgiving at home this past weekend, but I still can’t wait to have a 4 day weekend!! We are going up to Price’s sister’s house on Friday so we decided to do our Thanksgiving in advance so we would’t be doing Thanksgiving dinner 2 days in a row. Now we just get to relax this Thursday to watch the parade and dog show. yes!

Apple Cider Donut Bread Pudding with Apple Cider Caramel

Do Chinese places deliver? Does wondering that make me a horrible person?

Don’t answer that.

Anyway, I think I am a wonderful person for making this Apple Cider Donut Bread Pudding. But I didn’t just stop there!! Oh no, I covered that sucka in a warm Apple Cider Caramel.

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Why did I think that making a caramel sauce would be so hard? Why did I wait so long to do it? Insanity I tell you!!!

So this is not your average bread pudding… It ditches your bread behind for donuts!!!! And the best kind of donuts too! Man, apple cider donuts have a special place in my heart.

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I’ve made ‘bread’ pudding before with day old croissants, which was awesome!! But during our recent ‘it’s-actually-too-cold-to-go-apple-picking’ apple picking experience, we picked up some day old apple cider donuts. Perfectly marked down and perfectly imperfect for this recipe!!!

Apple Cider Donut Bread Pudding with Apple Cider Caramel

The bread pudding is super easy. The caramel actually is easy as well- I swear! So it will be super easy to enjoy this dessert at your Thanksgiving this year!!

It will make everyone oohh and ahhh!!

Apple Cider Donut Bread Pudding with Apple Cider Caramel

Apple Cider Donut Bread Pudding with Apple Cider Caramel

Serves 8-10

Ingredients

For the Bread Pudding

  • 12 Apple Cider Donuts, 1 day old
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 1/2 Cups milk
  • 1/2 Cup heavy cream
  • 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract

For the Caramel

  • 2 Cups apple cider
  • 1/2 Cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
  • 1 Cup brown sugar, packed
  • 3/4 Cup heavy cream
  • 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract

Process

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Butter the bottom and sides of an 8×8 square baking pan, or a 2 quart casserole dish.
  2. Break apart your donuts into 8 pieces each. Place in your baking dish.
  3. Beat the eggs and combine with the milk, heavy cream, and vanilla extract. Slowly, evenly pour over the donut pieces. Let sit for 15 minutes to soak in the liquid.
  4. Bake for 45 minnutes, or until set in the center.
  5. While the bread pudding is baking, prepare your caramel. Using a medium sized sauce pan over medium heat, bring the apple cider to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and slowly cook until cider has reduced from 2 cups to 1/4 Cup. It will be fairly thick and syrupy.
  6. Add the sugar, cream, pumpkin pie spice, and salt. Bring to a gentle boil and cook for 8-10 minutes, stirring continuously. You’ll want it to be syrupy at this point.
  7. Remove from heat. Stir in butter and vanilla extract. Transfer to a heat-proof container and let cool.
  8. Serve your warm bread pudding with a healthy drizzling of caramel and some whipped cream. (You will likely have to reheat the caramel sauce for drizzling consistency if it cools or you store it for a few days as the caramel thicken as it cools.)

Caramel slightly adapted from Bashful Bao

Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Recipes, Thanksgiving Tagged With: apple cider caramel, apple cider donut bread pudding, apple cider donuts

Waffle Sticks with a Cannoli Dip

May 20, 2015

Waffle Sticks with a Cannoli Dip

I can be really flaky at times.

Okay, most of the time. I mean I don’t back out of commitments, I can’t handle being late, and I love to-do lists but when it comes to doing stuff for me I get flaky. My things just get pushed aside a lot of the time.

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Like getting my license renewed…

Yep, it expired back in January while we were on our cruise and I only just got it renewed. My time during the day is so crunched from having to leave work early to get Autumn so I kept putting it off because I’d check the RMV website and it’d say there were 55+ minute waits. Ummm, no! Ugh. Well, I finally bit the bullet one day and headed over to the RMV in Watertown Mall at lunch. Well, what the dumb RMV website didn’t say was that there was a do it yourself kiosk there. WHAT? I was able to do that and it took like 5 minutes!! And I got to take multiple pictures until I liked one enough. yay!! Finally, something off the never ending to-do list!!!

