Homemade Oreo's

Usually homemade Oreo's are made from a cake mix. Since this blog is dedicated to baking without a box, I am presenting a homemade Oreo recipe made from scratch. The filling is my favorite part!

Homemade Oreo's

Cookie

-1 C Butter, softened
-1 C White Sugar

-1 C Brown Sugar  
-1 tsp Salt              
-2 tsp Vanilla          
-2 Eggs, room temp   
-1 tsp Baking Powder
-1 tsp Baking Soda
-1 1/2 C Flour
-1 3/4 C Cocoa

-cream together butter, sugars, salt and vanilla until light in color and fluffy in texture.
-add eggs, one at a time, mixing until the mixture is light and fluffy.
-add the baking powder, soda, flour and cocoa and mix.
-roll into equal sized balls and place on a cookie sheet

Bake at 350 degrees F for 8-10 minutes 

removed from cookie sheet and allow to cool

Cream Filling

-1 pkg of white chocolate chips
-1 8 oz pkg cream cheese, room temp

-mix the cream cheese until it is soft and fluffy
-melt the white chocolate chips and mix them into the cream cheese
-whip the mixture until it resembles frosting

Frost one side of the cooled cookies with the filling and sandwich it with another cookie. ENJOY!

Vegetable Soup

This soup is perfect for a cold winter day. It freezes well once cooked and also makes a perfect crock pot meal. 

Vegetable Soup

-1/2 to 1 lb stew meat (beef, deer, lamb, whatever you have laying around...we seem to eat a lot of venison over here)
-2 cans beef broth
-1 can tomato sauce
-1 can diced tomatoes
-1 C frozen peas
-1 C frozen corn
-1 C chopped carrots
-2-3 diced potatoes
-1 C frozen or canned green beans 
-1 medium onion, diced
-2 cloves of garlic, minced
-3 stalks of celery, diced
-salt and pepper to taste

-in a large pot, brown the meat over medium high heat with about a tbsp of oil
-after the meat is cooked, add the rest of ingredients and simmer over medium heat until the vegetables are cooked through.

Brown Sugar Oat Muffins

One day while I was browsing Pinterest, I came across a pin for brown sugar oat muffins. The picture looked yummy and so I clicked on the link to check out the recipe. As I read through the ingredients, I was highly disappointed as the recipe called for things like "sugar free breakfast syrup" and "soy or almond milk" and didn't contain eggs, or butter! I'd say I'm pretty traditional when it comes to baking, meaning I like to use butter, eggs, sugar and flour. So using the title of the recipe as my inspiration I came up with this awesome brown sugar oat muffin recipe that is fantastic.

Brown Sugar Oat Muffins

-1 C Butter, room temp
-1 3/4 C brown sugar
-1 tsp salt
-2 tsp vanilla
-2 eggs, room temp
-1 tsp baking powder
-1 1/4 C buttermilk
-1 C whole wheat flour
-1 C flour
-2 C old fashioned oats
-1 C chocolate chips



-Cream the butter, sugar, salt and vanilla together until the mixture is light in color and fluffy in texture.
-add the eggs, one at a time, mixing until the batter is nice and fluffy
-add about 1/2 of the flour and baking powder to the batter and fold in
-add a 1/3-1/2 C of the buttermilk and fold it
-keep folding in the flour and milk alternatively until it is all incorporated, try not to over mix!
-fold in the oats and chocolate chips
-spoon batter into lined muffin tins

Bake at 350 degrees F for 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean