Fudge Pie

Thought I'd share one of my favorite recipes with you! This is my husband's favorite pie, and it's so easy to make! My mom made this when I was growing up...not sure who gave her the recipe, so I'll give her the credit!

I haven't made this in a while, but my husband was out of town last week, and I got text from him when he was about an hour away from being home requesting I make this.

One of the best things about this is that it makes 2 pies. Enjoy one and share one with someone else!

Here's what you'll need:

2 thawed 9" pie crusts
4 squares Baker's unsweetened chocolate
2 sticks of butter
4 eggs
2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup of flour

Preheat oven to 350.
Melt the butter and chocolate in a double boiler.

I put the chocolate on top of the butter so it doesn't stick to the bottom.

Next, put eggs, sugar and flour in a separate bowl.

Mix together.

Pour mixture into boiler with chocolate mix.

Mix well...until the sugar is melted.

Pour into pie crusts.

Bake for 25-30 minutes.

Enjoy a warm slice with some ice cream!!! :)


Fudge Pie
2 thawed 9" pie crusts
4 squares Baker's unsweetened chocolate
2 sticks of butter
4 eggs
2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup of flour

Preheat oven to 350.
Melt the butter and chocolate in a double boiler. Mix together eggs, sugar and flour in a separate bowls and pour into chocolate mix. Mix until sugar is melted. Pour into crusts. Bake 350 for 25-30 minutes.

Chocolate Bundt Cake

Y'all, I wanted to share this delicious recipe with you! I got a new printer this weekend, and wanted to test print something. So, I opened a document that was on my desktop. It was this recipe. I have no idea where it came from, but it looked good so I decided to try it out. So good!!

OK, I obviously need to work on my photography skills, and I didn't add enough milk to the icing, but it was seriously so good!! Here's the recipe:


Cake Ingredients
Butter, for greasing the pan
1 3/4 cups flour, plus more for the pan
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups good cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup buttermilk, shaken
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee


Icing ingredients
1 stick of butter softened
Confectioner’s sugar, to taste (start out with 3-4 tablespoons and add to your desired level of sweetness)
1 teaspoon good-quality vanilla
Milk–just a little bit to thin it out
Method
Combine the first three ingredients together using a whisk. Taste for sweetness and add more sugar, if desired. Add milk to thin it out. Set aside.


Method
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a bundt pan.
Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix on low speed until combined. In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry. With mixer still on low, add the coffee and stir just to combine, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 45-50 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 30 minutes, then transfer onto a cooling rack and cool completely.
Drizzle with icing.

Enjoy!

Pinterest Recipe Reviews, Part 2

Here is round 2 of my pinterest recipe review. I know you're dying to know, since I am the go-to food critic! After all, Klout says I am influential in recipes. So let me influence.....

But you know what they say.....

1. Hot Chicken Wing Dip

Recipe via

Delicious! Loved this. Ate it with tortilla chips. I boiled and shredded my chicken. I'm thinking next time I will do canned chicken. But there will definitely be a next time!!

2. Cream Cheese Crockpot Chicken

Recipe via

OK, I was not a fan of this. I'm not sure why, either. I love all the ingredients. I would have thought I'd love it. But I didn't.

3. Peanut Butter Cup Brownies

Recipe via

I love all things peanut butter and chocolate and this was no exception. I didn't put any chips in it because I was scared to mess with what was sure to be perfection. Umm, I want to go and bake these again right now. YUMM!

4. Black Magic Cake

Recipe via

OHMYWORD!!! On my first Recipe Review Post I told you I had a new favorite chocolate cake recipe. This is it. Delicious. Go make it. NOW!! Then, send me a piece!

5. Chicken and Spinach Pasta Bake

Recipe via

This was really good. Next time, I might add a block of cream cheese or more shredded cheese. Or something. It wasn't dry, but I think it needed something else...

6. Peanut Butter Sheet Cake

Recipe via

This is soooo good. The cake itself is good, but this icing. Oh mannnn.....delicious. It's like peanut butter fudge, but softer. I could make this and eat it with a spoon. Wow.

7. Mexican Casserole

Recipe via

This was very good and very easy! Kids liked it and I liked it! I just wish Velveeta wasn't so dang expensive!