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Anyway, whenever I think of cannoli I think of my Poppy. Well, I am also reminded of him when I think of sfogliatelles, Drake’s Coffee Cakes, and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. There were always boxes of coffee cake and packages of peanut butter cups in his refrigerator every time we would visit him in New Jersey. And he would often get Italian pastries for our visits as well. Most often cannoli and sfogliatelles were in the box. The best!

Now, because of the superior quality of the cannoli he would get I have a pretty high standard for them. You can’t have a soggy shell. Nor can your filling be too loose. And, something that I feel passionate about is that when you get a chocolate chip cannoli the filling MUST have mini chocolate chips in it. Don’t try to give me a regular cannoli that has its ends dipped into chocolate chips. Once you take a bite from either end it’s just like any other cannoli.

There are too many places that slack off when it comes to their chocolate chip cannoli (I’m looking at you Mike’s Pastry) so when I was planning on making this cannoli dip I was really excited that I would get to load it up with chocolate chips, just the way I like it!

The waffle sticks are lightly scented with coffee and orange, similar to the perfect Italian pick me up. The cannoli dip also has orange zest, which just makes the flavors pop, especially the chocolate.

The recipe makes for a lot of waffle sticks, which is great for a crowd to serve for a snack or dessert. But it you think that is too many for you then you can halve the recipe easily. Or just make them all and freeze them by laying them out in a single layer on a cookie sheet and then placing them in a resealable plastic bag once frozen.

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Even Autumn loved snagging a waffle stick. I love that the waffle sticks are great for little hands. Plus, all kids love waffles. At least she really does!

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I hope you’ll give these a try as the waffle sticks as they are so cute and the dip is incredible. I swear that you won’t stop dipping!

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Waffle Sticks with a Cannoli Dip

Makes about 48 waffle sticks

Ingredients

For the Waffles

  • 2 1/4 Cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 Tablespoons sugar
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teapsoon salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/3 Cups milk
  • 1/4 Tablespoons brewed coffee
  • 1/2 Cup vegetable oil
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • about 2 Tablespoons orange zest (I used 2 oranges)

For the Cannoli Dip

  • 8 ounce container Mascarpone cheese
  •  15 ounce container Part Skim Ricotta
  • 1 1/4 Cups powdered sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 Tablespoons heavy cream
  • 1/2 to 1 Tablespoon orange zest (depending on taste)
  • 2/3 Cups mini chocolate chips

Process

  1. For the waffles, preheat your Mini Babycakes Waffle Sticks Maker
  2. Combine the dry ingredients in a small bowl. Set aside.
  3. Vigorously beat the egg in a large bowl. Add the milk, coffee, oil, and vanilla extract and beat well.
  4. Add in the dry ingredients and the orange zest. Mix until just combined.
  5. Scoop out 1/3 Cup of batter and evenly spread out in the waffle iron. Cook until golden brown and crisp. Place on a wire rack to cool and crisp up.
  6. For the dip, begin by straining off the Ricotta cheese to eliminate excess fluid.
  7. In a large mixing bowl, combine mascarpone cheese, ricotta, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and heavy cream. Mix until smooth and well combined.
  8. Add the orange zest chocolate chips and mix well.
  9. Pour into a serving bowl. Serve with waffle sticks.

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While I received the waffle maker from Select Brands, all opinions are my own. 

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And now the GIVEWAY!!!!

I have another awesome giveaway from Select Brands!! We’re partnering up this year and I’m so excited about it!

We want you to be able to make these fun Waffle Stick recipes so be sure to enter my giveaway for a Mini Babycakes Waffle Sticks Maker!

Follow the instructions HERE!!

Filed Under: Custards and Puddings, Recipes, Waffles Tagged With: Cannoli Dip, Waffle sticks, waffle wednesday, waffles

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