Cake Mix Apple Cobbler

I shared this recipe with a friend of mine today and thought it would be a great one to add to my blog. If you love cobbler, or apple crisp-type desserts, this one is a must try! It's so simple and uses very few ingredients. I threw it together on Sunday morning, baked it while we were getting ready for church and took it to Sunday School fresh out of the oven. If apple isn't your thing, switch it up and use peach or cherry pie filling. That's what makes this so great - the recipe is the same and all you do to mix it up is buy a different pie filling! Serve with vanilla ice cream for an extra special treat! Enjoy!!

Cake Mix Apple Cobbler

1 Yellow Cake Mix
2 Cans Apple Pie Filling
4-6 Tbsp. Butter, Melted
2 Tbsp. Sugar plus 1 tsp. Cinnamon, Combined

Preheat oven to 375

In a 9x13 pan, pour pie filling all over bottom. Sprinkle cake mix on top of pie filling. Drizzle melted butter over cake mix and sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture over that. Bake 35-40 minutes. Cool slightly before serving.

Salted Caramel Pretzel Bark

I found this recipe the other day on a blog that I like to read and she claimed it was a must try, so I took her advice and tried it. She was right - if you like things that are that perfect sweet/salty combo, then this is the perfect thing. It's simple to make and oh so good. Perfect for those last minute Christmas/New Year's parties you are going to and need to take a little treat with you!

Salted Caramel Pretzel Bark

1 Cup Butter (2 Sticks)
1 Cup Light Brown Sugar
Mini Pretzel Twists (about 1/2 bag)
12 oz. Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Sea Salt

Preheat oven to 400 and line a baking sheet with foil. Spread pretzels in an even layer all over baking sheet. In a sauce pan, melt butter. Once melted, stir in brown sugar until combined. Cook on low for 3 minutes and then pour evenly over pretzels. Bake for 5-7 minutes.
Remove from oven and spread chocolate chips evenly over pretzels and allow it to melt for 1 minute. Take a spatula and spread chocolate chips out and then sprinkle with sea salt. Refrigerate for an hour or so and then break bark into chunks and serve.

Caramel mixture poured over pretzels - ready for the oven

Chocolate chips are on - it's looking good!

Here's the Sea Salt that I used - this adds a great flavor!!

Ready to go - so yummy!!

Triple Chocolate Cake

This cake is as easy as it gets and is SO good! You need three things: A cake mix, box of instant pudding and chocolate chips. And then you need a fork. And maybe some vanilla ice cream. And possibly a treadmill. Cause you will eat more than 1 piece, I promise you that. :)

Triple Chocolate Cake

1 box Chocolate Cake Mix (I used Dark Chocolate)
1 small box Instant Chocolate Pudding
1/2 bag Chocolate Chips (Semi-Sweet)

Preheat oven to 350.

Mix pudding with 1 1/2 Cups milk and whisk until it starts to set. About 2-3 minutes. Stir in cake mix. This will be very thick. Spray 9x13 pan with non-stick spray and spread cake/pudding mixture into pan. Spread chocolate chips all over top. Bake 30 minutes, or until cake starts to pull away from the sides of pan.

Fruit Pizza

I am in a serious recipe drought! I don't know what's up, but I need some fresh ideas. So, in an effort to celebrate spring and summer, both of which are just around the corner, I am posting one of my favorite dessert recipes for this time of year! My mother-in-law gave me this recipe years ago and it is so refreshing. It's the perfect dessert for those warm days when you need something sweet, but don't want it to be too heavy. Plus, it's just pretty. You might not even want to cut into it - ok who am I kidding?! You'll for sure want to cut into it cause while it's pretty, it tastes even better! Maybe try this one out some night when you are going to cook out (and while you are cooking out, go print off the pasta salad recipe I posted and make that as a side!!). I'm working to get out of my recipe rut - so enjoy this and I'll post a new dinner recipe soon!

Fruit Pizza

1 Roll of Sugar Cookie Dough
8 oz. Container Cool Whip
8 oz. Pkg. Cream Cheese
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 Can each of Pineapple Slices, Mandarin Oranges, Sliced Peaches
Bananas (sliced)
Strawberries (sliced)
Kiwi (sliced)

Glaze:
1/2 Cup Powdered Sugar
1/2 Cup Orange Juice (Pulp free)
1/4 Cup Water
2 tsp. Lemon Juice
1 Tbsp. Corn Starch and 1 Tbsp. Water - combined

On a round pizza pan that has been sprayed with non-stick spray, roll out sugar cookie almost to the edge and bake at 350 for 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool completely. Mix the cool whip, cream cheese and vanilla together and spread onto cooled cookie. Add fruit in this order, working from the outside in: Pineapple slices, mandarin oranges, peach slices, banana, kiwi, strawberries. (I alter this on occasion as we like strawberries more than peaches, so sometimes I will leave out the peaches and add more strawberries! You can do any fruit combos you like - blueberries would be good too!).

Add all of the ingredients for the glaze to a sauce pan and whisk together. Bring to a boil and whisk at a boil for 1 minute. Drizzle over fruit while hot.

Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving.

Told you it was pretty!