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Creamy, sweet, unbelievable maple butter with a heavy touch of cinnamon. Similar to the honey butter served at Texas Roadhouse, but the maple gives it a perfect Fall time flavor!

Maple Cinnamon Butter Recipe

Creamy, sweet, unbelievable maple butter with a heavy touch of cinnamon. Similar to the honey butter served at Texas Roadhouse, but the maple gives it a perfect Fall time flavor!

Creamy, sweet, unbelievable maple butter with a heavy touch of cinnamon. Similar to the honey butter served at Texas Roadhouse, but the maple gives it a perfect Fall time flavor!

Remember that time I freaked out about Texas Roadhouse Cinnamon Honey Butter and insisted that you leave your computer screen rightnow to go try it? And then I gave you the recipe to make it at home. Because we all need 24/7 access to that butter, right?

Wellp. I made more.

But in a slightly different way. This is Maple Cinnamon Butter. And it is ah-mazing.

Creamy, sweet, unbelievable maple butter with a heavy touch of cinnamon. Similar to the honey butter served at Texas Roadhouse, but the maple gives it a perfect Fall time flavor!

Remember these Pumpkin Cornmeal Pancakes? They were like ground-shaking, earth-shattering, life-changing good.

So I decided that I needed to make Pumpkin Cornbread this year. And I did (watch for that recipe to post soon)! Maple syrup was such a perfect compliment to those pancakes that I absolutely just knew that this cornbread would need to have some maple butter to go along with it.

I just had this gut feeling that it would be utterly spectacular. I just love it when I’m right. ????

Creamy, sweet, unbelievable maple butter with a heavy touch of cinnamon. Similar to the honey butter served at Texas Roadhouse, but the maple gives it a perfect Fall time flavor!

That being said, this butter totally stands on its own. Frankly, I could eat it with a spoon. But if you’re not a straight up butter eater (what’s wrong with you??), here are a few other serving suggestions:

You could eat this maple cinnamon butter on toast.

On pancakes.

On muffins.

On soft, buttery biscuits (omg, YES).

Slather it on banana bread, pumpkin bread, and pretty much all breads ever.

But most of all… watch for that pumpkin cornbread recipe coming soon!!! Because pumpkin corn bread + maple butter = ????.

If you love brownie batter, this is the recipe for you!

Peanut Butter Cup Brownie Batter Dip Recipe

If you loved this brownie batter dip from last year, you’re going to flip over this peanut butter cup version! It’s double the yum and perfect for parties and get-togethers!

If you love brownie batter, this is the recipe for you!

This is one of my favorite recipes. It’s easy, it’s quick, and it’s really, really good.

I imagine if Chris and I were big party-goers, this is something I would probably bring with me. But since we’re voluntary recluses (read: exhausted parents), here are some of the occasions I make this dip for:

Friday nights at home. Or Sunday afternoons at home. Really… anytime at home.

Some “light” ???? snacking while I read my book during nap time.

Annnnnnnnnnd that’s pretty much it.If you love brownie batter, this is the recipe for you!

But for those of you out there who lead a more exciting life than mine and are in need of a good dip recipe to take to a party, this is it.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like brownie batter. And if you’re friends with people who don’t, I feel obligated to suggest you remove that negativity from your life. No one can live like that.

But assuming your friends are all normal human beings who love peanut butter and brownie batter and all things that are delicious, this dip will be an instant hit wherever you bring it!

If you love brownie batter, this is the recipe for you!

Plus, did I mention easy to make? SO EASY! It’s a dream. Literall.

XOXO. Happy Halloween weekend peeps! Party safe!! Or climb in your PJ’s by 8 o’clock like me. Whatevs ????.

If you like to lick the brownie batter bowl, you'll love this healthful alternative!

Single Serve Brownie Batter Dip Recipe

If you like to lick the brownie batter bowl, you’ll love this brownie batter recipe made just for one!

If you like to lick the brownie batter bowl, you'll love this healthful alternative!

 

This brownie batter dip is INSANE you guys. It’s thick and rich, right on the money for texture and flavor. If you’re a bowl-licker, you’ve come to the right place my friend.

Not only does this brownie batter dip taste just like brownie batter, and not only is it a perfectly scaled down recipe meant just for one, guess what else? It’s actually kinda, sorta healthy!

WHAT?!

If you like to lick the brownie batter bowl, you'll love this healthful alternative!

This recipe’s key to success and star ingredient is ALMOND BUTTER. And everybody knows we need those healthy fats! Plus, this is what makes the brownie batter thick and so much like the real stuff. I was worried that the almond butter taste would be overpowering, but not so. The other ingredients balance out perfectly.

The sweetener? Honey. Also a major player in the texture game.