8. Crack Potatoes

Recipe via

These are great. So easy and delicious! Took these to a church potluck last weekend and there were NONE left!!!

OK, these two posts are all the recipes I have tried from pinterest. I will get to cooking and let you know what else I find!! :)

Pinterest Recipe Reviews

So, I have pinned 359 recipes on pinterest. (Granted, some of them were pinned more than once....what can I say...I like what I like!) I thought I'd share with you the ones I have tried out and my thoughts on it.

1. Caramel Cake

Recipe via

This cake had great potential to be delicious! The baker (ME) messed this one up! I either over or undercooked the frosting so that the consistency was all wrong. AND I didn't let my cake cool completely before trying to turn it out of the pan, so it stuck. My fail....but I will try this again. I think it'll be great if I can get it right!



2. Crock pot potato soup

Recipe via

This I LOVE!! I have made it several times. So good and so easy!!


3. Cheesy Bread

Recipe via

This was really, really good too. Kinda greasy but yummy!

4. Peanut Butter Fudge

Recipe via

I liked this. It tasted great. It got kinda hard, so I guess I need to figure out how to better store it.

5. Copycat White Chocolate Mocha

Recipe via

All I can say about this one is YES PLEASE!!! I may or may not have gone through several bags of white chocolate chips! :)

6. Ham and Cheese Crescent Rolls

Recipe via

I really like this...quick, easy and good. I love that it gives the kids and me a break from the normal spaghetti-o's, chicken nuggets and pb&j.

7. Kaytucky Chicken

Recipe via

Loved it! Very fancy, but not too hard. Will do again when I have company coming! May would sub crescent rolls for pastry sheets, but that's just my preference. Pastry sheets seem more dry.

8. Copycat Chick-fil-a chicken nuggets

Recipe via

This is AMAZING!!! Seriously. Tasted just like chick-fil-a. The only thing missing was their fabulous barbecue sauce. I bet I could google it.... Let me give you a hint on this one. The secret ingredient... powdered sugar. Oh yes! Yummm!

9. Asian Glazed Drumsticks

Recipe via

These were really good. I messed up the glaze so it wasn't really a glaze...more of umm, a glob. But it was still very tasty!

10. Marlboro Man Sandwich

Recipe via

Wasn't a huge fan of this one. Too Worcestershire-y.


11. Chocolate Sheet Cake

Recipe via

Delicious! Was my new favorite cake until I found the next one....keep reading!!

12. Sloppy Joe

Recipe via

This was good. Not awesome, but I'll make it again. I'm a sucker for a sloppy joe!!

13. Cajun Chicken Pasta

Recipe via

Very good!! Shockingly, I messed the sauce up on this, too. I didn't have heavy cream so I substituted..the cream never thickened. But it was still very good!

14. Cinnamon Sugar Pull Apart Bread

Recipe via

This wasn't as good as I hoped it would be. The top got crunchy.

15. Crock Pot Chicken Taco Chili

Recipe via

I have to say I had my doubts about this one. I'm not used to chicken being in my chili. But it far exceeded my expectations. It was very good! Will definitely add this to my rotation.


OK....I went through the first 300 pins. I'll do the other 59 later...I'm tired!!! Be watching...the awesome chocolate cake recipe will be coming soon!!

What are some of the best recipes you have found on Pinterest?

Weekend Recap

How did this whole week go by without a post? I know y'all are sad, so let me recap my week for you!

I got my house cleaned this week, which was HUGE!! By the way, many of you have been asking for pics of my new house. Well, like 3 people have. Whatever. Anyway. I will get some up soon! I had a sweet lady from my church who owned a flower shop come this week to give me decorating suggestions. It was wonderful! I just pointed to things and asked, "what do I need there?" And she had answers!! We rearranged my living room and talked about ways to rearrange my bedroom. So, hopefully soon, my house will be done enough to photograph! So exciting!

I also bought my first pair of leggings this week. And wore them. Big day.

We went to a Homecoming presentation which was really sweet. We had company for dinner Tuesday night and I made this fabulous Black Magic cake. It was seriously sooo good. New favorite!!! My previous favorite was The Pioneer Woman's Chocolate Sheet Cake, which I love. But it has been replaced as my favorite. Seriously, try this recipe!!

