Sweet tooth

Guess whose back with a few sweet treats?

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Chocolate covered strawberries

I had some left over chocolate (milk chocolate Hershey's and some dark chocolate Dove bars), that I put in the oven and melted for a few minutes. While the chocolate was melting, I crushed up almonds very finely. Once the chocolate was ready - I put both the milk chocolate and dark chocolate together and mixed it up once it was melted - I just rolled in the strawberries and coated with the crushed almonds.  It was absolutely Delish!

The cookies, I cheated on -  I had the Pillsbury dough, and just baked that for about 12 minutes.

But overall, it was a good snack while watching the basketball game! GO ROCKETS! :)

Cinnamon Cake Recipe

Yes - I've added effects to make it look cooler

The other day, I was just sitting around and doing absolutely nothing. I was getting kind of bored, so I walked up to my freezer and pulled out an Oreo Sandwich Ice Cream. 

Just to have something to do! 

Now, I've been trying to be on a diet for the past few weeks.  I'm not changing up much of what I eat.  But I am trying my best to stay away from junk food - because that's where my weakness is.  So I controlled myself, put the ice cream up and walked away.  I started walking around in the kitchen thinking of all the things I could do to occupy my time.  I finally got it - why not bake a cake?  And I know, I'm trying to stay away from junk food, so why bake a cake?  Well, my dad had been asking me to bake a cake for the past two weeks, but I was too lazy to.  But I knew this was the perfect opportunity.  It would take up some of my time and I'll bake that cake my dad wanted.

So I present to you, my recipe for cinnamon cake.  It was pretty good and is pretty simple if you have all the ingredients.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1  (1/2) cups all purpose flour
• 1  (1/2) tsp baking powder
• (1/2) cup milk
• (1/2) cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla/chocolate extract (I used chocolate)
• 2 tsp cinnamon powder

Directions:

1.  Combine and swift through the dry ingredients (flour and baking powder).
2.  In another bowl take your room temperature butter and sugar and cream together.  Once that has been done, beat in your eggs. Mix well.  Add in the extract of your choice (As mentioned, I used chocolate, because I like how the cake color turned out - a light brown).
3.  Combine the dry ingredients with the mixture you made above. 
4.  Add in the half cup of milk.  Mix it all well.
5.  Add in cinnamon powder and mix.
6. *I sprinkled a bit more of cinnamon powder on top before putting it in the oven, because ya know - why not?*
7.  Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes.  Monitor on your own as well. 

Frosting?  Nope - I'm on a diet remember!  But for an extra kick, add some ice cream on top - while the cake is still hot.  YUM!

Let me know if anyone tries this out, and how they like it.