If you like to lick the brownie batter bowl, you'll love this healthful alternative!

And, of course, we’ve got flour, cocoa powder, salt, and vanilla. All major components to real brownie batter. I also added mini chocolate chips and walnuts, because I need a little crunchy ????.

PS- If you’re concerned about eating raw flour, you can heat treat it in the oven before using it.

If you like to lick the brownie batter bowl, you'll love this healthful alternative!

Eat it as a dip with apples, pretzels, graham crackers, and strawberries. Or just grab a spoon and dig in. I won’t judge ????.

No thermometer for this easy fudge! All you need are a few simple ingredients and a love of sprinkles.

Cake Batter Fudge Recipe

No thermometer needed for this easy fudge! All you need are a few simple ingredients and a love of sprinkles.

No thermometer for this easy fudge! All you need are a few simple ingredients and a love of sprinkles.

It’s been way too long since I posted a Funfetti recipe! I looked it up. It’s been over a month. And I haven’t made any fudge since Christmas!

So, yeah. This cake batter fudge was absolutely necessary.

Especially because I’m a fudge-all-year-round kinda girl. I L-O-V-E fudge.

No thermometer for this easy fudge! All you need are a few simple ingredients and a love of sprinkles.

I know making fudge can be kind of intimidating. But no need to worry when you’re here. On Something Swanky, we pretty much exclusively adhere to only shortcut fudge-making methods.

Not that I mind using a candy thermometer here or there. But when it comes to fudge, I just feel like there are so many really, really good EASY fudge-making methods, that I feel like any kind of complicated recipe is just totally unnecessary.

No thermometer for this easy fudge! All you need are a few simple ingredients and a love of sprinkles.

This recipe for cake mix fudge was really popular a few years ago, but I never got around to it for some reason. It’s always been nagging at me in the back of my mind, and I’m so thrilled that I finally tried it! It is insanely easy and SO good.

And by easy, I mean c-r-a-z-y easy. Like… melt some butter, mix some stuff, and pop it in the fridge. That’s pretty much all there is to it.

No thermometer for this easy fudge! All you need are a few simple ingredients and a love of sprinkles.

Just be sure to be gentle when you mix in the sprinkles, and don’t add them until the very end! Sprinkles tend to bleed their colors in warm mixtures, which can look kind of messy in this fudge. Still tastes good though, so no worries if yours bleed a little bit ????.

Enjoy!

An easy recipe for gooey rice krispie treats with M&MS and a white chocolate drizzle.

White Chocolate Rice Krispies Treats with M&Ms Recipe

An easy recipe for gooey rice krispie treats with M&MS and a white chocolate drizzle.

An easy recipe for gooey rice krispie treats with M&MS and a white chocolate drizzle.

Since the beginning of summer vacation, my kids and I have been on a major rice krispie treat kick. We buy the mega box at Sam’s club, and lasts us about a week (although, I suspect my husband is going through them faster than the kids are).

Basically, we really heart rice krispie treats.

An easy recipe for gooey rice krispie treats with M&MS and a white chocolate drizzle.

And this is the MacDaddy recipe of them all. Insane gooey-ness. M&Ms. And a white chocolate drizzle on top. This is my hands down favorite rice krispie treat of all time (and that includes, Biscoff RKT, Toasted Marshmallow RKT, and Butterfinger Butterscotch RKT— all of which are hard to beat).

There is something about this flavor and texture combo that is just so right, know what I mean?

An easy recipe for gooey rice krispie treats with M&MS and a white chocolate drizzle.

If you like rice krispie treats, you are going to flip for these! Added bonus: *NO BAKING*

Because it is waaaaaaaaaay too hot for that nonsense. Turn off the oven and dig into these instead! Woot!

Enjoy 🙂

This is THE PERFECT no churn ice cream recipe. It's just two ingredients (like the other famous no churn recipe), but this one has a way better texture, and it's not overly sweet! It seriously tastes and feels JUST LIKE real ice cream.

A Better No Churn Ice Cream (and Frozen Yogurt) Recipe

This is THE PERFECT no churn ice cream recipe thanks to a secret ingredient. It’s just two ingredients (like the other famous no churn recipe), but this one has a way better texture, and it’s not overly sweet! It seriously tastes and feels JUST LIKE real ice cream.

This is THE PERFECT no churn ice cream recipe. It's just two ingredients (like the other famous no churn recipe), but this one has a way better texture, and it's not overly sweet! It seriously tastes and feels JUST LIKE real ice cream.

YOU GUYS!!

I am so so so so sososososoooooooooooooooooo crazy excited to share this recipe with you today.

Did I mention I’m pretty pumped?? I’m SO pumped.

Why? Because I FINALLY have a two-ingredient, no-churn (read no machine required!) homemade ice cream that really, truly, 1000% tastes like ice cream. Really!

