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!

Wildtree

I'm sure most of you have heard that I've added to my plate again.  Yes, I know, I have plenty to do, but I LOVE WILDTREE!!!  

For those of you that haven't heard of Wildtree...
it's delicious ORGANIC, ALL NATURAL food that makes cooking a breeze!  Plus, it's less expensive than Whole Foods and even the regular grocery store!  ALL of the products are HEALTHY! No preservatives, chemicals, additives, dyes, GMOs, or artificial anything! Everything is low sodium and low sugar, and yet tastes great!  They also have numerous products that are gluten/dairy/soy free!  Who doesn't love the idea of quick, easy, healthy cooking that's cost effective AND delicious?!

So... what is Wildtree exactly?  Well, the best way to describe Wildtree is "the center of the grocery store".  If you've ever heard the motto "shop the perimeter of the store to save money".... then you know that while that sounds great, the convenient, time-saving, and also unhealthy 'dinner in a box' options are located in "the center of the grocery store".  It's really tempting to just grab that stuff.  Wildtree is all about replacing the "unhealthy" stuff from the middle of the grocery store with something healthy, but without compromising convenience, flavor, or time-savings!  

Wildtree offers dressings, marinades, infused grapeseed oils, culinary spice blends, breads, one-pot meals, desserts, the list goes on.... all to go with your meats, veggies, and grains of choice.  Think "rice-a-roni" and "hamburger helper" ---- only HEALTHY and WAY better tasting!  You choose your "rice or protein" and Wildtree provides the seasoning and recipe.  We have a replacement for all of the things you are already buying, like taco seasoning, hearty spaghetti blend, alfredo extraordinaire, fajita seasoning, meatloaf mix.... you get the idea.

One of my favorite things about Wildtree - Freezer Meal Workshops!!  Ten meals in 3 hours or less for about $3/serving!  Healthy, tasty and convenient - can't beat that!! 

Want to know more???  Call me!

Check out my website:

www.mywildtree.com/tammycrow

I promise you won't regret it!!!

Watch for more great recipes!!!

Banana Blueberry Muffins

I'm always in search of a quick/healthy breakfast!  I happened upon this recipe just the other day, modified it just a tad and viola!   The problem - I don't remember what website I found the recipe on???    I changed it up a little any, so here's my version:

Banana Blueberry Muffins

2 bananas, mashed
1 - 6 oz cup vanilla yogurt (I used Greek yogurt)
1/4 cup canola oil or applesauce
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup flour
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup blueberries

Mix all the ingredients but the blueberries together well.  Then fold in the blueberries.  Bake at 375 degrees F. for about 12-15 minutes.

Yield: 12-15 muffins

One-Hour Cinnamon Rolls

We were hungry and needed breakfast!!  Arin wanted Cinnamon Rolls so bad she couldn't see straight!  I said, no way - they'll take forever!  Pinterest saved the day!!!  So, you have Valley Ridge Recipes to thank for this fabulous breakfast!  We decided to make them into Orange-Cinnamon Rolls.  A fabulous decision, I might add!  Please note, I made only a half recipe and it made 12 enormous rolls.


One-Hour Cinnamon Rolls

Mix and let sit for 15 minutes:
3-1/2 cups warm water
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil
6 Tablespoons yeast

Then add:
1 Tablespoon salt
3 eggs
10-1/2 cups flour (all-purpose)
**I added the zest of 1 orange.

Mix together for 10 minutes, then sit for 10 minutes.  Oil cupboard, dump out dough. (I doubted this step - you ALWAYS flour the counter, but didn't this time and the oil worked great!!)  Divide in halt.  Roll on half out into rectangle.  Spread with 1/4 cup melted butter and then with cinnamon-sugar mixture.  Roll up tight, but not too tight.  Divide into 12 rolls and place on greased cookie sheet  Repeat with other half of dough.  Let rise. Bake for 12-15 minutes at 400 degrees.

Cinn-Sugar mix:
1 cup sugar
1 Tbl. cinnamon

Icing:
1 cube butter
2 dashes salt
2 tsp. vanilla
6 cups powdered sugar
milk (use to bring to desired consistency)

**Note:  I made an orange glaze.  Instead of vanilla I added the zest of 1 orange (2nd orange, see note above) and instead of milk I used the juice from the zested orange.  You could also use orange juice concentrate.  Another option would be to add cream cheese to the icing.