Tortillas and Honey

This Salted Caramel Pudding with Toffee Popcorn Topping are brought to you in part by Collective Bias® and its advertiser to help you make creative pudding snacks! As always, the recipe and opinions in this post are my own. #SnackPackMixins #CollectiveBias Do you like to make creative snacks or desserts using every day ingredients? I recently used  Snack Packs  to make a easy, semi-homemade version of a fancy dessert I had on vacation. I've discovered that Snack Packs are an easy way to make fun creations for your kids or for even yourself! You can add in a variety of mix-ins. This also a fun and easy way to get your kids in the kitchen and involved in the foods that they make. The pudding cups have new easy open lids and your kids can add all of the ingredients that they want! I decided to make a version spin off a panna cotta dessert that I had in San Francisco a couple years ago. It was a salted caramel panna cotta, then topped with chocolate ganache and caramel p...

Pumpkin Poke Cake Welcome to Day 2 of Pumpkin Week! Today's recipe is a Pumpkin Poke Cake, one of my favorites and am so excited to be able to share it with you! If you like poke cakes (you know the ones where you poke holes and drizzle yumminess into the cake) or tres leches cakes, then you'll love this great fall dessert recipe. The cake is super moist with a slight flavor of pumpkin pie and fall spices and is infused with the sweetness of sweetened condensed milk. The whipped topping isn't too sweet, and the toffee pieces and caramel drizzle complement the pumpkin flavors perfectly! This recipe was originated on Something Swanky's website and is super easy to prepare. Over time, I've adapted it to fit my tastes. Instead of using pumpkin pie spice, I've used my own spice. I also made my own whipped cream instead of using Cool Whip, which I think is essential for the cake. I also added an additional can of sweetened condensed milk because I like my p...

Reese's Pieces Toffee Peanut Butter Cookies There I go slacking at updates again! I don't really have any excuse. I could blame school now that summer session has started up again last week or blame work or blame being busy. I got my recipes and my photos waiting to be uploaded and blogged, but I've really just reached a lazy patch. Back to goals and reminding myself of trying to post at least once a week! Because I have some excellent recipes I want to share with you! Anyway, meet Abby, the newest member of our household! She belongs to Joe's brother's family, but she came to live with us because his family can't take her with them when they move. Abby immediately made herself at home and has adjusted very well, especially to sitting on my lap! We've had this little dog for nearly two weeks and she's already very attached to me; she follows me everywhere and is constantly trying to find ways to sit on my lap or get a belly rub. Little Abby (or A...

Heath Bits Peanut Butter Cookies Today is a very special post because this year I signed up for the The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swa p! Not only did I send out three dozen of these yummy cookies to three different bloggers, I received three dozen delicious different cookies from three different bloggers. And this cookie swap helped to benefit Cookies for Kids' Cancer ! This was such a positive experience, the hardest part of deciding on a recipe to make! I didn't want to make cookies that went stale quickly or that would break in the shipping process (and I hope that these cookies did none of that!). I decided on these Heath Bits Peanut Butter Cookies, which I've been making the past several years. This recipe combines two of my favorite things, peanut butter cookies and toffee. This combines sweet and salty cookies with sweet and salty candies, so if you're into that flavor combination I think you would really love these cookies. Please see below who I sent ...

Chocolate Chip and Toffee Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars So guess what? I'm surviving graduate school so far. I've gotten two A's on two of my papers. I just turned in my third paper for the semester yesterday. I have a midterm due next week and two more papers due two weeks after that. So ask me in a couple weeks if I still feel the same way! My excitement for the fall has been depleted slightly. Every year I forget about the dark mornings. Every morning seems a little darker and I do NOT like waking up before sunrise. It just doesn't seem natural! Also, a cold front is coming through New Mexico so it's cold right now (not the crisp mornings and warm afternoons). And I won't go into trying on last year's fall/winter clothes. But I like scarves! Anyway, I love it when people send me recipes or ideas. My brother's girlfriend sent me this recipe that she had found online. It's cheesecake and cookie dough together in one. Sounds heavenly right?...

Chocolate Chip Cookies with Hazelnut and Toffee There are only a few cookie recipes that I consider my favorite, and these are one of them. My top three cookies that I make are biscochitos , chocolate crinkle cookies (blog/recipe will come at some point), and these. Everyone has a favorite chocolate chip cookie and, while these aren't a traditional chocolate chip cookie, this is my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe! Everything in this cookie works. The hazelnut and the toffee complement the chocolate well. (They seriously need to make Nutella with toffee bits.) This cookie isn't a chewy cookie, but it's not really a crunchy/crispy cookie either which I love. I originally got this recipe from Giada de Laurentiis from her cookbook Giada's Family Dinners , which is one of my favorite cookbooks. I made some slight changes to the recipe-- instead of making an oat flour, I kept the oats whole and increased the amount to a cup (this gives the cookies a great text...