Sour Cream Scones

I love breakfast!  I think it's probably my favorite meal of the day!  I'm always looking for new and different recipes.  I stumbled upon this one (yes, on Pinterest) and thought we'd give it a try.  It's so light and tasty.  I love that you can smother the scones in whatever you're craving - butter & honey, jam, you name it!  I think you could definitely add fruit to it too! 

Sour Cream Scones

2 cups  flour

3 TBS sugar

2 TBS baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

5 TBS butter, cubed

1 cup sour cream

1 egg yolk

1/2 cup heavy cream

1/4 cup sanding sugar

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.  Cut in cold butter using a pastry blender.  Add egg yolk and sour cream until just combined.  Turn out dough on lightly floured surface and knead until the dough comes together.  Gently pat dough into a 3/4 inch square shape.  Cut dough into 4 smaller squares, then cut smaller squares into triangles.  Brush the tops with heavy cream and sprinkle with sanding sugar.  Bake in preheated oven for 12-14 minutes.  Remove from oven, cool slightly.  Eat warm with butter, jam, lemon curd or honey. 

So Tasty!

Recipe taken from StoneGable.

Pumpkin Hot Chocolate

We woke up this morning and it was snowing...yuck!  We needed something warm....   I'm not a huge fan of regular hot chocolate, but I'd seen a recipe on Pinterest that caught my eye - Pumpkin Hot chocolate.  I love pumpkin anything, so why not in hot chocolate?
Thanks to Kara's Party because this hot chocolate is quite simply - the best!!

Ingredients:
2 cups milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 cup pumpkin puree

1/8 teaspoon ginger powder
2 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
Whipped cream

Instructions:
Heat milk over low heat in a saucepan. Stir in pumpkin puree, sugar and dry goods and beat until smooth. Add chocolate chips and continue to heat about 8 minutes, stirring almost the whole time. Garnish with whipped cream and nutmeg if desired.

Makes about 5 servings.

Enjoy!

Coconut Cake

I think this is one of our favorite cakes!  I'm not sure if it's that it reminds us of tropical places or we just love the flavor, but it ranks high on the list of favorites!

Coconut Cake:
1 white cake mix, plus ingredients to make
1 can cream of coconut
1/4 cup milk, half-and-half, or cream
1 - 8oz. whipped topping
1/4 cup shredded coconut, sweetened

Prepare cake as directed.  After you take it out of the oven, let it cool for about 5 minutes, then using a fork poke holes throughout the cake.  Take cream of coconut and pour over warm cake, then pour milk over cake.  After cake is cool, place in refrigerator.  Frost with whipped topping and sprinkle shredded coconut on top.

Delish!!

Owl Cupcakes

Want to impress your friends, family and little ones...  THIS WILL DO IT!

What you need?
1 cake mix, plus ingredients to make it
1 pkg chocolate sandwich cookies
1 bag candy coated chocolates
Frosting or ganache (1 cup cream, 1-1/4 cup chocolate chips - Heat cream in double boiler, right before it comes to a boil, add chocolate chips and stir until smooth.  Let cool then dip cupcakes.)

You could get pretty creative with this and use colors too!
Enjoy!