- Part 30

Brownie Cookies with Salted Caramel Creme Filling

This is Donna Hay’s brownie cookie recipe. I have been eye-balling this for sometime now every since I saw it on Pinterest. The cookie portion is dead-on like the kind of brownie I like—soft center, chewy edge, and chocolatey, but not so dense and fudge like that you need to guzzle milk to clear your throat of a chocolate coating. At the center of this brownie sandwich cookie is a caramel creme filling that lightens up the chocolate and gives the whole ensemble a cloud-like textural contrast.

So with Father’s Day today it was perfect timing. Matt loves brownies and since I’ve made him a salted dessert lover, especially salted caramel, I swapped the peanut butter filling for just that—a salted caramel creme filling.

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Nutella Crunch Ice Cream Pie & Bluberry Pie Ice Cream Pie

Well since I covered ice cream cakes just a few weeks ago, I figured why not ice cream pie, right? It’s fast and easy to make and it has a crust on it–often my favorite part on a pie, and I love having a textural contrast in food.

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This is a simple concept with a simple execution. Find your favorite cookie give it a pulverizing whirl in the food processor, press, bake and cool, then fill it up with up your favorite ice cream flavor. For this post I chose a chocolate ice cream base and infused some Nutella in it and then added chopped Ferraro Rochero for added texture, crunch and flavor. As fo the other ice cream pie featured in this post, that’s a Blueberry Pie Ice cream Pie. It’s blueberry pie in a ice cream form with a crisp graham cracker crust for a bite that’s creamy, crunchy and fruity all at the same time.

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Mini Strawberry Short Cakes

This is a Sandra Lee-style easy to make strawberry short cake recipe. Yep, semi-homemade. Sara Lee pound cake stamped out with a dasiy cookie cutter, layered with some cool whip and strawberry slices and then topped with a blueberry for a 4th of July dessert that’s no fuss, no bake, party fun and party easy.

As I mentioned yesterday, postings have been spotty lately, but I finally realized that testing and developing recipes while working on a book is impossible. That’s right, I’m writing a dessert book for Wiley set to be published Fall 2013. I am excited that I can finally share this with you guys now that the contract is complete.

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