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Pumpkin Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Brownies

That's a mouth full.

'Tis the season to eat your weight in pumpkin.

So, here is another pumpkin recipe!

2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 tsp baking soda

3/4 tsp salt

1 cup butter (2 sticks)

1 egg

2 tsp vanilla

1 can pumpkin

1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice

Any cups chocolate and PB chips!

Bake at 350 for 45 mins!

Add a can of pumpkin to anything!

It is seriously delicious.

A can o' pumpkin and brownie mix??

Yeah, It's good.

Squash N' Cheese

I'm in college. So, I am always looking easy dinners. But I still want those easy dinners to look a touch on the fancy side. I went to my local farmers market the other day and picked up my favorite fall veggie, acorn squash. Any kind of squash is my favorite but I la la love acorn squash. My mom always made it with some butter and cinnamon. Yum.

When it came to be dinner time, I stared at the cabinet looking for something to eat. My choices were slim. Noodles, noodles or canned corn. Maybe both. I spotted the box of white cheddar mac n' cheese and this is what happened next!

Mac n' Cheesy squash

Well...not really. 

Next you cut the acorn squash, scoop out all the junk (seeds) in the middle and bake the halves for about 45 minutes at 400 degrees. 

While you're towards the end of the 45 minutes, start the mac n'cheese. Once that's ready just scoop it into your acorn squash bowl, throw bread crumbs on the top and bake for another 10-15 minutes. 

Enjoy this easy & college-fancy treat!

Pop, Pop, Pop.

What you need:

• Any boxed or homemade cake.
• Any icing!
• Candy pieces for candy coating (Found at craft stores)
• A piece of Styrofoam
• Candy sticks
• Sprinkles or any decorations you want to use
• A hell of a lot of patience.

First, bake that cake! I used strawberry cake mix. 

After the cake is done, mash it all up

and add a whole container of frosting

(I used cream cheese frosting).

 This part is messy but yummy, quite yummy.

 After mashing up all that deliciousness, 

roll the mixture into small cake balls.

Now, melt the candy pieces that will be the

"icing" for the pops. Just pop those

the pieces in a bowl and microwave them.

After that's done take the 

sticks and dip them in the candy and put them into the pops.

Let them dry!

After they dry...start icing. Just dip them into the melted candy coating! 

Stick them all into a piece of Styrofoam to dry.

(Make sure you go for a thick piece, mine kept falling through!).

Decorate!

Morpheous was jealous he didn't get to try any.

FYI!!

They are very time consuming. The whole process took me at least two hours! Make sure you have a lot of time for your first attempt at these. But the end result is sooo worth it, I promise!
...and fattening..shh. Don't tell your pants.

Thrifty Prints

Three of my favorite items

 .... all from thrift stores! 

 The button-downs look like they could be from Urban Outfitters!

The dress is Charlotte Russe.

All together they cost about $10 ! 

You can't beat that!

Perfectly Pumpkin Muffins

It's officially Fall!

I love this season for many reasons.

I love boots, Thanksgiving naps and eating pumpkin-y treats whenever humanly possible.

That is why I decided to make:

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins!

These are extremely easy to make! All you need is:

Yellow Cake Mix (Nothing added...just the mix!)

1 can of pumpkin

1 cup of brown sugar

1 table spoon vanilla

Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 mins.

I glazed my perfectly pumpkin muffins with a brown sugar glaze!

Glaze:

1 cup of confectioners sugar

1/4 cup of brown sugar

2 tsp vanilla

2 table spoons of butter

2 table spoons of cream cheese

add milk until you reach desired consistency  

Drizzle it over the muffins, top 'em off with sprinkles 

and be sure to taste a couple to make sure they're not 

poison.

I made a second batch to take to work...

Second time around, I added chocolate chips and did a cream cheese frosting!

 When I woke up someone had already eaten FIVE. 

I think I know who it was...

Fudge!

Shhh! It's from the microwave..

Fudge is my boyfriend's all time favorite treat. I always thought it would be too hard to make until my Grandma gave me this awesome microwave recipe. It is really good and really easy. The best part? Nobody will know you made it in the microwave. So go ahead, tell your family and friends you slaved over it! It will be our little microwaved secret.

This recipe can also double as an awesome-ly fudgy frosting. Pour it over brownies and cakes for an extra delicious treat!

All you need is:

•  1 pound of confectioners sugar
• 1/2 cup of cocoa
• 1/4 cup of milk
• 1/2 cup of butter
• 1 Tsp Vanilla
• Anything else you want to add to make it yummy! (Nuts, M&Ms, Cookie Pieces, Etc.)

First, mix the confectioners sugar and the cocoa together. Add that to a microwave-safe dish of your choice. Sprinkle the milk over the mixture as evenly as you can. Cut the butter into chuncks and place them evenly over the dish. DO NOT MIX IT IN!

Microwave the fudge for 2 minutes. Take it out and mix everything together. Place the chocolate-y goodness in the fridge for about 2 hours or until it is hardened. Enjoy!

Mani Monday.

Neon Panda Nails!

 

 

So easy and so cute!