Halloween Monster Rice Crispy Treats!!

Let’s do Monsters!!!

Monster Krispie Treats

Ingredients

6 cups rice krispie cereal 

1 pkg of mini marshmallows

3 tbsp of butter

1 cup each of bright green, orange and purple melts

6 tsp of shortening 

1/2 cup of dark chocolate chips

Assorted candy eyes

Assorted sprinkles and sugars of same colors

Directions

Coat 13x9  baking pan with baking spay. If you line with wax paper you will find it much cleaner to take the treats out. 

In a bowl melt butter then combine marshmallows and butter and melt in microwave in 15 sec intervals.

 Be very carful not to go over. Do this until it is smooth, mixing in between intervals. 

When smooth, poor over cereal and gently fold together until cereal is coated.

 Press into the pan to even out. Chill for 1 hr. 

Take the treats out by pulling on the wax paper and set onto cutting board. Peel off the paper then into 12 bars. 

In separate microwave bowls, combine each candy melt color with 2 tsp of shortening. Do one color at a time in 15 sec intervals like before. Stir until smooth. Spoon color over treat covering 1/2 -3/4 of the treat. Let the excess drip back into the bowl. Melt the chocolate as well the same way and transfer to a pastry bag when not so hot of course, with a small round tip.Cover tops with sanding sugar or sprinkles for hair and such. Decorate treats with mouths, eyebrows and eyelashes. Have fun with it. Add the candy eyes 👀

Cheesy Chicken & Broccoli Tacos 🌮

Ingredients

 1 Head of Broccoli 🥦 

1/2 of red onion 🧅 

2 Chicken Breasts 🐓 

1 oz of sour cream

2 oz of green enchilada sauce

1/4 oz fress cilantro 🌿 

1 lime

8 oz shredded cheddar jack

6 flour tortillas

Instructions

Cut cicken into strips. Pat dry and season with salt, pepper and garlic. Slice onion and cut broccoli. 

Put chicken in skillet. Once one side is done then turn over and then add the brocolli and onion. Put lid on so it steams the brocoli. After a couple min add 2 tbsp of butter to skillet and toss to coat. 

Make crema with sour cream, a pich of salt and enchilada sauce. Stir to combine.

Add cheese ontop of chicken and veggies and let melt. 

Warm tortillas and dish up. 

Martha Stewarts Meyer Lemon Pound Cake

I would personally call this a cake and not a pound cake. 

It is so light and fluffy.

Ingredients

For the Glaze

Zest of a Meyer lemon

2 3/4 cup of confectioners sugar

1/4 cup of fresh lemon juice

For the Cake

1 1/2 cup (3 sticks) unsalted butter, room temp

Plus more for pans 

4 cups of sifted flour, plus more for pans

1 teaspoon of salt

4 teaspoons of baking powder

2 3/4 cup of sugar

8 eggs, room temp

1 cup of milk, room temp

2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract

Directions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Butter and flour two 9-by-5-by-3-inch (or larger) loaf pans and set aside.

Step 2
Sift the flour with the salt and baking powder two times and set aside.

Step 3
With an electric mixer, cream the butter until fluffy. Add the sugar gradually, beating until light and fluffy.

Step 4
Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk and vanilla. Stir only until thoroughly blended. Gently fold in the zest.

Step 5
Pour batter into the prepared pans, making sure to divide the batter evenly between the two pans. Level tops with an offset spatula. Bake for about 1 1/2 hours, until a cake tester comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the pan about 10 minutes; then remove to a wire rack to cool thoroughly.

If done in the pampered chef personal brownie 

pan then do 15 min baking.

If done in a mini loaf pan that do 20 min baking

Step 6
Make the glaze: In a medium bowl, whisk all glaze ingredients to combine. If necessary, add additional confectioners' sugar to desired consistency.


Step 7
Pour glaze on top of cakes and serve.