No Reviews?!?

This is so strange for me! I've had reviews scheduled out a month in advance all summer. Lots of great reading and all that jazz. So what happened? I'm not sure...it might be that I'm moving to Alaska in a month and a half and I've been trying to figure all that stuff out. That my husband had minor mouth surgery over the weekend. Just stuff going on, you know.

So today? A recipe. Because I love treats.

It came from this blog and I made it this weekend for my birthday. The best part is that my husband, still recovering, can't eat it. So I'm eating it all and trying ever so hard to save a piece for him.

It's Ice Cream Sandwich Cake. I've actually had this at my aunt's house before, so when I saw this pin, I obvious jumped all over it. Delish! And super easy. Here's how I made it.

First, I halved the recipe. It's just my little family, and while I would LOVE to stuff my face with a 9x13 pan of ice cream sandwiches and whipped cream, it's probably not the best idea.

So, to make a 9x9 pan.
12 ice cream sandwiches
1 16 oz tub of whipped cream
1 or 2 of your favorite candy bars (I used twix.)
1/2 jar of caramel

Layer 6 of the sandwiches in the bottom of the pan, then half the whipped cream, half of the candy bars crushed or cut up and half the caramel. Repeat the layers. Freeze for a few hours then pull out about ten minutes before you want to eat. I'm not sure if it's my freezer or what, but I pulled some out yesterday, cut it and ate it.

Enjoy! Almost as good as a great book! ;)

Sometimes I Bake: Lazy Lemonade Brownies & Mookies

So the other day I found this pin: 

And I thought that pretty much looked fabulous. Man I love treats. This week has been SO full of them. Friends for dinner Tuesday night, playgroup at my house Wendesday (cupcakes), drinks for 7-year-old's first grade class Valentine's Day party (raspberry sherbet + Sprite), cookies for a valentine for my husband ... yes, I'm gaining weight just listing all this stuff!

Sometimes I Bake: Super Easy Pumpkin Spice Cookies

I originally pinned this recipe from Homemade by Holman because I love Lofthouse cookies. But I am also cheap. And usually I can't bring myself to spend $4.99 on a box of cookies. But I love Lofthouse cookies and this recipe looked pretty easy. Then today I wanted to make some cookies and the pumpkin snickerdoodles that I pinned a while back looked good, but certainly not as easy. I thought to myself, If they can use a cake mix to make a sugar cookie, I could use it to make a pumpkin cookie. So easy. And it was.

Sometimes I Bake: Three Ingredient Applesauce Cookies

Me and the little one are having this issue. I like to eat lots of stuff that he doesn't like coming through in my milk. This is no surprise. I've had two previous little ones who were very strict about my diet. This one, though, I'm making an attempt to be even stricter. And I've found out a few things I didn't know could bother a baby. Like grapes, for instance. Seriously. Who knew? I got my education from 8:30 to about midnight last night. Believe me, grapes are so not worth it. Chocolate? Possibly. Grapes? No.

So I got on Pinterest to find some treats that would jive. And I found these two ingredient, banana oatmeal cookies. (And since this was before I knew about grapes being of the devil, I put raisins in them. Bad idea.) Let's just say, they were sort of weird anyway. But the concept ... these cookies had basically two things: bananas and oatmeal. So if you at the entire batch, really all you were consuming was two bananas and like a cup of oats. Healthy! But like I said, the banana part was pretty weird for me. So I thought to myself, What about applesauce? That seems to go better with oatmeal anyway. So off I went to my kitchen for some experimentation.

Sometimes I Bake: Zucchini Brownie Bread

So sometimes I'm creative in ways other than writing. Here's one of them! Baking. But, really, not that often. Because if I bake, that means I eat what I bake. And I have no self-control.

I've had these zucchinis sitting on my counter for a bit, waiting to be made into bread. Let's be honest, now that it's the end of the season, we're not going to be eating them for dinner. We need zucchini bread! Perhaps enough to last us through the winter! (Although, I did see a pin on Pinterest for some zucchini that looked pretty good and amazingly it wasn't inside bread ...)

Then I decided I wanted chocolate zucchini bread, but all the recipes had cinnamon. I have nothing against cinnamon. I actually happen to love it. I don't really have anything against cinnamon and chocolate, it's just not what I wanted. I wanted something more brownie tasting, but in a bread. After a fruitless search, I just decided to make my own recipe, which I'm sharing here. I used a combination of my trusty zucchini bread recipe from my Better Homes and Gardens cookbook (a great, basic cookbook. Love it.) and a zucchini brownie recipe I found here.

Source: verybestbaking.com via Ranee on Pinterest