This is THE PERFECT no churn ice cream recipe. It's just two ingredients (like the other famous no churn recipe), but this one has a way better texture, and it's not overly sweet! It seriously tastes and feels JUST LIKE real ice cream.

Have you ever made 2-ingredient, no churn ice cream like this? It’s fine. I mean, I liked it well enough when I thought that was all there was. That you couldn’t make anything better with just two ingredients and no ice cream machine. Back when I thought you had to settle for an overly-sweet-sort-of-weird-texture kind of ice cream. Back when that was all there was, it was good enough. It was maybe even kind of great.

But ohhhhhhhhhh, how wrong I was, my friends.

It turns out there is so much more to no-churn ice cream life than we thought there was!!

This is THE PERFECT no churn ice cream recipe. It's just two ingredients (like the other famous no churn recipe), but this one has a way better texture, and it's not overly sweet! It seriously tastes and feels JUST LIKE real ice cream.

Okay, so what were the problems with the old recipe? Primarily two things: 1) it was WAY too sweet. Especially if you used the Cool Whip shortcut (guilty). And 2) it had sort of a weird texture as it melted. Because it never really melted down to a liquid… it was more of a semi-solid. Which was weird.

How do we fix that?

Well, for starters, we need an ingredient that balances out the sweet from the sweetened condensed milk. And secondly, we probably don’t need to add another thick ingredient like whipped cream!

Enter the magical secret ingredient: SOUR CREAM.

The answer was there the whole time! So unassuming and subtle, just sitting there in the refrigerator waiting for us to notice. Waiting for us to realize that when sour cream mixes with sweetened condense milk and freezes…. BAM. Ice cream! And not just any ice cream– good ice cream.

Way good ice cream, you guys.

This is THE PERFECT no churn ice cream recipe. It's just two ingredients (like the other famous no churn recipe), but this one has a way better texture, and it's not overly sweet! It seriously tastes and feels JUST LIKE real ice cream.

Want to know what else is cool about this recipe?? You can actually substitute nonfat Greek yogurt in place of the sour cream. YES!!!! Isn’t that amazing?

Be forewarned, it does get ever-so-slightly (and I do mean only slightly) icier than the version with sour cream. But still– I think that’s totally worth it for an easy homemade frozen yogurt that does actually have some nutritionally redeeming qualities, amiright?!

So, what do you think? Is anyone else as excited about this revolutionary recipe as I am?? Because I’m literally still flipping out over this. I want to go make eleventy bajillion flavors of no churn right now. Imagine the possibilities now that easy homemade ice cream doesn’t suck! WOOT!

Easy Ice Cream Cookie Cake Recipe

Here’s how to make a super simple and delicious cookie dough ice cream birthday cake!

Here's how to make a super simple and delicious cookie dough ice cream cake!

Summer is in full force around here! Swim lessons, air conditioning, hot leather seats sticking to your legs in the van, and daily ice cream runs.

Plus, in our house, summer = all.the.birthdays!!!

So I figure this easy ice cream cake is super appropriate.

Here's how to make a super simple and delicious cookie dough ice cream cake!

Let me break down these layers for you:

????Sara Lee pound cake (it’s in the frozen section)

???? Vanilla ice cream

????Homemade eggless cookie dough recipe for one 🙂

???? Rainbow Chips (Wilton)

???? Hot fudge or chocolate syrup or chocolate ganache or whatever else you want on top!

That’s it!! How easy is that??

And really, you could use any flavor of ice cream you wanted to. I’m a vanilla girl, but I can think of plenty of other flavors that would be delicious in this cake. Cookies & Cream, chocolate peanut butter, or chocolate chip just to name a few!

Here's how to make a super simple and delicious cookie dough ice cream cake!

Can you see those huge chunks of cookie dough in the ice cream? That’s my favorite part. I’m such a cookie dough snob when it comes to ice cream. I like knowing that I made the cookie dough in this dessert. And I like that I can make the dough a little softer if I want (I don’t like really hard chunks of dough in my ice cream) by simply adding a little more milk to the recipe.

Here's how to make a super simple and delicious cookie dough ice cream cake!

This cake is so easy and SO good. I love that it doesn’t take a ton of effort. Outside of making the cookie dough (which is easily done with just a small bowl and a fork– no mixer required!), there’s hardly any hands on effort required here.

So what are you waiting for? You’re just a few minutes away from the yummiest ice cream cake you’ve ever made! Happy Summer!

Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Copycat Recipe | www.somethingswanky.com

Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Copycat Recipe

It’s Ice Cream Week on Something Swanky and Crazy for Crust!*

Click the links above to see all of our fun ice cream recipes from this week.