Sam had football practice twice, which takes for-e-vah. Ugh! I am glad he plays sports, and I know it's only gonna get worse when the other 3 are just as busy, but gahhh that takes up so much time. And this is his first year to play and he isn't a "starter" which means he and about 3 other boys sit on the sidelines for about 70% of practice. Seriously?! I have to drag 4 kids up there for 2+ hours, get home late, which means supper/baths/bedtime is late just to watch my child watch the other kids practice?! I am all for playing to win and therefore giving lots of playing time to the best players. But at practice? I want my son practicing!!! Ugh! Anyway, end of rant.

I also went to my monthly Young Ladies' Share Group with some fabulous ladies for my church. I look forward to this night every month! Next month, we are starting the Bible study "Growing Kids God's Way." Can. Not. Wait. Friday night, my parents came in and helped with the kids while I went to a Ministers Wives' Retreat with my friend and fellow minister's wife, Ellen. We had a great time learning about the love of God from Dr. Rhonda Kelley. I got home Saturday afternoon just in time to get ready for a wedding. It was so beautiful, as was the bride, Katie, and Eddie and the other minister did a fabulous job! After the wedding, we rushed home, got the rest of the family and headed to Copeland's to celebrate baby Noah's first birthday!!

 Noah loved the cake and ate and ate and ate until we finally took it away, and he then proceeded to suck it off his hand. He is his mama's child! :) He won't actually be a year until next weekend, but I will be in South America on a mission trip so we celebrated early! My mom and dad took Eli and Meri Hobbs back home with them for a few days, so I have high hopes of a productive week!! Hope yours is great as well!

Weekend Recap

So, my mom (and many other wise women) have always told me, "you better write that down or you'll forget it." So this is me....writing it down.

I made cupcakes for Meri Hobbs' class on Monday and Sam's class on Friday.

Eli has been potty training. He has done really well! Our biggest problem is that we don't stay home long enough to be able to be really consistent.  But, when we were home and he was wearing his big boy undies, he has only had 2 accidents. Almost down to only one in diapers. So hard to believe! I have had 2 in diapers for 4 1/2 years! The highlight of the potty training quotes this week came when Eli looked in the potty after his first time to go #2. He looks in, looks at me and says, "a mud in there!" Ha! He thought it was mud! Too cute!

Meri Hobbs is always saying something funny. Her quote for the week was today after church. She asked me who the "baddest" was. Confused, I asked her to explain.  She said, "Who's the baddest at First Baddest Church, Mama?" HA! Love it!!

Noah is doing great with his sippy cup! He must be going through a growth spurt, because he is eating everything we put in front of him! He is getting more teeth, so that has some rough moments. He's still not crawling, but is dragging himself everywhere!

Sam is doing great. His heart for God is still strong, as he prayed for one of our church friends tonight..."God, please put Your power on Anna Cathryn and heal her leg so she can run faster." Wow! Love that boy! He was chosen by a college student to do a reading fluency test for a project she is doing. I was very proud to hear that she only had books to a level 4, so she had to stop there even though he could have gone higher! Smart little thing!

Other fun things this week: We had Round 2 of a garage sale. We made about $450, so I was excited about that...even though we had tons left over! But, we are donating that and glad to be rid of all the extra boxes! Sam had a football game (which I had to miss because of the garage sale). He was playing wide receiver and was running a hook, and was going to have the ball thrown to him for the first time, but the quarterback got sacked. Boo! The babies and I went on a few strolls in this beautiful weather.

Eddie flew to Mississippi with a farmer friend and loved it!  We tried to go to a junior high football game after Sam's practice Thursday night, but we were too late. We did get to go eat with some friends since they were all leaving the game when we were walking up. We went to a neat catfish restaurant with some of the older people in our church Friday night. Saturday, after football and garage sale, the kids had a birthday party to go to. Then, Sam and Meri Hobbs went to the movies with some friends and the rest of us went to a Sunday School party. After the party, we had some friends over for coffee and board games. Sunday was a wonderful day at church! 7 people joined the church in the early service (not sure about late service), with one salvation! Praise God! Eddie went out of town tonight to get up and go hunting tomorrow, and I came home and made this for the kids and me:

                                        Recipe from http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/cheesy_bread/

Yum! What a wonderful way to end a wonderful week!!!