Herbed Monkey Bread

This is a very easy, but super yummy bread recipe! =)

Here is what you need:

1 stick of butter, melted

1/4 cup butter, melted (for drizzling after bread is baked)

1 cup grated Parmesan cheese, plus more for sprinkling after baked

2 tsp. dried Italian Seasoning (I used more ... just put in until it looked like a good mixture!)

2 cans of biscuits (I used the Grands brand)

Preheat oven to 350*

Roll each individual biscuit into a ball.

Melt butter in a small bowl. In another bowl, combine cheese and Italian seasoning.

Roll each biscuit ball in butter and then in cheese mixture. Place dough in a sprayed bundt pan; some overlapping will occur.

Bake for 30-40 minutes. Cover with foil during last 10 minutes to prevent excess browning, if necessary.

Let cool for 10 minutes in pan after baking.

Invert onto serving plate. Drizzle 1/4 cup melted butter on top of bread and sprinkle with remaining cheese.

Cake Balls

I found this recipe for "Cake Balls" on another blog that I read and decided to try them out for a baby shower for one of Jeff's co-workers. They turned out great! I made pumpkin ones, but you can use any cake flavor that you want!

I'll put the recipe that I used at the end, but you can use a box cake if you want. You bake the cake as directed on the box and while still warm you crumble the cake up into a large bowl.

Once crumbled, you add a container of icing. I used cream cheese icing for mine. Mix it up well and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

After your cake mixture has cooled, melt a package of almond bark. I used the white, but you could use chocolate if you wanted! I decided to color the almond bark pink, since it was a baby shower for a little girl!

Take the cake mixture and scoop out spoonfuls (an ice cream scoop works GREAT!) and roll into a ball. Put cake ball down into almond bark and cover. You can use a fork or toothpick (or an egg separator if you have one!). Once covered, put on a piece of waxed paper to dry.

I had some extra almond bark left, so I drizzled the extra on top. Put on a platter and enjoy!



You can get creative as you want with the cake flavor and icing! One suggestion was red velvet cake with cream cheese icing! I want to try that one out...maybe for Christmas!


Pumpkin Cake Recipe

2 cups sugar
1 cup oil (I used 1/2 cup oil, 1/2 cup applesauce)
4 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cinnamon (or more!)
1/2 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 can pumpkin

Preheat oven to 350*

Mix together sugar, oil, and eggs. Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, baking powder and salt together. Add to egg mixture and mix well. Add pumpkin.

Pour into greased 9x13 pan. Bake for 35-40 minutes.

New Blog!

I've decided to start a recipe blog to keep up with and share recipes! I've wanted to start one for a while, but just have not taken the time to do so! Hopefully I can keep it updated...and remember to take pictures while I'm cooking!

Hope you enjoy!