***Originally posted in July 2014

 

Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Copycat Recipe | somethingswanky.com

I’ve mentioned before that my husband isn’t a big fan of mix-in type ice cream places (like Coldstone). He’ll eat there if I make him go (I mean, it is ice cream, after all). But then, as we’re driving past the Baskin Robbins on our way home, he’ll heave a not-so-subtle sigh and gaze longingly at the rear-view mirror.

I determined that our difference in opinion over ice cream shops is really the difference between liking hard or soft ice cream. He prefers hard scooped, I’d rather have something more along the lines of ice cream soup. I dunno… he’s probably in the majority there. But I can’t help it– I love soft, mushy ice cream full of big candy chunks and hot fudge.

Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Copycat Recipe | somethingswanky.com

However, he has totally turned me on to Baskin Robbins’ Chocolate Chip and Mint Chocolate Chip ice creams.

Because….. ohemgee.

I am so in love with the way their “chocolate chips” aren’t really chocolate chips at all. Instead, it’s full of a thin pieces of brittle chocolate that ribbon throughout the ice cream. And it takes chocolate chip ice cream to an amazing new level.

Just like the Stracciatella I mentioned last week, Baskin Robbins-style chocolate chip ice cream is achieved in the same way– by pouring chocolate (or in this case, Homemade Magic Shell) into the ice cream during the last 5 minutes of churning.

Baskin Robbins Mint Chocolate Chip Copycat Recipe | somethingswanky.com

This Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream is SO easy and so yummy. Mint is one of my husband’s favorite ice cream flavors, but you could easily make this regular old chocolate chip ice cream by simply omitting the peppermint extract!

I use this Cuisinart ICE-21 Ice Cream Maker to make churned ice cream, and far I’ve loved it. It’s pretty inexpensive (only $49!), easy to use, and makes delicious ice cream in about 20-30 minutes. I would highly recommend it if you’re looking for a simple, day-to-day use ice cream machine.

Enjoy!

Easy no-bake chocolate peanut butter pretzel bars made with only 5 simple ingredients!

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Pretzel Bites Recipe

Easy no-bake chocolate peanut butter pretzel bars made with only 5 simple ingredients!

Easy no-bake chocolate peanut butter pretzel bars made with only 5 simple ingredients!

I’ve been on a real chocolate and peanut butter kick lately, with three back-to-back Chocolate PB recipes coming your way! Be excited ????.

I like chocolate and peanut butter in all sorts of ways. From the super indulgent recipes like Tagalong Pound Cake, No Bake Peanut Butter Cup Bars, and Peanut Butter Brownie Trifles to healthier recipes like this Super Skinny PB Cup Smoothie or my favorite Peanut Butter Granola.

My favorite way to eat PB will always be in the form of a cookie. Preferably my  Grandma’s Monster Cookies or my mom’s Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies!

Or in any of these 75+ Ways to Eat a Reese’s. Obviously.

Easy no-bake chocolate peanut butter pretzel bars made with only 5 simple ingredients!

Today’s recipe combines three of my great loves: PB + chocolate, pretzels, and no bake.

Side note: the way to my heart is to make something EASY. And these no-bake bars have do that in spades! 

Easy no-bake chocolate peanut butter pretzel bars made with only 5 simple ingredients!

We’re basically mashing these Peanut Butter Cup No Bake Bars (have you made them yet??) with two cups of pretzel crumbs.

Speaking of mashing…

You could put your pretzels in a food processor for a rough chop if you want when you’re making this recipe. But I just dumped mine in a gallon-sized zipper bag and beat them with a rolling pin. It worked out just fine (and one less thing I have to clean).

You can see in the photo above that you don’t need to aim for super fine crumbs. The PB mixture will hold the pretzels together perfectly even if there are some bigger chunks. In fact, you may find that you like having big chunks of pretzel bites in there!

Easy no-bake chocolate peanut butter pretzel bars made with only 5 simple ingredients!

You only need 5 simple ingredients for this recipe, and you probably have them all on hand already!

  • creamy peanut butter
  • pretzels (2 cups of CRUSHED pretzels)
  • chocolate chips
  • powdered sugar
  • butter

See? Easy peasy.

Easy no-bake chocolate peanut butter pretzel bars made with only 5 simple ingredients!

I added some honey roasted peanuts to the top of mine for some additional crunch (and I like the look of it), but that’s totally up to you.

I also think M&MS would be pretty on point if you’re considering additional toppings ????????.

Easy no-bake chocolate peanut butter pretzel bars made with only 5 simple ingredients!

Easy no-bake chocolate peanut butter pretzel bars made with only 5 simple ingredients!

Easy no-bake chocolate peanut butter pretzel bars made with only 5 simple ingredients!

Enjoy!