Are you getting sick of seeing all of my Crescent Creations? We had the Crescent Cinnamon Rolls and then the Cheesy Crescent Rolls and now these Scrumdiddlyumptious Blueberry Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls.

I can tell you one thing..I am not sick of creating them OR eating them!

Ok, before I get into these, I busted out laughing out loud when I was uploading these photos. It looks like I created some sort of “crescent roll monster” with the 2 blueberries on the top.
Tell me you don’t see it??????

I mean look…they totally look like twins

The Geico Money thingy

My once  thought to be Beautiful photo…sigh

Anyway, now that I totally ruined the photo for myself, lets talk about amazing.

Yeah, these are delightful. Easy too. They would be perfect on your Easter Brunch Table.

The inside is warm and creamy with sweet blueberries and the icing had a slight lemon flavor that goes perfect with the fruit.

And now onto the Giveaway

McCormick would love to offer one of my fabulous readers a spring baking set so you can create something wonderful for your self.

Maybe my Blueberry Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls or how about some Lemon Cheesecake Bars, Spiced Springtime Sugar Cookies or Cheesy Bacon & Egg Brunch Casserole. For even more ideas from McCormick, visit them on Pinterest

One winner will win the following (as seen above)

• Corningware Baking Dish
• Spring Cookie Cutters
• Muffin/Cupcake Pan
• Whisk
• MeriMeri Spring Cupcake Liners
• McCormick Assorted Food Coloring
• McCormick Ground Cinnamon
• McCormick Ground Ginger
• McCormick Pure Vanilla Extract
• McCormick Pure Lemon Extract

Our dear friends from Kauai were recently staying with us with their adorable 8 month old. Vacationing from Kawaii??? I know, seems kinda crazy huh?
House guests=taste testers in my house. I tell them “honest opinions only” or they won’t be cooked dinner.  The first variety of these I made were chocolate and peanut butter. They were good, but just not sweet enough. Doesn’t seem possible does it? Chocolate and peanut butter are a match made in heaven, but it didn’t seem to work for us all fried up in a wonton wrapper. So I pulled out the fresh raspberries and gave those a go.
PERFECT! The raspberries gave the perfect sweetness and tartness I was looking for.
Make sure you use the best chocolate you can find. I adore Scharffen Berger Chocolate.
The flavor is deep and complex, much different than the cheaper grocery store varieties!
It’s the kind of chocolate that you just let melt on your tongue because you don’t want it to end!
It is AMERICAN CHOCOLATE WEEK, so you need to run out and get some chocolate!
To see if Scharffen Berger Chocolate is available, click here

Chocolate!

Now who wants some CHOCOLATE???

GIVEAWAY

One winner will win the following (shown above)

SCHARFFEN BERGER CHOCOLATE

Milk Almond chocolate bar
Milk Nibby chocolate bar
Extra Rich Milk chocolate bar
Bittersweet chocolate bar
Mocha chocolate bar
Semi-Sweet chocolate bar
Extra Dark chocolate bar
Nibby chocolate bar

(SRP-$40)

GIVEAWAY RULES CONTEST CLOSED

Contest ends Thursday March 29th 2012 at 9 am EST.
Winner will be chosen by Random Org.com
Contest open to US residents only.

Main Entry
(Required)

1.) What is your favorite chocolate, Milk, semi-sweet,dark or white?

(For EACH additional entry, you must leave a SEPARATE comment for EACH ADDITIONAL entry)

2.) Like THE HUNGRY HOUSEWIFE on Facebook
3.) Follow THE HUNGRY HOUSEWIFE on Twitter
4.) Tweet using this..Go visit http://tinyurl.com/74hfu2v  for a CHOCOLATE GIVEAWAY from @scharffenBerger and @hungryhousewife
5.) Post about this giveaway on your Facebook Page using this tag CHOCOLATE GIVEAWAY! http://tinyurl.com/74hfu2v Visit The Hungry Housewife
6.) Subscribe to THE HUNGRY HOUSEWIFE via email.
7.) Like Scharffen Berger on Facebook
8.)Like Scharffen Berger on Twitter

And there you have it, a total of 8 entries for you.
Good Luck

**Thank you Scharffen Berger for this delicious giveaway. They also provided me with a chocolate gift pack to create my recipe**  All Opinions are 100% MINE.

Sleep overs call for yummy breakfast treats. Easy yummy treats.

I planned on making homemade cinnamon rolls, but I forgot to thaw out my cinnamon roll dough that I made a couple of months ago. But you know when you get something in your head to make, you are completely on a mission.

I remembered I had some Pillsbury Crescent rolls in the fridge and thought, “yeah, they will do.”

Easy and delicious I tell you. The kids LOVED LOVED LOVED them…and so did the grownups.

Unroll your Crescent Rolls

Spread your cinnamon butter over the dough

ummmm, YUM

Roll em’ up

Bake, remove from oven and drizzle with glaze!

