Gutie's Goodies

Monday at work, my aunt Becky looks at me and asks, "What goodies are you making for us this week?" I didn't really have any occasions to make something for, so I got home and went through all the recipes that I've bookmarked, and I wasn't really in the mood for anything. But I was in the mood for caramel, one of my favorite flavors in the world. As soon as I saw it when I was blog browsing, there was nothing else in the world that mattered until I made it. And pardon my language, but holy shit. It was gone by the end of the day. Everyone at work had seconds, I only brought 3 pieces home. Caramel Toffee Cheesecake Bars - from Annie's Eats Ingredients Caramel 1 cup of sugar 1¼ cups of heavy cream ¼ teaspoon of salt ½ teaspoon of vanilla Crust 1 cup of graham cracker crumbs 3 tablespoons of melted butter 1 tablespoon of sugar ½ cup of toffee bits (like the Heath kind you can find with the chocolate chips) Cheesecake 12 ounces of cream chees...

First, before I get started with my adventures this weekend, I'd like to apologize for my lack of posts recently. The problem is, I was making stuff, I just kept forgetting to take pictures, and by the time I remembered, they had been demolished. So to catch up, I made more patriotic sugar cookies for 4th of July, kind of like the ones I made for Memorial Day. Except I wanted them to be jazzier, so I tried to make fireworks (google "firework sugar cookies martha stewart"), but I failed horribly. I timed it all wrong and it didn't work out, so I just made fun designs on them. Then, last weekend I made a lemon meringue pie, which was absolutely delicious. And then Wednesday I made raspberry frozen yogurt. I didn't churn it long enough, so it ended up more like a sorbet than a froyo, but it was still tasty! And now we're caught up, which brings me to yesterday... This is a bananas foster creme brûlée. I had so much hope for this dessert. I love bananas foste...

GUTIE IS ON THE ROAD! This is a very exciting week. I'm visiting my roommate and bae for life Karyn in Massachussets! I haven't seen her in over a month, and I'm so happy to get the chance to harass her daily again. I arrived yesterday, and the first thing we did after I got a pretty thorough tour of the town was make dessert! Karyn is kind of obsessed with Reese's PB Cups, so for her birthday last month I got her a jar of Reese's peanut butter, which she still has a lot of, so we knew that whatever we made had to have peanut butter in it. I showed her a bunch of recipes I picked out and she chose these rice krispy treats, which ended up being delish. She also wanted to make churros for some sort of weird inside joke. The krispy treats were easy enough, but the churros were uncharted territory for me.  Krispy Treats - from Annie's Eats Ingredients Bottom 1 ¾ cups of Rice Krispies ¼ cup of water ¼ cup of sugar 3 tablespoons of light corn syrup 3...

Very exciting things are to come, as I am now the proud owner of my very own ice cream maker (or sorbetière électrique, since I took a picture with the wrong side). I've had my eye on this bad boy for a long time now, at least two weeks if not three. I spotted it in the kitchen appliance section at JCP, right next to the popcorn popper and cotton candy maker. I technically have an ice cream maker already, but it kinda sucks. It only makes one serving at a time, you have to freeze the bowl for at least two hours between servings, and it's battery powered. So it's pretty freaking useless. For a good while I've wanted a real one, and Friday was pay-day. So I went for it. It's originally $70, but it was on sale for $50, I have my associate discount, so it came out to $37.50. Then I got at $10 mail-in rebate. What a fantastic bargain!! So I just could not wait to make ice cream. So in making this ice cream, I kind of tackled two challenges, the first being ice crea...