Ready for the easiness?

Sup? Well, my adorable little niece did it again this year.

In her cute little voice on the telephone..

“Aunt Leslie, this is Sarah, would you like to buy some Girl Scout Cookies?”

Me- Place phone on mute….in my most annoyed voice..”$$%*&(*&&&&, (**%^%$^&^&(,FAT,^*((*&%%####,cellulite,%%$$%*** ”

Me- un-mute phone, “Well, yes Sarah, you know I will buy some Girl Scout Cookies from you.”

How can one say no? I mean, we all know I have no will power.

So I sit here with 2 boxes of Samoas, 2 boxes of Thin Mints(now in the freezer) and 2 boxes of Trefoils. I can’t have that kind of stuff laying around the house. There is a reason I don’t buy cookies at the store…plain and simple. I. WILL. EAT. THEM!

Remember this video from my last Girl Scout Cookie Rant?

Samoas are my weakness. So I had to come up with a remedy to get rid of them. If I knew I had a box, I would gooble them right up.
I knew I had to put them in something. I had a big ol box of Rice Krispies in the pantry.
The Samoas found a new home….chopped up in the Rice Krispie Treats.

Want my Thin Mint Truffle Recipe…click here.

OH YES I DID!

Valentines Day. Do you like it? Me..I’m on the fence.
Maybe back in High School when the boys were romantic, it was a cutsie and stuff.
But I have come to the realization the Valentines day is a Hallmark Day. I mean unless your man is Uber romantic, it will probably be just another day…..sigh. I think once you have kids, like everything else, the holiday becomes about them.

But we can still be a hopeless romantic and make some heart shaped Jello, right?
It’s cute and the kids liked to help.

Jello and kids kinda go hand in hand.

I got the idea of the multi colored Jello from the old school Jello Mosaic Dessert Bars
But what fun is it just cutting the jello into cubes? Let’s make hearts!!!!

Below is that it looks like before its final 2 hour chill.
As you can see, I used a small heart cookie cutter to cut my firmed red jello and arranged them in a 9 x 13 pan, then poured the sweetened condensed mixture over the top.

And once the firm, you invert the pan and cut them out.
Cute, huh?

It’s super easy to do!

My friend Shelly over at Cookies and Cups decided for a a bunch of us to get together and share our cute Valentines treats…so here are the other fabulous creations!

1)Confessions of a Cookbook Queen-Valentines Twinkies on a Stick
2)Buns in my Oven-Hot Fudge and Strawberry Donut Pudding
3)Glorious Treats-Red Velvet Cupcakes
4)Cookies and Cups-Glass Topper Valentines Cookies
5)Bakingdom-Valentines Day Cookie Cakes
6)The Hungry Housewife-Valentines Jello Hearts
7)Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle-Valentines Dotty Cookies
8)Sprinkles Bakes-Red Velvet Cake Minis
9)Bake at 350-Double-Decker,Stripey , Valentines Cookies
10)Two Peas and Their Pod-Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies
11)Scarletta Bakes-Mexican Chocolate Hearts
12)She Wears Many Hats-Valentines Popcorn ]]> http://www.thehungryhousewife.com/2012/02/valentines-jello-hearts.html/feed 50 http://www.thehungryhousewife.com/2012/02/apple-crisp-wasa-crackers-and-giveaway.html http://www.thehungryhousewife.com/2012/02/apple-crisp-wasa-crackers-and-giveaway.html#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:19:42 +0000 The Hungry Housewife http://www.thehungryhousewife.com/?p=1934 When you go to a party, say a Super Bowl Party, there is usually a table full of not so good for you food. The desserts are what get me. Not to say they aren’t delicious, but they are not so good for your waistline.
I wanted to lighten things up a bit. These in no way are a substitute for a big ol scoop of apple crisp, but they completely satisfy my sweet tooth without adding 1000 calories. And since I used Wasa Whole Grain Crispbread, I got to sneak some extra fiber in my diet. Sneaky-Sneaky.

Not quite sure what to do with your Wasa crackers? Well Except munch on them for a delicious, healthy snack? Here is a link to a Wasas recipe page.

Oh and another thing, have you tried the Wasa Thin & Crispy Flatbread? The Rosemary flavor is AMAZING..and my kids live it too.

And the Giveaway…..

The fine folks at WASA are offering one of my readers a delicious and healthy giveaway.

One winner will win the following

• Cooking with Crispbread cookbook
• A sample of Wasa Products
• Wasa pen and booklet
• Wasa drawstring bag

I am sooooo sorry for keeping this recipe from you for so long.
It’s almost two years old. I developed the recipe, took the photo and made the video back in 2009 for a little cream cheese contest I entered.
And I forgot about it. SHAME.ON.ME

It’s ok to slap me. I deserve it.

These are so easy and so quick to make. Like seriously easy and quick….watch the video, you will see just how simple they are.

Onto the yum-a-licious recipe.

Last year when I threw my sisters baby shower( you can view the awesome-ness here ), I didn’t want to give away a favor that was a cheap-y piece of plastic or something that someone was just going to throw away. I was going to make homemade jam to send home with the guests, but I just didn’t feel like all of that work, so I decided on Vanilla Sugar.
Vanilla Sugar is something I ALWAYS have on hand. I have a continual container of sugar that I just throw my used vanilla beans in, so I always have vanilla sugar to use in my baked goods, coffee, oatmeal…etc.
Vanilla Beans can be SUPER CRAZY expensive if you buy them at the store. I purchase mine in bulk on ebay for a considerably lower price.
I also gave homemade sugar to my kids teachers at the beginning of the year. Homemade gifts are always the best.

I made this batch pretty big because I had to make like 50 Mason pint jars of it, but the ratio of sugar to vanilla bean I used was
2 cups sugar to 1 vanilla bean.

* You can keep vanilla sugar on hand indefinitely. Anytime you use a vanilla bean, just toss it into your sealed sugar container and give it a shake.

*If you are making vanilla sugar for the first time and plan to keep it on hand, allow the vanilla bean to do its magic for about 2 weeks in a sealed container w/ the sugar. Give it a shake every so often.

Get you some beautiful PLUMP and MOIST vanilla Beans

Cut the bean in half

Slice it down the middle…..

But leave one end intact

See the shiny black inside..Those are the vanilla Seeds

With your finger or with the back of a knife, scrape out the seeds

Plop the seeds in your bowl with the sugar.

Heres the fun part, take your fingers and distribute the vanilla seeds into the sugar.

Keep mixing…it takes a bit. And soon you will have vanilla sugar.

To package it all nice and pretty, see below….

Get some pint mason jars, fabric and ribbon.

Put one vanilla bean in the mason jar.

Pour the vanilla sugar into the mason jar.

Pop the lid thing-y on it.

Cut a circle out of fabric, slightly larger than the jar top.

Place the fabric circle on top of the lid.

Screw the ring do-hicky over the fabric.

Finish off with a simple ribbon and a tag if you wish.

New Years Eve was great. My husband decided he wanted to have a party last minute. And by last minute, I mean the day before. Gotta love em’.
If you read this post, you know that none of my clothes fit me, so I began stressing out on what I was going to wear for the party. I mean, people usually get all fancied up for New Years.
So I decided to make our New Years party a PAJAMA  party! Everyone had to come in the P.J’s. Sure, I still put on some make up, but let me tell you how comfy I was!!!!
I had too much to drink…doesn’t happen often, but when it does….good lord.  Diet Coke and Cherry Flavored Vodka is VERY easy to chug down.
I was dancing all night long. One low point was, dancing to Beastie Boys- Brass Monkey with my dog under one arm and a wooden spoon in the other hand as a microphone.
I had fun

I am wishing each and everyone of you a Happy 2012.
I can’t thank you all enough for continually stopping by my blog and reading what I have to say. You all are very much appreciated. You make doing what I do worth every calorie!!!!

So onto my top 10 recipe/posts of 2011 (according to Google Analytics)

#10 Rustic Love Bird Wedding Cake

For the more photos of this beautiful wedding cake I made..click over to this post.

#9 Filet Mignon

For tips on how to cook the perfect Filet Mignon click here

#8 Sugar Cookie Tips and Icing Tips

For my Sugar Cookie and Icing tips head on over to here.

#7 Rice Pudding from Left Over Rice
This has been in the top 10 every year. This post was when my blog was only 3 months old!

Click here for the Rice Pudding Recipe

#6 Lemon Bars

Click here for the Lemon Bar Recipe

#5 Pretzel Rolo Turtles

For the recipe for the Pretzel Rolo Turtles click here.

#4 Ice Cream Bread

Ice Cream Bread Recipe is here

#3 Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal

The ever popular Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal recipe is here

#2 Antipasto Kabobs

Antipasto Kabobs are here

#1 Nutella Hot Chocolate- Sooooooooo Addictive and delicious. My Nutella Hot Chocolate was ALLLL over the web!

Nutella Hot Chocolate recipe lives HERE

Don’t forget about these on your Thanksgiving table. They will be sure to make everyone smile!

Happy Thanksgiving to you all. May your holiday be filled with wonderful food, family, friends, love and memories.

You need:

Oreos
Mini Reese’s Cups
Candy Corn
Malted Milk Balls
Tube Icing in white, orange, red and black

“Glue” (with some icing) one Oreo onto the other Oreo for the Turkeys back.
“Glue” (with icing) a Reese’s cup onto the front of the Oreo that is vertical for the turkeys belly
“Glue” (with icing) the malted milk ball on to the top of the Reeces Cup.
Place 5 candy corns, tip side down into the white filling of the cookie for the feathers.
Snip the white tip off of a candy corn for the nose and glue it onto the front of the malted milk ball.
Add the eyes, waddle and feet with the icing.